Lookout Inn Lodge
Carate, Corcovado National Park 60702 Costa Rica
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The Lookout Inn Lodge is a beach and rainforest ecolodge in Carate on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula. We are located completely off the beaten path and conveniently located near an entrance to the world-renowned Corcovado National Park. Ideally situated to offer comfortable and affordable eco-friendly accommodations to adventure travelers visiting this remote part of Costa Rica, the Lookout Inn Lodge is sure to impress. Nestled in the hillside right above the road and alongside an isolated black sand beach, Lookout Inn Lodge provides our guests with spectacular views of the surrounding jungle rainforest, the majestic Pacific Ocean and an endless unspoiled Osa Peninsula coastline.
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Rooftop bar
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Canoeing
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Plunge pool
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This is more of a hiking lodge. Accommodation was very simple, though reasonably clean. We had dinner which was cooked on site, no choice, but it was very tasty. We were very disappointed in Drake Bay itself, it had very little to offer us, more a hippy place, and we only stayed one night instead of the two we had booked.
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Date of stay: March 2020
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It has been a month since I cancelled using the free cancellation on Booking.com and after over a dozen emails with Booking.com and the lodge and one call to the owner in Prague, they still have not refunded my 1/2 payment and appear to be completely unable to do so despite acknowledging that I should receive the refund. This is the worst experience I have ever had with trying to get a refund. This place should not be in business.
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Date of stay: November 2019
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Diver Dan wrote a review Aug 2019
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Anyone remember that song? This is what I'd call an Ecolodge. It has the basics in a very remote area. The first compelling thing is the view from the ingeniously-designed main building with two outward-facing terraces. Mesmerizing to just stare out. The morning fly-by of endangered scarlet macaw parrots is remarkable and unforgettable. The manager is an eccentric Czech man and his wife, who were recently arrived. Well-meaning, but not professional. For example, I needed a receipt for my stay, which should not be too much to expect, but it never was provided. The local staff member, Andy, is a very nice guy, speaks decent English and is local, so can help point you in the right direction for activities. If you are there at the right time, that should include a turtle walk with the local non-profit (separately reviewed). The only price we were quoted (direct with the hotel) included meals and was per person, but looks like you can do better online for the room alone. Food is "hearty" prepared in an open kitchen. No menu choice except how you want your eggs in the morning. Chef is also very nice, but has a limited range of ingredients to work with, given the location. Beers $5 US. Also no other alternative place to eat except the hotel property next door; we poked in but did not feel welcome and didn't try. They don't seem to be interested in outside business.…
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Date of stay: August 2019
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Absolutely the most amazing experience in my life, you will love the place, you will love the staff and meals prepared by the best Chef Carlos. You will love the way Yanori will.clean your room every day. You will love the wild jungle And beach. Just be aware, its possible you wouldnt like to leave the place. Thank u whole team, Roman, Šárka, Ema, Carlos, Andy, Yanori, Lenka, Milan And Porto And to all lovely animals friends. Definitely best place you will visit in your life 💖
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Date of stay: July 2019Trip type: Travelled solo
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Response from lookoutinn, Manager at Lookout Inn Lodge
Responded 30 Jul 2019
Dear Jana, greetings from Costa Rica! Thank you for such wonderfull review of our beloved Lookout Inn lodge! It was realy pleasure to have you here with us my friend. We hope that you get new energy suply from Osa peninsula. We all wish you only best and be well whenever you are. Best regards ans endless peace! Roman Vagner Lookout Inn lodge manager
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My wife and I went here on my honeymoon. We have nothing but good things to say about the place. It is a special experience to sleep in the jungle. In addition, Roman and the staff (who where great) did everything they could to make us feel welcome and at home. We saw lots of unique flora and fauna and highly recommend traveling into Corcovado National Park. Great food, great coffee, great people.. Not much else you could ask for! Thanks for everything, we hope to go back one day.
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Date of stay: July 2019Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from lookoutinn, Manager at Lookout Inn Lodge
Responded 13 Jul 2019
Dear Jordan, thank you very much for such nice review and your kind words. It was pleasure to have you here with us! Have wonderful time anywhere you are! Hopefully see you in future! Best regards and endless peace. Roman Vagner Lookout Inn lodge manager
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This is a bit of a placeholder review until I get some time to give my full review on the place. Highly recommend staying here if you are looking to be immersed into a remote, jungle B&B experience. Waking up and falling asleep to the sounds of the jungle was a truly refreshing way to start and end our days here. The stellar vibes from the staff only sweeten the experience, as they are down-to-earth, good people. They went above and beyond to make our family's stay special - especially since I proposed to my wife on this trip. The beach and jungle experience is incredible, you won't be disappointed. The food is great as well... with many ingredient coming from their garden. I look forward to visiting again some day!
