10/10 Excellent
Jeff O., bluffton, sc
10 Mar 2018
Stunning home, perfect layout, comfortable beds
This Carao Villa was beyond our expectations! We've stayed at Carao before in a condo and at Reserva Conchal in general in the past at a condo in Bougainvillea. We decided we like the Carao community best because of it's location within Reserva. "Our" Carao condo wasn't available, so we went looking for an alternative for our annual Costa Rica trip with friends. We are so glad we found this option - as one of our friends said, we now have a new standard for our vacations!
The villa has 3 common areas - 2 upstairs where you enter from the car port and one downstairs. We took turns "inviting" each other to talk or watch TV (there are 5 TVs) in the different areas available to us. The furniture is very comfortable and main floor is an open plan with nice sight lines both within the house and to the view outside to the golf course. The kitchen is fully equipped for a gourmet chef (who has 2 sinks?!) with loads of counter space for prep. The washer and dryer are always a nice touch.
The bedrooms are spacious and have very comfortable beds. Each room has it's own en-suite full bathroom, plus a half bath upstairs and one downstairs. One of the bedrooms downstairs is a bit small, but still has plenty of space in it, a closet, desk, and it's own door out to the pool area. Did I mention the villa has it's own pool?
Of course, the pool isn't heated, but the sun does a nice job all on it's own. The furniture outside is also comfortable and the gas grill was nice to use one night of our trip. And our friendly neighborhood iguanas had some very nice meals of the yellow flowers on the trees, followed by sunning themselves for hours on end.
We couldn't believe just how much space this place has - we didn't even make use of the room upstairs. The room upstairs doesn't have a door on it, so while it can be used for a bedroom, it's not very private. And the heat seems to rise up there, since there's no door. Beautiful view from up there, though.
We had breakfast out on the upstairs deck each morning and the beautiful blue birds came to visit, though they were not a nuisance. We had a couple of very minor maintenance issues (a door that wouldn't stay closed and a question about the A/C) - the maintenance people showed up promptly and addresses the issues, no problem.
We loved this place so much that we've already booked it again for a return trip later this year! Blue Water Properties handled every part of the transaction beautifully.