Hotel y Villas Cala Luna (Tamarindo, Guanacaste). Review

This is an amazing and peaceful place. Very private. Highly recommend it

Great appetizers beautiful suck. Very much to Esteban, the friendliest and nicest bartender at this very nice establishment

We had an excellent experience in this wonderful hotel for 4 days (12/24-27). The landscape is one of earth s paradise. Amenities and staff are wonderful. For almost every evening we enjoyed dinner by the pool. Although the hotel is not in front of the beach there is a very short walking path that takes you to playa langosta.

Stunning villas, private pools, spacious bathrooms, beautiful bedrooms, full kitchens with separate dining room, private parking with rod iron gate, this is the best hotel in Tamarindo! There is beach access, though be forewarned the beach is rather rocky. Nevertheless, you will enjoy a quiet beach with natural ponds in cratered rock formations. Lots of fish and curious crabs to see in crystal clear waters during low tide. Beautiful Tamarindo beach is very close if your craving a traditional beach with decent surf. Hotel staff is phenomenally courteous and always willing to go the extra mile for you. Free breakfast is amazing with personal chef to prepare your eggs just how you like em! Pura Vida!

Wow! Beautiful hotel. The hotel food was likely the best of our entire multi-country two week trip.

Oh, Cala Luna! A magical place where dreams come true. I couldn't ask for a better trip. They helped us set up all our adventures and we had the most amazing Spa and massage experiences! Yes, I say multiple because they were so good, we couldn't have just one! The ladies that did our massages were so amazing. Not enough words to describe how amazing our time at Cala Luna was. The town of Tamarindo is so fun and beautiful! You will love it all!

Great place, very professionals, but the breakfast was exactly the same everyday.

Perfect location. Easy access to the town, but private. Rooms are beautiful and well maintained. Complimentary breakfast is excellent and the staff super friendly and knowledgeable. The fitness classes are intense and yoga is relaxing yet challenging. The pool and bar/restaurant area are romantic and provide different moods of your choice. That beach though! AMAZING!! Spent most our time there for every reason you see in the pictures.

Very small and cozy hotel. Rooms are scattered in a dense vegetation that provides privacy and houses all the interesting wildlife such as the howling monkeys. The hotel staff are extremely nice but not very proactive with their work. On the other hand, the reaction to the complaints are swift and well executed. The pool is kid friendly and is occupied by kids all day long. This leaves the beach rather empty and private, possibly the best part of the hotel. Highly recommended.

Came with a group of 20. Various dietary restrictions and different age groups. Staff was accommodating to all our requests. Very kind, friendly and efficient. Would recommend strongly.

While this is a very nice hotel facility, they employ housekeepers that steal! We had over $500 stolen that was hidden in our belongings while we were at this hotel and management has refused to do anything about it.

Amazing service, they would do just about anything to make you enjoy the stay, right by the beach, and a perfectly placed pool. Just watch out for howler monkeys!

Absolutely beautiful. Room and grounds are great. Staff is always helpful. And a family of monkeys was just hanging around

Beautiful hotel with all the facilities. Delicious food. Very friendly staff. A quiet and not very busy beach is a 5 minute walk. The hotel operates with a conscious and ecological system of water recycling and they also have an orchard where they grow several products that are used in their menus.

Beautiful resort, good location and excellent service.

Beautiful hotel, Staff very helpful. Greatly reconmmended

Incredible villas. There are simply no words to describe how amazing they are.

They are beautiful villas, they are not near the sea

Our family had a great time when we stayed at Cala Luna. The wild monkeys and iguanas were a thrill, and the sunsets on the beach were fantastic. Carlos and Enrique and the rest of the staff were excellent, and Ernest with trip reservations set us up with a good ATV/zipline trip at late notice.

Very nice hotel in Tamarindo for an affordable price. Suggested!

I simply cannot say enough great things about this hotel. Everyone is very friendly and helpful. They have the highest integrity out of any hotels I ve ever been to. They would never advertise or recommend an activity or restaurant that is not socially and environmentally responsible. They are a family business and support other family businesses for the food of all people. The food is clean, delicious and simply outstanding. The yoga classes are included in your stay as well as other great activities. Please do yourself a favor and experience their spa. It is unlike anything you ve ever experienced before. It is not commercially based, but rather sensual and truly holistic. The dinner at La Senda was also out of this world, both the food and the full experience itself. Thank you so much and we re already looking forward to staying with you again!

Stayed at Cala Luna for a week over Christmas holiday. The hotel staff was very friendly and helpful. Hotel property was absolutely beautiful! The food at Cala Luna was amazing! I can't wait to come back.

Went for lunch, the food was amazing and service was wonderful!

