This is completely a 5 star resort with wonderful views, wonderful location with respect to Puerto Quepos, wonderful room and excellent food. The breakfast that is included with your stay is really tasty and you can choose what you want from their typical menu - which is really unusual for an “included breakfast”. Every morning was a delightful experience in their tastefully decorated restaurant that had ocean views and wonderful fresh squeezed juice.

The rooms are extremely comfortable, clean and beautiful. During the day, we spent time by the pool sipping their wonderful drinks (I am serious about this - the best margarita ever). My husband boogie boarded a bit on a few of the days in the enormous waves and had a wonderful time. The beach is a bit dangerous on one side of the property but it is beautiful and we saw a troop of about 15 monkies go through the property in the middle of the day on one occasion.

The staff was EXTREMELY helpful in reserving our activities and flights (we hadn’t decided how we were going to get to San Jose - but they took care of it all - finding the least expensive and time efficient route). They were extremely flexible and changed the dates of our stay when I was making the reservations and even changed the dates of one of our activities when one of the members of our group got sick. We are definitely going to return to El Parador and it will likely be the reason for our return to Costa Rica with our family in the future!