Supposedly you can book through the internet, but I never got a confirmation back. So I called them directly. Turns out that the person answering the phone doesn't speak a single bit of Spanish. I muddled through and made the reservation but wish I hadn't.

When we got there, we were greeted by a very nice woman and her equally nice son. That was about the best thing about this place (oh, and the breakfast).

We only stayed here because it was reasonably near Tarcoles, where we intended to do a crocodile cruise. Well, the cruise got cancelled because of the rain, so in retrospect, we should have continued on to Manuel Antonio (or stayed an extra night in Arenal) but we didn't know.

In the daytime, things didn't look all that bad. Not great, but it sort of had an interesting charm. Character, at least. Then it started raining. And raining. And raining. Not surprising for a rainforest, I know. But it brought out all the bugs.

And we're talking BUGS... more