"La Paz Waterfall Gardens was a spectacular place! We were awed by everything it had to offer. We would highly recommend it to everyone."
Visited in Jan 2011
"The Lodge is absolutely the place to stay, the gardens are fantastic, the birds, big cats, butterflies and so on are in a very well designed "zoo" in the middle of the rain forest valley very very nice.but nothing is perfect, so the restaurant at the Lodge is not up to the standard of the hotel and is too expensive, we trusted "fodors" and found the recommended restaurants and small places which were great, there are not too many of them but the locals were really really nice, of course when the language is not a barrier it helps.........One has to go to Poas Volcano, absolutely breath taking if you are lucky, go very early in fact be there at the opening of the park, you have to walk quite a bit so take water with you and a back pack, it is up in altitude and the clouds of the rain forest covers the crater most of the day and you cannot see much of anything, however in the early morning the sky is mostly clear, the moisture comes in the afternoon with the heat of the day....... at 8 am we had a complete and total view of the crater, with the sulfate fumes coming out and the view of the lava valley and so on, stay no more than 20 minutes ( sulfate fumes will overwhelm you) and then take a walk up to the lake and down to the rain forest trail....... if you do this at noon you'll probably miss a lot except for the tourists buses coming from San Jose. you absolutely need a 4x4 some of the roads are in really bad shape, there was an earthquake centered at Poas two years ago, landslides are still visible and some portion of the roads were washed away and never fixed, in my opinion it is part of the fun."
Visited in Jun 2011
"Gorgeous place to visit. There is work still being done as they are recovering from the Earthquake. From what I am told we didn't actually see La Paz Waterfall because the road to it is closed. We saw 5 waterfalls while we were there...all beautiful. "
Visited in Feb 2012
"beautiful! The only drawback was that we were there in the morning and we were a bit rushed. I would have liked to stayed another night!! "
Visited in Nov 2011
"This area was VERY hilly. Difficult to walk the whole park if you are not in shape. We loved the scenery and the waterfalls, but again 1-2 days was plenty."
Visited in Feb 2012
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