Flamingo Marina Resort

If you want to say you’ve gone to Costa Rica but the Olive Garden is as far as multicultural as you get, this is the place. Beautiful developed insanely easy access to the beach. Amazing landscaping. Feels more like Tampa than Costa Rica due to the development style and US baby boomers limping around everywhere but it’s beautiful.

By far the worst Marina that we have ever used for the yacht, an absolute joke. The only thing going for it was Anna in the office and even then I believe that she’s lied to from the management. A true bait and switch marina. The general manager won’t come out of his office to address issue’s and just hides in there but was to be expected as useless people hide from their mistakes. They also wouldn’t allow our agent on the dock or immigration as Andrea the manager didn’t get his bride. So unless you use “seamasters” that give him kick backs they won’t allow other agents to work there. Overall, in 25 years of working as a captain this is the worst marina I’ve been to and that is saying a lot as I’ve sailed the world. Even African marinas has better business sense and manners. As you can see in the images the marina is almost empty because others know it’s a crappy marina. As you can see by the image they also have no dock sense as seen with the yacht stairs crossing almost the complete dock. Save your money and go to Papagallo.

This hotel is a rundown hotel. Some people are okay with being there because they are just wanting to have a bed to sleep in but if you're spending so much money to have a beautiful trip this is not the place. It will be 10x better for you to get a Airbnb and be in a place that doesn't seem like rats' sleep in your bed. I don't even know why they're still open or functioning. It is an awesome location and hopefully someone buys it and its able to bring it back to life. Until then, don't waste your money.