Punta Islita Hotel

Perched on a rugged mountain outpost and overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Hotel Punta Islita greets you with authentic Costa Rican charm, and aesthetics. Rustic-colonial elegance, a spectacular natural setting, and incomparable service details cater to a select clientele of travel enthusiasts.

General Description

Punta Islita Hotel is located in Nicoya Peninsula, Guanacaste; at only 30 minutes by plane from San José and 20 minutes from the landing strip that the hotel has. Nestled in the heavily forested hill where nature, the community and art get together. It consists of 40 rooms: 13 ocean view rooms with outdoor jacuzzi, two junior suites, four suites with outdoor jacuzzi, eight casitas and 10 villas completely equipped. All the rooms have private terrace, air conditioning, cable TV, telephone, coffee maker, mini bar, bathroom with bathtub and hair dryer. In addition, it offers a gourmet restaurant, bar, swimming pool, spa, tennis courts, conference rooms, art gallery, library and parking. Member of “Small Luxury Hotels of the World”, it pioneered a program that encourages the preservation of local cultures and natural resources.

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Detailed Description

1492 Restaurant Embark on a culinary journey at Punta Islita?s magnificent 1492 Restaurant, so named in reference to the year Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas. The fifty-foot thatched palm ceiling is perhaps Hotel Punta Islita?s most distinguishable landmark and pays tribute to the architectural style of the Chorotegas, the area?s once predominant native culture. Movie buffs may recognize prop items featured in Gerard Depardieu?s epic film ?1492?, that chronicled Columbus? journey to the New Continent. 1492?s menu includes delectable original dishes that fuse the best elements of Costa Rican and international cuisine. Locally grown herbs, spices, and vegetables are artfully combined to imbue signature dishes with an explosion of flavor, color, and variety. Don't miss out on the freshly caught seafood. An select wine list offers the perfect accompaniment to your own gastronomic expedition.

Borrancho Beach Club

A generously-sized fresh-water pool in tandem with the breaking Ocean is the centerpiece of the laid-back Borrancho Beach Club located on the first tier of the Hotel?s property. Landscaped gardens offer a playful atmosphere ideal for sunbathing, reading, writing, and swimming. Enjoy a spirited game of table tennis or foosball, enjoy a scrumptious Mahi-Mahi Sandwich, or cool down in the swim-up bar while sipping a refreshing Mojito- Costa Rican style!

Gym
Panoramic windows regale your workout with inspiring views of the surrounding mountains and beach cove.
Fully air-conditioned, Punta Islita?s Gym offers comfort and convenience for the fitness enthusiast. From the treadmill, stepper, and spinning bike to the Cybex multi-exercise station and free weights, our equipment can provide an intense and invigorating heart-pumping session.

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Punta Islita?s Casa Spa is a unique sanctuary for relaxation and holistic well being.
Enjoy the nourishing elements of traditional healing arts and exotic local ingredients that provide refuge from the stress of everyday life. Its signature line of beauty procedures and products channels the herbalist heritage and beauty rituals of the Indigenous Chorotegas and other ancient cultures through an array of modern techniques and treatments.
Casa Spa?s menu includes over thirty original offerings that include massage therapy, aqua therapy, Reiki, body scrubs, aromatherapy, facials, and healing stone therapy. Punta Islita?s own Organic Garden supplies the key natural ingredients found in Casa Spa?s products.

Casa Spa?s recent expansion of its locale and line of services provides a unique minimalist and rustic environment of relaxed simplicity that is conducive to the perfect harmonizing of mind, body, and soul.

Beauty rituals and traditions are intrinsic to every culture. All of Casa Spa?s treatments are based on the ancient healing arts of the region?s native heritage. Its signature line of spa products are hand-made locally from the finest and most natural ingredients grown on the premises. Available for purchase, these will stir memories of times spent in our relaxing sanctuary.

Traditional Swedish Massage
For active individuals wanting a deeper, soothing deep-tissue massage focusing on specific muscle groups.

Healing Stone Massage
Devised hundreds of years ago by the region? s Indigenous peoples, this ancient healing art uses basic elements: fire , water , and earth to bring deep relief to tense muscles. Stress melts away through the precise placement of hot river and volcanic stones on key body points.

Family Massage
The whole family can benefit from Casa Spa's treatments. Little ones overuse their bodies even more than we do and deserve and appreciate the irreplaceable benefits of touch. Promotes healthy self body image at an early age.
Mother Nature Prenatal Massage
Beneficial to both mother and child. Your therapist has received special training in the techniques and safety concerns specific to pregnancy massage. Recommended for second and third trimesters.
Reflexology
Originating thousands of years ago in ancient China, this technique is based on the premise that the body contains energy or "chi" constantly flowing through channels or zones, which unite to form the reflex points on the feet and hands. All body systems are stimulated and balanced.

Wave of four hands massage
Two trained healing practitioners sweep the length of your body in a synchronized dance that kneads your body. Releases muscle memory and all traces of tension in the ultimate pampering session.
Duet Massage
Choose any of the unique types of bodywork. Share a relaxing hour of massage with a loved one, family member or a friend. Enjoy each other? s company as you are both transported into inner harmony. Margarita Manicure
Costa Rican Sea Salt & citrus oils revitalize thirsty hands.
Milk & Honey Massage
Known and inspired by Cleopatra?s daily ritual, warm organic honey and sesame oil are gently massaged on to the body, face, hair, and scalp. Warm coconut milk provides the surprise tropical twist.

A Thousand Strokes Hair Treatment
A soothing continuous flow of warm herbalized oil is poured slowly and gently across the forehead. This treatment settles and balances the nervous system. Indulge in a profoundly sedating experience.

Facials
Papaya Mango Facial: Clarifying for delicate skin Yogurt Mint Facial: Balancing for normal skin Avocado Honey Almond Facial: Nourishing for dry skin Healthy Back Exfoliation: All skin types Costa Rica Miracle Mud Experience Featuring volcanic clays rich in copper, zinc, magnesium, calcium, aluminium, zinc and sulphur. Pelotherapy has been revered and practiced in every indigenous tribe in Costa Rica. The layers of earth through which these muds have emerged provide rich ingredients that have concentrated over thousands of years of heat and pressure. Your skin will reap the rewards of trace mineral ions and vitamins. Highly detoxifying and nourishing.

Sun - Lovers After Sun Treatment
Cooling yogurt applied to sun-kissed faces, a warm avocado and honey hair mask and an ultimate reparative cucumber body mask of is deliciously lathered on to moisture-drenched skin. Your skin will thank you!

Piña Colada Pedicure An exotic coconut milk and lemongrass experience, floral bath soaks away all memories of umpampered feet.

Policies

A minimum stay is required for the Holiday Season (December 26,2005 to January 2,2006) and Easter Week (from March 23 to 27, 2005).