Experiences
Every place here has been tested by our own family. Same specimen card on every page: cost, time, bathrooms, shade, and what our kids actually thought.
Beach · Ojochal
Playa Ventanas
Sea caves you can walk through at low tide. Calm, shady, and the single best half-day with young kids on this coast.
COST ₡3kTIME 2–4hSHADE GOODAGES 2+
Beach · Uvita
Whale's Tail
A tide-dependent sandbar you walk out onto, 20 minutes from Ojochal. Time it right and it's the best swimming on this coast. Time it wrong and it isn't there.
DRIVE 20 MINWALK OUT 40 MINSHADE NONETIDE LOW
River · Uvita
Bambusal (the bamboo forest river)
Shaded swimming river in Uvita. Free, easy to reach, and cool enough that nobody's fighting the sun. Watch the weather upstream.
COST FREETIME ALL DAYSHADE GOODWATER RIVER
Restaurant · Uvita
Pizza Time
Wood-fired pizza, wings and cold drinks in Uvita. No reservations, easy parking, and genuinely fine with damp kids.
COST ~$100/6HOURS 12–9CLOSED MONKIDS EASY