Le Cameleon Boutique Hotel

this is the best hotel in Puerto Viejo

the coffee in the morning was not very tasty-..

This has been my second time here.. We got a great room on the first floor. The water pressure was good almost entire stay except for only one day. The staff was helpful and prompt All facilities were kept clean, both pools were great. The Covid measures were in place and all the staff masked.

This beauty is set in the jungle a right across the street from the beach. The hotel staff is very friendly and makes you feel at home and comfortable. I would definitely recommend this stay!

They offered us a champagne bottle upon check in for our anniversary, that was very kind. The staff was very attentive and the jungle pool is great. We got a Sunday rate which was reduced compared to the usual rate, we feel that the reduced rate is a fair value and comparable to the experience. We would not pay the usual rate to stay at this property. They charge $35 for pet fee and the breakfast is included at Noa. The staff at Noa is very Pura Vida style and they forgot a few items, overall the food at Noa is regular. The beach club is great, beachfront with an awesome pool.

Service at Noa Restaurant needs additional training. Additional Pet fee.

The room was spacious and confortable

1. One of the staff members at the reception was rough and not friendly. 2. Having made a reservation more than a month in advance, my wife and I had to wait for 35 minutes after check-in time to have our room available. 3. TV was not working. We reported it and was not fixed. 4. Quality of service and food at the restaurant was not good. 5. Our car was exposed to risk because parking was in the public road, not within the hotel premises. 6. It was necessary to cross a relatively high traffic public road to go to the restaurant and the beach. Based on our own personal disappointed experience, we can not figure out how it appears to be a 5 stars hotel.

The room was clean, the bed was very comfortable. The hotel has a beach and two pools. The breakfast was great and huge portion.

The room, the pool, the garden, the beach club, the private beach, the welcoming, everything is perfect.

The reception staff was extraordinarily friendly and helpful. The hotel is clean and the garden is stunning. So is the pool and the beach area. We saw 3! Sloths climbing in the trees at the same time. The ocean there is dangerous to swim but you can use the beach pool. Very charming place!

The only thing that was not good was the Service at the Restaurant. The girl was just not well trained and not very attentive.

The property is beautifully located in the rain forest and right on the beach (Playa Cochles) allowing for amazing morning walks leading to punta Cochles. the breakfast beach front was an highlight of our stay (very nice food at breakfast and dinner as well at the Noah beach club). bed was comfortable and room was cleaned every day (very good as with rain and beach you will bring lots of dirt with you). clean towels provided also every day (and amazing natural beauty products like shampoo and nicely smelling body lotion). stuff was very nice, friendly, funny and available :) lots of sloths and monkey to spot right on the beach of the hotel.

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The property is amazing- every path to rooms or pool is an experiencce on a raised boardwalk through jungle plantlife. The staff was helpful, and the location is great- lots of walkable restaurants and right on the beach!

The rooms lacked any warmth- they were all stark white and smelled like bleach and a bit of mold, which was off-putting

The pools are amazing, the staff is super friendly, breakfast is great! We had an amazing time

As a couple on a honeymoon, the only thing that bothered a little that it’s not an adults only hotel, but what can you do :/

The location was great - near the water and sloths in trees on the property.

Despite repeated requests they could never get the a/c to work in the room. It was very hot. Also the bathroom facilities seemed dated. Water out of one faucet was a fire hydrant and out of the shower from one large hole in the middle

The location is perfect and everyone is very friendly

The restaurant, food was average and we had multiple people serving us, there was no management. The free Breakfast was nice touch but the food was limited and there were so many flies everywhere, was hard to keep them away !

The included breakfast is actually really nice, you have a beach view and the service is great. Their restaurant is nice, quite expensive compared to local restaurants but the food is good! It’s a very cool setting, with the walkways in the jungle and the pools being so gorgeous :)

I think this place is a good value at the discounted price. I think if we had paid full price I would have been a little disappointed. The room was super cool, but it’s also not the coolest room I’ve ever had at a hotel. The jungle spa was also more of a raised tree house with a couple massage tables than a true spa, with very little privacy and couples massage we had was kind of an odd experience.

The hotel was as good as seen in the photos or better. Really friendly staff. They offer a free tour around the property in which you can see many wild animals including sloths. The breakfast was served in the restorant just in front of the beach with an awesome view. They also have 2 nice pools, one in front of the beach and the second one inside the jungle.

They offered free yoga and cooking classes but there were too few spots for them, it was almost impossible to participate.

The entire setting of the hotel is beautifully nestled in between the naturally grown rainforest. It has a lounge-y type of feel where the seclusion you get from the rest of the world is half of the package. Food is served at the restaurant 30m from the beach with a beautiful view to behold. Staff was always friendly and helpful.

More than half of the rooms in our secluded building were under construction with a constant stench of paint floating around. The choice of breakfasts was varied but felt unbalanced - you could only choose one out of 5-6 options and whereas one was a full continental breakfast, the other was a fruit salad. Good luck getting your stomach full with the latter.

