The courtyard hotel · Playa Chiquita, Puerto Viejo

Ten-apartment hotel around a garden courtyard

Ten apartments set around a planted courtyard, on the coast road at Playa Chiquita.

Land: 1,145 m²
Built area: 583 m²

The property

Ten apartments around one courtyard

A small hotel of ten apartments gathered around a garden courtyard of lawn, palms and bromeliads. Most sit on a single floor under white metal roofs; a two-storey building, with a balustraded balcony, faces the road. An arched gate in the front wall opens from the road into the garden.

Each apartment has its own covered porch or patch of garden, and a kitchen of its own, tiled in patterned cement-style tile: fridge, induction hob, coffee machine, blender, cookware and tableware, with a table and chairs inside and out. Bedrooms are air-conditioned. Throughout, large grey porcelain floors run under white-boarded ceilings on exposed beams.

The largest apartment, Ensis, has 120 m² inside and a living room open on two sides to its balcony. A laundry room (24 m²) and an office with its own bathroom (22 m²) complete the property.

Features

What the property includes

Ten apartments, 35 to 120 m² inside
A private porch or garden for each apartment
Garden courtyard with palms and bromeliads
Kitchens in patterned cement-style tile
Air-conditioned bedrooms
Laundry and office with bathroom
46.91 m of frontage on the public road
Parking along the front wall

The apartments

Sizes and beds

From the owner's list: inside area, then porch and garden.

Calilla: 35 m² + 45 m². One queen bed.

Abaloni: 65 m² + 35 m². One queen bed, one single sofa bed.

Puperita: 48 m² + 60 m². One queen bed, one double sofa bed.

Estrella: 53 m² + 78 m². One queen bed, one single sofa bed.

Charonia: 38 m² + 28 m². One queen bed, one single sofa bed.

Conus: 40 m² + 45 m². One queen bed, one double sofa bed.

Vongola: 45 m² + 38 m². One queen bed, one double sofa bed.

Nautilus: 37 m² + 20 m² porch. One queen bed.

Ciprea: 56 m² + 38 m². One queen bed, one double bed.

Ensis: 120 m² + 15 m² garden. Two queen beds, one double bed; also a rice cooker and microwave.

Total: 537 m² of apartments and 402 m² of porches and gardens.

Land

A walled plot on the public road

The plot measures 1,145 m² on its survey plan, with 46.91 m of frontage on the public road. Guests park on gravel along the front wall.

Setting

Between Puerto Viejo and Punta Uva

Playa Chiquita lies on the stretch of Caribbean coast between Puerto Viejo and Punta Uva. Buses along the coast road run to Cahuita, Manzanillo and Sixaola.

Photographs

Inside The courtyard hotel

Arched gateway in a rendered white wall under a canopy of climbing plants, the planted courtyard visible through the open door — The gate from the road

Aerial view of white metal roofs arranged in a U around a courtyard of lawn, palms and terracotta paths, with gravel parking along the road — The buildings and courtyard from above

Aerial view from the road: a two-storey building with a balustraded balcony and outside stair, the single-storey wings and courtyard behind, forest beyond — The two-storey building and the wings behind

Porch of the Calilla apartment with white timber railings, a table and chairs, opening onto its own lawn — Calilla, porch and garden

Tiled veranda under a white-boarded ceiling, white railings on one side and the courtyard planting beyond — Veranda along the courtyard

Living room open on two sides to a balcony with a white balustrade, a round dining table with red chairs and a leather sofa, trees beyond — Ensis, living room and balcony

Kitchen with two tiled counters facing each other, a dark timber wardrobe on the right and glass doors to the living room — Ensis, kitchen

Kitchen counter faced in patterned cement-style tiles, with an induction hob, coffee machine, blender and a double sink, a linen curtain below — A kitchen counter in patterned tile

Bedroom with a bed on a rendered plinth, open shelving, an iron chandelier and sliding doors to the bathroom — Ensis, bedroom

Bedroom with a queen bed on a white plinth, a red painting above it and a large window onto the porch — Calilla, bedroom