10 of the best all-inclusive resorts in Costa Rica in 2026

Costa Rica has built an international reputation as a destination where travelers can book a single trip and encounter rainforest wildlife, Pacific surf, volcanic scenery, and spa luxury without having to cross borders. The country’s ecological diversity — national parks and nature reserves cover roughly a quarter of its land area — means that outdoor adventure sits within easy reach of even the most comfort-focused resort. For travelers who want to engage with that environment without managing a per-activity budget, the all-inclusive format removes the financial friction from every day of the trip. Meals, drinks, sports equipment, and entertainment are included in one prepaid rate, and the cost of a canopy tour or a snorkeling session does not require a separate transaction.

The all-inclusive model suits Costa Rica particularly well because its appeal spans such diverse traveler profiles. A family with young children and a honeymooning couple share the same destination but want entirely different experiences from their resort. The family needs kids' clubs, pools with splash pads, and room configurations that accommodate multiple beds. The couple wants a villa with ocean views, couples massage packages, and a spa that operates without children in the neighboring lounge chair. Costa Rica’s resort market has segmented to serve those needs specifically, with dedicated adults-only properties, family-focused beach resorts, boutique jungle lodges, and surf academies all operating on all-inclusive or package-inclusive models within the same small country.

The 10 resorts below come from U.S. News & World Report’s list of the top all-inclusive resorts in Costa Rica, which evaluated properties based on what the all-inclusive package covers, accommodation quality, available activities, location, and guest experience feedback. The list spans the Guanacaste province on the Pacific coast, the Puntarenas region farther south, and the Osa Peninsula, covering beachfront mega-resorts, boutique jungle villas, surf schools, and ecolodges, so travelers can find the format that fits their travel style before they book.

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The Westin Reserva Conchal occupies a 2,400-acre property on Playa Conchal in Guanacaste, combining a forested natural reserve with resort amenities that cover the full range of what a family or couple would want from an all-inclusive stay. The grounds encompass beaches, a lagoon-style pool with a whirlpool, a dedicated children’s pool, a fitness studio, a spa, and a championship golf course, giving the property a physical scale that allows guests to spend multiple days without retracing the same routes or exhausting the on-site options.

The all-inclusive package covers meals at more than a dozen bars and restaurants, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, a daily stocked in-room minibar, 24-hour room service, access to the Westin Kids Club, nonmotorized water sports, tennis courts, and nightly entertainment. The breadth of what the nightly rate includes removes the need for guests to budget daily activity costs or manage separate tabs at the bar and restaurant, which is the core practical advantage of the all-inclusive format in a destination where individual activity prices add up quickly. The championship golf course adds a premium leisure option that most all-inclusive properties in Costa Rica do not include on-site, giving golfers a reason to choose this property specifically over the other resorts on this list.

Recent guests noted the quality of the food and the activity programming as highlights, and several mentioned watching wild monkeys, iguanas, and other animals directly from their room balconies. The resort sits within a genuine ecological reserve, not a cleared beachfront development, and the wildlife visible from the rooms gives The Westin Reserva Conchal a natural dimension that most all-inclusive properties in the region cannot offer. Among the options on this list, it earns the broadest overall recommendation for travelers who want a well-rounded, family-compatible experience without sacrificing comfort or the completeness of the included package. The golf course, the property's size, and the wildlife reserve together give the Westin a physical scale that justifies multiple days of exploration without leaving the grounds.

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Secrets Papagayo occupies a stretch of Arenilla beach on the Papagayo Peninsula in Guanacaste and operates as an adults-only resort on an “Unlimited-Luxury” model, meaning that all meals, top-shelf alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, room service around the clock, and resort activities are covered in the nightly rate without reservation requirements or cover charges. The adults-only policy and the unlimited beverage tier together define the property’s character: it targets travelers who want a genuinely premium all-inclusive experience without the family resort atmosphere that dominates many properties in this region.

The included activity calendar covers theme nights, live musical performances, cooking lessons, rum tastings, mountain biking, and nonmotorized water sports, offering guests a structured entertainment option each evening of the stay without an additional charge. The resort’s two pools and world-class spa extend the leisure options through the daytime hours. Spa treatments — massages, facials, and body therapies — are available at an additional cost for guests seeking a more indulgent experience than the included programming offers. The Papagayo Peninsula location places the resort within easy reach of Guanacaste’s broader network of national parks and natural reserves, which gives guests who want to extend their Costa Rica experience beyond the resort boundary a strong regional context from which to book day trips.

