Evergreen LodgevsLapa Rios Lodge
Both properties are recommended by reviewers writing for major publications. Overall, Lapa Rios Ecolodge Osa Peninsula is preferred by most reviewers compared to Evergreen Lodge. Lapa Rios Ecolodge Osa Peninsula comes in at #27 in Costa Rica with recommendations from 5 reviewers including Fodor's, Hideaway Report and Travel + Leisure.
Evergreen Lodge
| PO Box 1818-1002, San Jose, Tortuguero, Costa Rica
From $163/night
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Free Breakfast
- Restaurant
- Pool
- Breakfast included
Afar Magazine
"The hotel that you’ll return to after days of canopy tours and wilderness treks has rooms surrounded by lush jungle with frogs and birds." Full review
Fodor's
"The Evergreen offers an entirely different (and intimate) concept in Tortuguero lodging: whereas other lodges have cabins arranged around a clearing, at Evergreen they penetrate deep into the forest." Full review
Lonely Planet
"One of three hotels operated by the Pachira group, this pleasant place has a more rustic, less resorty feel than its counterparts, with 55 rooms and private bungalows surrounded by jungle greenery." Full review
Lapa Rios Lodge
Osa Peninsula, Cabo Matapalo, Costa Rica
From $0/night
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Free Breakfast
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
- Restaurant
Afar Magazine
"At Lapa Rios, an ecolodge located right in the rainforest, you go to sleep with the faint sound of jungle insects and wake to the call of howler monkeys." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler
"With "so much wildlife, you feel completely immersed in nature" at this wilderness lodge on 1,000 acres of riparian rain forest." Full review
Hideaway Report
95.0
"Wilderness refuge dramatically sited above the Golfo Dulce, in an isolated corner of the Osa Peninsula at the southern tip of Costa Rica." Full review
Fodor's
"This is the first and still the most spectacular eco-lodge in Costa Rica, set in a vast, private nature reserve brimming with wildlife." Full review
Travel + Leisure
"The most upscale of the Osa Peninsula eco-lodges, Lapa Ríos is set in a 988-acre rain-forest reserve with a virtually private beach and first-rate trails (on-site tours include binoculars and boots)." Full review
Lonely Planet
Top choice
"One of Costa Rica's best all-inclusive wilderness lodges, Lapa Ríos combines luxury with a rustic, tropical ambience" Full review
Travel + Leisure
"One of four properties in the Böëna Wilderness Lodges collection, this luxurious eco-resort on the remote Osa Peninsula has 17 airy ocean-view bungalows set within a 1,000-acre private rainforest reserve"