5 stars for location within walking distance to quiet beach (but swimming next to impossible because of big waves), walking distance to a few bars and restaurants, and beautiful grounds.
5 stars for nice, quiet a/c.
1 star for no reading lamps (1 meter away from the bed; bring your own itty-bitty light if you like to read).
1 star for having to walk 3 meters to the other side of the room to turn off lights before going to sleep! Duh!
1 star for only getting the room cleaned every other day, not even trash emptied or new toilet paper filled (in the tropics... yuck).
1 star for claiming to have a "bar," a "spa," and, worst of it all, "laundry facilities" with the latter being a guy you can call on What's App who never responded!!! It's the tropics. Its humid. You need your laundry done ever so often, even when traveling. We ended up taking ours to a neighboring hotel who helped us by doing our laundry for us for a modest price.
Minus points for not having anywhere to hang the wet floor towel/rag, our swimsuits, etc. Others like us had to hang them outside the room on a common wall. A community clothes line or something like that would have been good as things cannot dry out inside rooms in Costa Rica because of the extreme humidity.
I asked nicely at the hotel lobby for this and suggested them having a for-pay washing machine and a clothes line. I only got a lot of attitude and a message from the young lady that "when you travel, you sometimes have to do things d