The breakfast was OK and the staff was generally helpful.

Smelly, noisy, way overpriced, small pools, screaming children, unwelcoming beach, inconvenient location, the whole infrastructure needs a brave reconstruction and paint job.

The breakfast and food there was wonderful, great choice - if not a little pricey.

The booking system wasn't great - i got charged twice - they sorted it out but it was a bit of a pain.

The breakfast across the street was complimentary and awesome. Much more value than a typical continental breakfast. This was a full service full menu breakfast. The couples massage in the spa was great and in the middle of a rainforest. Also did candlelight dinner by the beach which was great along with horseback riding. They also accommodated me with flowers and balloons as requested for a birthday

No way to play music. Tv hard to figure out. Never used it because couldn’t figure it out

The beach area is very beautiful, including a nice restaurant and a big pool on the beach plus another pool on hotel side Location Food in restaurant is very good

Rooms are very humid - the bikinis never dry, but started to smell. You feel like in an hamman all day. No ventilator, but only AC. Apparently, the rooms on upper floor are less humid. Most of the staff is very unfriendly and not welcoming. Service in restaurant is very slow (though we didn’t have to pay then for the pizaa & salad lunch for which we were waiting 1 hr) My new bikini got green stains from a quick bath in the jacuzzi. After I complained, no excuse. I was not able to remove the stains after 3 x washing :-(

Thanks to silky soft sheets, we slept well at Le Cameleon. The cleaning staff were so nice, really kind and helpful. We also had a nice time at the ‘private’ area of the beach (not private really but still quiet) and the cocktails were nice at the restaurant. Pizza was a bit oily but tasty. We didn’t use the indoor pool but the outside one is lovely.

The location is not really in Puerto Viejo. It’s about a 45 minute walk to town, so a little isolated. Still, there are shops and nice places to eat in the area! For the price, there is a lot of work needing, especially breakfast. We were offered breakfast anytime from 7-10.30, we chose 10.30. At 10.30 we show and are told breakfast ends at 10! Why offer 10.15 AND 10.30 slots then? We did finally get some breakfast after a fuss, but got grumpy service. Next day we went down at 9.45 and ordered pancakes and bananas with nutella - we get pancakes with strawberries and syrup because they ‘ran out’. No conversation, no choice. Fine if you run out, but say beforehand? Breakfast gets zero marks. Both experiences were just stressful and miserable. Overall found reception staff a bit surly as well which really dampened the experience. The rooms are all white so it feels a bit like a fancy insane asylum. There are big golden orb spiders in common areas too - fine for some, but worth mentioning in case it’s an issue! We moved to another hotel after initial couple of days. It’s ok, but really overpriced for what you get, so we were quite disappointed.

Staff very responsive. swimming pools and jacuzzi are a great place to relax

$20 for a cocktail, I think it’s to much! And the maintenance of the restaurant is not the best. They need to invest in lights and paint.

Service staff were excellent. Pool was great. Loved the classes and activities offered.

The idea of an all white room in the jungle is a little difficult in practice and room often looked dirty even though the cleaners were excellent. The prices were outrageously expensive. We stayed two weeks and it was 3k. I needed to extend for another two weeks and we were told the best they could do was 5k. I'm sorry what? The food was boring. Especially breakfast. The exception to that is the juice shots that were available everyday. That was interesting and fun. But the fruit offerings considering it's a tropical lush location were uninspired. It was watermelon, pineapple, and either papaya or cantaloupe. Never changed never had more. The juices for sometimes good and sometimes absolutely awful. They made a fresh orange everyday which was always reliable then one other. In the two weeks that I was there, the second juice was outstanding maybe four times. The rest of the time I would take a sip and then put it down. Lunch and dinner were equally boring. Their menu does not have great variety and it's really expensive. Dinner there for more than a couple nights was hard. They do have a really cool dance show on Saturday night. That's definitely worth checking out. As for the hotel the pool was great, staff are really cool. One of my biggest issues stems from the fact that the hotel itself didn't seem like it had tried to integrate with the surrounding community. I asked several times for recommendations or for questions about different guides and they only had like one person that they can recommend and it was someone that was inordinately expensive for what they were offering. And when I gave him that feedback afterwards they had no idea that he was way out priced. I just feel like they dropped their hotel down in the middle of a established community and then didn't bother to find out anything about that community. Which is a shame because it's a really cool community.

Seafront garden with restaurants. Rooms embedded into Jungle garden.

Disfunctional AC causes slippery floor. Interior of rooms need make over. Prices inappropriate. Staff mainly uninterested.

Relaxing atmosphere, location, pools, restaurant.

Concierge service could have been better. There were a couple of issues, regarding the management of my transportation and the broken lock of my room, that I had to insist several times to get them solved. Also, minibar items were extremely expensive, charging $6 for a small bottle of water or $10 for a beer, when you can get it for $2 just a couple of mins away from the hotel.

room service doesn’t work reception desk not always work properly

floors in the rooms made very cheap, very slippery .