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Hotel El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa

3.5 star property

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Exterior
Outdoor pool
View from property
Master Suite
Indoor spa tub

Reviews

7.4 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Hot tub
  • Gym
  • Pool
  • Spa
  • Breakfast included

Explore the area

Map
7 km North from Central Park, Ciudad Quesada, La Palmeria, Alajuela
  • Juan Castro Blanco National Park
    18 min walk
  • sushi kenko
    3 min walk
  • San Antonio de Belen Station
    105 min drive
  • San José (SJO-Juan Santamaría Intl.)
    145 min drive

Room options

View all photos for Superior Room, 1 Bedroom, Ensuite, Mountain View

Superior Room, 1 Bedroom, Ensuite, Mountain View

Superior Room, 1 Bedroom, Ensuite, Mountain View

  • Sleeps 3
  • 2 Queen Beds and 1 Twin Bed

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Family Room

Family Room

  • Sleeps 5
  • 1 Twin Bed, 1 Double Bed and 1 Queen Bed

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Junior Suite

Junior Suite

  • 39 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Queen Beds

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Standard Triple Room

Standard Triple Room

  • 21 sq m
  • Mountain view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Twin Bed

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Hypo-allergenic bedding, in-room safe, desk, free WiFi

Standard Double Room

  • 21 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Master Suite

Master Suite

  • 50 sq m
  • Mountain view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About this property

Hotel El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa

Resort in La Palmeria with a full-service spa and free breakfast
Along with a full-service spa, this smoke-free resort has an outdoor pool and a restaurant. Free full breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a fitness center, a bar/lounge, and a poolside bar are onsite.
Hotel El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa offers 87 accommodations with safes and hair dryers. Televisions come with cable channels.

This La Palmeria resort provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Housekeeping is offered daily and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested.

An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include an outdoor tennis court, a lazy river, a sauna, and a fitness center.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

The Spa has 6 treatment rooms including rooms for couples and outdoor treatment areas. Services include facials, body wraps, body scrubs, and body treatments. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, Ayurvedic, and hydrotherapy. The spa is equipped with a mud bath, a sauna, a spa tub, and Turkish bath/hammam. The spa is open select days. Children under 8 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 12 years old are not allowed in the spa. There are hot springs/mineral springs on site.
Our customers tell us they can't get enough of the helpful staff at Hotel El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa. During your stay, you'll be within walking distance of Juan Castro Blanco National Park. Features include free breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking.
  • Free full breakfast offered
  • Free WiFi
  • Free self parking
  • Enjoy garden views while dining at La Foresta
  • Splash around at the lazy river or swim in the outdoor pool
  • Indulge with Ayurvedic treatments, body scrubs, or facials at The Spa
  • Amenities include a front-desk safe, a business center, and meeting rooms
  • Onsite recreation includes an outdoor tennis court, a gym, and a steam room
  • Just a 2-minute drive from Juan Castro Blanco National Park and 6 minutes from Aquas Zarcas Square
  • Airport shuttle service available for a fee
Hotel El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa offers its guests a full-service spa, an outdoor tennis court, and a lazy river. Along with a restaurant, there's a snack bar/deli on site. You can enjoy a drink at one of the bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Free breakfast is served. WiFi is free in public spaces.

A business center and meeting rooms are available. An outdoor pool, a spa tub, and a fitness center are also featured at the business-friendly Hotel El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa. Self parking is free.

This 3.5-star La Palmeria resort is smoke free.

Guests are served free full breakfast.
La Foresta - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered.
Room service is available.

Languages

English, Spanish

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site
  • Return airport shuttle (surcharge)

Food and drink

  • Free full breakfast
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 poolside bar and 1 bar
  • Room service available

Restaurants on site

  • La Foresta

Things to do

  • Fitness centre
  • Full-service spa
  • Mini golf
  • Outdoor pool
  • Outdoor tennis court
  • Sauna
  • A hot tub
  • Steam room
  • Tennis

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities
  • Lazy river
  • Mini golf
  • Outdoor pool
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • Banquet hall
  • Front-desk safe
  • Gift shop/newsstand

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Hair salon
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Multilingual staff
  • Tour/ticket assistance

Business services

  • Business centre
  • Meeting rooms

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Picnic area
  • Terrace

Spa

  • 6 treatment rooms
  • Aromatherapy
  • Ayurvedic treatments
  • Body scrubs
  • Body treatments
  • Body wraps
  • Couples treatment room(s)
  • Facials
  • Hot springs/mineral springs
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Manicures and pedicures
  • Massages
  • Massage/treatment rooms
  • Mud bath
  • Outdoor treatment areas
  • Sauna
  • Spa open selected days
  • Hot tub
  • Turkish bath/hammam

Accessibility

  • If you have any requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • This property does not have any lifts
  • In-room accessibility
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible (may have limits)

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bed sheets
  • Hypo-allergenic bedding

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hairdryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shampoo
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels

Entertainment

  • TV channels
  • TV

More

  • Desk
  • Phone
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • Pets and service animals are not allowed at Hotel El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are not available.

