My wife and I were married on the beach in front of the hotel on June 22. Our goal was to find a small hotel, somewhat private, on a beach that was not packed with people, and keep things affordable for our 20 guests. Our Costa Rican wedding coordinator, Sylvia Chavez, helped us pick the right place (she travels all over CR) and we felt she did an excellent job for what she was hired for. We felt the hotel and beach were very much what we were looking for as for much of the time we had the place nearly to ourselves. Please remember this is Costa Rica and the hotels do not compare well to the United States, AC can be noisy, a few bugs, etc. We found the hotel to be clean and the staff cordial. Now, what to watch out for: We got hosed big time on the pay by the drink option for our reception after being told by our wedding coordinator this seemed to be the better deal. Our party consumed 4 times the cost of drinks in two hours than we did in three hours the night prior at a local restaurant. It was obvious to us that we had been severely taken advantage of. Sylvia was able to "negotiate" a fee for "open bar" for the rest of the evening, but we should have done that to start. I expect getting drinks would have been much more difficult. Also, the hotel has a habit of calling local taxi drivers who are not licensed. We found this out when our taxi driver was pulled over, had his license plates confiscated, and was told to take us straight back. All laughs in retrospect there, but I had visions of being thrown in the clink two hours before my wedding. Lastly, and this being the worst problem of all. On the last day after my aunt had emptied her room safe and had her bags packed in her room, hotel staff entered her locked room while she was at breakfast and went several layers deep into her bag to steal approximately $1000. It was as if someone had been in the safe and knew exactly what they were looking for. Unfortunately, this was not discovered until she was halfway to the Liberia airport. Even with our wedding coordinator threatening to stop bringing clients to Bahia del Sol, the hotel management was essentially non-responsive and made no effort to rectify the situation. They did offer to let us fly back to San Jose to make a formal complaint to their insurance company, yea right! Seems likely that upper level employees were involved. It's too bad, because we liked the place, but won't go back!

Excellent hotel with good food and a warm welcoming atmosphere. Room was well kept, pool and bar very nice and even the casino, although small is very nice.