Fodor`s Choice Hotels 2004
CORCOVADO LODGE was featured in "New Classics" section of September Travel And Leisure 30th Anniversary Issue.
Fodor`s Choice Hotels 2004
With a new definitions of " the best" ,
Fodor`s list includes budget and luxury properties
New York, NY---For the first time ever, the 700 writers and editors at Fodor`s Travel Guides have selected their top 20 Fodor`s Choice Hotels. After considering the nearly 30.000 properties listed in the Fodor`s Gold Guides, they`ve named the 20 properties worldwide that stand out as quintessential Fodor`s Choice Hotels.
To earn the Fodor`s Choice distinction in the 2004 guides, Fodor`s staff looked beyond the most luxurious and opulent properties that typically make the other lists, and selected hotels in all price ranges that are truly unique. Many of this year`s Fodor`s Choice properties are not well-known but they all offer a one-of-a-kind experience. Some are luxurious and some are at budget prices, but all have a style that sets them apart form others.
Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp, Carate, Costa Rica. Truly isolated from civilization, this affordable collection of luxurious tents facing the sea is just steps from the beach and rain forest. Don't miss the monkeys swinging in the surrounding mango trees.
Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp, Carate, Costa Rica. "Truly isolated from civilization, this affordable collection of luxurious tents facing the sea is just steps from the beach and rain forest. Don`t miss the monkeys swinging in the surrounding mango trees." Fodor's Choice Top 20, 2004. Press release, October 7, 2003.
"At the park's southern border, the Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp is the highlight of a Costa Rica trip for many ecotourists. A unique canopy tour hoists awed guests up eight stories by pulley into the dense jungle canopy." 1,000 Places To See Before You Die,
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1,000 Places To See Before You Die,
Workman Publishing, 2003
Puerto Jimenez, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
At the park`s southern border, the Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp is the highlight of a Costa Rica trip for many ecotourists. There`s no electricity, shared baths only, and drinking water comes from a crystal-clear stream that runs by the twenty platformed tents. A unique "canopy tour" hoists awed guests up eight stories by pulley into the dense jungle canopy. Neither the canopy tour nor the tent camp is for everyone: Where the road from civilization ends, it is a forty-five minute walk along a pristine beach for arriving guests, while luggage is transported by horse cart. |
"...a good blend of comfort and adventure." Frommer's Costa Rica.
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Frommer's Costa Rica 99 by Eliot Greenspan
1999 edition.
"If you're looking for a good blend of comfort and adventure, check out Costa Rica Expedition's Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp, which is built on a low bluff right above the beach. Forested mountains rise up behind the tent camp, and just a few minutes' walk away is the entrance to Corcovado National Park.
Just reaching this lodge is an adventure in itself. You can either take a five-seat chartered plane to the gravel landing strip at Carate and then walk for 45 minutes to the lodge, or take the lodge's specially designed pontoon boat from Golfito or Puerto Jiménez. If you have a four-wheel-drive vehicle, you can get as far as the landing strip and then walk the remaining 1½ kilometers. Once you're there, you have a real sense of being away from it all.
Accommodations are in large tents pitched on wooden decks. Each tent has two twin beds, a table, and a couple of chairs on the front deck. Toilets and showers are a short walk away, but there are enough so that there's usually no waiting. Meals are served in a large screen-walled dining room furnished with picnic tables. A separate but similar building is furnished with hammocks, a small bar, and a few board games. Services at the lodge include guided walks and boat excursions, both into the national park and out to Caño Island. The newest addition the lodge is a canopy platform located 120 feet up an ancient ajo tree. If you're truly adventurous, you can spend the night in a tent atop the platform (just don't wake up on the wrong side of the tent). Package rates that include transportation and tours are also available and are the way most people come here." (Pg. 286) |
"It isn't easy to get here...but the effort's certainly worth it." Costa Rica 99 by Fodor's.
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Costa Rica 99 by Fodor's
1999 Edition
"Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp. It isn't easy to get here -the lodge is best reached by air- but the efforts certainly worth it. Costa Rica Expeditions owns the lodge, as well as the 400-acre forest reserve that surrounds it and borders the park. The 20 tents, with two single beds each, are pitched on wooden platforms just off the beach. There are communal bathrooms and a bar-restaurant that serves family-style meals. Resident naturalist guides will lead you through the jungle and hoist you into the forest canopy to a platform 100 off the ground. Bring a flashlight-there's electricity only a few hours each day-and insect repellent. Charter planes depart from San José via Carate every Wednesday and Friday; otherwise you can fly to Puerto Jiménez and hire a taxi to Carate, and from here it's a 45-minute walk" (Pg. 148) |
"Fabulous is the word for Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp, a civilized, safari-style tent camp fronted by palms immediately behind the beach." Costa Rica Handbook.
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Costa Rica Handbook by Christopher P. Baker
3rd Edition, Jan. 99
Canopy Expedition
" The Corcovado Tent Camp (see below) has a private forest reserve abutting Parque Nacional Corcovado; at this reserve you can fulfill your fantasy of making out like a monkey or a harpy eagle. Owner Michael Kaye has fulfilled his childhood dream of building a fabulous tree house-this one 30 meters aloft, midway up a 60 meter tall ajo in an "arboreal pasture" that attracts myriad monkeys and birds. Once harnessed into a secure bosun's chair, you are whisked to a platform at the height of an eight story building, where you can study life in the forest canopy. Scarlet macaws often fly in to pluck seeds and fruits just a few feet from the platform railing. Monkeys swing in to do the same, occasionally taking breaks to demonstrate their urinary skills-with you as target. Your $69 is well spent." (Pg. 685)
"Fabulous is the word for Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp, a civilized "safari-style" tent camp fronted by palms immediately behind the beach and 1.5 km west of Carate, flush against the border of Corcovado National Park-the perfect base for exploring the park. Livingston never had it so good. The beachfront facility has 20 roomy and comfortable walk in tents that are raised on pedestals at the base of the hill. Guests sleep on sturdy bamboo cots raised well off the floor. Ablutions are in two shared bathhouses (cold water only). Electricity is supplied by a small generator and is limited to certain hours in the dining area and bathhouses. Bring flashlights. Family style meals are eaten in a screened palenque restaurant. An atmospheric bar has a large verandah on tall stilts. Quite rustic, but it is a marvelous experience being lulled to sleep by the sound of surf and good night wishes from the bull frogs and Pacific screech owl. A ten-meter inflatable pontoon vessel, Guacamaya, designed to navigate through the crashing Pacific surf, is available for reaching Corcovado National Park. Enhancements were planned. Multiday packages offer discounts. Recommended!" (Pg. 685) |
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