Name: Celeste Mountain Lodge
Address: 4km on new road to Volcan Tenorio, Rio Celeste, Rio Celeste, Rio Celeste, 01001, Costa Rica
Rating: 9

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Contactless check-in and/or check-out

Individually packaged food

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At the cottage

Upala Airport

Guanacaste Airport

Celeste Mountain Lodge

Rio Celeste

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Wonderful and quirky lodge. Magnificent view. Nice rooms. Very helpful staff. And also a super kitchen staff who prepared several good meals and lunchboxes for us. Perfect place to stay a couple of nights, if you want to experience Rio Celeste waterfall.

Wonderful and quirky lodge

We had an amazing experience at Celeste lodge. Starting with our concierge Francisco who was so helpful, friendly and welcoming. The location and views are to die for. Their restaurant serves lunch and dinner by reservation only but their food is so fresh and delicious that we ended up dining in there the two nights we stayed. There is always a surprise meal prepared by a French chef. Btw, we have dietary allergies in our family and they accommodated us without a problem, Breakfast is complimentary and is so good too. We would go back in the blink of an eye!

Loved everything about this place. The Chef, Eric, is brilliant; tremendous food!  The Reception Manager, Francisco,was kind, helpful, and welcoming. The place is beautiful.

A very unique hotel!! beautiful in all senses!Staff and owner extremely kind!!our food incident:We left chewing gum in the shelf upon entering the room and within minutes it was full of ants. There is an instruction booklet/binder in the room which states not to bring any food in the room in bold red color font but its buried in 2 pages of information and we didn't finished reading by the time the ants got to the gum. perhaps a sign on the hotel door or a reminder during check-in would be great as the hotel is inside the forest!The owner and staff gave us a new room to ensure we would have a safe night w/o ants. Thank you!!!Great breakfast!!

Turned out to be one of my favorite lodges during our five trips to Costa Rica! A great base for exploring the area to include a local forested walk offering a variety of birds, mammals and other wildlife.  A fine example of ecotourism. The use of recycled metal barrels to make furniture and coconut husk fibers to fill cushions and hassocks are but two examples that caught our eyes. 

Lodge occupancy was light during our two-night stay so I can not comment on noise levels during the night. But our room was comfy and more than met our needs. Was a bit warm due to unusually high air temps but windows could be adjusted and once the sun went down, the room quickly cooled off. As at other lodges in CR, wash cloths were not provided and no hot water at the sink. No big deal for us. 
The food was a good as anywhere we have stayed while birding. I did not expect the high level of cuisine we enjoyed. Could have been at a fancy restaurant in a big city. Portions were very satisfying. 

The staff was friendly and certainly willing to make one’s stay enjoyable. Joel, the owner/manager could not have been any more accommodating. His sharing of photos of resort wildlife happenings  made for a down-to-earth stay.

The layout and use of potted plants/bushes in the atrium greatly enhanced the setting. At times even birds had access to the area and the periodic “rain forest” watering added to the atmosphere. The visit of the bronze-striped parrot snake was a real treat as we had our first meal in the dinning room. Two small ponds and related life rounded out a short night walk as we looked for owls in the larger trees.

We would not hesitate to stay again at Celeste Mountain Lodge.

A wonderful stay!

The staff was so kind and helpful. The property is beautiful and a very convenient location.  I can highly recommend this place.

Like being in nature without the camping or glamoing.

Beautiful gardens and a great view of Mt. Tenario.The food was very good and the steak was the very best we had in Costa Rika.

I loved this property, but my two companions took a dislike to it. They didn’t like the personal touch of the owner,  the lodge’s design or the food.  I thought all were superlative, although Joel did, perhaps, come across as a little too cloying. 

I thought the property was well constructed with exceptionally good design taste, architecturally interesting and excellent and extremely well maintained. That, to my mind, reflect caring, hands-on management. Loved my room and its very comfortable bed and lots of pressure shower and hot water.  Spotlessly clean, good linens. 

Food is French/tropical fusion, table d’hôte. I liked my dinner well enough that I ordered a glass of wine to go along with it. The only time on the whole trip I felt moved to do so!  Also, one of the few places in the country with the class to provide cloth table napkins 

I suspect this is lodge people will either love or hate for its adventurous good taste. For my part, I would happily come back with my wife and spend several days enjoying the experience and the whole Tenorio area.

A few suggestions for management:

(1) put a dead bolt on the room door. 
(2) get some really good quality classic colour (e.g., navy, burgundy, straw) cotton, bespoke T-shirts (i.e., Lodge name, perhaps coquette o snowcap, and NO ‘pura vida’). 

Apart from that, kept doing what you are doing.

Celeste Mountain Lodge

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