It’s time for your dream vacation. You’ve picked a location, Manuel Antonio, now it’s time to pick a hotel.
This can often be the most stressful part of planning a trip. With so many options, picking a hotel should be easy right?
Unfortunately for many of us, the wealth of hotel rooms can cause consternation. It can be hard to cut through the volumes of advertising, trip booking sites, reviews, and suggestions and find a room that is right for you, your family, your plans, your budget.
But don’t worry, help is here. Let’s look at some easy ways to choose the best hotel for you from all of the hotels in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica.
Price
Let’s start with price. While you want to enjoy this dream trip you don’t want to pay for it for years.
When searching for a hotel room, you should consider prices of course. But in doing so, consider what that price entails.
Are you paying for just a place to keep your bags and rest your head? Or are you paying for a full experience?
Some hotels may include a meal (or meals) in their nightly costs while others have special guest events, trips, and amenities. Make sure that you look past the price and see all that a hotel is including in it.
Location of Hotels in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
When considering your location, consider what you want to get out of your trip. Are you looking to relax and then be in bed by 9?
Or do you want to roll out of bed and be on the beach? And then do the opposite at night?
In Manuel Antonio visitors have a number of options for entertainment and relaxation. You might consider listing out what’s most important to you and your family.
This list will help narrow areas that you should consider staying. If relaxation is most important to you, you might want to look at places not directly next to the beach or in the center of the city.
On the other side, if you, as the old disco song went, “like the nightlife, like to boogie,” than a downtown location would work best for you. Finding a location that matches what you want to get out of the trip has other benefits as well.
You’ll most likely be with like minded travelers. Perhaps you’ll create lifelong friendships or, at the very least, you’ll all be following the same unwritten code of the traveler.
Let’s Go Do ___________
Once you arrive, what’s going to be happening on your trip? Is this a trip to the beach? Shopping excursion? Will you be enjoying nature? Texting your x-games endurance?
By now you know that you can do all of this and more in Manuel Antonio. Choose a top two or top three items for your agenda.
This helps give you a sense of course of what you might need for the tip but it also helps you decide where you might stay.
For example, Manuel Antonio National Park has whitewater rafting, kayaking, zip-lining, hiking and more. The park is about more than activities though.
Forbes has named it one of the 12 most beautiful parks in the world. if nature is your thing you might consider one of the hotels in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica that gives you the best view of the flora, fauna and other living entities of this area which prides its’ self as the home to over 300 species of wildlife.
Who’s Travelling
Is this a “you and friends” trip or “you and family?” This might be the first consideration you should make.
You’ll need to know not just for the size of a room but also for the activities. Some hotels and resorts are active in recruiting singles to stay there. This may not be where you want to spend the week with grandma.
Cleanliness
Definitely, read some reviews. In fact, read reviews on a couple of different travel sites.
See what people say about the location and service and especially the cleanliness of the location. You certainly don’t want to bring back a souvenir that requires antibiotics.
If you want to be completely thorough though, you can even contact the local board of health and ask if there have been any concerns over a particular location. Just a little bit of research could make all of the difference in enjoying your trip to Manuel Antonio.
When to Book
Some people feel that you should wait to book until the last minute. This is less about making sure that your travel plans will fall not fall through and more about a belief that hotels will start to slash their rates as the days’ tick by.
While there may be some validity to this, you need to remember that Manuel Antonio is the most popular travel destination in Costa Rica. In fact, it’s made several travel lists as one of the top destinations in the world.
Because of this, you’re going to want to start looking for hotels in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica early. That way you can be sure to get the room you want, not the only one that’s available.
A Few Last Tips
You’ll be happy to know that the majority of the hotels in the area have one eye on their visitors and the other eye on the environment. This means that you won’t have to put this into your list of considerations for lodging, it’s already being taken care of.
Another thing to be aware of is that the majority of the residents speak English. This makes the vacation transition a little easier for those traveling in from America.
A trip to Manuel Antonio can be one that exceeds your expectations. All it takes is a little planning up front and you can spend more time catching some sun and enjoying your trip and less time regretting your choice of hotels as you’re constantly traveling from hotel to destination and back again.
Take your time, do your research, and you’ll find the perfect hotel from all of the world class hotels in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica that fits your needs. Have an AMAZING trip.
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