Payment types at the property

Important information

You need to know

This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession.
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Cashless transactions are available
Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property; the policies listed are provided by the property
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival.

We should mention

  • Reservations are needed for massage services and spa treatments. For reservations, contact the resort before arrival using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
  • Pets and service animals are not allowed on site.

Property is also known as

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Hotel El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa Reviews

Reviews

7.4

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 100 out of 328 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 106 out of 328 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 61 out of 328 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 38 out of 328 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 23 out of 328 reviews" "

7.8/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

7.4/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Cedma

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Kao

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
La habitación bien, pero mucho ruido en la mañana muy temprano. Personal de operaciones y mantenimiento con el radio a todo volumen, uno se entera de todo y no logra dormir.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Eduardo, Huntingdon Valley

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
They are at is beautiful, but some areas need attention. It needs some TLC
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

David

Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service
The property is scenic, surrounded by beautiful forest area and a creek. The hot springs and pools make this a nice place to stay. The rooms need alot of maintenance and updating. For example, the bathroom is extremely outdated, bathtub had a crack in it, the bathroom sink was falling apart, and the tile work needed caulking as well as updating. There was black mold everywhere, especially in the bathroom. Not a very clean hotel. Staff was nice in the restaurant.
Stayed 8 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great service
Jordan from the pool bar was amazing. Everything we needed, he was able to help us with. Our stay would not have been the same without him.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Catalina

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great breakfast included!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

6/10 Okay

Lilliana

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

6/10 Okay

Lizandro

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

MAXWELL

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful property, with some wonderful hot springs. Be sure to check them out along the river not only the manmade pools. Rooms were nice but ours was a bit dated and loud as we were close to the pools and restraunt. Food in the restraunt wasnt the best but was cheap. Great restraunts a few minutes down the road worth driving too.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

8/10 Good

david

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It was nice. Air condition in the room would have been nice. I could have swore the description said it had it .. but not my room. Television was really small.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

6/10 Okay

Daniel

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Old hotel more like 3 starts. Beautiful hot springs. Price was ok.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sharla

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

gustavo

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The nature arrond the place.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Es un hotel viejo, le falta muchisimo mantenimiento y limpieza. El hotel funciona como Day Pass y pasan las zonas comunes muy llenas. A pesar de que pagues hospedaje, encontrar una silla o mesa cerca de la piscina es imposible. Sin embargo, se descansa y el desayuno estuvo muy bueno.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Miguel

Business traveller
Disliked: Staff & service
If you want to be in a place where you are totally isolated from the world, then that's fine: There is no physical phone in the rooms, not all rooms have air conditioning (they don't tell you), the cell phone signal does not reach the hotel and the wifi is terribly bad.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Ravi

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff was very friendly and always eager to help
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jamie

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very large spacious rooms...Excellent customer service
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Julio

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great for elders
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Brian, Rockwall

Travelled with partner, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Our first room had no hot water, they said it would be fixed and said it was. Still didn't work. No hot water flow from sink, shower had none. Safe couldn't be locked( they had no key). Moved us to another room. Hot water was very very little flow. My sister had another room. Very little hot water flow. Restaurant is very nice, mini golf is fun. 4 pools, several bars. 2 hot tubs. Pools are various temperatures, which was nice. Air conditioner worked fine. The management is proactively upgrading & repairing the property. Can't recommend this proof, mosly because not much to do around the area, and the hot water.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Timothy, West Palm Beach

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The local food was excellent
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Peaceful
You need a stronger internet signal, and we had trouble accessing the TV.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

jeff

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Great pools and sauna
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
El hotel está bien ubicado, las piscinas están muy limpias y no muy alejadas de las habitaciones. Tiene acceso a un río con aguas termales hermoso. El personal es muy amable y servicial y la comida deliciosa.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024