We spent 2 nights at the Ylang Ylang in Jungalow #5 this month (12/07). It is truly a beautiful setting near the very unique town of Montezuma. When you arrive you are driven to the beachside location (less than a 10 min walk) from Montezuma. There is a restaurant/bar with a great view of the water and a gorgeous pool.

The are 7 Jungalows, #1-4 are located closer to the beach and #5-7 are more in the jungle area. We were in #5 which had a lot more privacy than the others and still an ocean view. As others have mentioned this is not paradise if you are afraid of spiders, other creepy crawlies and potentially scorpians. We definitely had a few in the room with us. However there is netting around the beds allowing for you to make your jungalow as open air as you like. It's part of the charm that the wildlife can join you in your room if they like, seriously. And the setting otherwise, more than makes up for it.

You can wake up in the morning and walk right out on the beach. You can spend a morning like we did walking 2 hours to the waterfall or just 15 mins to the beautiful Playa Grande.

Both breakfast and dinner are included in the price and are delicious. The menu has a great selection of most anything you'd like, including sushi and vegan menus. The happy hour offers great deals on their many tropical drinks.

So now, the 'too good to be true?' part. Well we also happened to meet some locals while we spent our week in Montezuma. They happened to mention that most of them don't frequent the Ylang Ylang restaurant or the Sano Banano (also owned by the same Americans). The reason for this is that there have been some problems with where they dump their waste. And I have to say we became a little suspicous ourselves when we noticed that the water from our mini kitchen sink emptied right out into the lawn around our jungalow. There were also some rumors that the owners of the hotel built their own elaborate home on some protected lands. What does this all mean? We don't know exactly. And I feel bad for not pushing it while we were there. After all, these are all just rumors, and otherwise we did really enjoy our stay there. I guess it's just residual guilt, for we would not want to support an establishment these things were true about. Perhaps some future guest can do some more investigations for us.

My friend and I stayed in the Jungalows at Ylang-Ylang Resort and had an amazing time. The service was the best of anywhere we traveled the previos 2 weeks in Costa Rica. Mario was so friendly and willing to talk to about anything, Rey was the most amazing server and always knew what drink we were in the mood for that evening, and Moraya was not only friendly and helpful, but really went out of his way to make sure we had a good time. He recommended the Horse Back riding tour to the Florida Water and booked it around our schedule. It was teh BEST trip/tour we went on in all of Costa Rica. Montezuma and Ylang-Ylang were such a treat and I hope to get back there very soon. Out beds & pillows in the Jungalow were VERY comfortable and we had a blatst e-mailing our friends and fmaily about the "Jungalow" we stayed in. What a cute name. Did I mention the food yet? Oh My Gosh, it was absolutely AMAZING. The banana pancakes, tuna sanfwich, grilled veggie sandwich, Huevos Rancheros and catepillar roll were amazing and while we did visit other restaurants this and their sister restaurant El Sana Banana were by far the best overall food in town. I would highly recommend ANYONE to head to Ylang Ylang for a relaxing, beautiful and amazing vacation. We felt so spoiled after staying there that it was hard to go back home!