Horseback riding Imagine cantering through sugar cane plantations, fording thigh-deep rivers, rounding up cattle and trotting through virgin rain forest on top of a fine, well bred Paso Fino steed. Horseback Riding arenal volcano
 
Rappelling
there is two ways to get up to the rapelling platform: One of our guide climb up for a rope helping the tourist that is holding and seating in a chair.
 Rapelling Virgin Rain Forest
 
 
Arenal Volcano
You can join a tour group to drive up to one of the Arenal eruptions. Tour companies have access to several locations.
 Arenal Volcano Tour
 
Caño Negro
Small boats close to the water move silently beneath the overhanging trees, coming up to the birds and monkeys and lizards without disturbing them.
Caño Negro Refuge of Wild Life
 
 
   
 


Comfortable. Natural. Simple. Family.

Twenty minutes from the bustling Arenal Volcano tourist town of Fortuna is La Garza.
What began as the weekend retreat for the city friends of the colonial founders of la garza has evolved into a small, intimate hotel for discerning,
 
 
people who really desire pure escape from the twenty-first century. Like the farm's founders, you still awaken to the sounds of the birds and monkeys dwelling on the river bank in front of your room. You still watch the sunrise hitting the cone of Arenal Volcano. And you still cross a swinging bridge to reach the ranch house to eat breakfast in a casona (main farm house) built 100 years ago.

  
   
  Rates: High Season  
 
Valid (01 Dec to 02 of May, 2005)
  
 
Type of Room
Price
Single $75.00
Double $75.00
Triple $90.00
Additional $15.00
 
 
Rates: Low Season		  
 
Valid (03 of May to the 30 of November, 2004.)
  
 
Type of Room
Price
Single $65
Double $65
Triple $80
Additional $15
 
 

 
 
As it has for a hundred years, la garza plantation is more than just a place to sleep, and more than just a place for watching the volcano.
Carlos cantillo, la garza's founder, had an understanding of nature, and preserving a place for the natural world. Our private forest in la garza's sanctuary is one of the few primary flatland rainforests left in Central America.
 
 
Farming strategy of the 1940's dictated that the ancient forests be chopped and burned and turned into pasture and cropland. Worriedly, the cantillo family founder saw the retreat of the birds and animals, and, going against his own economic interests, he dedicated a significant tract of his huge farm as a permanent refuge where the birds and monkeys would be free to roam. La garza's owner, carlos cantillo, honors his father's vision, both preserving the forest and opening its interior for guests to experience the awe and wonder of walking beneath five-hundred year old trees.
 
 
 
   
 
  • La Casona restaurant
  • La Caballeriza bar
  • telephone and internet connection
  • pool and ping pong tables
  • laundry services
  • cable television
  • naturalist guide
  • private transfers
  • swimming pool
  • jacuzzi
  • private, secure parking
  • Walking trails
  • Horseback Riding
  • Fishing lake
  • La Garza Biological Reserve
  
 
 
 
RESERVATION POLICY.
All reservation should be made vía fax or e-mail with the departament of reservation in the hotel and prepaied 30 days in advance in High Season or 15 days in Low Season.

CHILDREN
One or two children under 10 years old sharing with adults are free of charge in the room rate.Breakfast $5.00 plus taxes (23%).
Each additional person or child older than 10 years will be charged an additional $15.00 plus tax per night with breakfast included.

METHODS OF PAYMENTS.
Bank Deposit:
BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA in ¢ # 177052-8
BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA in $ # 608660-7
BANCO SAN JOSE in ¢ # 902283613
Under the name of HOTELERA LA GARZA DEL PLATANAR S.A.

Please send copy of the deposit slip vía fax or deposit information by e-mail.
Also, we offers you the option of CREDIT CARD RESERVATION FORM that can be sent by fax.

CANCELLATION OR MODIFICATION POLICES.
In High Season; no extra charge if the cancellation is received 30 days prior to arrival date. Cancellation received 15-30 days prior to arrival date will have a charge of 50%.
NO SHOWS or Cancellation received 0-14 days will have a charge of 100%.
In Low Season; no extra charge if the cancellation is received 15 days prior to arrival date. Cancellation received 8-15 days prior will have a charge of 50%.
NO SHOWS or Cancellation received 0-7 days will have a charge of 100%.

GUIDES AND DRIVERS.
In groups smallers than 6 rooms, there is a service charge of $30.00 with taxes and breakfast. Additionals meals will have a 50% discount.