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Rustic hotel located in front of Brasilito Beach, nestled in the heart of town near the plaza. It is a quick and an easy walk to Playa Conchal. Our affordable, clean, simple, hotel rooms have hot water showers and air conditioning. Choose from rooms with an ocean view or garden room. Our onsite pool is perfect for families.
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Hotel Brasilito offers the ultimate beachfront experience, just steps from the sand. Just a short walk to Playa Conchal and a short drive to Playa Flamingo. Wake up to ocean views, spot howler monkeys in the trees while taking a swim. We loved to unwind by the clean courtyard pool covered by beautiful jungle landscaping.
The on-site restaurant serves fresh, local cuisine with stunning sunset views. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable, ensuring a safe and welcoming stay.
We loved the honeymoon suite, where the sound of the waves made for the perfect getaway.
If you’re looking for an affordable, well-located hotel in Brasilito steps away from Reserva Conchal with direct beach access, this is it!
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Date of stay: February 2025Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Â Rent a golf cart or 4 wheeler to get around quickly and also really enjoy the area.
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I love this hotel. If you want a laid back affordable and clean place ON THE BEACH this is a great choice. The crown is that the entire staff is attentive, accommodating, and lovely. I just finished my second stay there and the manager, Roxanna, again treated me like family. The rooms aren’t fancy but they are well cared for and the beds are super comfortable. The grounds are well cared for and there is an attached restaurant that overlooks the beach. My one wish is that my room had a mini-refrigerator as the tap water gets warm depending on the time of day. My plan this trip was to stay 3 nights and then move south to explore. I ended up staying the entire week at the hotel. Playa Brasilito is a beautiful beach and a nice walk to Playa Conchal which is one of CR’s most beautiful beaches.
and I do wish they had mini fridges Can’t say enough
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Date of stay: June 2023
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If you are looking for an authentic Costa Rica experience this place is it! We stayed in the ocean front room. It was clean and had amazing AC. There is monkeys right off the porch to the left along with roosters, dogs, and cats. It is a bit noisy but never bothered us, it's all a part of the experience. Great location between Playa Conchal and Playa Flamingo. We did a day pass to the WestIn (130$ per adult drinks/food included) but you could also walk to Conchal(15 min). DO NOT try to enter from the beach to WestIn they will make you walk all the way back and take a Taxi to the lobby. Patagonias is a short walk if you are looking for American food for kids or a great place to cool down at the pool while you wait for your room to be ready. My only complaint at Hotel Brasilito was the restaurant never had customers which made us hesitant to eat there. Overall a fantastic 3 day experience.
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Date of stay: March 2024
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I stayed at Hotel Brasilito and unfortunately the experience did not live up to my expectations. The environment is extremely noisy, with dogs barking constantly, cars passing through the night and loud music around. Hard to rest in these conditions.
The hotel restaurant is excessively expensive for the quality offered, and the service is poor – long and uncaring. We feel like we are disturbing rather than being well received.
Only positive, the location near the beach, but with so much noise and such a bad value for money, I would not recommend this hotel.
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Date of stay: January 2025Trip type: Travelled with family
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This hotel has a great location on the beach. However in 5 days the room was only cleaned once. The room itself was terrible, nails popping up unsafe deck. The restaurant doesn't serve breakfast and is way overpriced compared to sodas down the street. There is no coffee in the room and when I asked for ice from the bar for 2 drinks they insisted I go to a store down the street and buy it. Oh and I just checked my credit card and they double charged me for the rooms. Avoid at all cost.