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Date of stay: August 2018Trip type: Travelled with family
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Responded 5 Jun 2019
Dear guest, thank you for such nice review of our beloved Lookout Inn lodge and for your beautiful words! We are very happy, that you enjoyed your stay with us. It was really pleasure to have you here. Have wonderful time anywhere you are! Hopefully see you in future! Best regards and endless peace. Roman Vagner Lookout Inn lodge manager
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Me and my friend stayed in this hotel for two weeks. We were acommodated in a cabin in the middle of a nature. This hotel is very special for its location. It offers beautifull views on the ocean as well as a great experience beeing in the middle of a jungle. We saw parrots flying in front of the hotel every day as well as humming birds and monkeys who are used to come very close. It has a great access to the sea. The stuff is very nice and profesional and the kitchen is the best we experienced in Costa Rica. You can feel a homey atmospere and you will have troubles leaving. I will totaly visit again. Thank you, pura vida :-)
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Date of stay: May 2019Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Room Tip: Monkey house cabin has a beautifull view.
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Response from lookoutinn, Manager at Lookout Inn Lodge
Responded 30 May 2019
Dear Hana, thank you for such nice review of our beloved Lookout Inn lodge. We are more than happy, that you enjoyed your stay with us! Sharing of our new amazing home with other people is one of main goals together with friendly service and tasty food. Also Mother Nature help us create final picture. We are glad that you felt like at home. See you in near future! Thank you! Beat regards Roman Vagner Lookout Inn lodge manager
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We spent 5 days at this fabulous place as part of a wildlife photography tour with Backcountry Journeys. It's an hour plus drive on a dirt road with a couple of creek crossings to get to this remote and amazing place. When we made the drive in, it took quite a while, as we were stopping constantly to check out the monkeys, birds, snakes, caimans and other critters that are easily seen from the road. The Inn is perched high on a hillside, with absolutely gorgeous and lush grounds leading down to the road and the black sand beach. We were assigned the "Honeymoon" cabin and it was terrific. Totally open air but very private. The super comfy bed hangs from the rafters and has mosquito netting. Although the days were hot and super humid, at night with a fan blowing we were totally comfortable. We could hear the ocean crashing below. I don't know if I've ever gone to sleep more peacefully or slept better. The bathroom is also open air and has a cool water shower. At first I wondered if I would miss a hot shower. Nope! In the heat and humidity, a cool shower when we returned after a day of hiking and sweating was perfect. In all regards, our room was spotlessly clean. Our group was up at first light for the chance to shoot pictures of scarlet macaws on their morning fly-bys. The open air deck of the Inn is a fabulous place to watch and shoot pictures of the macaws and they occasionally land nearby for a bit of breakfast. We had most of our meals at the Inn, unless we we had a sack lunch out in the field. The food was wonderful, with loads of fresh fruit and vegies creatively prepared. The food is served family style and there was always more than enough to fill the largest appetite. Fresh fruit smoothies were available by request and were superb. The family that runs the kitchen could not be nicer. They worked so hard to provide us with wonderful food and they succeeded brilliantly. After dinner, the hillside below the Inn provided great opportunities for macro shots of frogs, lizards and snakes. Needless to say, we were busy from first light to well after dark and loved every minute. I can't imagine a better place to stay when you explore Corcovado NP and the Osa Peninsula. We travel a great deal and the Lookout Inn is at the very top of memorable experiences!! Thank you to all the staff of the Lookout Inn for making our stay so special!…
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Date of stay: April 2019Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Room Tip: The Honeymoon Room is fabulous!