I was conscientious cleaned my room for three days only asking for towels. Today my sheets were change no longer crisp cotton only yellowish polyester like sheet.
Friday I borrowed the iron and ironing board ( spoke to Mark at the front desk) the ironing board was sent with the tie to hold the cover in place tied to the release.
Had to kill worms and ants in the room. A friend of mine was fending of crabs.

I love Cala Luna! The free breakfast and sunset cocktails are amazing. The food at the restaurant is delicious. Our room was big, clean, and comfortable. The staff is all so friendly. This hotel is very nice and such a great deal!

Amazing service, people are nice and willing to help, the rooms are very well kept and workers will do anything to keep you happy, the best hotel ever

Great accommodations at a reasonable price. The staff is very friendly, and the restaurant's produce is sourced locally from a nearby farm. The breakfast is a feast. Five stars!

Amazing location .Superb service and attention to the client.The place is extremely clean and gives you the perfect vacation tropics atmosphere.The restaurant it s also great .Our second night there the chef came at the table and suggested some specials of the day...and from start to end was an incredible experience.

I think Boutique is a appropriate term to describe this little well mainteined, clean, pleasant hotel. It was a great stay we really enjoyed it thanks to the kind people, food, the beach.

Cala Luna is a Great Hotel with great design details & an amazing pool.5 star plus & plenty of Pura Vida.

Fantastic, charming and friendly treatment, we have been staying in a magnificent villa, highly recommended

Elegant yet down to earth eco hotel. Staff and facilities made our Costa Rica experience exceptional.

This is a lovely hotel, with excellent food, rooms and customer service.

My favorite place to stay in CR. The owners are so warm and welcoming. Feddy was amazing. I will be back for my next visit no doubt

Beautiful hotel with a great pool and freindly staff.

Beautiful grounds, excellent restaurant and perfect, friendly service.

Amazing! One of the best places I have ever stayed. A perfect mix of luxury and incredible service. The location could. It be better and the resort is naturally pretsteine. Will come here again very soon.

Not an adult only hotel... We decided to stay there cause we saw on their website it stated it was an adult only hotel but it wasn't.
Unfortunately we couldn't cancel our reservation and we were there already. The staff was very attentive and they apologized for the inconvenient even offer us to upgrade us to a villa with private pool but we were happy to keep the suite we reserved and there's no much privacy at the Villa anyway so if you're looking to have some quite time and relaxed by the pool this not the places is more family oriented.
Also breakfasts ends at 930am so if you're on vacation looking to sleep late and rest keep that in mind...
I give them 3 starts because the staff is so kind and attentive and the place is very well kept and tastefully decorated...
The food if quite delightful as well specially at dinner time...
The messages are incredible but they don't do your feet or the front is mostly a back massage with little arms and legs...

We arrived for breakfast and was told that breakfast was not being served and that at 1100 lunch would start being served. So we decided to have coffee and wait for lunch which was about 30 minutes later. So we waited and then at 1100 am a waiter came to our table (the very first time we saw any waiters. I had to go to another eating area to ask for coffee). The waiter told us that lunch will not be served until 11:20. We were decided to just wait and asked if we could have some bread or something as we had kids with us and everyone was starving at this point. At 11:20 the waiter brought us bread and gave us menus. Then we ordered lunch a little later. There were 6 people in our party. About an hour later everyone's lunch arrived except for mine. They said it would be a few minutes more. About ANOTHER hour later we were told it would only be a few mins more for mine but everyone had long finished their lunch. I asked that my lunch be canceled as we had plans we were already late to. We just wanted the bill, to pay and then to GO. But, by some miracle, my lunch arrived and I decided to eat it as fast as I could. Then the waiter asked how everything was. We responded IN SPANISH that it was very slow. I asked if my lunch be removed from the bill and they gave us the bill with nothing taken off. So we paid and started to walk to the exit. Then someone stopped us and asked if we would like to make reservations for dinner?!! I really don't think the staff or owners at Cala Luna understand anything about direct and considerate customer service. If you decide to eat here or stay here, please arrive with the expectation that customer service is extremely slow and there is nothing you can do about it except NOT GO HERE.

Bad customer service. You are better off going somewhere else. Be careful booking this place. No follow up, no calls, nothing when there's a complaint. Like pulling teeth trying to get a response. Once you pay, you are on your own and good luck getting a refund. You're better off somewhere else within the area, probably cheaper, better, and bug-free. Not recommended at all. All the accolades are just pluff!

A little outside Tamarindo center. This very quiet and very close to nature. Small but nice beach. Food and accommodation left nothing to be desired.

