Name: Central America & Mexico Tours & Travel
Brand: Adventure Life
Rating: 4.8 (175 reviews)

Offering a picturesque setting, Hotel & Spa Poco a Poco is located in Monteverde, Costa Rica. It features a spa, a covered heated pool and charming rooms with garden views. Each spacious room at Spa Poco a Poco has been carefully decorated. It features a balcony, cable TV, safe, a private bathroom and a coffee maker. The stylish restaurant offers a variety of national and international cuisine, combining local products with exotic ingredients. The Naroa Spa & Wellness features different beauty treatments and massages using organic goods and flowers grown in Monteverde. The hotel can also arrange tours to visit the Cloud Forest Reserves, the Hanging Bridges or the Monteverde Cheese Factory as well as many other cultural and natural attractions of the area. Free WiFi is available in public areas.

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$3,075

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Costa Rica Family Vacation

9 Day Itinerary

Hike near Arenal Volcano
Zipline through the cloudforest
Raft the Rio Savegre
Explore Manuel Antonio's beaches

Activities:: Hiking, Whitewater Rafting, Wildlife Viewing, Ziplining
Activity Level:: Easy Active

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$2,244

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Adventure Pacifica

9 Day Itinerary

Hike near Arenal Volcano
Zipline through cloud forest.
Raft the Rio Savegre
Explore Manuel Antonio's beaches

Activities:: Local Market Visits, Rainforest Exploration, Whitewater Rafting, Wildlife Viewing, Ziplining
Activity Level:: Easy Active

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OTOCUMA BAR & RESTAURANT

We are proud to offer a delightfully prepared national and international selection of flavours and recipes served in our casual yet stylish restaurant. Enjoy the taste of local products enhanced by exotic ingredients and innovative fusions.

Choose the wine of your preference from our varied selection. From young, fresh and contemporary to the more classical, traditional tastes of famous wineries, brands and grapes.

For a pre-dinner drink or a nightcap, visit our bar distinct in style and atmosphere. Enjoy your favourite Costa Rican beer, liquor or cocktail, while you make new friends and meet friendly “ticos”.

“Prior reservation is highly recommended”

NAROA SPA

Specialized on helping our guests achieve relaxation and overall wellness while sharing with them our cultural roots, Naroa Spa offers a broad variety of fusion services, which combines the latest massage styles and wellness treatments tendencies, with the most typical goods and flowers grown in Monteverde.

All of our treatments were designed thinking about the top two highlights of Hotel Poco a Poco vision: Guest Service and Sustainability. In the meantime you are improving your health and getting relaxed, you are helping to develop the industry of organic goods in this little town, locally harvested and used at treatments performed by local people, trained by the Hotel in concordance with our communal development commitment and social responsibility politics.

Naroa Spa offers you a wide selection of local products and the most qualified line of Professional Spa and Beauty products. Outgoing and professional therapists will help you choosing from our different spa and beauty treatments, the most adequate according to your personal requirements. Our goal is to be the highlight of your vacation, making you feeling restored and revitalized.

Join us on this eco-friendly journey, and discover with us the benefits of true balance between body, mind and soul.

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TOURS

Monteverde is famous for a reason—its cloud forests are brimming with plants and animals, its zip lines and suspension bridges are the longest (and most exciting) in the country, and its coffee is tasty, local and cheap. Each of these diversions – as well as countless other activities – can be enjoyed through a number of exciting tours.

These professionally run tours are both educational and entertaining, and ensure that participants will walk away with more knowledge and more fun than they walked in with.

A tour of Monteverde’s cloud forests promises all this and more. Plainly speaking, these forests are the area’s crown gem, the main reason that most people assent to the grueling car ride up the road leading to Monteverde. The fact of the matter is, however, the trip is well worth it.

MONTEVERDE CLOUD FOREST RESERVE
Owned by the Tropical Scientific Center, a leading private organization on environmental studies and tropical conservation; the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve covers an area of more than 5.000 hectares. It was established in 1974, thanks to the efforts of Wilford Guindon, one of the first Quaker settlers and biologist George Powell. It is an area of extraordinary beauty and one of the more exuberant ecosystems on the planet.

