The mansion inn was wonderful! My husband and I stayed for three nights. The staff was great, the views were awesome and the rooms were comfortable and air conditioned. Special shout outs to to the guys at the bat cave and pool bars- Bart, Adrian, Jonathan, and Jesus!
The restaurant was also nice with good food. Great service by Juan Carlos and Jorge for breakfast! We were also so happy to be able to wake up and watch a sloth that was living in a tree right across from the hotel!!
Also they have a free shuttle/ car that can take youto the beach right next to the nature reserve- definitely something to check out with a guide!
We will be back again hopefully. Pura Vidal!!

This hotel was probably my favorite hotel we stayed at in our 9 days of travel. It wasnt because of the rooms, although they were nice but because of the location, staff, and views. Everyone went above and beyond making us feel comfortable and at home. The pool bar and view is the best I have ever seen. It over looks the ocean and the drinks were fantastic (I loved the vodka watermelons). The Bat Cave bar was really neat and we always started out our night there. They do have a taxi service from the hotel to the beach which is really nice since taxi rides are $8 to and from however no one told us about that until our last day (which was another couple from the hotel and not the staff). That would probably be my only complaint. For some reason we didnt get the tour and the welcome drinks and thats where they tell you about the shuttle. With that being the only negative thing I have to say I still give the hotel an A and would highly recommend it to anyone going to Manuel Antonio.

The room was nice and our view was absolutely beautiful. We had dinner in the restaurant one night and the food and wine were quite good -- liked the big fish tanks, too. The bat cave bar was interesting, not exactly our style, though. They were very helpful in giving us breakfast to go one morning because we had an early tour picking us up and they helped us organize a guide for Manuel Antonio Nat'l Park. The 360 view on top was pretty and there were some cool iguanas there and a handful of monkeys eating breakfast right outside our window one morning, which was lots of fun to watch. Overall it was nice and the review would have ended there, but...

Some things were stolen out of our car when we had to leave the keys with the front desk. We'd heard the warnings about not leaving anything in your car when traveling through Costa Rica, so we always brought in all of our electronics, wallets, etc. We had just returned from a long day of ziplining and came back to freshen up before going out to dinner, so we left a couple sweatshirts, a jacket, a backup cell phone, a small bag of dirty clothes and some souvenirs we'd bought at a village and in town in the car. The souvenirs were covered by the sweatshirt and/or in a nondescript plastic bag, so it certainly didn't look like anything worth stealing. My boyfriend had his backpack in back so when we returned he opened the trunk to grab it, locked the door and handed me the keys to lock mine (no fancy door-locking key buttons on this Jimny!)

The car was parked in the hotel lot WITH A "SECURITY GUARD" and the hotel/parking is up a hill off the road, not near a lot of foot traffic, etc. We had to leave the car with the front desk because we blocked another car (lot is very small). When we got back to the car roughly 2 hours later everything in the back was gone -- nothing life-changing but all told about $375 worth of stuff, including an indigenous mask we got on a horseback trip that we really dug. After talking to security and to the front desk, nothing was solved so we headed out to dinner. They called the police for us and we met with them the next day. The hotel showed us "security footage" of the front desk guy going out to move our car and said it was proof nothing happened, but our car WASN'T ON CAMERA so the video was pretty pointless. You couldn't see the security guy, the front desk guy or our car, you could only see when he left through the main lobby to move it and came back in through the lobby. We liked the front desk guy and wouldn't want to accuse him of anything -- maybe he just forgot to lock the door - or maybe he and/or the security guy were involved in the theft. Either way, it was a real bummer for our trip and the police officers even told us (unsolicited) that the security footage was totally pointless and didn't prove anything. Meeting with the police pushed back our long drive to Tamarindo an hour+, too, which sucked.

Nice hotel but nothing all that special, particularly if you're left wondering if an employee might have been involved in something fishy.

My husband and I stayed at La Mansion Inn for one week. It was the last week of October and most people assumed it was going to be rainy the entire time, however, we had absolutely fantastic weather. This was our first trip to Costa Rica and Manuel Antonio, it will not be our last. We arrived later in the afternoon on Saturday and did not have any energy to explore the town so we decided to have dinner at the hotel restaurant, the fish was fresh and delicious. The service we received from the restaurant staff was phenomenal,(Marvin and Juan Carlos) everyone was sweet and gave great recommendation on activities for the day. We enjoyed every part of the hotel from the Bat Cave Bar (Jesus is a great bartender) to the hotel lobby (Juan was excellent). We stayed in 2 different areas, we stayed in room 7 and then in room 24- both offered different views but both still breathtaking.

I cannot say enough about this hotel and how welcoming everyone was. La Mansion definitely has the best view and animals to see everyday from monkeys to sloths, iguanas, and horses!

Nothing was a hassle, the staff really makes your visit enjoyable- I did not have to do any work!
If you do go to Manuel Antonio, please stay at La Mansion Inn!