There are six styles of accommodation: the king sun suite, deluxe superior, junior family suite, family suite, deluxe rooms, and standard rooms. The king sun suite is often used as the honeymoon suite. It has a king-size bed, living room, a private waterfront patio with an open air jacuzzi bathtub, and a wide private bathroom with a private outdoor shower. The deluxe superior room has one king bed and one sofa bed as well as an independent bathtub. The junior family suite has a queen-sized bed and a bunk bed as well as a spacious bathroom with hot water. There is also a living room, dining room, and breakfast bar. The family suite has two bedrooms: the main room with one queen-sized bed and private bathroom and an additional room with two twin size beds with a private bathroom. There is a living room, dining room, breakfast bar, and fully equipped kitchen. The deluxe room has a king-sized bed, a spacious bathroom with hot water, and a private jacuzzi tub with a garden. The standard room comes with one or two queen-sized beds and a spacious bathroom with hot water. All rooms have air conditioning, flat-screen TV, wi-fi, a telephone, minibar, coffee maker, electronic safe, hairdryer, and a desk. Package rates at Bahia del Sol are seasonal and include ground transportation from Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport Liberia (LIR). Packages include 7-nights standard room accommodations, daily breakfast, and 10 dives. July-August is High Season. Rates are per person double occupancy.
The Nasu Restaurant at Bahia del Sol is an elegant open-air restaurant with views of the ocean. The menu consists of seafood, international cuisine, and creative tropical gourmet dishes. They also offer a great selection of wines, beers, liquors, and fresh tropical juices.
The hotel has an outdoor pool, jacuzzi, spa, and a souvenir store. The resort offers tours that include horseback riding, tubing, canyon canopy tours, hikes to the Arenal Volcano, sailing, snorkeling, and scuba diving. The dive excursions often include sightings of giant manta rays, stingrays, sharks, moray eels, barracudas, sea turtles, and more.
Sirenas Diving Costa Rica is located in the Playas del Coco / Playa Hermosa area of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, a thirty-minute drive from Liberia International Airport (LIR). We do not have a physical office; our office is on the internet and on the boat. Our boat is located in the Playas del Coco bay. We have a long-term affiliation with PADI and more than twenty years diving and fishing in the Gulf of Papagayo. Our location puts us in the heart of some of the best diving and fishing in the Gulf of Papagayo, including the Catalinas and Bat Islands (Islas Murcielagos). Sirenas Diving offers EAN ntrox but does not support tech diving or rebreathers.
In our area, there are two seasons. We have the dry season which generally starts in November and ends in March. The dry season is the Costa Rican summer. It is a beautiful time of year to visit and dive in this area. The mountains explode with vibrant colorful flowers, sunsets are epic and the evenings are fresh and great for stargazing. The water can be a bit cooler with temperatures averaging 74 degrees with cooler thermoclines of 65 degrees. It can also be windy this time of year making choppy surface conditions. The water is rich with nutrients (plankton) so our visibility averages 20-30ft. This is the best time to see the pacific manta rays at Catalina Islands and at the local dive sites. This is also a good time of year to see many types of schooling fish, southern stingrays, seahorses plus our many other critters.
Narrative text and photographs courtesy of Bahia del Sol Resort and Sirenas Diving.