SANTA ELENA CLOUD FOREST RESERVE

Private non-profit reserve administrated by the Santa Elena High School. It is dedicated to nature conservation, and ecotourism and all profits go to the improvement of regional education. Located high on the Caribbean slopes of the Cordillera de Tilarán (5, 000 feet, 1,500 m), the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve is one of the first community managed reserves in the country. The Reserve officially opened in March 1992. It comprises an area of 310 hectares or 765 acres, and together with the Children's Eternal Rainforest, the Arenal-Tempisque Conservation Area and the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve constitutes a contiguous conservation area of approximately 28,000 hectares or 69,000 acres.

CHILDREN'S ETERNAL RAINFOREST
The Monteverde Conservation League (MCL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forest. Founded in 1986 in Monteverde, the MCL began a land purchase campaign to conserve the tropical forest. Currently, the organization has achieved the formation of the largest private reserve in Costa Rica: The Children's Eternal Rain Forest (CERF). This has been possible thanks to the support of children, adults, schools and organizations around the world.

CASEM
Stands for “Comite de Artesanas de Santa Elena y Monteverde”. At the women´s artist coop in Monteverde, you can find handcrafted souvenirs such as stationery, jewelry and t-shirts decorated with the Famous Quetzal.

CANOPY TOURS
Monteverde is the capital of the canopy tours in Costa Rica, and was the first place where this activity became a tourist attraction. This is a new and exciting way to explore the forest’s last frontier: its canopy, where the abundance of life forms and interactions reaches its climax.

There are at least 6 different canopy tours in the area, featuring the new Tarzan swings, rappels, hanging bridges, lookout points and more. Some tours offer the longest cables in the area; others use towers that rise above the canopy for greater views and lengths, the sky tram brings you to the top of the continental divide, from where the cable lines start. Some provide transportation; some offer other attractions at their facilities and all of them cater for safety and fun.

SUSPENSION BRIDGES TOUR
If you’d rather keep your feet on the ground, but still want to experience the beauty of the Canopy, we recommend one of the hanging bridges tours. There are different companies that offer a natural history walk on a forest trail passing by a series of hanging bridges. The walkways are firmly anchored and completely safe, from there you can appreciate the changes in the forest’s levels, and plant interactions and wildlife can be easily observed. Transportation is provided and tours range from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

NIGHT TOURS
Local Monteverde families are directly benefited from the conservation of their forest land. Small private reserves have been established on the SW flank of the mountains. Visitors can experience the magic of the forest at dusk. These reserves are located on a lower elevation, where the second-growth forest is less dense and chances to spot wildlife are greater.

COFFEE TOURS
The rich soils of Monteverde are ideal for the production of Coffee. Since decades ago, local families have dedicated their lives to the cultivation of our “grano de oro”. By attending these tours, visitors learn about growing, harvesting and processing the beans until they are ready to be enjoyed. Their contribution goes directly to the local families.
When visiting "El Trapiche" one of the tours recommended by the hotel, tourists can also learn about the process of making sugar at the sugar mill, interact and enjoy the rich flavors of raw molasses and the history and traditions behind these two products. The tour begins with a short walk through the farm where you can get a glimpse of plantations such as sugar cane, coffee, bananas, plantains, tubers, oranges and more. Enjoy the entire coffee process, ride a Costarican ox cart and experience the process of making liquor out of the sugar cane, and to finish delight yourself with a fragrant cup of coffee.

THE FROG POND OF MONTEVERDE AND BUTTERFLIES GARDEN
An herbarium is located only one hundred meters from Poco a Poco in which you can admire over 20 species of frogs and other amphibians. At their butterflies’ garden, there are different sections representing species of butterflies from the Monteverde area.
Visitors can admire more than 25 species of native frogs, toads and other amphibians living in large, naturally-simulated terrariums. A bilingual guide accompanies visitors during each tour and teaches them about the frogs’ history, habitat, and unique characteristics. Some of the frogs and toads on hand include the colorful poison arrow frog, crowned frog, marine toad, cane toad, leopard frog, hourglass frog, and the famous red-eyed tree frog.

