Your entire family reunion can avail themselves of the amenities of Hacienda Pinilla

There are so many iterations of Costa Rica family vacations: from families of 3 to large multigenerational families and reunion groups, your needs and wants and wish lists will vary. These homes answer both.

Costa Rica Family Vacations For Small Families:

For small families, Costa Rica family vacations often begin with initial frustration around finding the right vacation home fit. It’s a bit of a Goldilocks conundrum: the homes you love outstrip the needs of your small family, but the homes that meet your space requirements don’t come equipped with the amenities you desire. Our vacation rentals for small families address those challenges.

Matapalo 102

Matapalo Condos Tamarindo Costa Rica

Tamarindo | 2 Bedrooms | 2.5 Bathrooms | Sleeps 6

Located at the fantastic Diria Resort, Matapalo 102 offers your family access to a 10,000 square-foot freeform swimming pool (with a swim-up bar for the adults!), tropical gardens, restaurants, and other resort amenities. You’re also walking distance to the beach (the Diria is an oceanfront resort), Tamarindo downtown, and activities.

Inside, this welcoming condo offers over 1,500 square feet of room to spread out: two bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus spacious dining and living areas with a plasma TV + cable TV and a fully equipped kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, and custom wood cabinetry. There’s also a gas BBQ for your private use and the condo is fully stocked with beach towels, folding beach chairs, and cooler, and other useful extras.

Bonus: Matapalo 102 is a ground-floor unit, so there are no significant stairs to climb with little ones in arms!

Luxury Choice:
Palms 3

Playa Flamingo | 2 Bedrooms | 2.5 Bathrooms | Sleeps 6

Beautifully decorated and wonderfully private, Palms 3 is an oceanfront villa less than 50 steps to the soft, white sands of Flamingo Beach. From your own private balcony, listen for the howler monkeys and lapping waves, as you absorb incredible Pacific views from your favorite lounge chair.

This spacious 2,300 square-foot, two-story townhouse offers beachfront views throughout its spacious living, dining, and sleeping areas. Parents will rest easy knowing that both bedrooms are on the upper level, where the master suite features an oversized covered balcony and a private ensuite bathroom. The ground floor offers top-of-the-line décor, cozy furniture, and living spaces that open onto the incredible Pacific view.

The location of The Palms at Playa Flamingo is ideal for Costa Rica family vacations. Not only is it the only resort-style community on Flamingo Beach, but its south beach location welcomes you to powdery white sands and calm waters, thanks to an almost-private cove that affords peace, gentle surf, and tranquility. And have we mentioned the sunsets?

Costa Rica Family Vacations For Large(er) Families:

Big and bigger families have their unique needs: You need spaces large enough to fit everyone at once, but you also crave private retreats so everyone can get some alone time (and younger family members can catch a nap). And not every space will do, because you have not just your kids’ safety in mind, but their enjoyment, too. These homes answer your needs.

Villa Carao #3

Brasilito | 4 Bedrooms | 3.5 Bathrooms | Sleeps 8

Overlooking the 10th hole and fairway at the prestigious Reserva Conchal Resort & Golf Community, Villa Carao #3 is the kind of home designed for Costa Rica family vacations: Not just spacious but well segmented for privacy, this three-story home delivers three bedrooms + a third-story loft bedroom (the onlyCarao villa with a loft bedroom!), paired with a private pool and sitting pool overlooking the greens.

Here, you’ll find every amenity to suit your family vacation. From the gourmet kitchen, with its all-stainless appliances, granite counters, and casual breakfast bar to three separate indoor entertainment areas – a den with a sectional sofa and flatscreen TV, a living room with an HDTV, and an outdoor terrace with covered lounging, a wraparound porch, outdoor dining, and sun loungers around the pool – this home is built for family gatherings and privacy.

And because kids crave something a little special, Villa Carao #3 answers with a cozy loft bedroom that occupies its own level. So they can stay up late, talking and whispering and giggling to their hearts’ content.

Luxury Choice:
Jade Coast #2

Tamarindo | 4 Bedrooms | 3.5 Bathrooms | Sleeps 10

Located just one block to world-famous Tamarindo Beach, Jade Coast #2 is located within its own private, gated slice of paradise – and yet, it’s just a short few steps to the beach and easy strolling distance to Tamarindo restaurants, shopping, surfing, nightlife, and more. A car is optional.

With over 3,000 square feet, 4 bedrooms, and 3.5 bathrooms, this fully air-conditioned getaway has plenty of space to sleep everyone on 3 king beds, 2 twin beds, a foldout sofa, and a queen air mattress. The gourmet kitchen is well equipped to whip up a feast for a crowd, with stainless appliances, granite counters, and many cooking supplies at your fingertips. There’s also a BBQ outdoors, for your private use and patio-side cooking.

Costa Rica family vacations with tweens and teens? You and they will be relieved to know that Jade Coast #2 comes equipped with an Eero WiFi system, which blankets the home from top-to-bottom in fast and reliable internet in all rooms, including the studio apartment!

Costa Rica Family Vacations For Multigenerational Families:

Multigenerational travel delivers so many wonderful opportunities to make memories, especially between the younger and older generations. It’s one of life’s great pleasures and yet, it also has its hurdles. Because, when families who don’t live together, travel together, there can be hiccups. The best multigenerational family vacation homes foresee those challenges and do their best to minimize each.

