La Fortuna: The Best EcoTermales Hot Springs Experience
Description
In this place you will find four pools that vary in temperature from 99° Fahrenheit to 105° (37° to 41° C). These warm waters have an invigorating and calming effect. One of the pools has an artificial waterfall. All pools are surrounded by the bright colors and vegetation of the Arenal rainforest. Eco Termales is a family owned and operated natural hot spring. They allow a limited number of guests each day so visitors can get the most out of their visit to the springs. It's easy to spend the day here: Eco Termales offers poolside snacks and delicious meals. Eco Termales prepares fresh and tasty Creole cuisine for its guests. Meals here are served buffet style. You can choose between two hot entrees and then help yourself to ingredients for salads, fruit, the soup of the day and a selection of Costa Rican desserts. Notes: Day pass began at 10am finishing at 4pm. Night pass began at 5pm ending at 10pm. In both options you will need to schedule the time. Transport is not incluided.
Tour Options
Itinerary
This is an excellent option to enjoy the largest and only natural hot spring network in Arenal. Amid the lush vegetation, colorful flowers accompanied by the relaxing symphony of the creeks and thermal waterfalls. Enjoy a delicious lunch or you can choose dinner.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Please note that transportation is only included in the option labeled "Transportation from La Fortuna." Our team will contact you the day before to reconfirm the departure time and hotel pick-up location. Return transportation will be arranged on the same day as the service.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(50)
This was an absolutely amazing experience! We got there at 5:30 and enjoyed a drink from the bar. We had a delicious buffet dinner at 6:00. Then we spent the next couple hours in the beautiful pools. The water felt so amazing and there was always someone nearby to take a drink order. There are several different pools with waterfalls. It was a top notch spa like experience. Highly recommended! Just book it!
The spa is pleasantly small and quiet. Very nice atmosphere. Lockers are sufficiently large. Towels are provided. Bathing shoes are recommended as the paths get quite hot.
Lovely calm place to visit the hot springs, not too crowded, immaculate grounds and changing facilities. Not a loud water park atmosphere. They served a fabulous lunch with many options. You can book a half day or more.
Many different pools with temperatures ranging from 80 to 109 degrees. We purchased the package with lunch. The buffert lunch was the best one I have had in Costa Rica.
Beautiful spot with lots of different pools! They did a great job making sure it wasn’t chaotic or crowded. It was a great night activity to listen to the water and everything was well lit!
The actual hot springs and amenities were amazing but the booking experience was terrible. I booked an afternoon slot that started at 2:00pm and was supposed to be an entire afternoon/evening and when we arrived they told us we needed to leave at 4:00pm and that our time slot started at 10:00am-4:00pm. There was nothing they could do do as I had to take it up with Viator, who I have reached out to and have yet to hear back from.
The grounds and spa area are 5 star but the buffet food was horrible!! Skip the buffet. Food was picked over and they didn’t bother to have fresh food and all the selections for the later dining times.
Very nice hot springs. Excellent staff especially at check in and where towels keys given out. Amanda was very helpful. The baths were fine but I found after one hour I’d had enough. Dinner afterwards was pretty good.
This was a great hot spring, even in the rain. It does get alittle crowded due to the locals coming as well as tourists. In the afternoon sessions you can see tour buses coming in. Overall it is clean, with convenient lockers and towels.
Our large group had a great experience using the hot springs. We appreciated the lockers and towels, a space for changing and showering, the multiple pools and the bar area where people could sit and watch everyone. After we used the hot springs we enjoyed the buffet. There were large tables so we could sit together and the food was decent with many options for different diets.