BUTTERFLY PROJECT OF MONTEVERDE
This farm has a nature center, 4 gardens, a 500 square meter netted flyway, 3 greenhouses, a gift shop and botanical gardens. Founded in 1991 by biologist Jim Wolfe and his wife Marta Iris. The focus of the project is environmental education.

HORSEBACK RIDING TOURS
Regardless of the riding experience, this tour offers the chance of enjoying beautiful views of the Gulf of Nicoya, waterfalls, forests, wildlife and breathtaking sunsets.

SERPENTARIUM
Costa Rica has 15 different species of venomous snakes, among which are the fer de lance, the godman montane pit viper, slender hog-nosed pit viper, jumping pit viper, black speckled palm pit viper, eyelash palm pit viper, the rainforest hog-nosed pit viper, side palm pit viper, the mute rattler, neotropical rattlesnakes, cantils, corals, red-tailed coral snake, chinilla, and selagic sea snake.
Just a couple of blocks from Hotel Poco a Poco the Serpertarium exhibits snakes and other reptiles and amphibians from Costa Rica.

HUMMINGBIRD GALLERY
Located next to the entrance of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Very worthwhile. Gifts, photos. etc. Great photo opportunities outside the gallery, where feeders attract a wide variety of hummingbirds in overwhelming numbers. Here visitors can observe up to 14 species of tiny, lively colored birds as they amaze you with their spectacularly acrobatic aerial maneuvers.

ART GALLERIES
Art, wisely, decided that its home would be in Monteverde. Surrounded by so much greenery, color excels here. Emotions, sensations, energy and life are pregnant with beauty in the different materials used whether wood, paper, silk or others.

GALERON CULTURAL
This is a communal center of artistic expressions, theatre, music and cultural presentations sponsored by some of the hotels and tour companies in Monteverde. Enquire about presentations at check-in.

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We are so glad that we chose Adventure Life. The service is top-notch. Everything is well taken care of and we just have to print the documents and go. Franny even gave us timely updates on possible airport strike.

KC Chan

TrustScore 4.8 | 175 reviews

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The response from Adventure Life to my first inquiry was prompt and promising. I worked with Jamie Broeckel, Trip Planner, via text, email, and phone calls- always extremely responsive and thorough with information and explaining the process to arrange a private tour for me to Malaysia Borneo. Within about week, the booking was complete and I made decisions because of Jamie's great customer service , friendly manner, and overall competence on behalf of the company's travel expertise. Now I have an itinerary, additional Trip Planner Assistants, several links for vital information for traveling to Maylasia, etc. Still many details for Sept. trip, but now the heavy lifting is done and I can enjoy the rest of the anticipation and research!! Thanks Jamie- you are amazing!!!!

Susan Campo

2 days ago

The trip was not only memorable for the amount of animals we saw but also for the people and accommodations at the two camps where we stayed. Our first guide, BK, was a wealth of information about the animals, landscape and down to the plants and what they were used for. Everyday out was a learning experience with him. All the people at the camps were gracious and the food was excellent. Our second camp in the Okavanga was just as good as the first as far as the staff, accommodations, food and animals. After our experience at the first camp we amazed that the high quality remained the same. Our guide, G, made sure we were able to enjoy every experience including a rush through the bush to witness a cheetah and an ensuing hunt that he heard over his radio. In both camps there were enough guides out that if they saw something the other guides were informed which helped in seeing as much as possible. It was also nice that the concessions were large enough that we did not have vehicles following each other throughout the day. Normally there is always something in a trip of this length that we think could be improved upon but this is the rare case where we cannot think of anything. From the time we left the States to when we returned it was one of the most hassle free vacations we took. Perhaps emphasizing the use of the laundry facilities at the camps would be useful because of the luggage restrictions would be the only thing I can think of as an improvement to future clients.

Kenneth Dropek

3 days ago

Mary was so pleasant and professional. She made sure all of our questions were answered.

Tina

4 days ago

Rapid response.

kym

4 days ago

Jess and her non pushy salesmanship!!!!!

Cristen Crawford

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