Esquinas Rainforest Lodge
Parque Nacional Piedras Blancas, Puntarenas Province, Golfito, 60701About
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Added by Jopie, at 04 June 2015
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17 March 2018
I arrived for lunch at the lodge and it was my 4th trip in Costa Rica and i have been all over the country without any problem or disappointment all these years. But i never see such lodge in Costa Rica at this level of price per night, being so rustic, so inconfortable and with such bad and cheap food. So i just told to the waitress politely that the food wasn't good and i was supposed to expect much better quality and fresh food, i said i won't even give such bad quality food to a dog and believe me it was true and the end of the story is significant and the proof i was right. So F, the manager, came to my table and ask me to leave the lodge : he was agressive, threatening me and coming very closed to me like 50 centimers and i had to put my hand in front to avoid any contact. He was screaming in the restaurant and i said what i said was true and i will have done the same comment in any restaurant in the world and it wasn't personal. But i was impossible to have a normal discussion with him and i can't speak as he was alway screaming and cutting my sentences. His wife was also agressive but she was speaking normally and was calm. I had booked this lodge for 4 nights and i had paid it - but he said i have to leave now or he called the police. I refused as i booked and paid the room and i don't have any other hotel in mind and i was looking only for a lodge with opportunities to see wildlife, not a city hotel. He also offer more money to me but i said i had enough money and he can't buy my departure. So after the police came, the discussion was difficult as they don't speak a good English, but i tried with my poor spanish to explain that there was reason for the manager to kick me away of the hotel just to have said the thruth : their food was cheap, with unfresh products and unacceptable. But the manager always invade the area to disturb the discussion with the police as the police don't have any reason to support the request of the manager : i was calm and polite and he was crazy and agressive. I never see such bad education for a person in contact with tourists. He was angry because he don't support any critical about its food but i don't have any regreat as i was more right than i supposed.
So the situation was impossible to support as the manager was like a barking man and it was impossible to say one word as he was barking all the time. So i decide to leave and i booked online another hotel in the city in order to have time to find another wilderness lodge with civilized people.
and he called a taxi and on the way, i start to feel the food was really inappropriate for health, and arriving at the other hotel i had to rush to the toilets without waiting the checkin process and my room. I have a witness and also i took a picture in case the manager will say i am lying. I didn't lie and i was sick in the other hotel from the food i had at Esquinas. I always eat very heathy food and i am sensitive to abnormal bacterias contained in unfresh and bad quality food. So i was right to say their food was disgusting as taste was completely abnormal for such products, but also biologically and it's why i was sick few hours later.
I forget to describe my room : rough small beds and rustic decoration very far from what you can expect at this level of rate. I left this horrible lodge for a perfect hotel in town - very confortable - good bathroom for one third of Esquinas rate !!response / report this review -
04 February 2018
Confortable and with some very interesting flora and fauna!
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23 January 2018
Mitten im Dschungel. Mehr Vögel als in den gängigen NPs.
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12 November 2017
Hermoso lugar para disfrutar de la naturaleza con la comodidad de lo rústico.
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21 August 2017
Just brilliant. Peaceful. Great wildlife. Lovely naturally air conditioning. Spring fed pool. Trails through rain forest.
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10 August 2017
C'est un très bel hôtel, franchement très bel endroit
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21 June 2017
muy bello lugar exelente personal ..muy buena comida y una naturaleza perfecta ,los animalitos super protegidos eso me encanta 😙
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20 September 2015
Un paraÃso natural. Está rodeado de foresta virgen con miles de especies animales por descubrir.
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11 June 2015
Excelent
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