Agua Dulce Beach Resort

Friendly and supportive staff. There is an Italian restaurant inside the hotel, super delicious!

We loved our stay at the Agua Dulce Hotel. It is exactly what we needed, a relaxed and secluded spot with all the basics to escape for a few days. It is about 15 min by car from the center of Puerto Jiménez, so you can drive out if you need something. The hotel is right at the beach, and it is beautiful there. We had the place almost to ourselves. The pool is great. The room was basic but spacious, it had everything you need, simple but good. The luxury of this place, besides from the wonderful staff, is that you really get the feeling of an escape from it all.

The beach is beautiful; the hotel rooms are clean and nice. The restaurant has good food, but not excellent. The pool is very good for swimming and playing, and there are birds and iguanas everywhere.

last mile or so of the road to get to the hotel is a tad rough. pool was excellent. cooked a fish that we caught, excellent.

As many of the online reviews on various sites state, this place does NOT qualify as a resort! The rooms are very spartan (bare walls) and have old, tired mattresses (without mattress pad covers) topped with soiled, worn bed linens that do not fit the mattress! Many of the properties listed amenities are missing, in poor condition or not in use (hair dryers, swim up pool bar, lounge chairs & umbrellas on the beach, etc.)! Next door, the lovely, well-kept Iguana Lodge (with its well-kept grounds, gorgeous pool, beautiful rooms & TWO excellent restaurants) offers their guests a far more accurate, desirable and inviting stay...

Excellente private hotel right next to the beach, very quiet and peaceful.

There was no water all night and we had an early flight and were not able to take a shower.

El hotel es básico, no tiene TV en las habitaciones, además se escucha el ruido de las habitaciones a la par. Es pequeño y lejos del muelle, con una carretera en pésimas condiciones. Tiene un buen restaurante y desayuno y la limpieza parecía estar bien.

I'll start with the downside. The road from puerto Jimenez is not long (a couple of miles) but it gets a little rough. The hotel is sort of isolated which is good to a point. The only restaurant on site is Italian???? (Tasty, but do you want to eat Italian for a week?). The hotel exterior is in fair condition, The positives: maybe the best swimming pool in Costa Rica. And a beach right on the bay. The rooms and beds are nice, Our room had a jacuzzi room and a sitting room. The hotel has about six buildings, each with a different owner. I'd recommend the building next to the pool. The reception and staff were excellent. Puerto Jimenez has a lot of low end hotels and hostels. It has a few expensive places. This is one of the few mid priced ones.

The biggest plus is that our room was really clean. The property is not anywhere close to the town so walking somewhere is not really feasible. The road is very rocky dirt and unlit at night so going elsewhere for dinner was not a great option. The food was fine - in fact the pizza was quite good. As for the rest, well, the amenities were mimimal. Examples: no Kleenex, small, cheap pillows, one nightstand in a room with 2 double beds, cheap towels, no refrigerator, charging for tap water at the restaurant, 3 chairs at the beach for the entire hotel. I could go on but I'm sure you get the idea. In general, I understand the need to make a profit but too many corners were cut.