Here you'll easily forget that you're just 15 minutes from downtown or the airport San José. Set amidst the coffee farms of Santo Domingo de Heredia, the hotel has extensive areas dominated by tall trees and brightened by plentiful flowers. In Hotel Bougainvillea we offer you the chance to enjoy our country from the first minute of your vacation. Don't loose your precious time. Bienvenidos a Costa Rica !

The rooms

Rooms are large with two double beds, a sitting area and the full range of facilities. Each has a balcony offering marvelous views of the mountains one one side and the San José skyline on the other. Most of our rooms have free wi-fi internet access. Balconies opening from rooms display a marvelous view of the mountains on one side and the San José skyline on the other. Each of the eigthy one rooms has twin double beds, tub or shower, and a separate seating area. There are also four Junior suites and two rooms for the disabled. The furniture is especially made of Costa Rican hardwoods, and all rooms have cable T.V. and direct dial telephones. Hotel Bougainvillea has the charm of a family owned and operated hotel. Every detail of the hotel and restaurant is personally supervised by owner Hans van der Wielen, who brought his experience and style when he came to Costa Rica in 1961.

Restaurant

Our maitre d' hotel seats guests in a tastefully decorated dining room, either at a front window table or at a table with views of softly-lighted paintings of Costa Rican scenes--on tile, and in oils and watercolors.

Before you read the menu for the larger meals of the day, we would like you to know how carefully we consider the health of our guests and the nutritional value and balance of the meals we prepare. The quality of water is monitored regularly by a laboratory; it is pure because it is drawn from a well some 150 meters (nearly 500 feet) deep in a forested watershed area.

Enjoy our buffet breakfast while looking at the birds right outside the window or order “à la carte” one af the local specialties: gallo pinto , rice and beans with scrambled eggs, or huevos rancheros , ranch-style eggs cooked in a rich tomato sauce and served with warm corn tortillas. The renowned Costa Rican coffee comes in three types: “regular” dark roast, expresso, and decaffeinated. After coffee, you might enjoy a golden cream liquor Café Rica, made from Costa Rican coffee.

At mid-day we offer the ‘Menú del Día', a 3-course meal, but lighter fare such as the Bougainvillea salad or hearts of palm are also offered. Fresh salmon is flown in from Chile while corvina , sea bass, is a favorite Costa Rican fish. Bougainvillea chefs enjoy preparing Costa Rican food such as a regional vegetable dish ”casado vegetariano” which comprises rice, black beans, tomato, avocado, plantain fried in vegetable oil, two types of vegetables and a tortilla topped with beans and white cheese. Desserts are home-made confections such as a cake or cream of maracuyá , passion fruit. Pastel de tres leches is a particularly rich cake of three milks, moist and delicate.

In the evening, ceviche , which is corvina marinated in fresh lemon and cilantro, is a light and popular dish which can be served as an appetizer or on a salad plate. At table or in the adjacent bar, beer, Chilean, American and European wines and all the best liquors are served. Guaro , a local spirit made from sugar cane can be drank straight or made into a guaro sour.

 

Pool and other facilities

Enjoy reading a book or taking the sun by our secluded pool area, surrounded by representations of local landscapes in tile. In the swimming pool area you may also find our sauna bath. Adjoining the pool area are the two lighted tennis courts. We have tennis rackets to lend you so if you want to play tennis we recommend you just bring your own tennis balls as they are very expensive here in Costa Rica. We also have the balls for sale in our Gift Shop.

Also available:

Souvernir Shop, Conference Rooms, Landscaped garden, tour desk and much more.