Alajuela Backpackers
This four-story inn is more hotel than hostel, with private rooms and dorms surrounding a plant-draped atrium...
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This four-story inn is more hotel than hostel, with private rooms and dorms surrounding a plant-draped atrium...
This industrial-strength, Tico-owned hostel – 25 dorms and 25 private rooms – has been a popular 20-something backpacker hangout for years...
This small Hotel Caribbean Coral Inn, at the eastern end of town, offers a great alternative to staying in overcrowded Tela. Each of the rustic but comfortable rooms has its own porch with hammock...
Amelia has an eye for aesthetics, and her artistic touches are evident throughout the 12 guest rooms and lobby of this inviting inn. The walls are hung with interesting exotic art; rooms are furnished in rosewood and mahogany...
Live out your wildest Peter Pan fantasies at this unique and remote 160-acre property surrounded by Mennonite farms and a protected jungle tapir reserve...
From the same twisted minds that brought you Mondo Taitu and Hostel Heike in Bocas del Toro, Luna's Castle is bar-none the best backpacker spot in Panama City...
Yogis, rejoice! Ak'bol, or 'Heart of the Village,' is a sweet retreat in a near-perfect location about 1 mile north of town...
On the street going left from the Mansión del Lago is the Gran Sueño. Rooms here are ok sized, spotless with tiled floors, cable TV and good hot showers. Get one upstairs for glimpses of the lake.
On the north end of town, the Garifuna drumming school set up by local drummer Jabbar Lambey and his wife Dorothy also has a dorm room, two beachfront cabins and three cabanas for rent...
American Robert Dale says he started D&D because he wanted a place to get a real hamburger and a real beer, and listen to good music...
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