Pure Trek Canyoning Arenal Vulkanwanderung Hot Springs

My family of four (kids 14 and 12) had an amazing private canyoning experience with Pure Trek. Rudy and all the other guides were very friendly, great with kids and made us feel safe the whole time. While it can be pretty intense if you’ve never leaned back over a large drop in a harness, once you get the feel for it, it’s a lot of fun. My kids wanted to do it again and my wife, who is not a fan of heights, loved it! Highly recommended.

What I didn't realize is this is 3 different tours sold in one package, making it hard to rate. The waterfall repelling/canyoning was amazing! The volcano hike was pretty neat and worth the information learned from our guide. The hot springs was nith8ng but bring dropped off at a resort for a few hours with typical pools of varying temps. The hot springs made the day too long and I didn't care to be sitting in a resort after our awesome outdoor adventures. I guess I thought it would be more natural pools, not sure. Next time I'll grab each adventure I want to do.

Booking through PureTrek was absolutely worth it! Booking online was a little challenging for me, I’m not sure if it was the excursion that I chose or maybe a website glitch but the manger was super responsive via email and made it easy to book! If you chose an excursion with more than one event, PureTrek is great at keeping track of where to drop you off so you don’t miss your next activity! My boyfriend and I did canyoning, volcano hike, and hot springs and everything was so fun!! The canyoning was nerve racking at first, especially if you aren’t the biggest fan of heights, but everybody was very professional and made us feel very safe so we were able to enjoy the experience. Our guides were Johnathon and Marco and they were lovely. I advise wearing a pair of sneakers you don’t care about or buying water shoes for this experience, and wear clothes that are light when wet. The lunch included with this excursion was really good and tasty! Just another added bonus! Melanie was our guide for the volcano hike and she was very friendly and knowledgeable!! We lucked out on our evening hike and had incredible views of the top of the volcano and a lovely sunset over the continental divide to end the hike. I suggest the evening hike when the temperature has cooled off a little. Personally, the hot springs were a little underwhelming. I had a certain expectation and when we showed up it was just a bunch of pools with hot water. Still a really relaxing experience and cool knowing the water came from natural hot spring, just not what I was expecting. If you want a natural hot springs experience I recommend doing research on your own to find somewhere that has that. There was a swim up bar which was nice for a cocktail. Dinner was included with the hot springs and was buffet style. Everything tasted great. Overall we had a fantastic day fully booked through PureTrek canyoning and would recommend using them for your booking needs!!!

We loved the water rappelling. Our family felt so taken care. The guides were a great mix of informative, encouraging and entertaining!!

Great tour. The canyoning was super fun, and neither of us had done it before. The guides were all super friendly and made you feel completely comfortable and safe in their hands. In between this and the hike we had a few hours to relax and prepare for the hike! The hike was with a partner company and our guide for that was very knowledgeable and took us on the longer hike which was appreciated. It was nice to end the day relaxing in the hot springs. Absolutely would recommend!

My daughter and i had a wonderful day! Guides knowledge fantastic. Easy going and calm, Felt safe whole time. Canyoning sooo much fun! You are fully wet from the beginning. Who cares if its raining a bit? The hike on Arenal Volcano was really enjoyable - great exercise up and down paths and trails in changing, amazing habitat. Every time the volcano came into view , it was different - in mist, w/ steaming vents , not visible, light sunshine and blue sky . No better way to be in the environment, w/ happy people and get your steps in!

My friends and I hired Delvis at Pure Trek to plan our trip to Costa Rica and he couldn't have done a better job. We had an awesome experience and did everything we wanted to do and more. As all of us are 55 and older, we felt like our younger selves and thoroughly enjoyed Costa Rica, the wonderful people we met and the professionalism of Pure Trek and Delvis. Pura Vida!!

Pure Trek was awesome - great staff and very well oiled machine. The guides speak English well and can cater to the not-scared-at-all to the very-scared-like-me -- and we all had an amazing time! It felt very safe and was a great way to spend the morning.