Monteverde Tour Companies

Overall, very good, but no on-site tours were included on the last few days.

Very good organization! Excellent guide JORGE (clarity of information, great knowledge and excellent knowledge transfer, great language skills, friendliness); Very good hotels.

This tour was absolutely amazing! It was a Dream Vacation for my husband and I the year we turned 60. We had never travelled to a tropical country together before. The organization of the tours, the customer service, the accommodations, were all outstanding. We have not one bad thing to say. The first part of the tour to La Tortugaro and the Coffee/Cocoa Tour in the Arenal area were the two biggest highlights; but the whole thing, every day, every hour, was amazing! I would do it again in a heartbeat!

We toured the Natural Wonders of Costa Rica this past July 2024. Our tour guide was Alan Rodriguez Nunez. Alan was an excellent guide. He is a walking encyclopedia, and everything he showed us included interesting facts, ie the type of birds he could identify just by sound and the local flora by its genus name. The tour itself was not too restrictive of a schedule as we were given ample time to choose where to eat for the dinners that were not included in the package. We were also able to shop for souvenirs at several shops. Alan always asked what we would like to do and checked that we were happy, he made sure we were never hungry asking when we would like lunch and dinner. Our bus driver, Raul was also excellent. Raul traversed the winding mountain roads with ease and it was comforting that he was at the wheel. Not having to worry about our itinerary and transportation was a great benefit of this vacation. Driving in Costa Rica is an adventure in itself. Since we had Alan and Raul to worry about the details of the tour, we were able to enjoy our vacation thoroughly and highly recommend this tour. In 10 days, we felt that we saw all the diverse regions of this country.

An absolute rip off. 2000€ for 5 nights in crappy 30$pppn accommodation. HOW could anyone find this event remotely acceptable never mind legal.

A very nice sampling of Costa Rica: cloud forest, volcano, Caribbean beach. The tour guide, Jonathann was excellent. Good for those looking for moderate physical activity: some white water rafting, biking, hiking, with options for more (zip line, etc), a visit to a wildlife sanctuary, waterfall swim, more. Travel between was by public buses, hotels were clean, comfortable, modest. Small group size, international mix of travelers.

This tour is designed for travelers who like unstructured time to plan their own adventures, especially active sports. Our previous visit to Costa Rica offered more programming that centered on nature(especially bird watching) and culture, which was more aligned with our interests.

Helpful, no issues. Helpful

Eric was an exceptional leader and provided an amazing experience for us. He is simply the best, very helpful and patient. The Itinerary was ideal for what i wanted to do, and overl G adventures did an amazing job. This was my first G adventure tour, i will definitely do another.

I cannot begin to say enough nice things about our tour leader, Alfonso. He went above and beyond! He made the trip by always being up beat and ready to help. Alfie is amazing.

Our tour director and bus driver were excellent. Our hotel in San Jose was excellent and the one in LA Fortuna very good. However the one in Monteverde was not so good. The beds were uncomfortable, there was no air conditioning and no fans. If this hotel was better my rating would have been 5 stars.

Too much free time in some of the days

My girlfriend and I were talking about how well everything was organized the entire trip. There wasn’t one moment I would change. From the thoughtful initial destination and activities through the last one, everything was absolutely perfect. The lodging selections. The specific activities with the right adventure company partners to the overall logistics. You made it effortless and gave us memories that we will cherish for our lifetime.

I cannot recommend this agency, nor this "tour." It was NOT a "5 Day Tour"! I unfortunately saw another customer's review much too late, but it was very accurate: it said basically "this was not a tour, it was 3 taxi rides and a couple of hotel reservations that I could have done for half the price myself." I agree! Communication with the agency was frustratingly poor, and at one point I literally wrote this exact line, after several frustratingly stupid messages from them: "I give up on explaining why it doesn’t make sense to be asked to approve changes when I literally see no changes." Numerous requests for information were ignored. If you choose to book this tour, and you do not book any other activities, please be aware that you will spend about 80% of your time sitting on your ass with nothing to do. They claim that they do this so that you can have a "flexible, relaxed" itinerary, and that you can book other activities, but they literally did not offer ANY activity options until I complained to them that the itinerary was basically empty. Filling up our schedule with things to do added several hundred dollars to the cost. You will never meet anybody who actually works for this company, as they outsource literally everything. In my opinion, this is NOT a tour agency, and this is not a tour!

Great trip. Well organized and run. Our guide, Victor, did a great job. Highly reccomend.

We just came back from our trip to Costa Rica. We enjoyed every aspect of the trip. Everything was wonderfully organized, and there were absolutely no delays. Our tour guide, Victor Leiton, was top-notch. He really brought joy, happiness and enthusiasm to the trip. Victor has a great sense of humor, and impeccable knowledge of his country. He made our stay there unforgettable. The group was splendid as well. We made a lot of lifelong friends! I would recommend this tour, and especially Victor and our driver, Tony, 100%

It was ok the transfers between places were only communicated when asked so never knew pick up times in advance and shared transfers were not great I had to sit without any room to put my feet down with my old achy knees at my chest … my hips and knees hurt for days after. Don Taco hotel was terrible so small and run down room but very nice people.

We had an outstanding guide for Tortuguera--knowledgable, patient, and fun. The drivers and boat captains were skilled and inspired confidence (except for the boat on the last leg of our journey, that boat dirver's management of the motor left much to be desired). Over all the adventure was fun and informative.

Oldemar was extremely responsive and able to plan our trip for us at the last minute. I highly recommend this tour as it is one of the few that takes you to Corcovado National Park in the south. Our 3 days in that region were our absolute favorite!

Overall really good experience in wild nature and efficient support/transportation by staff. Especially Oldemar helped me to resolve problems and questions very quickly and kindly, it was very impressive support. If I have to mention something to improve, since most of daily schedule finished at early time in the afternoon, for active person like me, it was sometimes not enough. Actually, I added 7 local tours during this tour.

Pura vida, really nice experience

Transportation was on time and organized (even when our plane was late arriving to country). Hostels met our expectations, plus 2/3 hostels provided breakfast. However, for future tours, 3 nights in Monteverde was too long as not enough activities to do in the evening. Would consider a TourRadar trip again, however with more beach time/days in La Fortuna, and less time in Monteverde.

To much bus time. Loved ziplining

Everything was handled perfectly. Can't think of one thing we were unhappy with. Loved the trip.

This was a wonderful trip. If you are looking for a great family getaway with everything taken care of, we wholeheartedly recommend this package. This trip keeps you moving from one place to another (a plus in our opinion), and we never had any issues with our transportation. Our drivers were always on time and wonderful. Our guides and activities were awesome. Accommodation was consistently fair, but you should not expect fancy... which is in keeping with the price. We were happy with every aspect of this tour.

My 13 year old son and I went on this tour as a middle school graduation gift. We had a great time. The rainforest is an amazing place to visit and learn about natural history and see enourmous trees, plants and plenty of wildlife. It was the beginning of the rainy season, so we did have rain most days, but we were able to enjoy the trip. The hotels were all clean and accommodating. Our air conditioner did not work properly in the first hotel and they moved us to another room promptly. We especially enjoyed the white water rafting in La Fortuna and the ziplining in Monteverde. All of of transports were on time and professional. Monteverde was my favorite destination. I do wish that there was more planned at Arenal stop. We did add a chocolate tour at Trimibina and a coffee tour at Monteverde. Check out the "Hidden Valley Farm" wood stove pizza for lunch in Monteverde.