Hotel Fonda Vela
Stays · Monteverde · Superior rooms and junior suites
Hillside cloud-forest hotel near the Monteverde reserve. It has a restaurant, a spa, a pool and its own walking trail.
- Hours
- Check-in 3:00 PM · Check-out 12:00 PM
- Best time
- any time
- Booking
- Book ahead
Tips
- Self-guided trail on site
- Check-in 3 pm, out noon
- Near Monteverde reserve
Contact & directions
- Website: https://www.fondavela.com
- Phone: +506 2645 5125
- Phone: +506 8694 7582
- Location: 10.3025, -84.8065 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Giant Ficus Tree (south of the Cheese Factory)Nature spot · Free · hidden gemA huge strangler fig in a patch of woods south of the cheese factory; you can climb a short way up among its buttress roots before the upper section is closed off.
- Plataforma mirador de Altos de San Luis, MonteverdeViewpoint · hidden gemA viewpoint near Santa Elena, Puntarenas province.
- Monteverde Cheese Factory ShopLocal shop · FreeThe dairy founded by Monteverde's Quaker settlers in 1953 still sells its cheeses at the factory shop, along with ice cream in flavors like coffee, soursop and macadamia.
- Curi-Cancha ReserveTrail · about $20A private reserve of cloud forest and old pasture that birders swear by: wide, gentle trails, giant strangler figs and good odds of quetzals, agoutis and coatis.
- CASEM Women's Artisan CooperativeLocal shop · FreeA non-profit shop run by a cooperative of local women artisans, selling embroidery, wood carvings and forest-themed crafts made around Santa Elena and Monteverde.
- Café Monteverde Coffee CenterLocal shop · FreeA cozy coffee bar and shop serving beans from small Monteverde farms, with a giant mosaic coffee-cup sculpture right next to it.
Sources: https://www.fondavela.com · https://www.fondavela.com · 0012_partner_sites.sql · docs/suppliers/stays.json