Marala Hotel

We are Costa Rica residents and we love to explore. We chose Esterillos this time and from the moment we arrived at Hotel Marala, we were treated to excellent service and hospitality. Tina at Reception offered us a lovely room overlooking the ocean. She helped us get settled and showed us around the facility. Shalim at the pool bar created wonderful cocktails and later served us our evening meal. We ate every meal at hotel…something we rarely do. From Breakfast (Avocado Toast!!!) to snacks (stuffed portobello mushrooms) to lunch (hand breaded Mahi Mahi) to dinner (Shrimp Scampi), everything was exquisite. Jefferson, our second server was awesome too. In the evenings we enjoyed the upstairs patio with friends. It was lovely experience.

We had a fantastic experience at Marala Hotel in Sept 2025. Tina was extremely kind and helpful and provided us a beautiful room overlooking the ocean. Bartenders Shaylis and Brian made us delicious drinks at the pool, helped us practice our Spanish, and made us feel at home in this stunning place. Highly recommend this hotel for the pool, food, drinks, setting and hospitality!

I had an excellent ocean view room with a perfect view of the pool and the ocean Staff was great at the restaurant good food and drinks, had an amazing stay

Great and most picturesque, lovely ship up bar in an infinity pool. Very romantic.

Excellent service,excellent staff. Tina She's a great person. She's very kindness and professional. Excellent place

Beautiful, clean, friendly staff, great food and drinks. So relaxing after exploring Corcovado, I felt like the cat that was sleeping snugly on the chair at the reception.

We had a warm welcome from Tina upon arrival. We had booked for 3 nights, for our last days in Costa Rica, with the intention to relax in style. Overall the hotel is quite noisy, because it is located close to a busy road with sometimes very noisy trucks. At the main pool there is constantly music and on the Sunday there was a birthday party that was very noisy too. The good thing is that there is another pool at the bungalows that is a lot more quiet. Our room was nice and spacious, but also noisy because it was located above the kitchen and restaurant. The ocean view was good but the view also included a not well maintained roof. We still had a good stay, but for this budget we expected a little more.

Everything is great at Marala Very friendly staff and very helpful Aamel (the owner Bring us around) Tina (very helpful, welcoming, polite and accommodating) Jefferson, Rayan, Chalim, Kathrin, Rose, Masiel, Christina, Yahona, Bilma, Karin, Alfonso all of them are great and make our stay fantastic at Marala Great breakfast and great Lunch and dinner a big thanks to the chef

Phenomenal experience for my husband and I. The whole staff was so helpful and kind! Tina S. provides excellent customer service helping to provide us a one of a kind experience!

Hotel was amazing. Great food, room, pool and exceptional service! The entire staff was friendly, attentive and more than accommodating. We are definitely planning to stay there again for more days next time.