Pacific Edge Eco Lodge — Hotel in Bahía Ballena

For a special father/daughter adventure, we found Pacific Edge after seeing photos and reviews online, but as well all online experiences, they pale in comparison to the "in real life" experience. We arrived pretty late at night and were greeted by one of the owners, who actually got out of bed to welcome us and show us to our bungalow. Little did we know the magical experience that was to come over the following days of out stay.

The bungalows at Pacific Edge are more like what you'd imagine the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse to be like. You really get that safari feeling, you're "in" the jungle, feeling it's energy and experiencing the sounds, the life, the rains. It's truly special. And the views of the ocean... something you just have to experience to really understand.

The hosts really made us feel special and helped us arrange so many fun things to do. They have tons of connections in the area and there's no way we would have done all the amazing things we did without their knowledge and willingness to help. I really can't say enough about the owners to paint a proper picture of how awesome they were to us.

Later in our trip, we moved to another property, which was more your "typical" luxury hotel. All I can say is I truly missed being at Pacific Edge. I really just wanted to cancel the rest of our plans and just go back.

If the owners ever read this, thank you so much for the experience your gave me and...

We spent $700 on a reservation here, but because our flight got canceled due to hurricane ida we lost the money (since, I kid you not, AirBnb considers a hurricane to be a ‘foreseeable event’). We re-booked our flights for months from now and still wanted to book with Pacific Eco Lodge since it seemed great. After explaining our situation, the host offered a 10% discount (which, again, I don’t understand how a hurricane isn’t a valid enough reason to get a straightforward re-booking, but I was willing to pay almost full price again). After offering this ‘discount’, they never allowed me to book a reservation— saying they were “full” at the time (you could see on the Airbnb calendars and they calendars on their site they were not), lying about having tried to contact us and having left us voicemails yet never responding to my messages, etc. — all to avoid giving us a measly discount after we’d already thrown $700 non-refundable dollars their way. I would recommend spending your money with someone more honest and straightforward.

EDIT: minutes after posting this review they finally contacted me, saying they had attempted to send messages to me that never went through and that they couldn’t contact me because their phones lines were down (I have been trying to re-book for 5 weeks). They then offered me “holiday season pricing” of $50 more per night than the high season pricing listed on...

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