18 Jul 2009: visit hotel's page: Arenal Lodge
Arenal Lodge was wonderful-food in the restaurant was great, the view was awesome and I loved all the birds that were there. The room was very nice!.

04 Mar 2008: visit hotel's page: Arenal Lodge
This was a wonderful, relaxing stay. The rooms (we had to change for the second night) were really much bigger than we needed, but both had great views straight out to the volcano. The restaurant and veranda also had wonderful views, and we saw packs of wild pigs and coatis cross the open lawn below us, as well as identified dozens of birds in the garden. We ended up not even leaving the grounds the first day--just sat on the porch and walked out to the butterfly house and took the trail down along the stream under the tall trees. We were also pleased with the food and the staff in the restaurant. The tour we took the second day was expensive, but allowed us to see things we would never have seen on our own. We would go back. .

27 Feb 2006: hotel: Arenal Lodge
I truely enjoyed staying at Arenal Lodge. Even though it was a bit ways up, we got a paranormic view of the volcano, which many of the other hotels located at the base of the volcano didn't get to see. Too bad the volcano was covered in clouds most of the time. The only complaint that I have is I sprained my ankle during my stay at the Arenal Lodge. I was coming down the steps from my Jr. Suite room when at the end of the steps, there is a rain ditch. It was dark, and the lighting is not very good. I didn't see the ditch and stepped right in and sprained my ankle. The ditch is about a good 1 ft. deep. I really feel that they need to either put up warning signs put a wood board over the ditch so no one else would step into it. The hotel staff tried their best to help me. They provided me with ice, aspirin, and also found crutches for me to use. On the last day, the owner of the lodge came and talked to me about what happened. She apologized and told me that she is going to do something about it. Either install handrails or something to that affect. I still think that they need something to cover that area. I hope she will follow-through with her plan. I would stay there away, it was a nice hotel with clean rooms and a nice restaurant..