Set in a private nature reserve spread over 1000 acres of Central America's last remaining lowland tropical rainforest in Costa Rica, Lapa Rios Ecolodge overlooks the pristine point where the Golfo Dulce meets the wild Pacific Ocean, making it an ideal destination for travelers around the world.

Originally, Lapa Rios was built by John and Karen Lewis as a private nature reserve. Today, Lapa Rios contains 16 private, upscale bungalows with a full service restaurant and maintains a conservation easment elaborated by The Nature Conservancy and Cederena to ensure that this private reserve will be preserved into perpetuity.

For the past seventeed years, the privately finaced Lapa Rios Ecolodge is more than just a beautiful rainforest hotel or eco resort next to the beach. with alomst 60 employees, Lapa Rios is a model ecotourism project that strives to show both its guests, its employees and the surrounding community that "a forest left standing is worth more than one cut down".