A jungle villa between Manuel Antonio and Dominical
Five bedrooms above the Pacific, a saltwater infinity pool, and a rainforest community all around you. Bring everyone.
Everyone means Manuel Antonio. Almost nobody means the coast south of it.
Manuel Antonio is worth the trip and it is also full. The park sells out, the road into it backs up, and the good beaches have a line of tour vans parked along them by nine in the morning.
Casa Frondosa sits south of all that, in Portasol, a private community above Playa Linda. Close enough that the park, the marina at Quepos, Dominical and the whale-watching boats at Uvita are all a drive up or down the same coast road. Far enough that you hear howler monkeys instead of traffic, and the beach nearest the house is usually empty.
It is the difference between visiting the Central Pacific and staying in it. Here is what is around the house, with honest distances rather than optimistic ones.
- 5bedrooms
- 12guests
- 5bathrooms
- 3night minimum
Built for a group that wants to spread out
Five bedrooms, five bathrooms, and a separate patio off every single one, so nobody has to negotiate over the good room. Glass down two sides of the living space, a kitchen that can actually cook for twelve, and a second kitchen outdoors for the nights you do not want to be inside at all.
Below the main floor there is a game room with a full-size pool table, and an office with two desks and a door that closes, for whoever is pretending not to work.
Playa Linda, and usually nobody on it
The nearest beach to the house is Playa Linda, a long open stretch of dark sand that almost never appears on a list of things to do. Boards and beach chairs live at the house, so going down for an hour costs nothing but the drive.
Matapalo is a little further along the same road, and Dominical, Uvita and the whale's tail at Marino Ballena are all south of that.
This is what surrounds it
That white shape in the middle is the house. Everything else in the frame is Portasol, a 540-hectare rainforest community founded by the Piedra family, who have developed it around conservation from the start. Homes here sit on a fraction of their land and the rest stays forest, which is why the view looks the way it does.
The community is gated, La Cazuela waterfall and its swimming holes are inside it, and toucans and howler monkeys turn up in the trees around the terrace most mornings. The welcome kit includes eye masks, because the jungle gets going before you do.
A full-time concierge, from booking to checkout
Every stay comes with a dedicated on-site concierge who knows the house, the coast and the country. Tours, boats, chefs, the right beach for the day: one message arranges it.
Full-time caretakers live on the property and keep the gardens and the house in the state you see in these photographs.
Check open dates for your trip
Send the dates you have in mind and the size of your group, and you will get availability and the complete price for your stay.
Book direct with the property. A real person answers every message.