Which Nayara is Right for You?

Distinct destination worlds: Arenal rainforest, Caribbean island, Atacama Desert and Easter Island.

Arenal resorts share the same larger rainforest world, with three different ways to stay: Gardens, Springs and Tented Camp.

Adults-only choices: Nayara Springs in Costa Rica and Nayara Bocas del Toro in Panama.

One Rainforest, Three Ways to Stay

Arenal is the one destination where choosing the landscape does not finish the decision. Nayara Gardens, Nayara Tented Camp and Nayara Springs share the same rainforest in Arenal Volcano National Park.

Who is traveling?

That question creates the clearest path through Arenal.

Nayara Springs

Start here when privacy is central to the trip. Springs is Nayara's adults-only retreat, a Relais & Châteaux member and the wellness flagship, with fine dining and a private natural hot-spring plunge pool in every villa.

Nayara Gardens

Start here when younger children will stay with their parents. Gardens places families directly inside the same private villa, each with its own plunge pool and Arenal Volcano views from most rooms.

Nayara Tented Camp

Start here when older children want their own room or several generations are traveling together. Tented Camp is also Nayara's most premium Arenal option, with luxury tents, natural hot-spring plunge pools and Arenal Volcano views.

Overwater on a Private Caribbean Island

The overwater villa no longer requires crossing the world. For travelers from North America, Bocas offers the experience within the Americas, without the long-haul journey to the Maldives.

Overwater villas stand directly above the Caribbean, placing the sea beneath the bedroom and terrace, while the resort itself occupies a private island where rainforest, mangrove, reef, and Caribbean ecosystems meet.

The island, however, is only the beginning.

Dolphin Bay at sunset

Dolphin Bay is known for its resident bottlenose dolphins, making it one of the archipelago's signature wildlife experiences. Late in the day, a private boat, dolphins in the surrounding water, and the Caribbean changing color toward sunset create one of Bocas's most romantic outings.

Explore below the surface

Snorkeling opens the shallow reefs to almost anyone, while scuba diving allows certified divers to explore farther beneath the surface with professional operators and guides.

After dark, bioluminescence reveals another layer of the archipelago, turning the water itself into one of Bocas's most distinctive natural experiences.

Nayara is also preparing a new coral reef restoration program that allows guests to participate directly by planting their own coral as part of active reef restoration.

Nayara Bocas del Toro holds Two MICHELIN Keys, and Condé Nast Traveler readers named it the #1 resort in Central America in the 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.

The World's Best Stargazing Is Only the Beginning

The Atacama is often described as otherworldly. That is accurate, but incomplete. Within a single journey, the landscape can shift from mineral-striped valleys to red-rock plateaus, turquoise high-altitude lagoons, salt formations, volcanoes, flamingo habitat and geyser fields. Then night falls over one of the clearest skies on Earth.

A desert that never looks the same twice

At Rainbow Valley, exposed mineral layers turn the earth red, ochre, green, white and yellow. Moon Valley replaces color with wind- and salt-sculpted formations. Higher still, Piedras Rojas, Miscanti and Miñiques introduce intensely colored rock, turquoise lagoons, volcanoes and the vast horizons of the Altiplano.

Elsewhere, hypersaline lagoons support flamingos in one of Earth's harshest environments, while El Tatio reveals the desert's geothermal force as steam rises from a high-altitude geyser field at dawn.

These landscapes are explored with professional guides who interpret the geology, ecology, archaeology and altitude of the terrain. Private guiding can also be arranged for guests who want the pace and focus of the day built around their own interests.

What the Atacama journey requires

Return to the Catarpe Valley oasis

After the desert exposure, Alto offers a reversal. The lodge sits within the Catarpe Valley oasis, where adobe architecture, gardens and water create shelter within the surrounding rock. You can spend the day among high-altitude lagoons and geysers, return to an oasis in the evening, and walk to a private observatory after darkness falls.

Catarpe rooms open to private terraces with desert views. Tilo suites add more space, an outdoor shower and a heated private plunge pool. Both keep the emphasis on natural materials, quiet and the valley beyond.

The Ultimate Bucket-List Destination

For travelers who keep a list of places they hope to see once in their lives, Easter Island may be the ultimate bucket-list destination. Few places combine such extraordinary remoteness with something as universally recognizable as the moai.

Then, the living Rapa Nui culture

Rapa Nui is not the remains of a vanished civilization. The descendants of the people who created the moai still live on the island. Language, family histories, ceremony, art and cultural memory continue.

That is why professional local interpretation matters. Rapa Nui guides transform monument viewing into a deeper story of Polynesian voyaging, adaptation, ceremony, outside contact and cultural survival. Private guiding can also be arranged for travelers who want a more personal exploration of the island.

Why guidance matters on Easter Island

UNESCO records roughly 900 statues and more than 300 ceremonial platforms across Rapa Nui National Park. Their scale makes expert interpretation essential rather than optional.

The national park requires an accredited guide, and Hangaroa's programs can combine accommodation, meals and one or two half-day excursions per night. That structure reduces planning friction and gives the sites a human context.

Allow at least four nights. The island's principal archaeological sites, more remote landscapes and living culture cannot be understood as a rushed checklist.

A resort connected to the island

Hangaroa sits on the island's western edge, close to Hanga Roa village. Its architecture is inspired by the Orongo ceremonial settlement, with curving forms, grass roofs and textured natural materials that keep the building in conversation with the volcanic landscape.

The resort's relationship with the Hito family gives local Rapa Nui participation a structural role, while guided exploration points outward toward the people, landscapes and archaeological sites that make Easter Island unlike anywhere else.

The distance is part of the story

Easter Island sits alone in the southeastern Pacific, thousands of kilometers from continental South America. That isolation is fundamental to its history. The extraordinary achievement is not only the moai, but that Polynesian navigators found this tiny island across the world's largest ocean and built a distinct culture there.

Rainforest to Reef: Springs + Bocas

Begin in Arenal with natural hot springs, wellness, fine dining and the privacy of Nayara Springs. Then move to an overwater villa on a private Caribbean island, where a boat and captain can dock at your villa and take you into the Bocas del Toro archipelago. One journey is enclosed by rainforest. The other opens onto the Caribbean.

Stars to Stone: Alto Atacama + Hangaroa

Begin by looking outward from the Atacama Desert, exploring extraordinary landscapes by day and the universe from Alto Atacama's private observatory at night. Then fly farther into the Pacific to Easter Island, where the focus shifts to the moai, Polynesian navigation and living Rapa Nui culture. One asks us to look beyond Earth. The other asks how people reached one of Earth's most isolated inhabited islands.