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Villas Sol

7 Nights - 5 Dive Days / $1599 USD Per Person Double Occupancy Seasonal Rate

Nitrox $

WIFI Available

Handicap Accessible

Star Rating

Villas Sol Hotel and Beach Resort is located in Guanacaste Province, Playa Hermosa in Costa Rica. The resort offers fifty-four suites in three different styles: deluxe king room, deluxe double room, and the studio room. The deluxe king room is 592 square feet and features a king-size pillow-top bed and ocean views. The deluxe double room is 592 square feet and features two full-size pillow-top beds as well as views of the oceans. The studio room is 344 square feet and includes a queen pillow top bed and one double sofa or two queen pillow-top beds. The rooms are newly refurbished in a light, soothing, modern style. There are warm woods, tile floors, and crisp white bedding. There are also sliding glass doors that lead to private patios or terraces that offer full or partial ocean views. Wi-fi, flat-screen TVs with cable and satellite channels, and spacious marble bathrooms with rainfall showerheads are included in each room. Package rates at Villas Sol are seasonal and include ground transportation from Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport Liberia (LIR). All-inclusive packages include 7-nights standard room accommodations, all meals, and 10 dives. July is High Season. Rates are per person double occupancy. The property offers a limited number of rooms for mobility challenged guests and divers.

Villas Sol WEATHER

Bahai is the main restaurant and bar and offers a casual setting with stunning views that are perfect for enjoying breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The second restaurant, Heliconia, is the perfect spot for enjoying sunset cocktails and a la carte cuisine by the main pool. There is also a wet bar alongside the pool that is accessible while sitting on a stool in the pool.

The resort offers half-day sailing tours that include snacks and drinks, and other activities include daily entertainment, volleyball, soccer, tennis, dance lessons, and paddleboarding. Plenty of tours to explore Playa Hermosa including sailing, adventure parks, ATV rides, and more are available as well. Scuba diving is arranged through Sirenas Diving or Deep Blue Diving.

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).

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 VillasSol and Sirenas Diving.

Dive Conditions

Costa Rica- Diving seasons in Costa Rica can be split into rainy season (May to November) and dry season (December to April). Each season brings its own advantages. Depending on the area, visibility usually ranges from 15-30 metres/50-100 feet. June through September generally brings the best visibility. Costa Rica has a tropical and subtropical climate and has a year-round diving season. The water temperature from January to March hovers around 27°C/80F and around 28°C/82F from July to September.

Cocos Island - Don't expect colorful reefs and white sandy beaches. Coco's Island is a volcanic island emerging from the ocean, with steep walls, huge submerged rocks, and a few hard corals. Above water, the land is mountainous with rainforests and the climate is humid and tropical.

Belonging to Costa Rica, Cocos Island is the mecca for divers looking for big animals, open ocean, and advanced diving. Sharks are the main attraction. Cocos is not a place with pretty corals or reefs. It is a gorgeous, uninhabited island, approximately 5 x 2 miles (8 x 3 km) in size. The bottom is a sloping rocky substrate without a lot of colors.

What divers do experience is amazing marine life - prolific shark populations including reef whitetip and scalloped hammerheads, plus a chance of many other species. There is also great schooling fish action, and a good chance of seeing true pelagics like wahoo, tuna, and even billfish. If you are comfortable with deep (100ft) nitrox diving in open oceans, and the possibility of swell, strong currents and low vis, Cocos island can be the apex dive trip of your dive career. It is not a place for non-divers or novice divers. Advanced certification and experience are recommended.

Water temperatures at Cocos Island in June/July is usually 81F degrees at all depths. It stays from 80-82F during the summer. The water can get much colder, down in the lower 70s in the winter. Thermoclines are common, and deep down can get into the 60s. Visibility in June through July is usually 50-70ft. Visibility can be variable but 30-50ft is normal, with even better visibility from January through May.