El Tucano Resort & Thermal Spa

This was probably a great hotel 10 years ago but there is a very apparent lack of care everywhere you go. Rooms are ok but a lot of things fell in disrepear (light fixtures, switches, showers, hairdryer not working, partially broken windows). The staff is ok overall but the main desk doesn’t seem to care. When asked about tourist information « they don’t know ». The restaurant isn’t terrible but too expensive for what it is. Food is pretty bland and the dining room is sad and dreadful. I’d recommend dining in town for a far better experience. We saw a couple of cockroaches in the dining area. Location is a little too remote from where the action is in the region. La Fortuna is probably much better in that regard.

Nice hotspring pools, good restaurant. Great service. Place was clean. The overall hotel and grounds need some maintenance and paint. We had a junior suite and was nice, king size bed was good and ac worked good. We will retunrn.

I always had a good image of this hotel, over the decades people always commented how good their stay was, and how premium everything was there. That seems to be all in the past. This hotel lived better days, and those are gone. I decided to visit this hotel after a stay in La Fortuna on my way back to the central valley. Maybe the quaility of accomodations in Fortuna has increased a lot over the years, but the contrast was huge. * The room: * The room was ok-ish. Beds not terribly uncomfortable, but I certainly did not have the best sleep. I had to ask for a room change, as the first one only had one bed (I specifically asked for a two bedroom place, I was visiting with my mom, but it seems they just don't read what you type in when you reserve). The clerk gave me the keys to another room to see if I liked it. The keyhole required a tricky twist to be opened (another sign of poor maintenance), but I decided to keep the room as I was tired and I felt I had mastered the art of opening poorly maintained locks. * The pools: * This is where the hotel starts to show its decadency. The pools were built decades ago... and it shows. It's clear that they lack maintenance. While the color of the water can be attributed to the rich minerals from the river, everything else can be attributed to poor maintenace. Outdoor facilites around the pool (such as bathrooms and changing rooms) are aweful and way too small. These have not seen maintenance in years. * The natural spa: * I enjoyed this one. You actually see the stones under the ground heating up the river and producing this lovely hot mist. It is however, as all the other things in this hotel, poorly maintained, and I began to wonder if those flimsy looking and ever wet wooden planks were about to break under my weight. * The food: * I only had the "pleasure" of having breakfast. Food was ok, but nothing to write home about. The restaurant though, looked terrible. This is where the lack of maintenance is more evident. Being a single floor building with high rise ceiling, the upper half of all the walls, and the entire ceiling, was horribly dirty. This gave me the sensation that the entire place lacked hygiene. * The patrons: * This is probably not the fault of the hotel, but some dude was trying to steal my backpack! I think their entire family were thiefs, and there' s no security within the hotel to watch out for your anything, you're on your own. Once I prevented my personal belongings from being stolen, I really felt that this was no vacation, I was in self-protect mode. Is this hotel so low in perception that thiefs are now their regular visitors? * The price: * I payed $110 for a small two-bed room for one night, with a tiny TV and an unremarkable bathroom. Given the poor maintenace, the regular quality of food everything else in this review, I find it expensive. TL;DR - dated, poorly maintained, low reputation visitors that almost ruined my vacation. Not recommended, t

Quite a nice set-up surrounded by forest with hot springs. Yet the hotel is already a bit aged. What I did not like was that next to the reception they advertised 2 nights stay incl. massage at about USD 60 less for 2 nights than what I paid through *******. When I pointed out to this at the reception, the answer was that this offer is only valid for the off-season around July. I stated that the would have to mention this with the advertisement as otherwise they would be legally bound to honor the offer during the whole year. The lady at reception answered that in principle I was right but that she could not do anything about it as she is only an employee. A lawyer would be in a position to enforce the adherance to the ad! What is *******'s comment/reaction?

This is not a star hotel as advertised. The hotel is not maintained at all. Hot water did not work for our shower. The staff listened to our concerns however it was not fixed or no other options were given. We had to shower in cold water. The tiles were old and broken in the bathroom. The toilet seat is broken. The bathroom bulbs were out. The door locks were broken. No tissues or napkins provided. Only hot water pitcher with two glasses. No water in it. No blankets on beds. No stopper in sink. Towel racks broken. You need to walk up and down a hill to get or ask for all the amenities (towels, pillows, water) because the phones were not working. There were no qualities of a star hotel. One towel and pillow per person. We booked for 4 and got only two. We had to go several times to the front desk for extra towels, pillows etc.The staff were courteous and polite but the hotel was sorely lacking in quality. The whole place was not worth the amount of money we had to spend on one night! I wish I never booked this hotel, and get a refund for this one!

Definitely a great experience, enjoyable place.

Place was ok, comfortable however, it seemed like the facilities saw better days in the past, in my experience this is easily overlooked as you want to spend most of the time in the pool / enjoying the nature, HOWEVER, just getting into the room that I booked which was the most expensive one available, the first thing we noticed was that the bathroom was dirty (and not the usual dirty, as it was like someone used the WC but forgot to flush it), I proceeded to inform the receptionist about it and her answer was "oooh, that's so bad" which is a reply that I didn't expect, however, she told us that the manager of the place was going to contact us on monday (yesterday) but at 11:30 pm of Tuesday there is no email from them, neither a phone call, the least I expected was an apology, as for me, it is a MAJOR issue, as it was almost the first thing I saw in the most expensive room

This hotel was the last leg of a birthday celebration. My friend and I had stayed in 3 other hotels in an effort to see the lay of the land. It was atrocious!!!!!!!! And if it wasn’t the last night before our scheduled flight we would have moved to another place. The first room they put us in was filthy and the second one was just plain old dirty. There was mold in the bathroom, soap residue on the sink, filth in the lamp shades and the sauna smelled like mildew. This is the worst place I’ve ever stayed in my entire 50 years. It needs a deep cleaning and upgrades. Choose another location. The pictures are definitely photo shopped!