Off-site nature excursions, available at extra charge, range from all-terrain vehicle tours and canopy zip-line experiences to scuba diving and sport fishing, connecting the resort to the wider Costa Rican adventure landscape that sits immediately outside the property’s fence. Recent guests singled out the staff's attentiveness as the property’s most consistent strength, with multiple reviewers noting that service quality exceeded their expectations at a luxury price point. The adults-only structure, unlimited top-shelf beverage inclusion, and the staff’s reputation for attentiveness make Secrets Papagayo the strongest option on this list for adult travelers seeking a premium all-inclusive stay without compromise. Guests who want to experience Costa Rica's adventure activities can access them through the off-site excursion program, which keeps the core resort atmosphere quiet while still connecting guests to the country’s outdoor appeal.

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Andaz Peninsula Papagayo, also on the Papagayo Peninsula in Guanacaste, delivers a luxury resort experience through three beaches, three swimming pools — including one adults-only and one dedicated to children — a beach club, a wellness spa, a kids club, world-class golf, and beachfront dining. The property’s rooms, suites, and villas each include private outdoor balconies or terraces, complimentary in-room snacks and beverages, and contemporary amenities, and the larger multi-bedroom family suites draw repeat visitors who find the layout well-suited to traveling with children. Past guests consistently praise the dining and the service quality as the resort’s defining strengths.

The all-inclusive dining structure at Andaz differs from a traditional model. Guests who book a stay of three nights or more can add the “Food & Drinks Package,” which covers three meals daily, minibar snacks, nonalcoholic beverages, and alcoholic drinks. The five themed restaurants highlight Latin American and global cuisines and give the dining program a range and quality level that purpose-built buffet-only all-inclusive resorts rarely match. The package pricing and restaurant-based format mean guests dine at a table-service level, not a cafeteria-style format, which matters to travelers who value the quality of the dining experience as much as the convenience of the bundled rate.

Some activities and spa services fall outside the Food & Drinks Package and carry supplemental costs, which distinguishes Andaz from the fully wrapped all-inclusive properties elsewhere on this list. Travelers $TRV who want everything included in a single rate will find other properties on the list better suited to that preference, but those who want luxury villa accommodation, high-caliber restaurant dining, and flexible access to spa services will find Andaz the most upscale option available in the region. The three-beach setting and the adults-only pool give the property a physical variety that single-beach resorts in the same price bracket cannot match, and the children’s pool and kids club accommodate family travel without compromising the adults-only spaces.

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Fiesta Resort All Inclusive is roughly 50 miles from San José in the Chacarita area of Puntarenas, making it one of the most accessible all-inclusive options for travelers flying into Costa Rica’s primary international airport who don't want to spend several additional hours in transit to reach their resort. The property features three large pools, tropical gardens, a volcanic black-sand beach, and a spa, offering families a visually distinctive natural setting alongside the standard resort amenities.

The all-inclusive package includes dining across four restaurants and seven bars, unlimited alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and juices, along with a range of daily games and cultural activities, cocktail classes, dedicated clubs for children and teenagers, mini-golf, tennis, and nightly entertainment programming. The breadth of the included activity calendar reduces the need for families to purchase additional experiences during the stay, which makes the daily cost more predictable than at resorts that unbundle activities from the nightly rate.

Families traveling with young children can book a Jr Suite Family configuration, which provides a master bedroom with a king-sized bed and a living area with a queen-sized bed, along with designated space for a crib, strollers, and additional family travel gear. The dedicated teen club, alongside the children’s program, covers a wider age range than most all-inclusive resorts can accommodate within a single property, which means families with children at different stages do not need to split their time between separate venues. Previous guests highlighted the staff’s warmth and the quality of the food as the property’s strongest qualities, and the value-for-money assessment from recent visitors positions Fiesta Resort as the most cost-effective family all-inclusive option in the Puntarenas region. The volcanic black-sand beach, unusual among the resorts on this list that front white-sand Pacific shores, gives the property a visually distinctive coastal character that families with older children will find worth noting before booking.

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Planet Hollywood Costa Rica, on the Papagayo Peninsula in Guanacaste, offers its all-inclusive proposition around entertainment programming that runs continuously throughout the day and into the evening for guests of all ages. The event calendar can include silent illumination parties, folk dancing performances, masquerade events, and open-air concerts, and the kids' club runs its own parallel programming with talent shows, movie nights, and scavenger hunts that keep younger guests occupied during the same hours that adults are attending the larger resort events. The entertainment-first positioning distinguishes this property from the other Guanacaste resorts on this list, which lead with their natural settings, dining quality, or wellness amenities.

