I have been here before and shall return again . Give your staff a raise ! They all were very friendly and prompt . I also enjoyed the location and a very low key environment with reasonable rates . Keep doing what your are doing .
Kevin Paisley , Phoenix AZ

The Poseidon in Jaco was sweet! Very cool. Awesome staff. My Spanish is poor and everyone was very helpful and patient with me (at the hotel and in CR in general). Seemed like everyone at the hotel spoke English too. I took a surfing lesson, and ATV tour arranged through the hotel (Fernando) and I recommend both. Went swimming at the beach everyday. (The beach is great for swimming due to the sand bottom and fun waves, but beware of the currents. You should not go out over your head unless you are on a board.) I got the AC room, and was very happy with it. Fancier than I am used to. I hit the mini bar Imperials and Gatorades as the price was right. Showers were awesome, a necessity in the humidity. I ate at the restaurant several times, and ordered food from the restaurant in the Sports Bar. The other reviews are accurate. Food is awesome (Fish tacos, Shrimp, Breakfast!). I thought that the best bar in town was El Tabacon, which is about 3 doors down. Live music and a fun, mellow crowd. There is a casino nearby with Rummy/Blackjack hybrid. Pretty fun. I also hung out at the hotel Sports Bar, which has Wii on the big screen (bowling,golf etc), and a nice outdoor deck. The bartender in the Sports Bar is Shirley, and she is my favorite Costa Rican that I met. She was very nice, and taught me a lot of Spanish. She also crushed me at Wii bowling.

I was sad to leave Costa Rica and return to Arizona, but had a great time and will go back. Next time I will know more Spanish and go fishing with Donald and surfing with Julie from the Poseidon. *** I actually stayed here twice. I booked it for one night on my way back from Montezuma before heading back to SJ because I liked it.

Feel free to email me any questions on CR at my regular email
tegan9@cox.net

(I also went to Montezuma and stayed at Los Mangos and took an ATV to Mal Pais, and Santa Teresa (Lots of fun!). Stayed at the Hampton Inn Airport in SJ (efficient).
T Egan

This place might be a little pricey but the cleanliness and service more than make up for it. It is very close to shops and lots of restaurants. The food at the restaurant downstairs needs a little work but the waitresses and the bartender are wonderful. The posiedon has air conditioning and our room even had a little balcony over looking the pool. i found it very relaxing and would stay again on our next trip to Costa. I stayed with my husband and 2 children and really truly had no complaints.

We stayed at the Poseidon Hotel for three nights but we were a bit disappointed because considering the price that we paid for we expected more. The staffs were friendly and rooms were very clean but though the room has a patio, there was no view. The drain in the shower was not good and the TV remote didn't work even after I had the batteries changed. Also there is a bar on the top floor so at night it is noisy.

Tne worst was one day it rained and when we return to our room, one of the beds were moved to the center of the room because there was a leak on the ceiling. They spread towels on the floor and just left the bed in the middle of the room. The bed, pillow and some of my clothes were also wet but no one said anything to us until we went downstairs and ask for a room change. The receptionist, Boliviar was very kind and let us changed to other room. (All the staffs appear to be friendly, but we felt Boliviar is the only sincere one) But even in the other room there were water leaking from the ceiling so we had to take all our towels and spread them on the floor. The whole night we had to deal was the dripping noise.

The other two things that we were upset about was, Tim, who I believe is the owner charge us $85 for the room instead of $75 and I originally requested for the standard $65 room, which he told me was available. Thinking that I am booking the room for $65 when I made my reservation and gave him my credit card info He went on charging my card $85. He did credit it back to my card, but he didn't seem sorry about it.

Second, a young man at the reception told us the wrong side of the street to wait for the bus back to San Jose and we missed the 9am bus. We had to go back to the bus station and tried to get tickets for 11am bus but none were available and we had to wait till 1pm for the next one. It was also raining hard that day so it was not a very fun experience.

So we didnt have a very good stay. Maybe we were just not lucky. And I feel it is really not worth $85 to stay there. I went to check out one hotel around the corner on the main road called Apartotel Flamboyant. They charge $65 per night. THe hotel has a garden and a pool and the hotel is only 20feet from the beach. I think it is worth checking out.