Cortez Azul — Hotel in Alajuela

Stayed here for one night / 4 hours . We had our flight early morning and decided to stay at this place as it was kind of close to the airport. I was not expecting a whole lot from this place as the previous reviews were not that great, which turned out to be true. We got a tiny room and the beds were decently comfortable. We checked in around 10 pm. There was a lady at the front desk who did not speak english. She checked us in. We could hear people walking around in the lobby from our room. At the end of the day, I did not think the price is right for the value they provided. I had earlier stayed at an airbnb which was 10 min drive from airport , was super clean, big room, had refrigerator , microwave , toaster, plates ,cups and paid $29 for one night. This place had a small room no amenities ( but provided breakfast) and cost us $43.55 for one night including taxes. From the reviews I dont think the breakfast alone bumps the price so high. There were other places were I paid $30 per night with breakfast but with less amenities. My suggestion, lower the price to a more suitable price for what is being offered. Last but not the least, the lady said it was $5 for taxi ( at 3 am ) to airport. We took uber and it was cheaper -1400 colones...

Oh my god, this was a little creepy there and I am happy I got out alive. It did not even start well. We were greeted by an elderly lady who was visibly and outspoken uncomfortable giving a double room to two same sex guests. The rooms themselves were ok, the style of the beds was interesting. There are no windows though. It was pretty annoying we only had the keys of the room and always had to find somebody of the staff have us open the door each time we want to come and leave. Many times it took quite a while to find the lady. The walls are thin and you can hear everything.||||Sometimes the old lady was passing by our room and singing religious chants, maybe to pray for our immoral souls. The other day we locked our room when leaving for a day trip and when we got back the room was not only unlocked, but standing wide open. It was obviously not to clean the room, everything was the same as we left. Not a nice feeling. ||||It was not all bad though. The breakfast was quite ok in the little garden although we had to prepare it ourselves. And on checkout we got a taxi called and paid to...

We stayed at the Hotel Cortez Azul for one night as we flew into SJO airport very late at night and needed a place to stay before carrying onto our travels. At 11:00pm, our taxi brought us to the hotel and we were initially very nervous about the area and confused as the hotel lights were out and the front door locked. Once we rang the doorbell, we were greeted by a lovely Costa Rican woman who got us quickly checked in so we could head to bed. This hostel is ran by a young woman and she does an excellent job at caring for her customers. We felt very safe and comfortable in the hostel and were provided with help on how to travel to our next location. Only complaint is that the walls are quite thin, causing disturbances to other travellers and the location was not the most...