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Iguana Lodge is the Osa Peninsula's premier beach eco-resort. Established over eleven years ago, Iguana Lodge is founded on the principles of sustainable tourism, personalized service, joy, health, and well-being. Located on the most beautiful beach on the Osa (no kidding), Iguana Lodge is a contemporary, lushly landscaped resort with a 20 meter lap pool and Jacuzzi, two yoga decks and complimentary yoga classes*, a deluxe spa, a fabulous Tico staff, award winning fresh, healthy meals at our two restaurants, our own naturalist, and excellent jungle and ocean adventures.
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HOTEL STYLE
Family Resort
Family
Languages Spoken
Spanish
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C.A Calle Platanares, Puerto Jimenez 60702 Costa Rica
The Iguana Lodge is a secluded contemporary beachfront resort located south of Puerto Jimenez along the beaches of the Golfo Dulce. The empty beach and surrounding jungle is inhabited by scarlet Mccaw’s, Howler monkeys and other interesting animals. The slower pace of the less frequented Osa Peninsula is calm and relaxing and the Iguana Lodges serene location near the end of the road makes this place enchanting. Service and accommodations at the Iguana Lodge are very good. The staff is friendly and helpful, most are proficient in English. The accommodations are clean and very good. The air-conditioned rooms are essential. The resort features a swimming pool, Yoga instruction and recreation rooms above the pool. They also offer free use of paddle boards and kayaks and other recreational equipment. The restaurant has a view of the beach and offers breakfast. The regular menu offers a wide selection. The daily specials are excellent, great drinks, and the service is wonderful.
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Date of stay: December 2021
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Room Tip:Â The rooms above the restaurant are convenient get one with Air conditioning
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Lovely grounds, very well maintained. Large swimming pool, hot tub also well maintained. Showers and bathrooms in pool area. My husband and I were glad for an air conditioned room, not so easy to come by in the OSA peninsula. The staff and owner, Lauren glad to assist with anything. Welcomed us with a drink and orientation of the grounds and amenities. Birding guide at 6 am showed us birds and monkeys. Our room and bathroom were clean and comfortable. It would be nice to have hooks in the shower or retractable clothes line to hang wet bathing suits. Warmer than other places shower. Our laundry was turned around within a few hours. Sitting at the huge dining table (seats about 40) was fun. Dinner (extra) was at 7pm and included a small glass of wine, appetizer, buffet and dessert. Water glasses continually filled. Breakfast is coffee (good strong Costa Rican), assorted juices, fresh baked something, fresh fruit, and the special made to order. We stayed 4 nights as a part of a group of 12. Very personal, warm & welcoming place including the friendly family dog and cat. The beach is just steps away. Anywhere in Costa Rica you’ve got to watch for the wildlife, including here. A scorpion, bees. This is a good place to experience the natural habitat.
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Date of stay: January 2020Trip type: Travelled with friends
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My husband and I had a wonderful time at Iguana Lodge. We actually stayed an extra night, we didn't want to leave. We stayed in an air-conditioned club room over the restaurant. It was small, but very comfortable and nicely decorated. The restaurant is very good, and is a great place to relax in the afternoon with a cocktail looking at the ocean ( photo below). The wait staff are very nice, we really enjoyed speaking with Joseph. A beach dinner is offered on Tuesdays, it was fantastic, with a bonfire! In Costa Rica the sun rises at 6am and sets at 6 pm. Coffee is ready at the reception area at 5 am! Breakfasts are amazing, the chef is very talented. We saw toucans in the trees during breakfast one day. The pool and yoga area are beautiful. The owner is an artist, her work is on display around the property. Really neat. I really recommend taking a tour with Sidnar, the naturalist. He is amazing! We took a morning excursion and saw so much...just wonderful. Many guests fly in to the airfield in Puerto Jimenez and have the lodge pick them up. It is a 10 minute trip on a bumpy road. If driving in Costa Rica, I would recommend figuring out the insurance issue before arriving in Costa Rica. I would download WAZE on your phone for navigation ( you will need internet). Driving in San Jose is very difficult. Once you are out of the city, the roads are very good heading to Jaco and down to Puerto Jimenz in Osa. We really loved our stay at Iguana, and would love to go again. The Osa Penninsula is beautiful.
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Date of stay: March 2020Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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We stayed in a Club room over the restaurant which was not a problem regarding either noise or smells. The room was very small and ahd little storage. Both the room and tiny bathroom were clean and on the shared balcony we had a super view over the beach to the sea. The grey sand beach is not very nice and the chairs /sun shades provided by the hotel are limited in number and of terrible quality. The hotel reception area looks like a junk shop and everywhere round the hotel there are crudely painted pictures of ladies faces. Why? The owners of the Lodge appear disinterested and certainly do not have any inclination to maintain the facility to normal standards. Dangerously corroded balcony rails are just one example. The prices charged are outrageous.
