Does Hotel El Bambú have a pool?

Yes, this property has an outdoor pool and a children's pool.

Is Hotel El Bambú pet-friendly?

No, only service animals are welcome at the property.

How much is parking at Hotel El Bambú?

Self-parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at Hotel El Bambú?

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; check-in end time: anytime.

Does Hotel El Bambú provide a shuttle to the airport?

Yes, there's an airport shuttle.

Where is Hotel El Bambú located?

This family-friendly Puerto Viejo hotel is located in a rural location, 1.4 mi (2.3 km) from La Selva Biological Station, and within 12 mi (20 km) of Tirimbina Rainforest Center and Costa Rica Nature Pavilion. Mini Zoo and Jardin Yori and Heliconia Island are also within 16 mi (25 km).

Hotel El Bambú Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

10/10 Excellent

TATIANA

19 May 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This is a nice property with excellent service for a good price.

Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Deborah

2 Mar 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Lovely property, spacious clean rooms in a jungle setting. Dinner at the hotel restaurant was excellent

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Janet

5 Jan 2025

Liked: Property conditions & facilities

The staff are very friendly ! The food is excellent and service great !!

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Lorenzo

12 Apr 2025

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Nice property inside the town. But rooms are very quiet.

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Janet

20 Jan 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

This hotel is rustic really but very quiet and serves the purpose. The restaurant has good food and friendly staff !! Reception was also friendly. !

10/10 Excellent

Vicki

27 Jan 2015

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Fun spot...

Great food & wonderful pool. Room was unique & clean.

8/10 Good

Tor

10 Nov 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Interesting place, when we pulled up in front on a busy street we thought we had the wrong place but after parking around the back it had extensive raised covered walkways going into the forest with many units farther back. The greeted us with a complimentary crushed ice drink that was excellent on a hot afternoon. Nice pool and staff and a good restaurant too.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

6/10 Okay

fred

18 Nov 2023

Liked: Staff & service

Disliked: Cleanliness

Front desk and bar Restaurant service was great. the housekeeping not so good. Never the right towels or other supplies. No hot watert most of the time. Restaurant was excellent. Pleasant setting for rooms away from the street. Saw plenty of birds from my deck. This place is long in the tooth.

Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Annelies

3 Jan 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

3-night trip to the Sarapique area

It's a basic but nice hotel. We stayed for 3 nights to explore the area. The rooms in the back are right in the forest. There is not much in the room. A chair and a shelf in the bathroom would have been nice. We visited the Braulio Carrillo National Park, a 40-minute drive from the hotel. It was very quiet (Dec. 27th). It is a great park with an aerial tram and two short walks. We saw a lot of animals. The hotel booked a private boat tour for us (six adults) for around $100. The dock is a 5-minute walk from the hotel, and again, it was very quiet. We saw many monkeys, alligators, and other animals. The pool was under renovation, so that was a disappointment. The staff was friendly, the breakfast was a buffet, and we had enough choices. If you want to explore a beautiful area in Costa Rica that is quieter than some other parts of the country, I recommend staying a few nights at Hotel El Bambu.

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2024

8/10 Good

ann

24 Jan 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Initially this hotel seems placed on the noisy main road with the dining room open to it. But the rooms are at a distance in the forest. Thus complete silence. The pool was very good and the food excellent. My room had a shower that worked but needed some attention to the head. Having put an expresso machine in the bedroom it seemed odd to only get one capsule when was staying three nights. Staff so helpful. Sarapiqui is an ordinary Costa Rican town away from the main tourist route and thus an experience in itself. White water rafting excellent.

Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

helena

30 Oct 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities

The property is located in a busy area of town, which makes it convenient to explore and has many local dining options. It also adjoins unspoiled land where we were able to see and hear many wild animals from our room. The hotel is a bit dated but very clean and comfortable. Our bathroom door would drag on the floor and get stuck. And we noticed a few outside doors of other rooms with large gaps in the framing, which let bugs and heat in the room. The ac gets wonderfully cold, and the balcony is spacious with chairs and a table. All of the staff is accomdating and friendly. They were even willing to help us place a food order for delivery to the hotel despite having their own restaurant. Breakfast is included and gives 6 options to choose from, which is nice since it is green season and not busy enough to offer the buffet. The only things I did not care for about the accommodation is the noisy creaking wood flooring in the room which makes it impossible to not disturb your companion, no mini fridge to keep cold water or beverages, and despite having a coffee maker in the room, they only provide 2 pods for your entire stay (there were 2 of us staying 3 nights) so you had to go to the restaurant for your morning coffee. When we asked about additional pods, we were told we would have to pay extra, and housekeeping doesn't replenish them when servicing your room. Overall, a nice and comfortable property for a short stay.

