Hotel Veragua River House — Hotel in Sierpe

We planned to stay one or two nights at the River house and ended up staying four.||If you can add a night or more to your stay in the Sierpe area do it - and stay here. Time has stood still at the River House and the owner (Italian) and his partner (Costa Rican) have created an oasis of restorative peace and tranquility - backed up with great food, fabulous rooms and beautiful bathrooms. ||||The road to the River House is quite good although you need to be careful of potholes. ||||The rooms are spacious, cool, adequately furnished and comfortable. We had a bungalow in the garden which was just perfect - sitting outside after dinner, watching the stars and waiting for racooms and other nocturnals to pass by ... what more do you need?||||The bathroom was excellent - huge shower with double doors opening right on to the garden - no possibility of being overlooked at all so we showered with a view :-) Plentiful hot water, thick towels and beautiful handmade tiles (made by the owner). ||||The River House is officially B&B but you can order lunch and dinner as well if you wish. We had dinner there every night of our stay and it was excellent. Freshly made fruit juice (different flavour each night), homecooked three-course meal and all served on the terrace surrounding the main house over-looking the river. It was Valentine's Day whilst we were there and it was jsut the perfect place for a lovely dinner for two. Part of the terrace is enclosed (mosquito nets) and the rest is open - you can choose where you'd like to sit. ||||Sierpe itself is just 5 minutes down the road by car. If you arrive in Sierpe someone from the River House will pick you up. We did a river excursion from there - up and down the river with some amazing experts who helped us to see sleeping snakes, sloths and nocturnal birds. Plus of course crocodiles, monkeys, other birds etc. Well worth it. ||||Other excursions were available including whale watching, Drake Bay etc. All easy to book in Sierpe or directly from the River House (pick up from the bottom of the garden!).||||This was without a doubt the nicest place we stayed on this trip to Costa Rica. Friendly, comfortable, delicious food, privacy, tranquility and all a stone's throw away from Sierpe with all its facilities and tour options. We'd go out of our way to stay...

Our stay in May at Hotel Veragua was so nice! Illena was able to accommodate our late check in and always responded quickly by WhatsApp. We woke up early to an incredible chorus of birds and monkeys around 5am and took our time getting ready in our private bath. Illena served us breakfast of bread jam and butter, coffee/tea, fresh pineapple juice, eggs and bananas on the porch. The bed was very comfortable and we saw many birds, iguanas, and beautiful plants on the property. After asking if I liked dogs, I got to meet Illenas dog! Bonnie was so sweet. Illena was able to call a car to take us to the dock for our boat to Drake Bay for 6 dollars/3000 colones. Overall we were able to manage our stay with very basic Spanish. Illena's English was good and she was very patient with us. Thank you Illena for a wonderful and peaceful first night...

This is a very basic place to stay. It was the spaces between the floor boards where the ground below was visible that bothered my wife. Everything was clean and painted but to give it anything above 3 stars would be extremely generous. If you want to get the feel of living with the people of CR, then this place has that feel. One of the things that was exciting here was the amount of wildlife. There were far more birds here than Corcovado Park. You'll see flocks of parrots, toucans, hummingbirds and a myriad of others. Spend some time looking around. |The reason we stayed here was to catch the boat to Drakes Bay. We were able to coordinate parking our car and finding our boat without much fuss in Sierpe. Food in town was pretty good and overall...