The Hotel Villa Lapas is located just one hour and forty minutes away from San Jose via paved highway. Convenient access to popular Pacific coast beaches include Agujas Beach, Herradura Bay, Jaco Beach, and Manuel Antonio National Park.

This reserve is one of the last remaining tracts of tropical rainforest on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, and as such plays a vital role in providing refuge for an amazing array of native plant and animal life. The biological diversity is astounding due to the geographic location of the reserve in the transition zone between the Mesoamerican dry forest and the Pacific Coast tropical rainforests.

Enjoy the raucous flight of Scarlet Macaws, the dexterous foraging of White-faced Monkeys, the search for brightly colored Harlequim Poisondart Frogs, American Crocodiles sunning themselves on the banks of the Tarcoles River, or the deceptively lazy flight of a large Blue Morpho Butterfly.

In their own private reserve with natural trail in a growing secondary forest, you can find the Tarcolitos River which attracts a large variety of wild life. Villa Lapas is considered the bird watchers paradise.