The resort’s pool infrastructure includes two pools accessible to all guests and a third reserved exclusively for guests in the STAR Class accommodations tier. Water sports — kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, and Hobie Cat sailing — are available within the all-inclusive rate, extending the activity menu from the land-based entertainment calendar to the waterfront. Seven restaurants cover a range of cuisines, including burgers and Tex-Mex, and seven bars include a dedicated coffee bar, giving the food and beverage program enough variety to satisfy guests across multiple days without repeating the same dining experience.

The all-inclusive rate covers meals, drinks, Wi-Fi, resort amenities, and activities without a supplemental package purchase, simplifying the booking process for travelers who want full clarity on their total cost before they arrive. Recent guests give the resort high marks for its atmosphere and the quality of the entertainment team, suggesting that the property delivers on its core promise to travelers who prioritize the social and performance dimensions of a resort stay. Planet Hollywood Costa Rica works best for groups and families who want maximum variety in their evening programming, not a quieter, nature-focused experience. The STAR Class tier adds an exclusive pool and elevated service for guests who want a premium layer within the all-inclusive structure, which gives the property a two-tier architecture that accommodates mixed groups traveling at different budget levels within the same resort.

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Hotel Three Sixty, in Ojochal, Puntarenas province, is a small boutique property and a member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World collection that operates on an adults-only basis and positions itself as a romantic retreat for couples willing to trade resort scale for seclusion. The property consists of a limited number of private villas set within a rainforest, each with floor-to-ceiling windows, private terraces for sunset viewing, indoor rain showers, organic Egyptian cotton sheets, and handmade Simmons Beautyrest Recharge mattresses. The accommodation detail positions the property at the premium end of the boutique hotel category. An infinity pool and ocean views complete the physical setting.

The all-inclusive package at Hotel Three Sixty is designed for couples and bundles a single rate covering a villa with ocean views, three gourmet meals per day, unlimited beverages, a couples massage, and airport transfers. The inclusions are curated to the romantic travel context: the couples massage and the airport transfer eliminate two of the most common friction points of an international romantic getaway — the spa booking and the arrival logistics — without requiring guests to negotiate them separately after check-in. The award-winning spa features eight outdoor treatment rooms, a waterfall, a hydrotherapy pool, an infrared sauna, and a Balinese soaking tub, giving couples who want to extend their spa time beyond the included massage a facility that justifies the additional cost.

Recent guests praised the hillside rainforest location, the attentiveness of the staff, and the quality of the on-site dining as the property’s three most consistent strengths. The small number of villas keeps the property intimate enough that guests rarely encounter other couples outside their own terrace and the shared pool, preserving the seclusion the property markets as its defining characteristic. Hotel Three Sixty is the strongest option on this list for couples who want a genuinely private, high-quality all-inclusive experience in a Costa Rican rainforest setting, and the award-winning spa adds a dedicated wellness dimension that the larger beach resorts on this list carry only as a supplemental amenity.

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Dreams Las Mareas Costa Rica, in El Jobo in Guanacaste, delivers its “Unlimited-Luxury” all-inclusive experience through a dining and beverage program spread across nearly 20 restaurants and bars, a scale of F&B infrastructure that exceeds most all-inclusive properties in the region, and gives guests enough variety to eat at a different venue every meal for several days without repeating. The included package covers unlimited dining and drinks at all venues, 24-hour room service, poolside and beach wait service, and nightly entertainment, with no reservation requirements or cover charges for the standard all-inclusive tier.

The resort grounds support both active and passive holiday styles. Guests who want to stay close to the pool can spend the day between the water and the beach while wildlife — specifically, monkey sightings among the property’s draws — moves through the surrounding vegetation. Guests who want more structured activity can access hiking trails to a nearby waterfall, beach walks, and organized sports and games within the resort. The resort’s location in Guanacaste gives it access to the province's broader activity infrastructure, with guided excursions to natural and cultural sites available for guests who want to explore beyond the resort's boundaries.

Upgrading to the Preferred Club tier adds access to an exclusive lounge, a suite-level room upgrade, and elevated personal concierge service, creating a tiered experience within the same property for travelers who want an extra layer of personalization beyond the standard unlimited package. Past guests praised the food quality and the service consistency as the property’s most reliable attributes, and the breadth of the dining program makes Dreams Las Mareas the strongest all-inclusive option on this list for travelers who treat F&B variety as the primary driver of their resort selection. The wildlife encounters — monkeys visible from the grounds — give the property a connection to the natural environment that purely urban or beach-only resorts in the region do not offer.

