Let the Hotel Poseidon be your "base camp" on the Pacific coast to discover all that Costa Rica has to offer. We can arrange activities that last for a few hours, for the entire day or even overnight trips deep into the jungle. And we will even store your luggage for your return to the hotel!

Activities in Jacó and surrounding areas include:

• Swinging through the trees on a Canopy tour
• Sportfishing out of the local marina of Los Sueños or nearby Quepos
• Rafting one of the country’s white water rivers
• Surfing just 1/2 block from your stay at Hotel Poseidon
• Mountain biking the back roads that capture Jacó’s skyline to the west
• Hiking and beach walking
• Horseback riding through the jungle or along the beach
• The natural hotsprings at Volcán Arenal
• Visit a cloud forest at Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve
• Walk with the monkeys and wildlife at Reserva Biológica Carara or Manuel Antonio National Park
• 18-hole golf course at nearby Los Sueños
• Sunset dining cruises on the Pacific
• Sit by our pool and enjoy a book
• Sleep through an afternoon rainstorm

Costa Rica’s most active volcano, with constant eruptions, offering spectacular scenery enroute and the experience of this natural wonder. Rejuvenate in the hot springs of Baldi. Includes lunch and dinner. Departs 8:00AM and arrives back in Jaco later in the evening. What to take: Bathing suite, comfortable shoes and towel. Baldi has very nice locker rooms for changing and you can lock up your valuables for a small key deposit. Cost per person: $74

Considered to be the most beautiful park in all Costa Rica, with white sand beaches, scenic walking trails and lively monkeys. Includes nature guide, park entrance fee and lunch at a nice local restaurant. What to take: Bathing suite, towel, comfortable walking shoes and light clothing. Departs from Jacó 7:30am. Returns around 4:00pm. Cost per person: $59

Adventure on a 66 foot catamaran to Tortuga Island, sunset tours or private group tours. Tortuga Island trip is $85 and includes the guided trip to Tortuga Island on the Marlin Del Rey, 2 beers each, cold drinks, typical Costa Rican lunch, music and equipment and guide for snorkeling.

Sunset trip is $59 and includes the guided trip on the Marlin Del Rey, 2 beers each, cold drinks, fruit and music.

Transportation: $10 round trip transportation from hotel to Punta Leona. Included is a pass to spend the day at Punta Leona and enjoy their amenities.

Rainmaker is a tropical rainforest sanctuary on the Central Pacific side that is home to seventy percent of all species of flora and fauna found in Costa Rica. This tour begins with a River Walk along the Rio Seco’s edge. Hand rails and easy to follow footpaths along with sporadic observation platforms, allow you to observe waterfalls and capture photographically the rich biodiversity this unique site has to offer. Rainmaker is home to Morpho butterflies, a variety of birds, and the very colorful poison dart frogs. Depending on the time of the year visited, visitors are also sometimes afforded sightings of other unique vegetation and reptiles. At the end of the River Walk trail, a pristine waterfall pool will beckon you to enjoy a refreshing dip. Next, the tour continues up into the treetops of the forest. A suspended walkway and six observation platforms up in the canopy, permits the visitor an intimate bird’s eye view of all the flora and fauna of a rainforest. Spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean, waterfalls and the forest culminate with an invitation for visitors to enjoy a Costa Rican lunch served in their typical rancho.

Rates per person:
Canopy & River Walk: $65.00
River Walk: $45.00
Tour includes: round trip transportation from Quepos area, snack of fruits and juices at breakfast. (This is only about 45 minutes from Jaco.) A Costa Rican typical lunch following tour. All tours are fully guided with a bilingual naturalist.

Suggestions: hiking shoes, bathing suit, binoculars and camera.
Duration: approximately 4.5 hours.

Swing from tree to tree across the rainforest on an elaborate system of cables with experienced guides and first-rate safety equipment. Take in views of the pacific ocean and jungle wildlife all during the thrill of a lifetime. Chicklets is only 10 minutes from Jaco in the small town of Hermosa.

Cost per person:
$65 Adult
$35 children under 12
Transportation: $5