Making your Journey to Casa Aloha via Plane or Car/Ferry

Your GPS is your best friend. Using Waze or Google Maps is what gets you around. Always remember you might loose your internet connection in remote areas that you are traveling to. Our area here close to Montezuma is notorious for bad internet service. We recommend to take a screen shot of the directions to Casa Aloha.

Directions to Casa Aloha as follows:

• From San Jose it is usually 2 hours dive taking the highway to the ferry at Punta Arenas. Consider arriving early. Check in can take up to an hour if busy. Always consider traffic. Using Waze or Google Maps will help in navigating delays, roadwork and accidents. If you have time to spare consider the scenic back route over Athenas and Ortina. Its views are absolutely gorgeous. Stop at ‘La Cassita’ for a quick lunch or coffee. The restaurant’s view is absolutely breathtaking.

• You should use the official website to reserve, book your space on the ferry, for the car and each individual person traveling. The office where to pick up your ticket is on the street corner opposite of the large entrance gate.

• Your ferry trip will last a bit over an hour. Once you arrive start making your way to the small hub of Pakera then towards Tambor. From there the town of Cobano will be about another 25 minute drive.

• If you are coming from Pakera entering Cobano you will pass Mega Super on your right! Stock up with some basic food supplies you might desire.

• Once you get to the crossroads you must take a left turn at 1- Banco National. Passing La Piscina cabinas and restaurant you will continue down the road for about 5 minutes until you reach a fork where you will see a Cemetary. 2 - Take a right turn. You will travel this road for about 8 minutes crossing a small bridge. At the end the road will turn into a T with a left and right turn. Take the right at Restaurant Wonderland and continue past a school and church on your left towards a second cemetary where you take a left towards the road that will lead you to Montezuma. After about 2 minutes driving you will reach a fork in that road to the left. Take that left turn.

• Casa Aloha is located on a Private Driveway. This private driveway will be the 2nd driveway on your left on the public street you are going down. Further down that road you will find on your left Tierra El Fuego Pizzeria and Puggo’s bar and restaurant to your right.

• Follow the private road to the end. You will see the Casa Aloha Gate on your right.

Upon arrival the gate will be opened for you and your will receive keys and passcodes for the rest of your stay.

A thing or two about finding your way around in Costa Rica! Addresses and Street signs, even though they do exist are rarely used to reach a destination. Here in Costa Rica we use landmarks and referral points to reach our destination. Costa Rica placed its first street sign around 2010 but still to this day street signs go unnoticed mainly due to their size, lack of accuracy, position and the fact that still many houses in Costa Rica do not have a house number. If a local will point you towards your destination you might get restaurants, hospitals, parks, churches, cemitaries and other landmarks as points of reference.