Occidental Papagayo - Adults only - All Inclusive

“Beautiful place!”

We had a wonderful week! Beautiful grounds, amazing flora & fauna and very friendly staff. Shout out to the yoga teacher Charlie & the Aquafit team as well as the excellent Japanese dining experience. If you want a restful but active vacation and if you love nature, birds, monkeys etc book now!

“Wonderful experience! Great deal!”

Great experience! Clean room. Wonderful pools. Quick and easy walk to the beach. Beach not busy and chairs available and ready to go. Good food and drinks. Entertaining live music every night. A ton of amazing excursions to do off the resort. Service was perfect at the diners, desk, and rooms. Lot… more

Great experience! Clean room. Wonderful pools. Quick and easy walk to the beach. Beach not busy and chairs available and ready to go. Good food and drinks. Entertaining live music every night. A ton of amazing excursions to do off the resort. Service was perfect at the diners, desk, and rooms. Lots of monkeys to see. What a deal! We so appreciated our time here. Thank you Occidental Papagayo!

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“A Great Adults Only Resort with Sun, Sand, Pools & Beaches”

The Occidental Papagayo gave us everything we were looking for in a resort, great beach, great pools and the peace & quiet to enjoy them. As well, our room was a good size, with an excellent bathroom and nice deck. It was also well located in the resort itself. The Entertainment Team, especially … more

The Occidental Papagayo gave us everything we were looking for in a resort, great beach, great pools and the peace & quiet to enjoy them. As well, our room was a good size, with an excellent bathroom and nice deck. It was also well located in the resort itself. The Entertainment Team, especially "Yasniry" deserves a special mention. Yasniry took us on a Kayak tour and shared her enthusiasm with us for nature in the Gulf of Papagayo. She is an outstanding teacher who is always smiling. As we got to know her we could see that she shared her enthusiasm in everything she does, from teaching water aerobics, dancing, rifle shooting, karaoke... she does it all with patience and a smile. Management, take note... Yasniry is truly an asset and you should be very proud of how she represents your resort to the customers. I would recommend to all guests to get to know the Entertainment Staff they really make a difference at this resort; especially on Valentine's Day which they made very entertaining and special. The only negative thing(s) I would say of the Occidental Papagayo is the restaurants. Although we could always find something to eat at the buffet restaurant, the hot food was sometimes cold and with not much variety to choose from; we always found something to eat but it was a little underwhelming. As well, the service and standards at the "a la carte" restaurants could be improved. We found these restaurants lacked some "basics" in customer service like asking "how we are enjoying the meal?" or even refilling the water glass. As well, there is a dress code at the a la carte restaurants (which we followed) but that wasn't followed by other guests and/or enforced by the staff and that took away from our experience on a special occasion. But... we didn't go to Costa Rica to eat, we went there for sun, sand, pools & beaches... and we found just that at the Occidental Papagayo!

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“Great staff, the resort facility needs upgrade.”

Arrived in the middle of February to take a break from New York winter. Before I write my full review. My wife and I would like to thank the full staff for making our stay wonderful. Yasniry who guided us on our walks and resort activities was wonderful. Same thanks to Ken, Roger and Lizbeth in en… more

Arrived in the middle of February to take a break from New York winter. Before I write my full review. My wife and I would like to thank the full staff for making our stay wonderful. Yasniry who guided us on our walks and resort activities was wonderful. Same thanks to Ken, Roger and Lizbeth in entertainment. Now for my review about the place. We are in our early sixties and very fit. There are lots of stairs here-76 steps from the pool to the lobby. The food is delicious but very limited. We've been on other inclusive resorts and this is 3/5. The staff is great as I mentioned earlier however the equipments are not. The bicycles cost $10 to rent which is fine with us except they are in need of repairs or replacements. There is no entertainment after 11pm. Everybody goes back to their room. Would we come back here? Maybe but for what we paid, there are other resorts we heard that are better.

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