Frog Pond Ranario — Attraction in Monteverde

The Monteverde Frog Pond isn’t to be missed. Within walking distance from the village centre (a hilly walk but it is in Santa Elena) the Frog Pond is worth a trip or two. 20USD per person is slightly steep in price but this admits you to two trips within a week of purchase of the ticket. You get access to the Inset museum with beautiful displace of local insect wildlife.

The Frog Pond itself is inside which helps with the particularly wet weather in the local area. You’re giving a flash light on entry to help find the frogs at night as there’s no lights within the attraction. If you’re patient and take the time to look you will see most things on one visit. There a useful guides at the top of each terrarium outlining if the specific species is active in the day, at night, if they live in trees or on the ground. There’s a useful key referencing size of the species which makes looking for them a little easier.

Highly recommend this after doing a night walk, it’s a good way to get a clear view and some more education on the frog species of Costa Rica and gives you your own time to get a good view.

They recommend a day visit and a night visit to see all frogs...

Our family had a mixed experience of this place - I loved it, kids and hubby said they were bored about mid-way (that might be because they were quite tired by the time we visited). This is not a pond, but rather a 'garden' with large terrariums with frogs and toads. I don't thing we would see much without a guide - she was very skillful about locating the frogs and pointing them with her flash light. It gives you a chance to see all those amazing tropical frogs which you'd unlikely see that close in the wild (from the tiniest frogs to the glass (transparent) to the giant predator one - I though it was very interesting). During the day they are not active, so you can come back in the evening (after 6) to see them presumably more active. I did come back at around 7 pm and found most of the frogs at the precisely the same places where we've seen them during our day visit. When I asked staff they said it is weird (but maybe not?). There is also a nice collection of dried (and live) insects at the entrance. I...

I hate to come on here and write a bad review but I feel compelled to warn others so that they can save their money.

This place cost $20 and it’s in a sad state, it is most definitely not worth $20 per person. Maybe not $5 a person.

The facility is old and dilapidated. There are about 20 enclosures which are not well lit. They give you flashlights in order to assist in locating the frogs inside their enclosure but the flashlights are not great quality: on top of being cheap, the facility doesn’t charge them so they have almost no power. The beam was super weak.

The variety of frogs was diverse but locating them was difficult due to the lack of lighting. There are no lights other than the handheld flashlights. Each enclosure looked dated and badly maintained, if maintained at all.

This is not a quality stop and is certainly not worth the...