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Villa Blanca Hotel & Nature Reserve vs Lapa Rios Lodge
Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Hotel and Nature Reserve and Lapa Rios Ecolodge Osa Peninsula are both rated highly by travel writers. Overall, Lapa Rios Ecolodge Osa Peninsula scores slightly better than Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Hotel and Nature Reserve. Lapa Rios Ecolodge Osa Peninsula has a TripExpert Score of 83 with recommendations from 5 sources including Travel + Leisure, Afar Magazine and Fodor's.
Villa Blanca Hotel & Nature Reserve
Afar Magazine
Travel + Leisure
The Telegraph
Lonely Planet
Oyster
El Silencio de Los Angeles, San Ramon 1250, Costa Rica
From $203 /night
- Bar/Lounge
- Hot Tub
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Free Breakfast
- Shuttle Bus
Afar Magazine
"The Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Hotel & Nature Reserve is said to be the first hotel property in Costa Rica to have a research facility in operation on its grounds."
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Travel + Leisure
"Originally owned by former President Rodrigo Carazo Odio, the Villa Blanca is shrouded by the dense cloud forest of the Los Angeles Private Biological Reserve."
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The Telegraph
8.0
"An eco-friendly resort in a remote cloud forest location, Villa Blanca is the ideal retreat for nature lovers."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Occupying a cloud-forest aerie, this private reserve is centered on a lodge and dairy ranch once owned by ex-president Rodrigo Carazo."
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Oyster
Mid-Range
"Feels like a hotel at the end of the world. All 35 rooms are rustic, freestanding bungalows with free Wi-Fi, minibars, wood-burning fireplaces, and private patios with lovely views."
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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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