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Date of stay: February 2025Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Response from Shelley Martin, General Manager at Hotel Brasilito
Responded 2 weeks ago
Hello greetings! We are always open to hear opinions about our beautiful hotel which is 30 years being the most relevant and known, about the cleaning service we send cleaning service messages every mornings and the girls asks too, you can of course tell them to go so that was i guess a wrong communication, all our guests are explained that the restaurant is DIFFERENT ADMINISTRATION it is up to them if they can bring you ice or anything, we will always help you to the closer store, about the card we always charge because that's how we work with most pages but if it was a mistake from the extranet you booked you can always communicate with us and we sure give you the money back, have a good day. (FRONT DESK/HOTEL BRASILITO)
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This is NOT a resort. This is really 1 step up from a hostel. It is an inexpensive hotel, near (NOT directly on) the beach. Staff is very nice, and attentive. There is a small, but frequently traveled, road between the hotel and the beach. Also, there is a very loud club/bar just on the other side of that road, which plays music very loudly from Noon until Midnight or later, every night. There are also roosters in the unkempt lot next door, which start crowing around 2:00am. There are no beach amenities provided (lounge chairs, etc.). The "secure parking" consists of 4 spaces, with a piece of chain hung behind the cars. If you don't get one of these 4 spots, you're stuck parking on the road. There are a lot of stray dogs and cats on, and around the property. The restaurant downstairs (Pacific Palms) is good, but overpriced (fish and chips + burger w/ fries, and 2 frozen drinks = $52USD). The surrounding town, Playa Brasilito, is an authentic, average, Costa Rican town. Good, local restaurants and shops. It's located in between 2 resort towns (Playa Conchal, and Playa Flamingo), so there's easy access to a lot of activities. We never felt unsafe in the area. All of the local "Ticos" were very friendly! A 12-15 minute walk south along the beach will put you right on the fabulous Playa Conchal beach, where you will find a lot of the resort-like beach amenities (cabana/lounge chair rentals, frozen drinks delivered to you, etc).
Please understand, I do not intend for this to be a negative review. Hotel Brasilito "is what it is." A no-frills, budget friendly hotel, near the beach. I just want others to be able to make an educated decision about the property.
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Date of stay: November 2023
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Trip type: Travelled with family
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The location is awesome, at the beach and at a soda, and naar Playa Conchal, but the breakfast is like jail food, it's just bread and butter from a dirty cup and that's it. Oh and milk and papaya, but not the fruits they promise, they also let you sign a paper to use the breakfast so you don't get a refund. People in the hotel went to the supermarket on the corner to buy ham and cheese.
The place is opposite 2 very loud bars. One looks like a drugs place and a guy was bleeding very very bad at his neck, think he ended up in a fight.
The bed was bad and cracky, the room was very noisy and we slept really bad of all the music, (drunk) people, lot's of roosters going on for hours.
Date of stay: July 2021Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This hotel is near the Playa Brasilito in the Guanacaste Province and very close to the town proper. If you're coming from outside CR, the nearest airport is the Liberia airport or also named Daniel Oduber QuirĂłs International Airport. The hotel is very spartan and don't expect a hotel experience. The mattresses are hard and the bathroom is small. The receptionist has a pleasing Purrsonality.
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Date of stay: August 2023
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Trip type: Travelled with family
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The beach view rooms are okay only if you want to hear the canned music from the restaurant all day. Parking is first come first serve and they don't have enough for everyone. The staff were fine, nothing special. The garden view rooms looked fine and they are quiet. Small but nice pool.
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Date of stay: February 2025Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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My husband and I stayed at this hotel for two nights in the ocean view room with the hammock on the balcony, and we loved it! The views of the beach were stunning, and the hammock and balcony offered a place to hang out in the evening. We stayed again for one night in one of the basic rooms, and it was a completely different experience. The room was a downgrade and we did encounter a couple of cockroaches in the room. Additionally, mornings were quite noisy due to construction work starting as early as 7 AM. Friendly staff and pretty views.
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Date of stay: January 2025Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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The hotel can arrange for shuttle pick in advance. The cost is about $50.00 for two people provided your flight does not get in after 9pm. Please contact us directly for this service. A taxi from the airport to the hotel can range between $75.00 to $90.00.
Hi Karen,
Bring small bills in dollars but you will need some local currency for local shopping or eating, I would exchange that at the airport in CR.
I flew from San Jose so I don't know about transportation, I also rented a car to get around.
There might be buses but if you take a taxi make sure to negotiate the price in advance.
Viveca
There are more places to choose from in the Brasilito area.
PRICE RANGE
RMÂ 351 - RMÂ 436 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
Costa RicaProvince of GuanacasteBrasilito
NUMBER OF ROOMS
17
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