Costa Rica - Vamos a La Fortuna!

Our last breakfast by the beach in Tamarindo! We had an early start since we were getting picked up at 7:30AM for our transfer to La Fortuna. I love breakfast with a view and the relaxing sound of the waves.

We settled into the van for our trip! We used CR Travels and Tours for our transfer. I found them on a Facebook group and they were great!

We stopped about halfway at Llanos de Cortez waterfall to break the trip up. The water was freezing cold! Only Morgan went for a full swim, the rest of us just waded in.

Our driver stopped at this spot for a scenery break... beautiful and SO windy!

The girls got a kick out of how windy it was up here!

We stopped off for some good views of Lake Arenal. Also, super windy here!

Along the way, the driver was searching for animals to show us. We did get to see a few toucans in the wild!

We made it to our hotel in La Fortuna around 1:30. We stayed at the Arenal Springs Resort and Spa. Upon arrival and check in, they gave us a Welcome Drink. The girls got a Shirley temple juice drink. I got Prosecco and Matt got a beer. We were in Room 104, which was in the first row of suites and only a short walk to the pools and restaurant. They have golf carts to take people to/from some of the farther out rooms. They are currently doing renovations, so we did have a little noise from that during the day but it wasn't bad. I had read before coming a lot of negative reviews about the construction noise, so I was glad that it didn't bother us (especially since our hotel room was right by it!) We took a golf cart with all of our luggage to our room, but otherwise we walked everywhere we wanted to go. 

We walked back up to the main area to grab some lunch at the restaurant. The food was good! We snoozed in the room for a bit. We had a Junior Superior Suite, so we had two queen beds and a twin sofa bed in a little alcove with a sink and refrigerator, along with a patio and hammock! The room we had was recently updated and really nice. Matt ended up sleeping in the little alcove on the sofa bed (he's a snorer!) and the girls and I shared the two queen beds.

Then the girls played volleyball outside our room. There was a large play area with a volleyball net and soccer goals. There was also a playground for the littler kids and a "reading" area. The spa had balls for the kids to use.

Our hotel had mostly hot springs pools. There were also freshwater and cool pools for the kids, but we mostly stuck to the hot springs. There was a swim up bar, so we grabbed some drinks there.

We were all exhausted this night that we decided to just get room service for dinner.