Spent a week at Calla Luna with my husband and two teenagers, 18 and 15 year olds. We can't say enough about our fabulous experience. From the friendly and welcoming drink and cool beautifully scented facecloth to the complimentary sunsets cocktails and the excellent breakfast included in our villa. The grounds are beautiful and we fully enjoyed watching the monkeys in the trees while eating our breakfast or having an end of day drink at the pool. The staff are all so accommodating and super friendly. We had surf lessons from Victor who was amazing and rented a boat one day snorkelling and fishing. Both of which I highly recommend. We loved the area with a quick taxi or bike ride into Tamarindo which is a busy surf town and beach. Our plan was to eat in town a lot but we were so impressed with the food and service at Calla Luna that we spent many meals there. Even if you are in the area and want a special dinner out I would highly recommend Calla Luna, you wouldn't be disappointed.

They are still very attentive and well it hurts the street does not do justice to the site

Such a lovely place! Close to everything, really good restaurant and the best, the people here are wonderful, really helpful and so lovely! We ll come back for sure!

Great accomodations, staff, pool and food. Lovrd the private beach and sunsets

Elegant boutique hotel with fine dining and a great staff very attentive to guests needs. They even cooked the fish we caught that day. I loved the secluded lovely but rocky beach with beautiful sunset.

Beautiful hotel with the friendliest staff of everywhere we went in Costa Rica. An amazing place to spend the last few days of our honeymoon.

It was beautiful they give you security card tv guide and air conditioning without counting the pool 24h

I stayed here four nights and really enjoyed it. Staff were very welcoming and nice. The rooms were clean and well decorated. I really enjoyed the private beach that was within two minute walking distance and the complimentary sunset cocktail. My only disappointment was their restaurant menu, it lacked variety. For example I ordered tacos one day and quesadilla the next day, it was pretty much the same item except they added cheese to the quesadilla. There is an Italian restaurant within walking distance that you should check out it s called fish & cheese and I absolutely loved it.

Great location. Good food, staff and nice rooms. Highly recommend

Great hotel. The staff is great is friendly. At the hotel, they have many pools and activities to do all through out the day. They also have bike rentals. The rooms are super clean and nice. The food is a little pricy, so be careful.

I was there with my wife on our honeymoon and they upgraded us to the villas. Wonderful service and fantastic relaxing atmosphere

I got married here in April 2018 and it was incredible. The hotel rooms were fabulous. The staff was knowledgeable. The food was good. The beach was gorgeous. The event space was breathtaking. The location is far enough away from Tamarindo to really feel like a getaway, but close enough to experience the city as well. Not cheap but no corners are cut and the staff are so so SO professional. Everything you would expect from a high-end resort that cost twice as much.

Excellent hotel with very friendly staff. It is a 15-20 min walk into town, otherwise an inexpensive cab ride. They have drinks on the beach at sunset that is beautiful-plenty of chairs and hammocks to enjoy the view. Restaurant is pretty good, but a little pricey (but then again a lot of Tamarindo is a little more pricey than the rest of the country). There were a lot of families with kids staying there when we stayed. The only (minor) complaint was the howler monkeys woke us up a couple mornings-they liked to hang out right above our roof.

A wonderful place, great attention, full of peace, near the beach

Fantastic staff, great location, highly recommend Cala Luna

The staff is absolutely superb - friendly, helpful, detail oriented. Extremely well maintained grounds. A family of monkeys living on site while my wife and I were there (which we enjoyed). Bring a book and take advantage of the hammocks down at the beach!!! Divine. Can't wait to get back there.

Good experience and friendly staff, however look out for bugs and crabs in your room

What a beautiful place! The staff were all great and friendly with the restaurant was always clean. The food was always fresh and delicious. It was our first time there with 6 of us and they treated us great. I would love to go back to this place

An excellent hotel in every sense. Organic food and a place full of nature and human warmth.

Great place so nice having your own pool very clean and you feel very safe and secure there! Renee is very nice and helpful.

The staff is extremely attentive, the facilities are very nice. Excellent to enjoy a beautiful vacation.

Wow, a slice of paradise just out of Tamarindo (about 1.5km). Just fabulous, family villas, pools, own beach access, restaurant, food, staff and service. Not cheap but luxurious. There is evidence that it's been around for a while (witness marks of the odd repair here and there) but nothing to detract from the experience. Taxis can run you too and from town for a few $ or they do have bicycles.. which are OK if a little tired. With its access to the beach, you can walk around the headland to Tamarindo (about 30mins walk) at low tide or instead turn left and head to the estuary for both a quiet and pretty walk along the beach (again best at low tide).

Great place to vacation. Very friendly staff great accommodations

Everything you would want from a high end resort and more. Peaceful, beautiful location, great service, up to date villas, and great food.

Amazing resort with quick and easy access to the beach, one of the top hotels in Tamarindo with the staff being friendly and kind, its a bit out of the way from the main town but the resort and amenities make up for it.