We stayed for 5 nights and had mixed results, 2 stars.
Positives: There's a pool! The gardens around the house are beautiful and well maintained. The kitchen is well stocked with pots, pans, etc. They provide plenty of towels, linens and garbage bags.
Negatives:
1. The floor is in bad shape and rotted floorboards are cosmetically covered with throw rugs. In our first steps through the door, our daughter put her foot into a hole in the floor and twisted her ankle.
2. Vacasa is horrible-I wouldn't stay at any Vacasa property again based on this experience. When the code we were given to open the gate to the property did not work, we could not reach someone in the country and were told we’d have to wait until someone from the “local office” called us back. We ended up spending 3 hours mostly in the dark waiting for someone to show up to let us in. Eventually, Vacasa got in touch with someone that could open it remotely. When someone (with no English) did arrive at the property, they were unable to make the gate open or tell us how the situation was going to be resolved. We spent the next 2 days not leaving the house because we didn't have a way to get back in. Other than texting a relative of the owner a hoping she was around to remote open the gate. There are worse places to be stuck in for 2 days, but we had to cancel some of our activities in La Fortuna during the limited time we had for this vacation. For their part, Vacasa lied to us repeatedly about the resolution when they weren't ignoring us.
2b. ... so don't rent this place unless you can arrive around 4pm. If we had arrived a little later, it’s plain that we would have been sleeping in our car on the roadside the first night.
Location:
1. This place is very loud. The traffic noise is non-stop night and day. The house is right next to a speed bump, so you hear vehicles brake and then accelerate all night long. However, like many homes in CR, there are no windows, only screens, separating you from noise. Bring earplugs and noise cancelling headphones.
2. This place is 45-60 minutes from anything you'd like to do in La Fortuna
3. You are in rainforest, so expect bugs. The biting ants immediately swarm any bit of food you drop, & if we didn’t cover up everywhere, we’d have chigger bites all over after sitting on the outdoor furniture.
There is no dryer (it is disconnected). The hot tub is not hooked up, they won't tell you until it is too late to get refund.
