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 (Tambor), for the car and each individual person traveling.
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 Banco National.
You will receive the detailed address 48 hours before your arrival.
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, cemeteries and other landmarks as points of reference.