This was a great tour that I highly recommend! There is some uphill hiking, but nothing to bad, so it is a tour that most people shouldn’t have much trouble with.

The hanging bridges are great. They vary a lot, but there are a few really good ones that are long, shaky, & high-up – everything you would imagine a hanging bridge to be like! That probably sounds a little scary to most people, but when you get on it, you see that it’s not that bad, and the view makes it all worth it. You can see so much from the bridges, and it’s beautiful.

We saw tons of amazing trees & plants while walking through the rainforest. We also saw howler monkeys, a squirrel, a viper (off the path, curled up & sleeping, so it wasn’t a threat), leaf cutter ants, & their national bird (a beautiful large black bird with a bright yellow beak).

Our tour guide from Sunset Tours was awesome. Friendly, funny, good English, and knowledgeable. He pointed out a lot of things we wouldn’t have seen or known about otherwise.

We spent a couple hours at the Arenal Hanging Bridges, which was located right next to the Lost Iguana Resort. Cost was $22 per person. We really enjoyed the time we spent there, although the hike was a little more strenuous than I anticipated (steep hills in some areas). I wore hiking boots and was glad I did. We saw many unique birds and took tons of great photos.

We went to the Hanging Bridges expecting to hire a guide. But we found that the guided tours are only at 8 AM and 2 PM. So we went around on our own, and still enjoyed it, but I think we would have gotten a lot more out of it with a guide. The only wildlife we saw was leafcutter ants and several spider monkeys. We were there at around 11 AM.
The price of admission is $22; a guide is another $12/person.

Our group of 13 (5-77) did this tour and we all loved it. It was fairly rainy while we were there, so many of the animals were less active than normal. This made hiring a guide even more worthwhile. He was able to tell us so much about the plants, habitats, animal behaviors, everything.

I am not afraid of heights exactly, but it's still a bit uncomfortable walking on wobbliness! Not a big problem and didn't bother any of the kids. The views are incredible-everywhere you look. Plants are growing in every conceivable place. Just to view different plants' 'strategies' for finding sun was wild-usually think of animals competing for nutrients. You can hear and see water rushing everywhere. The trail was well-maintained. There was a tiny mudslide from all the rain that week. They helped us over and there were already workers there fixing it.

If you can only do one tour in Arenal, this is it. More adrenaline on skytrek, of course, but this is a better rainforest experience overall. We saw more animals on the safari float (altho raining then too, but hiding animals easier to spot than in the denser area here), but that may not be true in better weather.