Most people enjoy their stay at value-priced Adventure Inn Hotel, a clean, modern San Jose Costa Rica hotel conveniently located ten minutes from the San Jose Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), and ten minutes from the domestic Pavas (Tobias Bolaños) Airport. In the prestigious, up-scale neighborhood in the suburbs of San Jose in the central valley of Costa Rica, we are a full-service Costa Rica hotel on the bed and breakfast (B&B) plan.
From Adventure Inn Hotel, catch glimpses of the distant Irish-green patchwork mountains to our north and south as you go for a peaceful walk through the lush parks, around the entertaining duck ponds and along the golf course past many elegant homes.
Check out the nearby posh five star hotels with casinos and convention venues or take a short hike to the large new Mall and Cineplex Theatre. Everyday but Monday enjoy free admission to Waterland, an exciting private water-theme park great for the whole family. Bustling San Jose, with its Central Market, pedestrian shopping area, museums, zoo, business district, and exciting nightlife zone is about five minutes away by car, taxi or convenient public bus.
All you can eat American-style breakfast
Start your Costa Rica adventure each morning from 6 to 10 am with a complimentary American-style tropical breakfast. Choose from:
- eggs any style or build your own omelet
- crispy bacon, ham or sausage
- fluffy home-made pancakes
- tasty French toast and maple syrup
- colorful tropical exotic fruits (bet you can't name them all!)
- robust piping-hot Central Valley coffee
- chilled freshly-squeezed fruit juices
Breakfast is served from 6 - 10 am and included in your low rate
Moon Glow Bar and Grill
For over half a millennium, people of various cultural backgrounds; the
Mayan and Aztec cultures to the north, the Mesoamerican and Inca
cultures to the south, their Mediterranean conquerors, and even the
slaves from Africa and the Caribbean, have all lived together in Costa
Rica. This fabulous fusion of cultures has encouraged the sharing of
wonderful recipes, spices, flavors and food types incorporated into
every generous plate served at the Moon Glow.
After your dining experience, the Moon Glow Bar and Grill invites you to
share stories about your Costa Rican adventure with new friends and old
over a cool tropical cocktail at our full-service bar. Stop by and enjoy!
Mayan Waterfall Jacuzzi
After a day exploring smoldering volcanos, steamy rainforest canopies, thundering waterfalls or the action of nearby San Jose, you and the kids can relax and unwind in our Mayan waterfall Jacuzzi, created by the talents of local Indian artisans.
Broadband Wireless Internet Access (WiFi)
Your laptop has free internet throughout the hotel. Connect in the comfort of your own room. With our multiple firewalls and 128-bit wireless data encryption, you can connect safely and securely.
Or better, leave your laptop at home... there's no waiting at our complimentary 24 hour guest internet cafe with four flat-monitor computers.
New Ten Piece Gym
Jump start the new you, or don't miss a workout in our complimentary fully-equipped 24 hour gym.
Explore the Ecological Paradise Called Costa Rica
From Adventure Inn, travel in all directions on the best Costa Rica tours. Experience dense humid rainforests. Relax in dozens of natural hot pools in a tropical garden setting under a thundering volcano. See pirate history on a sun-drenched Pacific cruise to an exotic white sand and palm-fringed island. Or embrace an adrenaline rush with world-class whitewater rafting on the warm Pacuare and Reventazon Rivers, or canopy zip-lines from peak to mountain peak. Our team of bilingual front desk receptionists have developed many contacts through years of experience in arranging the most value-priced Costa Rican tours for our guests. Click here for a brief description and prices of the most popular tours of Costa Rica. And when it is time for the beach, choose your favorite coast, Adventure Inn is midway between two warm oceans.
Getting Around
Private climate-controlled buses will pick you up at our door everyday and deliver you to nearly any point in Costa Rica. With laundry service, free luggage storage and complimentary secure overnight parking, the Adventure Inn's central location makes it a great home-base to discover all that Costa Rica has to offer.
Rent a Vehicle
Go at your own speed and create your own adventure...drive yourself.
Discover jungle-green and sky-blue vistas around every curve, stop for a
photo or to smell the wild flowers. Your valid driver's license is all
you need. For your convenience, and no cost to you, our knowledgeable
bilingual constantly stay abreast of the rates of several of the most
reputable car rental agencies. We will make all your arrangements to
rent a reliable car or 4X4 and have it delivered for free pick up and
drop off at Adventure Inn Hotel. What we quote you is all you ever need
to pay, guaranteed!
Be careful renting vehicles online with the big multinationals as many
try to hide the high costs of insurance and taxes (saying in fine print
they may or may not be included. Believe me, they are not included!).
