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Gaia Hotel & Nature Reserve vs Lapa Rios Lodge
Both hotels are praised by professional reviewers. Overall, Gaia Hotel & Reserve ranks marginally better than Lapa Rios Ecolodge Osa Peninsula. Gaia Hotel & Reserve ranks #25 in Costa Rica with recommendations from 5 sources such as Lonely Planet, Condé Nast Traveler and Jetsetter.
Gaia Hotel & Nature Reserve
Lonely Planet
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Km 2.7 Carretera Quepos a Manuel Antonio, Manuel Antonio National Park 6350, Costa Rica
From $201 /night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Free Breakfast
- Shuttle Bus
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This luxurious pile comprises studios, terraces suites and three-story villas and offers nature tours within its expansive grounds – a former wildlife rehabilitation center."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"Studios, the smallest accommodations, are spare and urbane in style, with views of green hillsides."
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Fodor's
"On 13 acres of private reserve, this boutique hotel is contemporary and very chic, with rooms rendered in slate, hardwood, and rattan with Italian fittings."
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Jetsetter
"Sleek Costa Rican retreat with a multilevel infinity pool, swim-up bar and intimate spa with jungle views."
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Travel + Leisure
"The Terra Spa at Gaia is set in the rainforest with views of the Pacific and a menu complete with Reiki energy treatments and Thai and Swedish massages."
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Lapa Rios Lodge
Afar Magazine
Condé Nast Traveler
Hideaway Report
Fodor's
Travel + Leisure
Osa Peninsula, Cabo Matapalo, Costa Rica
From $0 /night
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Free Breakfast
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
- Restaurant
Afar Magazine
"At Lapa Rios, an ecolodge located right in the rainforest, you go to sleep with the faint sound of jungle insects and wake to the call of howler monkeys."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"With "so much wildlife, you feel completely immersed in nature" at this wilderness lodge on 1,000 acres of riparian rain forest."
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Hideaway Report
95.0
"Wilderness refuge dramatically sited above the Golfo Dulce, in an isolated corner of the Osa Peninsula at the southern tip of Costa Rica."
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Fodor's
"This is the first and still the most spectacular eco-lodge in Costa Rica, set in a vast, private nature reserve brimming with wildlife."
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Travel + Leisure
"The most upscale of the Osa Peninsula eco-lodges, Lapa Ríos is set in a 988-acre rain-forest reserve with a virtually private beach and first-rate trails (on-site tours include binoculars and boots)."
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