Nayara Springs

Within the La Fortuna forest above Arenal Volcano, Nayara Springs is an adults-only collection of 35 pool villas arranged through a garden of tropical vegetation and connected to a thermal hot springs complex fed by the same geothermal activity that warms the Arenal Conservation Area’s river systems. Each villa has its own private heated pool drawing from the thermal spring system, a covered outdoor living area, and a design that draws on Costa Rican architectural traditions of open-air living through deep eaves, hardwood floors, and natural stone. The volcanic views from the villas and the springs complex are most powerful in the evening when Arenal’s summit glows against a darkening sky.

The Springs thermal complex, shared across the Nayara hotel collection, includes pools at different temperatures, a restaurant and bar positioned around the largest pool, and a spa whose treatments draw on the volcanic and botanical resources of the surrounding landscape. A network of canopy bridges and forest paths connects the springs to the broader Arenal Conservation Area, and the birding from the villa gardens — toucans, motmots, scarlet macaws, and over 500 recorded species in the area — is among the most productive close to any luxury lodge in Costa Rica. The concierge team specialises in arranging experiences across the full range of the Arenal region’s extraordinary adventure and natural history programme.

Nayara Springs’s adults-only policy and the thermal spring system give it a specific appeal to couples and solo travellers seeking a contemplative engagement with the Arenal landscape, and the quality of the volcanic hot spring experience — genuine thermal water emerging from a geologically active system rather than a heated pool — gives the wellness proposition a grounding in natural reality that most spa hotels cannot offer.