DoubleTree by Hilton Cariari - San Jose Costa Rica

Disappointed Huge disappointment. We remember the Hotel from the early 90s. Same hotel no renovations. Fluorescent light on ceiling blinked like strobe. Phone did not work in room. Toilet stopper would not seat and constantly ran. Construction of new hotel across street began at 6AM. Felt like we were nickled and dimed to death while there. Forget your Hilton honors perks. Breakfast was even disappointing. Worst gallopinto and maduros on the trip. One positive room was clean.

Gorgeous Hotel with exceptional customer service What a beautiful hotel you have! The vibe is exceptional and ekegant but fun. We are celebrating our 5 year anniversary because we got married in Costa Rica 5 years ago. I’m so happy I picked your location. Mario was absolutely wonderful. He helped us with our WI Fi, getting an Uber and refrigerator right away. Mario made our travel perfect and took our worries away. We Highly recommend and our two other couples changed their hotel and are staying here because how your staff makes you feel so welcome. Love your menu too.

A Good Airport Hotel Doubletree By Hilton Hotel Cariari is a little bit far from the San Jose Airport. However, it gets great award rate when you booked by Hilton HHonor points (for 20,000pts per night). Also, it is very close to the car rental center of Alamo/National/Enterprise rental. We are Hilton HHonor Gold Elite members, and our stay is upgraded to an executive: double bed in the 2nd floor. The room is quite spacious, with 2 double beds. There is a small balcony facing the pool, with two chairs on the balcony. Hilton provides 2 free bottle of water per stay for Hilton HHonor elite members. The signs says for non-elite member, the water is $1 each. You can have breakfast at the executive lounge, which has a small continental breakfast. It has great coffee though. Alternatively, you can have the full breakfast at the restaurant on the 1st floor. The highlight of the breakfast is the manned omelet station, which is good. The juice (orange and fruit) and the coffee tastes a bit water down in the restaurant. The sausages also doesn’t feel particular meaty. If you stayed in a executive room, you have access to the executive lounge. During the day, the lounge provides simple coffee, soda drink and some chips and nuts. From 6pm-8pm, a light evening happy hour is served. The evening service is a bit inconsistent, as the offering at some evening is superior to that of some other evening. The hotel has a nice pool and a jacuzzi. The pool can be very shallow at one end, and about 5ft deep at the deeper end. There is a large self-parking lot just in front of the hotel, which makes it quite convenient to drive a car to the hotel. The hotel is next to route 1, which is a major highway that is not tolled (compared to route 27). The hotel is also next to the Cariari golf course, and made a good stroll around the hotel. The hotel runs a shuttle to airport every hour on the hour from 4am to midnight (i.e., 4am, 5am, etc..) If using the shuttle, you are advised to arrive 10 min before the hour. The shuttle leaves promptly at the hour. During early morning, it takes the shuttle about 10min to reach the airport.

Great way to start your Costa Rica trip! This was the best way to start our trip to Costa Rica! They have a great lounge and plentiful breakfast buffet. Staff is always super helpful! Rooms are super clean and the pool and hot tub area is fantastic! As always, we will coming back here.

Good choice which a great pool close to the airport. A great choice close to the airport and the Enterprise car depot. Not luxury but comfortable enough. The large pool area gives it a holiday vibe. Loved the free airport shuttle (15 mins to the airport at 6am). Dinner in the restaurant was good and value was ok. It's got a sort of tropical resort feel which we liked. Parking is easy too.