Tiquisia Lodge

Great when you wanna visit the NP. Supermarket and coffeeshop in walking distance. It has a nice big garden with hammocks

A bedside light would be good. Very basic equipped. If you are really 3 people in the room, could be hard to place the luggage.

Spacious room, hot water in shower

Wifi not the best

Nice garden and a comfortable enough room, with a porch outside that has excellent wi-fi. Nice hosts, though they don't interact much with guests.

Coffee/tea available on request only. No hot water in showers (as advertised). The waterfall is not "a 20 minute walk on foot." This property is nice, but very remote and requires expensive taxi rides to get to the National Park or other locations. Andre is happy to oblige with taxi rides! So, best to have your own car. REALLY IMPORTANT: They only except cash payment and there is no ATM nearby. Be sure to bring ample cash to pay for your room and transportation.

Very nice location in the garden, quiet

Good location to the national park.

No space in the room.

The room was REALLY hot, and the only form of AC was this tiny manual one that just blew lukewarm air so that wasn’t fun. The shower drain also didn’t drain and after a 5 minute shower, all of the water was flooding over, but I mentioned this to Andre and he said he’d fix it. Plus I was only there for one night so it wasn’t a big deal. Here’s where my very poor rating comes from: Upon arrival, I asked if it was ok if I paid for the room on departure and they said it was ok. I wanted to check out this waterfall about 20 min by car from the lodge, and then go straight to the airport after. Since there were no Ubers around the area (it’s pretty isolated) Andre offered to drive me to the waterfall and then come back and pick me up and take me to the airport. I thought this was such a kind gesture since he did not say anything about it costing money. I probably should have known, but we had all good chats and got to know each other so I thought he was just offering. I packed up all my things and headed to the living room to pay when Andre said they ONLY accept cash. I had been paying with card my whole trip and only had like $7 in colones so I told him I would need to go to an ATM. He drove me there, and my card kept getting rejected most likely due to me being in another country. I told him this and asked if he had Venmo or PayPal or Zelle or anything to do a bank transfer. He said no, but my flight was soon so we continued to drive to the airport. He then asked his sister if she had PayPal and she said yes, so I thought ok perfect I’ll just PayPal her. I didn’t have any wifi to get a connection to PayPal and so Andre used his hotspot from his phone but my app continuously said it couldn’t log in. Only then did he tell me that the full amount was going to be 100 dollars. My room was only $42 so I was confused about that price and then he said he was charging me for the ride. I thought that it was so sneaky for him to spring that on me on the way to (continued)

the airport without disclosing that the ride would be over 60 dollars. I would have just taken a bus or something if I would have known that. So anyway, I ask for his sisters info, give him mine and tell him I’ll pay her when I get back into service. I got home and still for whatever reason can’t log into my PayPal without an error message. From the time I’ve been home till now which has been maybe under two weeks, Him and his sister and friends have persisted to message and call me on WhatsApp, try and add my personal Instagram account, and email and threaten me saying that he’s going to “expose” me on social media if I don’t pay him. I literally had to block him and so many of his people that have been trying to reach out to me. I told his sister on WhatsApp that I can’t log into PayPal and since they have no other way to receive money I’m trying to figure out a way to pay them but she doesn’t seem to understand and they continue to harass me. It honestly is pretty shocking and invasive. Be warned about this owner. Plus it’s overpriced for what you get.