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Surf Synergy, in Jacó, Puntarenas province, is a surf-focused resort that packages expert daily coaching into an all-inclusive stay and operates on a fundamentally different premise from the other properties on this list. The core offering is surfing instruction and training across all skill levels — from beginners who have never stood on a board to advanced surfers working on specific techniques — with coaching sessions scheduled each day and access to six local beaches offering varied wave conditions suited to different stages of development. The resort describes the experience as a “transformative, holistic” program, and the curriculum extends beyond surfing to include wellness, movement, nutrition, and mind-body classes designed to support overall athletic performance.

The accommodation options at Surf Synergy range from standard king and double queen rooms to spacious private bungalows and an 11,000-square-foot villa that accommodates up to 24 guests, making the property functional for both individuals and groups booking a shared surf trip. Meals are included and use local ingredients sourced from nearby gardens and small family-owned farms, which gives the food program a connection to the regional agricultural identity that most resort dining operations do not maintain. Past guests who visited with children and those who visited without reported equally positive experiences, suggesting that the resort’s program works across different family configurations.

Surf Synergy sits in Jacó, a surf town on Costa Rica’s central Pacific coast that offers consistent wave conditions and a well-developed surf culture year-round. The resort’s position in that environment — embedded in an active surf community, not isolated within a resort compound — gives guests access to a social and competitive context that the Guanacaste resort zone cannot replicate. For travelers whose primary goal is improving as a surfer within a structured, all-inclusive environment, Surf Synergy has no direct competition on this list. The six-beach rotation in the daily coaching schedule gives surfers exposure to different break types throughout their stay, accelerating skill development in a way that training at a single break cannot.

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Best Western Jacó Beach All-Inclusive Resort sits directly on the beach on Pastor Díaz Avenue in Jacó, making it one of the few truly beachfront all-inclusive properties at its price point in Costa Rica. The location on the beach gives guests immediate access to the waves and the sand without crossing a road or navigating a lengthy path from the pool area, and the central Jacó position makes the town’s restaurants, shops, and surf rentals walkable from the resort. For travelers who want the convenience of a beachfront all-inclusive without paying the premium that the Guanacaste luxury resorts charge, this property presents the most direct value proposition on the list.

The resort’s amenity set is modest by the standards of the larger Guanacaste properties, but it covers the essentials for a family-oriented beach stay. A children’s playground, a splash pad for younger guests, volleyball facilities, and evening activities for adults provide a structured activity menu that keeps multiple age groups occupied without the scale or complexity of the full entertainment programs at Planet Hollywood or Fiesta Resort. The all-inclusive rate covers unlimited dining and beverages at the resort’s restaurant, lobby bar, and snack bar, keeping daily food costs entirely predictable.

Recent guests highlighted the budget-friendly pricing paired with food quality and service that exceeded their expectations at that price point. Beachfront positioning, inclusive dining, and accessible cost make this property the best argument on this list for travelers who view all-inclusive resorts as a cost-control mechanism, not a luxury indulgence. Jacó’s surf town character also means that guests who want to venture beyond the resort property will find a lively local scene available immediately outside the gate. The central location on Pastor Díaz Avenue keeps downtown Jacó walkable, extending the activity and dining options well beyond what the resort’s own restaurant and bars offer within the inclusive rate.

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Hotel Riu Palace Costa Rica sits on the edge of Matapalo beach in Sardinal, Guanacaste, and concentrates its all-inclusive value in the depth of its activity program. The property’s pools include multiple large options and one with a swim-up bar, and the activity calendar covers sailing, windsurfing, snorkeling, kayaking, volleyball, table tennis, and tennis within the included rate. An adults-only poolside RIU Party event adds a social entertainment dimension to the activity list, and the on-site gym serves guests who want to maintain a fitness routine during their stay.

The all-inclusive dining program covers the main buffet and four themed restaurants, offering a moderate range of dining options throughout the stay. The Renova Spa operates on-site for guests who want relaxation services, available at supplemental cost. Guests who want to extend their activity radius beyond the resort can access nearby volcanic areas, national parks, and diving sites, and the Four Seasons Golf Club is available for golf within easy reach of the property.

The resort’s guests consistently praise the volume and variety of the included activities as the property’s defining strength, which positions it for travelers who measure all-inclusive value by how much they can do within the rate, not by the quality of the accommodation or the refinement of the dining. No other property on this list matches the breadth of water sports available within the standard package, and the Matapalo beach setting on Guanacaste’s Pacific coast provides the consistent wind and wave conditions that make activities such as windsurfing and sailing available throughout the stay. Travelers $TRV who want a highly active beach holiday with minimal per-activity expenditure will find Hotel Riu Palace Costa Rica the most purpose-built option on this list for that goal. The nearby Four Seasons Golf Club gives golfers an option not available at the other activity-focused resorts in this region, rounding out an activity menu that covers water, land, and court sports within easy reach of the property.