El Chontal | Established Campground

February 10th, 2024 by PerfectAdventures.com

Jorge the owner is so nice & friendly. He has cabins & lots of flat space for overlanding vehicles to camp. Flat parking in sun & some shade under trees. Big palapa with electric, books, hammocks & table. Nice to hang out & play games or relax. Flush toilets, showers & sinks to wash dishes. Big communal kitchen with 2 refrigerators! All this next to Bahia Rincon for $10 usd per person. Worth it-we loved it here.

December 10th, 2023 by Elinam

We spent three nights here and slept in our roof-top tent. Days were hot but night temperatures pretty good for sleeping. The area is very pretty and peaceful. We saw many ara parrots! Lots of other birds as well. Facilities are good: basic toilets and showers, outdoor kitchen and a big shelter with chairs and hammocks. Wifi works best at the shelter. We parked close to the water and took electricity from the kitchen building. The owner Jorge is very kind.

February 6th, 2023 by Jus

What a great spot. Quiet location on the Gulf. Great outdoor kitchen with fridge (rare in our camping experiences so far). basic bathrooms and showers. they also have cabinas to rent. they offer Wi-Fi at a beautiful covered ranchito with relaxing hammocks and a nightly display of many geckos and lizards. the owner Jorge was very welcoming, we played $10 US for adults and $5 for child. I could stay here for a long time. The morning birds were pleasant.

The owner lives across the road. The camping and cabinas are a left hand turn off the main road if you are coming from the mainland.

January 18th, 2023 by Joost

Beautiful, peaceful campsite with a big kitchen and a nice common area, right at the bay. Free kayak to use as a guest.

So many birds in the morning and at sunset. Aswesome!

May 14th, 2022 by Struuners

Great campsite next to the sea. Facilities are good with a kitchen you can use, bathroom and good wifi. The owner was very friendly and showed us around and was nice to talk to. I think we paid 15 USD per night for 2 persons, which is what we usually pay in Costa Rica.

March 1st, 2021 by bellinghausen

We spend one night here with our 4x4 with rooftop tent. We found one spot between some trees that was leveled enough to sleep in, lots of shade. It was very quiet at night and in the morning we had breakfast with lots of macaws (Aras) right above us. We payed 8$ p/p/n without electricity. Could use the kitchen which was nice. The showers and restrooms had no lights still. Owner was very nice but only speaks spanish so we made it work with a translator app 😉 added some updated pictures.

February 26th, 2020 by desiree_van_der_sluis

Great peaceful place. We made a stop before going to drake bay by car. They have a kitchen you can use with everything you need and there is a chill area where you can sit or hang in a hammock. There are kayaks who you can use to explore the great bay. It is very special that this part of the ocean has no swell at all! We stayed here with our 4x4 with rooftop tent and we were the only one. Great place where we could have stayed longer. Really chill and relaxing.

February 1st, 2020 by clooms10

The best location from our trip! We stopped there before going to Drake Bay but if we knew the peaceful of this location, we would have stayed 1 more night!
Jorge is super friendly. He knows Corcovado as anyone else! The place is quiet with a lot of animals, kayaks are available to enjoy the golfe dulce and maybe see dolphins. A nice area has been built with tables, chairs, hammocks and electricity to hang out and spend a great relax evening!
We paid 10$ pp, the toilets and shower still did not have light when we stayed. We could use the kitchen without extra.
Recommended!

August 15th, 2019 by Tom.Besseling

Nice camping, with a very friendly owner. Stayed there with a car with a rooftop tent. Paid 16 dollar for the car and 2 people. Has a nice place to hang out with electricity. Unfortunately no lights at the toilet/douches when we stayed.
Nice owner, who doesn't speak English.

April 30th, 2019 by jeremy.flahou

This place is now 10 dollars per people per night even if you dont need electricity, 12 if you want to use the kitchen. Didn't stay.

March 21st, 2019 by barbara780

We stayed here two times. love the place: green, clean and quiet. Beautiful view over the bay! You can use the kayaks, we saw dolphins.
Also two communal area's with hammocks, tables and kitchen. Good ammenities.

March 16th, 2019 by Upndowntheroad.com

Amazing place to chill and relax. Big thumbs up to this campsite, Jorge is the owner and he's really nice, he even showed us how to open coconuts and peel the mear from inside and taught us many things about plants.
A big pro is that you will be safe from mosquitoes and other bugs, this place is a little piece of paradise. We spent 3 nights there and missed it when we left.

November 13th, 2018 by dongyuan_04

The old entrance which is in the photos shows ‘welcome’ is closed, new one is just 10 meters next to it, with the board ‘entrance’. Here is such a good place to camp, david is so nice, here has simple kitchen with basic facilities, clean bathroom and not-so-cold water. The best part I love is the clean lovely rest platform they have, it has 5 hammocks, electricity, big table, white-board, and lots of books about animals. 7usd pp.

November 12th, 2018 by dongyuan_04

Everything is really nice here with lounge, kitchen, fridge, sink, shower, hammock grassland, dock and lots of birds. You can actually get WiFi in the lounge area sometimes.

May 28th, 2018 by sabina_bis

Nice grounds, friendly owner and stuff. $7 pp. useless wifi.

May 16th, 2018 by goroxygofar.wordpress.com

Nice clean place 7000c for 2 of us and our westy. Facilities include kitchen with propane cooktop and dishes, lounge area with dinning table, hammocks and chairs, sinks with cold water taps for washing dishes and clothes. Wifi is useless.

March 12th, 2018 by weareoutoftheoffice.com

Great place, lots of space and shade. The toilets and shower are very clean. Pretty large hang out area.
7 dollars pp for parking. The owner is super nice.

October 28th, 2017 by martinemeijndert

Iovely place, well maintained. We were there in rain season, nice and quiet. We're the only once there, loved it.

August 12th, 2017 by nomadfootprints.com

Very nice owner and place. We needed electricity/water and paid 10 usd per person (wo electricity it was 7 usd). Wifi did not really work well

July 1st, 2017 by viva-panamericana

Nice owners welcomed us. If gate is closed you must ask at the other side of the road. Restrooms and cold showers are clean. There are two big palappas and a basic kitchen. The is lot of shade under big trees. We payed 3500 Col. per people per night.

April 15th, 2017 by Waz & Iwona's Excellent Adventure

Wow what a nice place! Lots of grass, trees, flowers and birds.The cabanas looked nice and there are two common areas with hammocks. We camped here in our roof top tent and we really enjoyed it. It was very quiet at night, all you can hear is animals. There are a couple of very decent kayaks that you can use for free and we also plugged in to electricity. There's wifi but it was a bit difficult to connect. We paid $7 per person. Check out the photos, it's beautiful here.

February 21st, 2016 by coline.duchesne

cabinas and camping:beautiful place with a big garden on the golfo dulce, camping area in shadow near the water, common area very chill. price: 7$ p. pers.