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

leon

7 Oct 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The room was great. The pool was nice. The staff was perfect.

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

8/10 Good

Laurent

15 Feb 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities

Le cadre des logements dans le jardin, qui a permis de voir des singes à quelques mètres. Très bon petit déjeuner buffet (omelette à la demande à composer soi-même) Accueil par un jus de fruit

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

françoise

1 Apr 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Hôtel agréable

A part la salle de restaurant qui donne sur la rue et le nombre de cars sur le parking qui font craindre un hôtel à touristes, les chambres dans la nature qu’on atteint via des passerelles sont très belles et confortables. Dommage que l’insonorisation soit inexistante on entend tout des chambres contiguës et des clients qui passent devant la chambre. Prévoir des boules Quies

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

sophie

29 Jan 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Hôtel très bien situé on est dans la ville mais les chambres sont dans "la keugle* cocktail d accueil, petit dej très bien et en prime les aras s invitent au petit déjeuner dans l arbre d en face.

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

John

13 Dec 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Pleasantly surprised

Just passing through on our way to southeast pleasantly surprised jungle surroundings right in town.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Walter

21 Oct 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Thank you for all, we really enjoy the stay! ;-)

Very nice place, happy staff, unique, we loved the rooms, for my point of view is one of the must beautiful places in Costa Rica.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

4 Aug 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Clean air conditioned with restaurant on site. Rooms are on a beautiful walkway above the ground. Enjoyed a night walk with Angel observing local flora, fauna. He was very informative and helpful.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

22 Dec 2018

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

The town is very basic with little for the traveler. Hotel was expensive for the level of finish / area, but the staff were very nice.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Marc

1 Aug 2018

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Prima hotel met krakende bedden.

Zeer mooi hotel, hoewel je vanaf de straat een andere indruk krijgt. Het hotelgedeelte ligt in een tropische tuin achterin. Mooi zwembad en veel beesten te zien vlakbij. Wel krakende bedden.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

28 Jul 2018

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Attention à la deception sur place

Hôtel vétuste et en décrépitude, nous avons réservé une chambre supérieure et avons appris sur place qu'elles n'existaient plus. Eau froide et douche à très faible débit. La piscine est délabrée et n'est plus en fonction. Il ne s'agit pas d'un 3 étoiles mais d'un deux étoiles. Sur place, on nous a informé que c'était hôtel.com qui n'avait pas mis ses informations à jour. Cependant, le cadre est charmant, on se laisse réveiller par les bruits de la jungle et la balade nocturne est sympathique, le guide est super.

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

louis-philipp

30 May 2018

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Superbe hôtel

Superbe hôtel en plein centre ville et toujours au milieu de la forêt. Superbe vue au réveil et le petit-déjeuner a être rassasié pour la journée !! Un guide très sympa qui même en jour de repos se déplace pour une petite sortie nocturne. On vous le conseille.

Stayed 1 night in May 2018

8/10 Good

raymond

3 Mar 2018

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

tout ok bel hotel piscine sympa---tour de nuit offer : tres interressant

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2018

10/10 Excellent

Frank

9 Feb 2018

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Das Hotel beeindruckt durch das Team

Ein schönes Hotel mit sehr freundlichem Personal direkt am Regenwald. Alle Zimmer haben Aussicht auf den Wald. Das Frühstück ist amerikanisch gut. Das Restaurant zu empfehlen. Der Ort eignet sich um Ausflugsziele in der Imgebung zu erkunden. Sarapiqui selbst bietet nicht sehr viel. Das Hotel hat 2 Sterne, das Team zeigt wesentlich mehr.

Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

PK

28 Jan 2018

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Staff very helpful in organizing excurions and activities in the area. Rooms located in the forested area are very quiet.

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

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