Ara Ambigua Lodge

A beautiful hotel with really good food, a beautiful property and very friendly staff. There are pools and some small ponds and lots of birds everywhere! There is a feeding station at the restaurant so you can watch the birds while eating dinner.

All good except some rooms are a long walk uphill when carrying a bunch of luggage. Staff is great. Bed and shower great. Cool birds and frogs around Would stsy again

Great stay and great value for money Really enjoyed our stay here, wish we could have stayed longer! Saw so many tropical frogs too.

The grounds of Ara Ambigua are very nice and the staff were friendly. Food was average to good. The wifi was not great and the room was dated. Our bathroom (room 48) had a high small screened opening so it is not air conditioned like the bedroom. It smelled a little and they have a plug-in air freshener to mask any smell. There was no shampoo, conditioner or bar soap so bring your own. The AC worked great but was not on when we arrived so the room was hot and musty smelling. They had a coffeemaker in the room which was good but I had to request coffee pellets and extra towels at the front desk. Pool towels are also at the front desk. The lower pool was nice but there is only a small covered area if you want to sit in the shade. There is a 6’. wide raised ledge around the pool where the longe chairs are and the end of the lounge chairs go right to the edge of the ledge. One has to be careful and conscious so you don’t fall. Oh the toilet seat in our room was broken on one side at the hinge and the shower was difficult to moderate the temperature. The room was very clean. I’d stay elsewhere if given the chance again. The no ac in the bathroom seemed weird and we didn’t want to leave the bathroom door open and lose ac.

Surely the location is good for visitors willing to discover the beauties of Sarapiqui / Puerto Viejo, but neither the food nor the room (ours was terribly dark, humid with dirty curtains and mildew one the wall). Again a nice and smiling team, but surely not enough to consider it as an experience to positively remember.

The grounds for this hotel are absolutely beautiful. We saw a lot of birds that we hadn't seen yet on our trip! The pool was nice and big for the large group of students that we had. Food was good, service was good. There was a bar attached to the restaurant.