Flamingo Estates #18

Flamingo | 4 Bedrooms | 3.5 Bathrooms | Sleeps 8

Newly remodeled and wonderfully updated, Flamingo Estates #18 invites you to experience total luxury and comfort while surrounded by the tropics at their finest. Located just 800 meters to the new Flamingo Marina – water sports and activities galore! – this home also promises spectacular forest views from the comfort of your private swimming pool.

Multigenerational families will love this home for its separation – there’s a detached 500 square-foot apartment for grandparents (or anyone who needs an extra layer of quiet and privacy – as well as three additional bedrooms in the main home.

Families love Flamingo Estates #18’s gathering spaces, which include a dining room, main living room (with 50” LED Smart TV), tropical gardens, and a private palapa and pool with pool loungers and an easy pool entrance/exit, well suited to family members with limited mobility. (Speaking of, there’s also a ground-level bedroom and bathroom in the main villa.)

Luxury Choice:

Casa Vistas at Mar Vista

Brasilito | 5 Bedrooms | 4.5 Bathrooms | Sleeps 11

This brand new, luxurious, ocean-view vacation home offers some of Costa Rica’s most hard-to-find amenities, beginning with its 1-acre property and standalone guest house, which offers the perfect respite for grandparents (who need quiet), new parents (whose baby needs quiet), and anyone else in your group who may need some private space.

Casa Vistas at Mar Vista, named for its spectacular Pacific views, perches 300 feet above the ocean and sits surrounded by the tropics and luxury living at their finest. We’ll start with the home’s focal point: a private, infinity-edge pool with incredible ocean and dry forest views, plus a nightly front-row seat to one of Costa Rica’s best sunsets and prime stargazing. It’s spectacular!

Find plenty of room to spread out in the main home, featuring 2,200 square feet, 3 bedrooms, and 3.5 bathrooms, plus an additional 1,400 square feet in the guest house, which delivers 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. Gather together in the property’s full kitchen and living area, both with ocean views, as well as the private gardens, outdoor dining area, and wooden deck.

Costa Rica Family Vacations for Family Reunions:

When you’re flung far and wide, the first and greatest challenge in planning your family reunion is simply bringing everyone together, in one space at a single given time. The second challenge: Finding a space that everyone will love. Enter the must-haves and the wish lists, the but-what-abouts and the you-forgots. Until you pull out these homes, which were almost tailor-made to answer every want and suit every whim.

Catalina Cove 3

Brasilito | 7 Bedrooms | 6 Bathrooms | Sleeps 14

One of our favorite choices for family reunions, the wildly welcoming Catalina Cove 3 promises 7 spacious bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and a beautiful Spanish Colonial-style estate with a main home and guest home, just a 10-minute walk to the pink-white sands of Playa Conchal.

Unfolding over spectacular tropical landscaping and gardens, the home welcomes you to a private swimming pool and a single-story main home with 3,750 square feet, 4 bedrooms (including 2 master bedrooms) + 5th bedroom/loft, 3.5 bathrooms, and soaring 25-foot ceilings in the living and dining rooms. The detached guest home offers another 1,250 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and its own kitchen, living space, covered patio, and more.

You’ll fall in love with Catalina Cove 3 for its sheer volume of space – wide, open gardens, spacious bedrooms, and room for privacy – but you’ll most remember the times you spent here, together, swimming in the pool, preparing a meal in the gourmet kitchen, and heading out to enjoy Playa Conchal’s one-of-a-kind charms.

Luxury Choice:
Casa Oceana

Hacienda Pinilla | 8 Bedrooms | 6.5 Bathrooms | Sleeps 18

Located within the luxurious community of Hacienda Pinilla, Casa Oceana is more than a vacation home; it’s a full vacation experience designed to delight families and family reunion groups with its upscale interiors, incredible amenities, and resort location.

We’ll begin with Casa Oceana itself: A truly jaw-dropping, 8-bedroom villa featuring striking design and décor, walls of glass, near palatial interiors, and included housecleaning and breakfast service Monday through Friday. You’ll love the massive 400 square-foot media room, with its custom sofas, black-out blinds, and flatscreen TV, but we’re betting your family will spend most of your time at the infinity-edge pool with a natural palm-thatched palapa, Balinese poolside furniture, and teak decking.

And then, there’s the 4,500-acre Hacienda Pinilla, one of Costa Rica’s most beloved luxury communities. Here, set against Playa Langosta, Playa Avellanas, and Playa Mansita, Hacienda Pinilla welcomes guests to an 18-hole championship golf course, an oceanfront Beach Club, world-class surf, tennis courts, horse stables, and miles of hiking and biking trails, among other amenities.

What Does Your Next Family Vacation in Costa Rica Look Like?

Whether you’re a family of 3 or an extended group of 18, we’d love to help you plan your next family vacation in Costa Rica. So please, let us know: What are your dreams and hopes, your must-haves and big wishes for your time in Costa Rica? If it’s possible, it’s our job to make it happen.

Because at Blue Zone Experience, we’ve built our reputation based on 5-star service, select Flamingo Vacation Rental homes, and the Blue Zone’s best tours and activities. The truth, though? Our true passion is you and your experience. Your family’s experience.

What you may not know is that, when you book one of our homes, you gain access to our free concierge services: on-the-ground expertise, curated tours and transportation options, and a one-on-one with your personal concierge, who will have your back from the moment you begin planning until the day you return home.

So, please, get in touch! We can’t wait to hear about your next adventure!