Which Nayara is Right for You?
Six Nayara resorts span four distinct worlds: Arenal rainforest, a private Caribbean island, the Atacama Desert, and Easter Island. Choose the destination first, then the resort that best fits how you want to travel.
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.
Begin With the Memory, Not the Hotel
In short: Choose Arenal for rainforest, wildlife, and natural hot springs; Bocas del Toro for adults-only overwater Caribbean life; Alto Atacama for desert exploration and world-class stargazing; and Hangaroa for the moai and living Rapa Nui culture.
The clearest way to choose a Nayara resort is to imagine the moment you want to remember: a sloth moving through the trees at breakfast, the Caribbean beneath an overwater villa, Saturn's rings through a telescope, or the moai on Easter Island.
All six resorts share a philosophy of place-led design, nature, culture, and attentive hospitality. The journeys themselves are fundamentally different. Choose the world first, then the way you want to stay within it.
What Do You Want to Experience?
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 larger rainforest world in Arenal Volcano National Park.
What all three share
The rainforest is the destination. Guests experience wildlife-rich grounds, naturalist-led sloth and bird-watching tours, yoga, spa, rainforest trails, and access to Nayara's natural hot springs area. The real decision is how you want to live within that landscape.
What Distinguishes the Three
Nayara Gardens
Freestanding accommodations sit among dense tropical gardens, where sloths, toucans, frogs, and monkeys can turn an ordinary walk to breakfast or the pool into a wildlife encounter.
Arenal Pool Casitas and Rainforest Pool Casitas combine private plunge pools, indoor-outdoor living, and family-friendly configurations.
Read more about Nayara Gardens →Nayara Springs
Reached across a footbridge through the rainforest, Springs has 35 freestanding villas, each with a terrace and private plunge pool fed by natural hot springs.
Wellness, privacy, elevated dining, and an adults-only rhythm define the retreat. In 2025, Nayara Springs received Three MICHELIN Keys.
Read more about Nayara Springs →Nayara Tented Camp
Tented Camp rises above a reforested hillside with Arenal volcano views and private plunge pools fed by natural hot springs.
Nayara Tents, Family Tents, Grand Tents, and residences create options for couples, older children, and multigenerational groups.
Read more about Nayara Tented Camp →
Traveling as a couple?
Do not assume Springs is automatically the only romantic choice. Gardens and Tented Camp can both be deeply romantic. Springs is the clearest recommendation when an adults-only environment, privacy, wellness, and fine dining are priorities. Tented Camp offers a highly private luxury-tent experience above the rainforest, while Gardens combines private accommodations with the same wildlife-rich Arenal setting.
Read our guide to family travel in Arenal or explore Nayara's adults-only resorts for romance.
One interconnected destination
The intimacy of your own hotel, with the experiences of three world-class properties within reach.
Gardens, Springs, and Tented Camp each keep their own character, while guests share one larger world of rainforest adventure, wellness, and dining.
You are not simply choosing between three hotels. You are choosing how you want to inhabit one destination. Amor Loco remains adults-only, and some restaurants require reservations. Forest to Table maps the culinary landscape.
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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 Indian Ocean.
Overwater villas sit directly above the Caribbean, while the resort occupies a private island where rainforest, mangrove, reef, and Caribbean ecosystems meet.
The island, however, is only the beginning.
Your boat can come to your villa
Guests can arrange a private boat and captain to dock directly at their overwater villa. Leave when you want and shape the day around the water, weather, and what you want to explore.
Head toward Zapatilla's beaches and reefs, explore mangrove channels, snorkel among tropical marine life, or go farther with a scuba-diving excursion. When conditions and itinerary allow, exploration can extend toward the remote waters around Escudo de Veraguas.
Two Ways to Live on the Island
Overwater Pool Villas
The overwater pool villas are approximately 1,100 square feet, with private saltwater pools, broad decks, and direct access to the Caribbean.
Treehouses
Treehouses rise into the canopy and exchange the open-water horizon for mangrove, forest, and ocean views. Choose them for height, vegetation, and greater visual seclusion.
From dolphins to bioluminescence
Dolphin Bay is known for resident bottlenose dolphins, while reefs, mangroves, kayaking, paddleboarding, snorkeling, and scuba diving reveal different layers of the archipelago.
After dark, bioluminescence can turn movement in the water into brief flashes of blue-green light.
Nayara Bocas del Toro holds Two MICHELIN Keys, and Condé Nast Traveler readers named it the No. 1 resort in Central America in the 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.
Read more about Nayara Bocas del Toro →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, volcanoes, flamingo habitat, and geothermal fields.
Then night falls over one of the clearest skies on Earth.
The world's best stargazing
Altitude, extreme aridity, limited artificial light, and approximately 300 clear nights a year have made northern Chile one of the world's great astronomical regions.
Nayara Alto Atacama has its own private observatory, where professional astronomy guides turn the night sky into a guided encounter with planets, star clusters, nebulae, and the Milky Way.
A desert that never looks the same twice
Rainbow Valley reveals exposed mineral layers in 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, lagoons, volcanoes, and the immense horizons of the Altiplano.
Professional guides interpret the geology, ecology, archaeology, and altitude of the terrain. Private guiding can shape the day's pace around individual interests.
What the Atacama journey requires
Return to the Catarpe Valley oasis
After the desert exposure, Alto offers a change of pace. The lodge sits within the Catarpe Valley oasis, where adobe architecture, gardens, and water create shelter within the surrounding rock.
Catarpe rooms open to private terraces with desert views. Tilo suites add more space, an outdoor shower, and a heated private plunge pool.
Read more about Nayara Alto Atacama →
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.
First, the moai
Ahu Tongariki, Rano Raraku, and the ceremonial sites scattered across the island turn familiar images into physical scale. Standing before them raises questions photographs cannot answer: who created them, how they were moved, what they represented, and how they fit into the society that made them.
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.
Professional local interpretation turns monument viewing into a deeper story of Polynesian voyaging, adaptation, ceremony, outside contact, and cultural survival.
Why guidance matters on Easter Island
UNESCO records roughly 900 statues and more than 300 ceremonial platforms across Rapa Nui National Park.
The national park requires accredited guidance. Hangaroa's programs can combine accommodation, meals, and guided excursions, reducing planning friction while giving the sites human context.
Allow at least four nights. The island's archaeological sites, 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 draws on the Orongo ceremonial settlement, with curving forms, grass roofs, and textured natural materials.
The resort's relationship with local Rapa Nui partners gives the island's people a structural role in the experience, while guided exploration points outward toward the landscapes, archaeological sites, and living culture that make Rapa Nui unlike anywhere else.
Read more about Nayara Hangaroa →When Two Nayara Destinations Belong Together
Some Nayara properties become even more compelling when the second destination completely changes the landscape and purpose of the journey.
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. One journey is enclosed by rainforest. The other opens onto the sea.
Stars to Stone: Alto Atacama + Hangaroa
Begin by looking outward from the Atacama, exploring extraordinary landscapes by day and the universe 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.
Choose Your Nayara
You know the landscape. Now choose where to stay.
Family-friendly rainforest living with wildlife, private plunge pools, and flexible accommodations.
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- Nayara Resorts · Our Resorts
- Nayara Gardens · Official Site
- Nayara Springs · Official Site
- Nayara Tented Camp · Official Site
- Nayara Bocas del Toro · Official Site
- Nayara Alto Atacama · Official Site
- Nayara Hangaroa · Official Site
- MICHELIN Guide · Key Hotels
- European Southern Observatory · Astrotourism in Chile
- UNESCO · Rapa Nui National Park
- Rapa Nui National Park · Official Visitor Information
