Playa Prieta Tours and Activities

This is a beautiful property with about six restaurants in it. We very much enjoyed our stay at Santarena. A few drawbacks were that since the hotel is kind of secluded, we did not have many options for shopping, and the restaurants were quite over priced.

Unique “treehouse” experience. Amazing forest/mountains view. It was quite of a delight to stay in such of eco-friendly environment. Great food at the Hotel Taru restaurant. Excellent customer service. Kudos to the entire staff but specially to Carlos Guzman for going above and beyond. Thank you. Pura Vida!

This property is nice and spacious to be fair. The little “pool” is nice to have but if you have little kids, make sure you watch them at all times, it is pretty deep.(over 5ft)) The area is quiet and safe to walk around a grocery store is near by. Having a washer and drier is a big plus. Although the drier ripped the strings of anything that had stings on like shorts, pants or sweatpants. They would get stuck in something and would end up pulled off. I tried different things but it just didn’t work. Big issues with AC in the kitchen area and in the master bedroom. It would go off every 10-15 minutes. We slept in 76 degrees the first night. And we’re not happy at all. The worked on it the second day and it seemed fine but the fact that the control the temperature remotely was a pain. Everyone we came back from somewhere it was off and it was warm and we had to start over and wait for home to cool off. That part really sucked. They would do house keeping every other day. That was nice People that worked there were very nice to. Very hard to get a hold of owner/management though, only through emails or WhatsApp and the responses were not prompt most of the time. I had to get with Expedia and they couldn’t even get a hold of owners at one time. Overall I have it a 3 starts because I did not hate the place. It was a nice place but just too many small issues to deal with. I can’t really recommend it to others.