Cabins in Tortuguero

Christian Canada

Fabulous location, excellent service from friendly staff, great food…basically everything was great.

Catherine United States of America

Casa Marbella was clean and comfortable, and the location is ideal! The front of Casa Marbella is on the main pedestrian street (no cars) a 10-minute walk from the National Park entrance. The back of the hotel is directly on the water with a very large, covered porch where guests eat breakfast in the morning and watch birds and river boat traffic all hours. Water taxis can pick up and drop you off directly at the hotel's dock, so there is no need to carry luggage from the public dock 2 blocks away. Best of all, Casa Marbella has its own wildlife guide, Luis, whose family has lived on Tortuguero for several generations. Luis is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about nature and speaks English. Luis starts his guided 6pm night animal walks and 5:30am morning canal boat tours of the National Park at the hotel porch/dock. This eliminates stress. You can register for Luis's guided activities at the hotel reception desk, then sit in porch chairs looking at the water while waiting for the tour to begin. I took my family (including 87-year old Mom) on 2 night walks and 2 canal explorations with Luis while staying at Casa Marbella in early February, 2024. The group sizes were pleasantly small, with 3-6 participants in the night walks and a maximum of 10 people on his canal boat. I recommend Casa Marbella very highly!

Nastassia Netherlands

The location is gorgeous! Right next to the beach (which isn’t meant for swimming) and a 20 minute walk into the small village. It was Turtle season and we baby sea turtles on our morning walk and at night you can take a guid tour to see the turtles coming onto land to lay there eggs. The beach is closed between 6pm and 6am to protect the turtles. Take note that getting to Tortuguero you need to take a water taxi that leaves from La Panova (large parking area) and the last one leaves at around 4pm. We paid a bit extra (€15 per person in total) to have the watertaxi drop us off at the Mawamba Lodge. We were traveling end of September and the river water was really low so it took almost 3 hours to get to the Lodge but otherwise it is about 1 hour. But we really didn’t mind cause the boat trip is really unique and goes right through the jungle of Tortuguero.

Mark United States of America

More animals than I have ever seen and beautiful rooms. All of the activities were a blast especially the hike where we saw tons of birds and monkeys. The guides were super nice and everything -- food, transportation, excursions -- was really really well organized and convenient. The food was also great, and every meal was different. We WILL stay here again

Mette Denmark

Basic place but with a lot of heart and passion.

Sofia Argentina

We liked the view, the staff were very helpful & friendly and the grounds of the property surrounded by nature were very tranquile & beautiful

Adi United States of America

amazing hotel inside the jungle, very nice and helpful staff, clean and taken care amazingly.

Leslie United States of America

We enjoyed the nature tours with Marvin very much. The staff was very friendly and helpful. The canal tours is what I will remember the most. The room was simple and clean.

John United States of America

All the meals were served buffet style, but all the food was very good (and, obviously, with as much as you wanted).