This place is not at all like the website they have. My husband and I had one of the worst nights sleep of our lives here due to the ceiling of the room being partially open to the outside. Light from a hallway light kept shining into our room through a large open area above the door making it impossible to sleep. My husband would turn the light off, and then someone would promptly turn it back on. Also, the walls were paper thin. We had to sleep under a bug net which is not the end of the world...it just wasn't what I had expected. We originally booked 2 nights but got out of there after 1 agonizing night. The man at the reception desk was creepy and didn't really speak English. The whole place felt unsafe and weird. Would not recommend to anyone.

We totally agree to the previous post of Minnie M. We also booked this lodge in advance via hostelworld and were dissapointed about the current owner/staff which obviously changed during the last year. We booked a private room with bathroom and paid partly in advance but on our arrival only a room with shared bathroom was available and they said hostelworld is responsible for this fault without any apologize. We were there on christmas and booked a 'special' dinner for $30p./P which was served at 22:45 (it was supposed to be around 8p.m.) which we found way too expensive since it was only main dish which was salad an chicken or pork. Also there were people who expected vegetarian food and were not informed about the change.

We see a lot of great reviews of this place (which was the reason we came here), but we experienced that there is a new owner at the Cascada Verde lodge.

First, we would like to emphasize that Cascada Verde is a very nice place with great rooms, a beautiful yoga deck with a nice view and beautiful surroundings. We had a good time the days we were there, but it wasn't as expected. We paid our 7 nights stay in advance, from monday to monday.

We booked a week via hostelworld.com, because if you book a week or longer you get a nice discount. Otherwise we would have only booked for 3-4 days. So we booked a week, and the price was +/- 11 euro per person per night via hostelworld.

Then we saw on the website of Cascada Verde that the week's discount was not valid from 15-31 december, and we had booked from 12-19 december (first 13-20 but we changed our mind to a day earlier). So we emailed the owner to ask whether our reservation was valid for this period. He said it was not valid and because of the high season we have to pay $45 per night for a room. This is almost twice as much as before! But we thought the lodge would be very nice and accepted that the high season prices were much higher.

The whole period we were staying there, there was only one other room occupied out of 11 rooms. We asked why this was the case and the volunteers (really nice guys) answered that the real high season still had to begin. So we felt a little bit weird about paying the higher price. Anyway, this wouldn't have been a problem for us if the stay was as we expected. We expected some things that were on the paper flyer we picked up at a hostel in San Jose, and on the Cascada Verde website. For instance, the flyer and/or website say:

-free daily yoga
-belly dance & meditation classes
-tai-chi & chi kung classes
-massage only $25 an hour
-inexpensive vegetarian meals
-spanish classes available
-permaculture garden

These are all things that were not available at the Cascada Verde. So in our opinion, we paid much more but received less. Therefore, after 4 nights, we decided that we wanted to move on travelling to another place. There were 3 people from the US who left on thursday, at least two days earlier than they planned (but they were smart enough to pay per day). So we are sure we are not the only ones who had a problem with the state of the stay/lodge as it was now. Moreover, half of the time there was no water available. There was no emergency water supply. The kitchen was unhygienic.

So concluding, already on Thursday morning we decided to leave. We asked someone to call the boss to make our complaints but he was constantly not available. Then it was Friday and the people said that the owner was coming to the lodge that day. We decided to wait for this but he did not come at all. So we emailed the owner on Friday to explain the situation. Until now, we haven't received ANY answer to our email, and did not get our money for the 2 last nights back. This is especially disappointing; that things are not going the way they should, we can understand, but the owner not communicating with us at all is insulting to us. Someone in charge should ALWAYS be available in a place like this.

We hope that the new owner will fix these problems and if so, this place definitely has the potential to become a nice retreat place.

If you are looking for a nice room and nothing else: go here. If you are looking for a holistic retreat center: don't go here.

Me and my friend had stayed here for on week in June and it was really fun. The room was very nice. On the first morning we have heard the howler monkeys. It was incredible. But we just have heard them for the first days. The view from the yoga deck is beautiful, you can really see the ocean.
The area around the lodge is so great, You are looking on a lot of great plants, its a view in the Jungle. You can see the howler monkeys, lizards and some frogs. A little nationalpark,
We had here a great time and so much fun. Andres, the owner, was a tourguide in Costa Rica. So he helped us planning our tours and he had a lot of insider information for us.
Its a great place to stay in Uvita.