How to get there to Marenco Lodge, Costa Rica

How to get there to Marenco Lodge, Costa Rica

The map below shows a close up of the country’s South Pacific area. As a reference, you may see the small map located at the right, as it shows a complete version of the country itself. There are different ways of reaching Marenco. By pointing the mouse over “transportation”, you’ll be able to obtain the approximate distances and travel times between the selected routes on the white box below. If you click on any of the options, you’ll see its full length highlighted on the map.

Click in the different routes, to see the location in the map of its respective distance.

BY NATIONAL ROUTES
1 San Jose to San Isidro
2 San Isidro to Palmar Sur
3 Palmar Sur to Sierpe
4 Quepos to Dominical
5 Dominical to Cortes
6 Cortes to Sierpe
7 San Jose to Palmar Norte
8 Palmar Norte to Chacarita
9 Chacarita to Rincon - Drake
10 Puerto Jimenez to Rincon
11 Rincon to Drake

BY AIRPLANE
1 San Jose to Puerto Jimenez
2 San Jose to Palmar Sur
3 San Jose to Drake

BOAT TRANSPORTATION
1 Sierpe to Marenco Lodge
2 Agujitas to Marenco Lodge

TRAVEL DISTANCE CHART
FOR COSTA RICA’S OSA PENINSULA
Information for those interested in driving to the Drake Bay Area.

For a more detailed version of the Puntarenas area map, click on the image below

How to Reach Marenco Lodge by plane

There are two ways of getting to the lodge, both of them include flights from San José, and a boat ride to our lodge. One of them takes you to Palmar Sur, a little town where the airstrip is located; from there, a taxi will take you to the town of Sierpe, were you will take the boat to the lodge. This ride along the Sierpe river and through the incredible mangroves lasts an hour and a half. The other flight you could take, will land on Drake Bay, and a 4WD taxi will take you to Playa Agujitas where you'll get a boat that will take you to our lodge on a ten minutes ride. So, as far as flights, we recommend the ones to Drake's Bay, in case you want to get earlier to the lodge. But if you want to enjoy the scenic ride from Sierpe, we will arrange it for you too.

We can arrange you flights for you, but we do make a surcharge of 15%. You can reserve on line with any of the local airline. Their web sites are:

www.flysansa.com
www.natureair.com

How to Reach Marenco Lodge by car

If you decide to rent a 4 wheel drive, you have the option of driving to Sierpe or to Agujitas Beach in Drake Bay. If you're driving from San José, you will be reaching Sierpe in about 5 and a half hours, while getting to Agujitas takes 7 hours. If you arrive to Sierpe you will be needing boat transportation to Marenco. The only thing you should take in consideration, is that you need to get around 11:00 am to a restaurant right next to the dock (Oleaje Sereno), because the boat departs at 11:30 am. You can leave your car there. If you decide to drive down to Agujitas, you have up until 3:00 pm. You can leave the car at the local parking lot.

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Marenco Beach & Rainforest Lodge
Phone: 506 2258-1919/Fax: 506 2255-1346
USA:1-800-278-6223/Europe:1-305-908-4169
E-mail: info@marencolodge.com

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