Friendly reception staff. Nice spacious room with good air con. Nice pool area with good happy hour! Lovely breakfast included. Amazing location for Manuel Antonio Park (200m up the road) and very short walk (in other direction) to beach for sunset. Hotel gave us a voucher for free bottle of wine at nearby restaurant Puerto Escondido - delicious!!! Tuna tartar was amazing. BIG portions. Live music! Hotel were helpful when we needed to organise a taxi to next destination at short notice.

Noisy air humidifier in the room.

We had suvh a great experience staying in Master suite. It has view on the forest which enabled us to see a lot of roes, boars (or something similar), monkeys, tucans and much more. Breakfast was tasty but somewhat limited. Location is wonderful, walking distance to beach and National Park. Highly recommending to stay here!

Very close to Manuel Antonio Park entrance - walkable distance. Can leave car safely parked at hotel while visiting the park. I would recommend getting the earliest possible entry ticket to the park to beat the crowds, and if checking out by noon, to give the full morning at the park. If staying more than one night and don't need to check out by noon, plan to bring a bathing suit to the park to enjoy the beach within the park in the afternoon (much nicer beach than the one in town). The hotel pool was nice to hang out at, and drinks were available by the pool. The rooms were small but adequate for sleeping, but not adequate for lounging if extended rain kept you inside.

La vela boutique is a beautiful, small, pleasurable hotel located in the heart of Manuel Antonio beach. Me and my 2 friends decided to take the bus from San Jose and we were conveniently dropped off right down the hill from our hotel. Upon arrival we were greeted and taken to our room where there was a king size bed and a full bed. There was AC and a lovely bathroom. The hotel also provides excursion recommendations. We went on the catamaran tour which we highly recommend($89 for 4 drinks and lunch included as well as snorkel gear) it was a lovely day with a photographer and lovely staff on board. Towels are provided by the hotel and can be exchanged for new ones. Also the hotel has an outdoor pizza oven and during our 2 night stay we got 4 pizzas

Only thing that was the water pressure in the shower. (Room 10)

We choose this hotel because we like boutique hotels - even so you never know what you get. We couln`t have been any happier with our choice. The Vela Boutique hotel met our expectations in any ways. Our two big connected apartments (5&6) were very stylish, spotless clean (on the first and all the other days), the outdoor kitchen facing towards the forest and two balconies were a real germ. Kitchen equipments (also basic groceries like coffee, oil and vinegar salt and pepper were provided, AC worked perfectly, bathroom had all amenities and water power and temperature could perfectly be adjusted. Beds were very comfy - thicker and thinner linen was available. All reception clerks were super friendly and helpful as well as the bartenders and restaurant staff for dinner and breakfast. Location is super - 2 minutes walk to Manuel Antonio (don`t forget to get your tickets in advance) and 2 minutes to the beautiful beach with spectacular sunsets. You can walk on the long beach for nearly one hour. We loved everything and would really like to come back. We can also recommend restaurant Espadilla - ask the reception they may give you a voucher for a bottle of white wine. We loved the food, the setting and the life music. Not on main street - you would`t find it without knowing.

Manuel Antonio is very brisky - beach offers all sports facilities, life music restaurants, street markets etc. Some people warned us before we got there that it might be too touristic. After so many abandoned and sparsely populated areas - we loved to be along other tourists and have a chat here and there.

You can park the car on site and walk to the beach or to Manuel Antonio national park. Lots of restaurants nearby as well. We saw iguanas, and monkeys while hanging out at the pool. Small boutique hotel so it never feels overcrowded. The freshly made pizza was really good.

The rooms are bit small specially if you are a family of 3 or more and need an additional bed. No closets. The Wifi stopped working more than once and it took them a while to get it fixed. We have a kid so that meant no TV while we had decided to hang out at the hotel. Flies are common in Costa Rica but we found flies inside the orange juice two days in a row.

Location was perfect; short walk to the beach and Manuel Antonio. Free breakfast was always fresh and delicious. Quiet hotel allowed us to sleep after a day of activities. Staff was very attentive. Saw a variety of wildlife in nearby trees. Beautiful landscaping for a boutique hotel.

Not the hotel's fault but on a few nights, we were awakened by coconuts? falling on the roof

The location of the property was perfect for our trip to Manuel Antonio. The location felt like a sanctuary with all of the plants and seclusion.

Maintenance of the property could be a little better. The wallpaper in our room was peeling off, the rope lights around the focal wall in our room did not work, and the shower head was not the best as a lot of water still came out the bottom spout instead of the shower head and what came out of the shower head did not have good water pressure. Also the breakfast was lack luster.

A little oasis right by the entrance to Manuel Antonio. The staff at this hotel are amazing. Nothing was too much trouble for them. Lovely little pool with a great bar that sold wonderful pizzas. We were able to leave our car in their car park and walk up to Manuel Antonio. The hotel give you a voucher for a restaurant next door. The food here was wonderful and the cocktails free thanks to the hotel. We saw lots of monkeys, birds and iguanas in the garden of the hotel…amazing!

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We loved this place. Comfy, clean, large rooms. A nice little pool with some shady areas and enough lounge chairs. A bar right next to it. Staff very friendly. Location amazing, in walking distance to the park, the beach, and tons of restaurants and stores. We are pretty big pizza snobs, but the wood-fired brick oven pizza they served us was really good.