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Response from lookoutinn, Manager at Lookout Inn Lodge
Responded 29 May 2019
Dear guest, thank you very much for your review of our Lookout Inn lodge! We were more than happy to welcome you with your group and share our new home with you. We are very pleased, that you enjoyed our food and service also. And Mother Nature always finish final picture! It was pleasure to have you here with us. Best regards Roman Vagner Lookout Inn lodge manager
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The Lookout Inn is not for everyone, it is simplistic and remote. It is a workout getting to your cabanas because it is built into the side of a hill and the cabanas are on different levels. You must have a degree of fitness to stay in several of the rooms. The rooms are open to the environment and a small fan in a canopied bed. But if you came to an Eco Lodge in the jungle with expectations of air conditioning and TV you’ve missed the point. It is completely about the experience and Roman & his staff delivers. The rooms are clean, the viewing decks are spotless, the hospitality is top notch. Cold beverages await after a long jungle hike. It is hard not to fall in love with this Inn. The ocean never lets you forget it is near. Steady waves crash both day and night. Birds sing, Howler Monkeys howl in the distance and leaf cutter ants traipse through the trees. Iguanas and Basilisks are plentiful. The highlight are the Macaws. scarlet Macaws make their presence known with loud squats and amazing colors. They feed from the trees and come to the observation decks for seeds. They are amazing. I highly recommend this adventure! …
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Date of stay: April 2019Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from lookoutinn, Manager at Lookout Inn Lodge
Responded 19 May 2019
Dear guest, thank you very much for such nice review of our beloved Lookout Inn Eco lodge! Tasty food and friendly service are our main goals and we are very happy, that you enjoyed them both. With great help of Mother Nature we can deliver fantastic experience for our guests. And also Mother Nature will always help us to create final picture. It was pleasure to have you here with us! Hopefully we will see you in future. Pura vida! Roman Vagner Lookout Inn lodge manager
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I was part of a photography group that spent eight nights on the Osa Peninsula; we stayed in three different lodges, and compared to the other two, this one was just OK. The food is excellent, and the location is great for seeing scarlet macaws. We were not aware of much other wildlife watching beyond the macaws, though you can walk a mile along the beach to a lagoon (Laguna Peje Perrito), which in the mornings had a tiger heron, some roseate spoonbills, jacana, and a crested caracara, among other birds. I had more trouble than some of the others in our group in dealing with the walk to the lagoon in the high heat and humidity, and I was grateful to the owner for sending someone in a truck to get me and save me the walk back. The next day, they provided rides to and from the lagoon for several of us who were struggling with the temperatures. We were very appreciative. The accommodations were fairly basic: I stayed in the Jungle Hut, which had a plank floor, some wooden shelving and drawers, and one wall open to the outside. It had enough electricity for a small fan over the bed and a light over the sink in the bathroom; there were no other lights and no electrical outlets in the room. (You could charge your camera batteries and other devices at a solar-powered station in the main lodge during daylight hours, which worked out fine.) The outdoor shower was cold water only. I don't say these things to complain, just to explain why I describe the accommodations as "basic." There was a mixup about the rooms upon our arrival, and the owner could have been more discreet and more pleasant in resolving the disagreement with our trip leader, rather than arguing with him in front of all of us. Later I shared a concern about the smell of the showers in one of the rooms and was met with a somewhat dismissive comment about how "it's jungle water." We had to insist that they look into it, and they found that there was indeed a problem with the cistern serving that room—and they fixed it. Having just stayed at Bosque del Cabo, where all of the staff knew your name and went out of their way to be cheerful and chat with us, we didn't quite get the same "warm fuzzy" feeling at Lookout Inn. Some of the staff seemed almost oblivious to our presence. But others were very friendly, and overall we had an adequate stay.…
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Date of stay: April 2019Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Response from lookoutinn, Manager at Lookout Inn Lodge
Responded 23 Apr 2019
Dear guest, thank you for your review of our beloved Lookout Inn Eco lodge! We take every comment very seriously. Since we took over our lodge last year in October we are still in the process of improvement of our service and hospitality for our guests. We are very happy that you enjoyed our meals together with location. Give a lift to our guests is obviousness and we are happy that we could help you with that! Since we are 3 star Eco lodge, powered by solar system only, located on edge of rain forest and wild beach, we decided to keep our accommodation basic and our lodge meets all prescribed standards. Our credo is friendly service with tasty food and we try to never bother our guests and let them enjoy sound of mother nature and also we let mother nature entertain our guests instead of us. Virgin and beautiful nature around is reason why we decided to buy this place and share it with other people. About misunderstanding with rooms upon your arrival: your tour leader was very rude and he was talking to me bed words, just because i really would like to help him solve his problem. It was travel agency error with preparation of your stay with us. They simply forgot to deliver list with names and rooms, even after my frequent communication with them. I am very sorry, but error was not on our side! We apologize for water situation during your stay, It was simply accident happening here in jungle almost every day. Utility water get bad in hot weather sometimes and as you mentioned, we fixed it for you immediately. That is why any prompt feedback from our guest is very valuable for us, so we can react instantly. We are also sorry, that you were feeling about our stuff that you are not welcome, but this is really misunderstanding and believe me, that non of us felt back any negation to you!!! I hope, that we clarified all your concerns and we hope to see you back one day. Best regards Roman Vagner Lookout Inn lodge manager
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Frequently Asked Questions about Lookout Inn Lodge
Which popular attractions are close to Lookout Inn Lodge?
Nearby attractions include Ave Azul de la Osa (7.0 km).
What are some of the property amenities at Lookout Inn Lodge?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include a rooftop bar, a pool, and breakfast buffet.
What food & drink options are available at Lookout Inn Lodge?
Guests can enjoy a rooftop bar during their stay.
Are there opportunities to exercise at Lookout Inn Lodge?
Yes, guests have access to a pool and yoga classes during their stay.
Which languages are spoken by the staff at Lookout Inn Lodge?
The staff speaks multiple languages, including English and Spanish.
Does Lookout Inn Lodge have any great views?
Yes, guests often enjoy the ocean view available here.