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Date of stay: February 2020
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We travel thru Costa Rica every year and have a small home there and travel around. Iguana was the most expensive place we stayed atand biggest disappointment. We had a king room and no air conditioning. We asked for air and charged $16.00 for one night. The king bed is 2 twin beds uncomfortable for us since it was even wherethe twins met. Our room is above the bar. The room has two windows on the wall that don't have drapes so until they turn the lights off downstairs at night it is light in your room. The room didn't have extra blankets so when we went to bed my boyfriend likes it cold and I don't so much. I had the sheet on me but I was freezing so I ended up putting the sarongs in the closet over top of me for the night and putting on extra clothes I had brought from Canada. It is out of town so we didn't feel like going back into town for dinner and we were told dinner was a chicken buffet and bonfire. It rained most of the afternoon so we were told the bonfire wasn't happening.NP. Dinner was in bar area and it was burnt dark meat chicken on the bone. No chicken breast. My boyfriend or I don't like dark meat. We had a couple drinks and were charged $125.00 dinner/drinks. WOW. I had some snacks with me so I ate them after we went to our room. The bedroom was small, nothing special. The pool was the only highlight. Disappointed the most probably because I was the most excited to stay here and breakfast was a bust. Fruit flies on fruit and eggs benedicts not good.
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Date of stay: January 2020
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We stayed for 3 nights after rebooking our honeymoon that was supposed to happen April of 2020. We both had COVID tests and were vaccinated before coming.
We absolutely love it here. It is located about 3 miles from Puerto Jimenez on a gorgeous and secluded beach. This is the place for you if you want a remote beach experience with great amenities where you can feel connected with nature, view tons of wildlife from your front porch and eat great food.
We saw so much wildlife here at the hotel. Many birds including Scarlet Macaws daily in front of the restaurant. We saw an 8 foot boa constrictor (they are harmless towards people) and a Tayra, which are apparently quite rare. We also saw howler monkeys. We also did a morning birding tour with Sidnar, the hotel naturalist/guide, which was great.
If nature scares you or you want a big beach-club experience, this is not the place for you and you should consider a large resort in another part of the country. Our casita was open air and we woke up with the sunrise and sounds of howler monkeys. We did not have AC or TV and we preferred it this way. A guide told us the beach is protected natural public land. There is no development visible from the beach, no groomed sand or big areas of beach loungers. Again, we preferred this.
They have a long term stay program right now with excellent areas for working, a kitchen, and very fast WiFi. If I had the option to work remotely I would come down here immediately!
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Date of stay: September 2021Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:Â Bring bug spray in the rainy season. If you want a chair at the beach, bring a camping chair of...
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We are a family with kids and we had a wonderful stay at Iguana Lodge. It is a first-rate hotel and the excursions offered are well organized and well run. Two items that prevent a perfect review and we hope the managers/owners would consider changing - 1) given the costs of a stay, there should be a free hotel shuttle service from Puerto Jimenez and the hotel which is only 4 km distance. $37 taxi costs are exorbitant and erode the experience 2) if you happen to get a downstairs "luxury" room with other guests above (especially with young children or a romantic couple) - you will miss a degree of serenity.
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Date of stay: January 2022
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Room Tip:Â Downstairs rooms can have noisy upstairs guests
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It was a pity that the hotel was abandoned by its owners. Place was nice and wild, with a good beach We paid more than 700$ for a casita with two rooms.Only one bathroom and shower outside the rooms, no air conditioning.can you believe it? Food was very expensive .the cook did his best with the poor quality of food Service was kimd
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Date of stay: February 2022
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Arrived during the extremely bad rains so we’re limited to when we go out but we did make the most of it - there is a yoga area where we sat and enjoyed the peace and quiet and listened to all the noises around us
The staff were really helpful and very friendly and the food was really nice and freshly cooked / our room was on the first floor with a hammock and balcony facing the beach
Rooms are nicely newly decorated and it’s very peaceful surrounded by rainforest and beach which was a lovely walk watching the monkeys and macaws Would recommend this hotel
Shout out to slyman in reception
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Date of stay: November 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Without a doubt my favourite place that we stayed during our two week trip to Costa Rica. We spent four nights at Iguana, but could have easily spent the full two weeks.
The setting is out of this world - incredibly comfortable rooms in the forest, on the edge of a spectacular stretch of beach. The pool area is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen - a limestone pool carved out of the forest, with macaws and toucans flying overhead. Our club room had a huge comfy bed and views across the grass and through the palms to the beach. It was bliss to lie in a hammock on the verandah in the afternoon and watch the birds.
The lodge staff were extremely helpful and professional, and all of the trips they booked for us were top notch. We went birding at Dos Brazos, kayaking in the mangroves and had a guided trip to Matapalo. Lauren was a fountain of knowledge about the area and gave us a great tour of the lodge gardens, which she has transformed over the past 23 years.
The food at the restaurant was probably the best food we ate the entire trip, so there's really no need to go anywhere else. Loved their tacos and humus ceviche and they should add the ginger marmalade recipe to their website - delicious.
We haven't felt as relaxed and content for years, as when we left Iguana. We'll be back.
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Date of stay: January 2023
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Room Tip:Â Club rooms facing the ocean
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Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica42 contributions18 helpful votes
The Club Rooms are above the bar and restaurant. These are open from about 10:00 AM until 9:30 PM. Yes there is some noise from the restaurant but we have rarely had complaints about it. Smells are possible as well. The air-conditioned rooms and any of the ocean side rooms are less susceptible to smells. I hope this answers your questions and addresses your concerns.
Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica42 contributions18 helpful votes
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PRICE RANGE
S$367 - S$484 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
iguana hotel puerto jimenez, iguana resort puerto jimenez
LOCATION
Costa RicaProvince of PuntarenasOsa PeninsulaPuerto Jimenez
NUMBER OF ROOMS
19
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