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Hotel Size:
95 Rooms , 5 Floors
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Amenities
- Business center
- Restaurant
- Meeting rooms
Built in 1930 and declared a historical landmark, the Gran Hotel Costa Rica is located in front of the National Theater and approximately four miles from Juan Santamaria Airport. The hotel is within walking distance to the Jade Museum, Gold Museum, shops, and restaurants. Hotel amenities include the neo-classical architecture, 24-hour restaurant, El Bufo Dorado Bar, 24-hour room service, casino, laundry, conference rooms, wireless internet access in public areas, and tour desk. All rooms feature cable TV, pay-per-view movies, refrigerators, dial-up Internet access, alarm clocks, coffee/tea makers, and free newspapers Monday through Friday.
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Trip Advisor Reviews
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Great central location...rooms a bit noisy
We are currently staying at this hotel. It has a prime location in downtown San Jose. I am travelling with my mother and we have felt very safe...
great gran hotel
We spent a little over three weeks driving all over Costa Rica. We spent three nights at the start of the trip and three nights at the end at t...
Great Location, Awful Rooms
Great location right downtown. Nice lobby. Beautiful breakfast room with a nice view and bountiful breakfast. Awful rooms (we tried two differe...
Mediocre
Not the best and certainly not the worst hotel I've stay at. Small rooms, reasonable bathrooms, okay staff. We stayed there on two occasions, b...
DO NOT STAY HERE
I am currently staying in this hotel. There is a deafening concert right outside our room. Really unbelievably loud. We asked the hotel recepti...
Walking distance to everything
Based on the reviews I've got through here, I asked for an inside room to make sure my last night in CR is quiet. And I did get a quiet room, o...
Travelocity Reviews
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Pleasant Experience
The hotel is a charming old hotel with excellent service and free Internet. The room was pretty cramped, but adequate. It is right in the center of downtown on a lovely square across from the National Theatre and close to shops, restaurants and attractions. It is, however, a 20 cab ride to and from the airport.
Pleasant Experience
The "standard" room has no A/C, smelled and no hot water. The Staff tried hard to make things better. They changed us to 3 rooms in one night. Needless to say, we changed hotels. This is when online travel website dropped the ball. Upon Customer Service direction, I went to Holiday Inn. I paid for my room and to date, online travel website has not corrected their service. I am a VERY DISAPPOINTED CLIENT. J. Lewis
Gran Hotel Costa Rica
We stayed here on the first night of our honeymoon and had a great time. We used the business center for internet access, which was great, there are also phones in the rooms. They have a very accommodating staff and nice restaurant and bar. We enjoyed playing in the casino and planning our bus trip form the concierge service in the lobby. The room itself wasn't all that great... 1) there is no air conditioning, so my husband was just miserable, and 2) the bed was really bad... but hey, this is Costa Rica... PURA VIDA!! For a Costa Rican hotel, I thought it was first class.
Location was great if you like staying in the middle of a city. It was hard to get a check or followup service in the restaurant.
My best experience ever. This is the only place that I have ever left a 100 tip (50,000 colones)!! Service is the best of anywhere I have been - and I travel the world. Price is very reasonable and staff will make every effort to make your stay 100% PERFECT! Excellent location, though rooms need a bit of work and are a bit small. It is well worth it, though, because of the activities, service, and overall good feeling you get from the hotel. Located in the most cultural, best part of town! DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!
This was my first visit to Costa Rica and the Gran Hotel Costa Rica was my first impression of the country. I loved it. It has wonderful charm and atmosphere and the service was great. The staff were very helpful and the food was delicious. It is in the heart of San Jose, next to the National Theater, and is within walking distance of many museums, parks and stores for shopping (which saves on Taxi/Bus fares). I would recommend this hotel to anyone.
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