If you’ve ever wanted to sleep comfortably on a plane then here’s your chance.
The four-star Hotel Costa Verde in Manuel Antonio is located on a coastal rainforest bluff with views over the Pacific ocean that will take your breath away.
The accommodation consists mainly of 70 rooms built on jungle ridges and bluffs and carefully positioned to benefit from the ocean views, fresh sea breezes and spectacular sunsets which can be viewed from your own private balcony. All rooms are equipped with A/C, television, Wi-Fi, safe, hairdryer, tea and coffee station and a kitchenette with refrigerator and microwave.
It also has ‘The Cockpit Cottage’, a cockpit section from a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft converted into an amazing residence that is built into a steep jungle hillside and accessed via your own private suspension bridge.
If that isn’t enough it also has possibly the most exclusive and unique suite in all of Costa Rica – ‘The 727 Fuselage Home’. This is a refurbished 1965 Boeing 727 that used to shuttle globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia). This suite has two air-conditioned bedrooms each with its own private bath. It is done out in hand-carved teak furniture from Java and has a kitchenette, dining area and an ocean view terrace. This is all accessed by a private entrance up a spiral staircase made from river rock. The views from here will make you feel like you’re flying.
In the evening you can dine in the hotel’s restaurant, the El Avion, a C-123 Fairchild cargo plane that has been converted into a restaurant and is renowned for its freshly prepared seafood dishes with a unique local flavour.