A lovely light room with great views from the balcony and the benefit of being able to park right outside. We appreciated the good facilities in the room including fresh coffee and a fridge. Great to watch a variety of hummingbirds and other birds by the cafe. Very helpful information when we arrived about local walks and places to visit.

Stayed in March 2025

Excellent location alongside Savegre Rio in the heart of the bird watching habitat, with personalised, high quality guiding available from a family member (Carlos - excellent). Small, clean, comfortable rooms with duvets to keep out the cold. Very helpful staff. Simple but tasty breakfast prepared for us after our dawn quetzal watching tour was over. Recommend as a good, family run option for independent bird watchers as an alternative to some of the larger properties in the Savegre valley.

Stayed in March 2025

Very basic cabins but lovely and clean. Excellent location for birds watching. Lovely staff.

Stayed in March 2025

Cabinas et Quetzal only serves breakfast, and the nearest restaurants are 1-2 km away. It wouldn't be a problem if you are there with a car, but if you don't have a car it's difficult - after dinner you either have a longish steep walk in the dark, or you have to organise a driver to give you a ride home. The staff at Cabinas organised this for us, but you have to make a special request to make it happen.

Lovely setting, with the river flowing below our rooms, many birds and excellent hummingbird feeders. Seeing a quetzal fly past us as we sat on our balcony was very nice!

Stayed in March 2025

Some comfortable cushion chairs for sitting inside would’ve been nice. The only place to read at night was to lie in bed or sit up in bed, but that was not very comfortable for long.

Friendly staff, beautiful location with beautiful gardens all around and great birding right on the premises

Stayed in February 2025

Did not include breakfast Unforeseen delays resulted in a late arrival and the road down is too treacherous for night travel

Stayed in February 2025

The location of the property is excellent, located right at the river. It is very clean and the bed is super comfortable. If we had known, we would have stayed longer.

Stayed in January 2025

Even though almost all the roads to the property is paved, road condition is a little bit hard.. At night it was very cold, so be prepared.

Good location for birders. More than 10 species of birds are around their feeder. Quetzal is watched close the lodge. Room is clean and comfortable. Breakfast was very good

Stayed in January 2025

We had a cold wet night and the cabin lacked a heating unit. We used a few of the extra blankets and crawled under the covers.

San Gerardo is magical. Tons of hummingbirds feeding while we ate our breakfast!!! Lots of little excursions to be considered. A day of small little hikes is a huge amount of climbing.

Stayed in January 2025

Little trash can was overflowing by the second day. A coffee maker was in the room, but no filters were provided until we asked.

The sisters who ran the cabins were very friendly and helpful. Clean, basic cabins in a beautiful setting. We loved the deck with the amazing birds coming to the feeder.

Stayed in September 2024

Nothing.

We had two cabins, one for our teenagers and one for us. Both were wonderfully spacious and comfortable with balconies overlooking the garden and river. It was cold at night but the beds had thick duvets and extra blankets were provided. This is such a beautiful place, with a balcony where they feed the hummingbirds and numerous other birds - you could sit there for hours watching them. The breakfast was delicious. It is owned by a family and they were all super friendly. We recommend getting up early to do the quetzal tour. They have obviously put a lot of effort into making this a fabulous place. We stayed an extra night as we loved it so much.

Stayed in August 2024

I'd love if there was a kitchenette in the room and a pot for tea preparing. Shower hot water weren't very stable. The way down to the river could have been more organised. Reading lights near the bed could have been a nice improvement.

The central bird watching balcony was great and comfortable with beautiful views of birds and river. Very caring and friendly team of workers. The cabin was clean and comfortable. The breakfast was fine

Stayed in July 2024

Nothing so far, I didn’t have any kind of issues at all

Place it’s really great, clean, room is pretty. Such a great place to rest

Stayed in June 2024

A bit pricy.

Large ptivate cabine close to nature with large balcony facing the mountain. We saw green toucanets from the balcony while having breakfast! Comfortable bed with lots of blankets. Hot water available. Large parking area. No kitchen but tea and coffee machine in the cabine. Don't be too late for check-in as road to get there is a steep and it is not easy to drive at night.

Stayed in May 2024

Beds could be more comfortable.

Patio with birds and view were awesome.

Stayed in May 2024

We were put in room number 2 which had a poor view of the garden. If you’re interested in seeing birds be sure to request either rooms 3, 4 or 5 - which all have balconies overlooking the garden.

Excellent place to stay if you’re a birder. We saw the famous quetzal bird in the tree behind the property on both the evening and the next morning of our stay.

Stayed in April 2024

Delicioso!

Stayed in April 2024

Cold at night,but the bed was warm. Hot water was temperamental.

A perfect setting by the river....swarms of hummingbirds by the feeders and quetzals a half mile down the road, visible from the road. A well equipped cabin.

Stayed in April 2024

as others mentioned, the hot water in the shower was a little tricky to figure out. Once it is turned on, temperature is controlled by the rate of water so you can have a slow hot shower or a fast warm-ish shower

Was not prepared for how beautiful the location was. Hummingbird feeders were lively! Quetzals in the backyard! the lovely seating area by the river! At check-in she shared a plethora of activities nearby.

Stayed in April 2024

Not sure about hot water

Good breakfast!

Stayed in April 2024

Whilst this isn't a negative comment (this place and people were lovely) a note to people thinking of booking: We have been to the mountains in Costa Rica before, so we had prepared for how cold its gets at night. Socks and warm nightwear a must!

Beautiful cabins set in the hamlet of San Gerardo de Dota that exceeded our expectations. Family run, with excellent English spoken, this place, although off the beaten track and down a very windy road was a wonderful find. The breakfasts were so good with recommendations for places to eat supper readily available. Walks also explained and the botanical garden walk a couple of KM's down the road was pleasurable way to spend a Sunday morning with the binos. The highlight of the trip was to see the resplendent quetzal in the trees outside our room. Just made our stay perfect in every way. Thank you.

Stayed in March 2024

We stayed 2 nights there, the weather was cold, no heat and not enough blankets. The hot water is not warm, so we had to take a shower during the day when the weather was warmer.

The staff is very friendly and helpful. We saw the Quetzal outside our patio and some hummingbirds at the bird feeders.

Stayed in February 2024

We liked everything existing about the property, but we had picnic supplies with us and there was no place in the valley to buy ice as well as no small fridge in the room to keep things cool. The bed was a bit hard and the room was quite cold at night. We appreciated the provision of extra blankets in the room.

Well located with gorgeous views and the river just behind the cabin, and spotlessly clean.

Stayed in February 2024

The hotel does not do dinner - but the highly recommended Soda Dona Marlen is just up the road

The outstanding features of this hotel are the birdlife ( the hotel puts out feeders for both hummingbirds and fruit eaters, and we spent hours on the terrace watching the birds) and the location right beside the beautiful, wild, Savegre river. Our 2 roomed cabin was spacious and comfortable, with a veranda overlooking the river. The previous day our neighbours had seen quetzals in the garden, though we were not so lucky.

Stayed in February 2024