My partner and I stayed at Azania for 2 nights as part of a tour made for us by our travel agent in Costa Rica.
We loved it here and out of the eight hotels we stayed in over the duration of our trip - this was our favourite!
It has a lovely authentic holiday feel to it and the staff are great.
The breakfast is just perfect and the dinner there is really really good.
The bungalows are a good size and have hammocks on the porch. There is no air con so be warned.....
We advise anyone to go here from one night to a week, its good value and will really give you that holiday feel thats also a bit different from the norm.

What an enjoyable place! My wife and I stayed here for a week as part of our honeymoon in Costa Rica. Very rustic exotic bungalows and lush vegetation. Juan is was friendly and nice. Breakfast every morning was good and delicious. Fresh fruit and juice or eggs! The open air restaurant had good quiet dinners too! This place is one of the nicest in the Puerto Viejo. Don't get me wrong. Don't expect a four or five star hotel. But its a good bang for the buck! And just make sure you have your expectation right before visiting here. The interiors are nice with lot of wood but have no AC and the showers aren't the best but do the job.

We dealt directly with Azania and you can get a good deal if you ask.

The town of Puerto Viejo is a very touristy surf town with lots of good little restaurants and nice beaches with lots of people walking and riding bikes on the half paved/half gravel road. But we rented a small 4x4 and I actually enjoyed driving on it! We did a zip-lining canopy tour and snorkeling/forest hike and enjoyed both. Our favorite beach in the area was Punta Uva. It was an quiet exotic beach with hardly any waves and bathtub water temps. You can even drive up to the beach.

This was a wonderful place to stay. The food was beyond fabulous, we didn't want to eat anywhere else. The beach across the street was so beautiful, the ocean was perfect for swimming and even surfing some days. We rented bikes and rode to the near by areas. The zipline tour, quad tour and ocean fishing were great experiences and they pick you up at the hotel. We plan on returning and this will be where we stay. We would not recommend taking the bus it was fast, but on that narrow highway it was a little scary - we took a minivan back to San Jose, I beleive it was Interbus - much more pleasant experience.

First off, Puerto Viejo is a very long bumpy drive to get to and isn't the cleanest of locations in Costa Rica, that being said, Azania Bungalows is a sanctuary paradise unto itself. Even though the Caribbean beaches are across the street, we were just as happy to relax by the pool. The food was absolutely first class, probably the best in our 3 weeks of travelling around Costa Rica, the reception staff were also great. Thatched roof bungalows with hammock are clean and relaxing.
Highly recommend this property if even just for the food.