When you can't talk to a real person, and receive a final guaranteed
total price, beware! Unfortunately some of our guests have fallen victim
to these unscrupulous multinationals and have been forced to pay nearly
double what they expected, after it was too late to cancel, which is why
we stepped in.
Perfect Year-Round Climate
All guest rooms have individually controlled air-conditioning but you will probably find it an unnecessary waste of energy. Our location has been rated as having one of the world's best climates by National Geographic because we are in a large central valley a kilometer above sea level. Adventure Inn guests enjoy a constant 72-78 degree temperature year-round.
WaterLand
On days you may want to just relax in our perfect year-round spring-like climate and stay around Adventure Inn. For sunning, sliding, and dipping in a 'cool' pool "WaterLand", a water theme park 2 kilomters away may entertain the kids a while on quiet days, our guests have free admission, but please don't expect much. We will shuttle you both ways, or you may simply enjoy the pleasant walk back through the quiet elegant neighborhood.
^ Free admission to WaterLand, a private club ^
Getting Here for Free
From the San Jose Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO)
The Adventure Inn is open 24 hours per day, and is about ten minutes from the airport. To get to Adventure Inn Hotel for free and no waiting half an hour or more for a shuttle, after you clear customs, simply pay at the 'Taxis Unidos - Airport Taxi' booth and they will assign you a driver and an orange taxi or van to Adventure Inn. Be sure you save your receipt as we will credit your account the normal fare, so it costs you nothing to arrive safely and effortlessly to our front door.
To the San Jose Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO)
We provide a complimentary taxi one direction either from or to the airport per night that you stay with us. If you need transportation to the airport, please ask our receptionist to arrange a taxi for you at whatever time you wish to leave, and request the hotel pay the taxi driver. This way you arrive quickly and safely to the airport prior to your flight at no cost to you. If you need a taxi from and to the airport and are staying only one night, you will have to pay for the second taxi yourself, which will be about $10.
To or from the Pavas airport
Our complimentary taxi is either to or from the international (SJO) airport. If you need transportation to or from the Pavas (Tobias Bolaños) airport, we can instead cover the first $10 of the taxi. The total cost should be no more than $15, meaning you only pay about $5.
Actual driving directions to Adventure Inn:
Coming from the San Jose Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) drive on the main highway into San Jose. After about 7 km (5 miles), exit right under the second overhead bridge (Francisco J. Orlich Bridge) and go straight ahead on the road parallel to the highway for 1.5 kilometers. Just before you get back onto the highway, instead turn right. You will see large beige-colored arches, and the Adventure Inn is one block to the left of them.
Conference Centers
Being only ten minutes from the Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), and central to the Free Trade Zone makes the location of the Adventure Inn an ideal Costa Rica bed and breakfast (B&B) style hotel for any businessperson needing to attend nearby conferences and other business functions.
Finance Your Vacation
Some of our guests have been able to finance much or all of their Costa Rica accommodations or entire vacation with the savings from Costa Rica plastic surgery, eye surgery and dental work. Clean, private hospitals are fully equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, and manned by American and European trained doctors using the latest techniques. They charge about a third of what you would normally pay for the same procedure in the US and Canada. Spend your first day or so having the work done, then recover a few days in seclusion and comfort at Adventure Inn, with room service and 24 hour staff, then later tour Costa Rica when you feel more up to it. If you are interested in having any type of medical procedure done in Costa Rica, please let us know and we will gladly refer you to a highly experienced and reputable English speaking medical doctor specializing in your field. We also have an American nurse on call 24 hours.
Mayan/Olmec murals decorate the halls of Adventure Inn
The Owner and Management
The Adventure Inn is owned and operated by a father/son team, Canadians,
Eric Robinson, a 1974 University of Waterloo graduate environmentalist
and Mike, his son, a 2004 chemistry graduate from the Carleton
University in Ottawa.
While operating three consecutive lodging establishments in northern
Ontario, Eric (and later with his family) managed to travel tens of
thousands of miles exploring the farthest reaches of the Pacific Rim
including South East Asia, the three Americas, Japan, New Zealand,
Australia, Indonesia, and some of the vast South Pacific while doing
post-graduate research on Third World ecotourism marketing.
Father and son split the general management and internet duties of
Adventure Inn.
Eric hopes that Costa Rica ecotourism remains sustainable, meaning that
all visitors to Costa Rica should try to impact minimally and only
positively on the indigenous physical, natural, cultural and economic
setting. This will allow future visitors to equally enjoy their Costa
Rican travel adventure.
You will love being our honored guests