Finca Sueno de Osa

The location was amazing. You are right in the jungle with beautiful views and a bird watcher’s paradise.It was very rustic but comfortable.

Formidable. Filip a réalisé un petit miracle en proposant une decouverte du corcovado au plus proche de son cœur. Un petit coin de paradis dans la nature sauvage, 30 km de sentiers de découverte. Un accueil familial et une grande disponibilité de notre hôte à la science impressionnante. Merci pour ce remarquable séjour...

The family style meals were excellent and great conversations. The area and wildlife are magical with wonderful walks into the jungle for the advanced hikers. The grounds and porch seating outside the room is great.

The food was delicious and different every day,

Filip, his wife, and their dogs are the warmest and most welcoming hosts. When you stay at Finca Sueno de Osa, you become part of their family and they share their vast knowledge with generosity and humour.

We stayed in the cabin with the front porch and highly recommend this. The cabin was very private, cosy, breezy, and clean. We sat on the porch for hours listening to the macaws, howling monkeys, frogs, and many other birds that Filip knows lots about.

Filip has created many hiking trails that are clearly marked and that will take you into places you’d never imagine…waterfalls, rocky rivers, ridges, lush primary rainforest. Bring your hiking gear and get ready to be amazed. The hiking is exquisite.

…As are the meals. Filip and Nettie cook everything with care, with many ingredients coming from their fruit trees, hens, pig, and cheese from a neighbour. You will be treated to some of the best food in Costa Rica, and Filip shares his stories about ecology, Costa Rica, and many other wisdoms over meals.

Filip provides excellent instructions on how to reach his paradise. Once you are there you’ll not hear anything except the sounds of Osa. Our stay was the best part of our time in Costa Rica.

This place was amazing. Very remote and with that comes great hiking trails and a quiet night. Filip the owner cooked great breakfasts and dinners. They were his take on traditional cooking in the area. He was very knowledgeable about the surrounding nature and made the visit like I was staying at an old friend’s house. Getting there takes a little effort, but well worth it. I took a bus from Puerto Jimenez to La Palma and then a 4X4 taxi to get to Finca Sueno De OSA. Highly recommend if you are looking for solitude in nature and want to go on some challenging but rewarding hikes.

The owners were wonderful! Filip shared his passionate knowledge about the area and nature with us which made our stay very special.
A beautiful setting and lovely home cooked food.

Absolutely fantastic breathtaking place. Worth to choose the better bigger villa with terrace. We were sitting every day listening to birds, lot of birds were flying over our heads (scarlet macaws, toucans, hummingbirds, green parrots…). Blue morphos butterflies flying around. Filip and his family are extremely kind and nice, cooking warm breakfast and dinner (local), which was very tasty. This is a big advantage because you could eat very tasty local food which you could not easily find in restaurants.
We were doing a night tour with Filip and saw a snake, tarantula, centipedes, frogs… All trails are private, no people around! Absolutely breathtaking was to see the biggest ceiba in Corcovado, about 500 years old tree! Also amazing was to see giant matapalos, lianas which killed a tree and grow instead of it. If you are lucky, you can see Maria, a sloth coming every year staying around 4 months. We would like to come again for at least a week next year. Thanks a lot for very nice stay.

An unambiguous highlight of our 6week trip to Costa Rica. This special place is deep in the Osa rainforrest and borders the Corcovado national park. Filip is incredibly knowledgable about nature in general and flora and fauna of Costa Rica in particular. He and his wife were great hosts and we much enjoyed our common breakfast and dinner and getting to know each other. They have build a range of superb hiking trails on their 100acre property to wander off into the untouched nature. The little cabins are pretty basic but well designed and this was just what we were looking for. Make sure you have a decent awd/4x4 to geth there. We hope to visit again when returning to Costa Rica

We had the most amazing time here! Filip and Nielsy were incredible and kind hosts. The food was delicious, the accommodation was very clean and comfortable. We picked the smaller cabin, and we had an amazing view from there, and we had everything we needed. It was amazing to have the freedom to do hikes in the jungle and just be in Osa, especially when hikes through Corcovado National Park are shut in October. Filip was also so knowledgeable on naming species we had seen that day. We can't wait to come back, it was the find of our holiday! We loved every second and wished we had booked a longer stay here. We can't thank Filip and Nielsy enough for making our time so memorable.

The place is amazing in pristine rainforest and surrounded by nothing but nature. There is many trails maintained by the owner to make sure you can explore the rainforest.
The drive to the place needs a 4wd but is also a great opportunity to spot wildlife (toucans, macaws, monkeys, etc...)

Fantastic spot and Filip was a great and interesting host

If you want an authentic jungle experience, this is the place to go! Located in the middle of the jungle the accommodation is rather basic but extraordinarily charming.
The hosts are extremely friendly, welcoming and helpful, and also very knowledgeable about the jungle. You can use the several trails they have prepared to hike on your own in the jungle or ask their help.
The homemade food was tasty, nourishing and very reasonable priced.
I'd come back any time.

Room and board far from the crowds at this small, remote farm run by Filip and his family. Good, wholesome home made meals that, as a solo traveler, I enjoyed eating with the family and other guests. Beautiful setting that borders on the national park. I loved my walks in the tropical forest, and the amazing soundscape of exotic birds and animals.

This was an incredible experience during our stay in Costa Rica. An adventure in itself. A great alternative to the expensive/touristy Corcovado national park.
There are 40 kms of trail in the property, more or less tough to hike but it is part of the adventure. You really feel like you have the jungle for yourself as it is a private property and there are only 2 cabins available. We saw plenty of animals (monkeys, spiders, frogs, scarlet macaws, toucans, insects, ...).
Filip is extremely nice and knowledgable about Costa Rica and its biodiversity. He helped us identified the animals we saw.
He also offers night walk for free (but we did not do it).
The food was good. It is nice to have lunch with everyone. It feels like you are staying at a typical Costa Rican home.

We loved the magical Shangri-la feel of this place, surrounded by primary rainforest. They strive to be self sufficient and all the constantly available electricity is solar from panels on the property. The inclusive breakfast is plentiful and delicious, and different every day. The other meals are paid for and at a time that suits you, and are equally plentiful and delicious. The meals are family style and a great time to share tales of the day, and yes, as everyone says, Felip is a great cook, but so are Nielsy and her niece, so the food is always great. The fresh spring water from the tap is delicious too! Felipe is great at understanding what you want from your stay and making sure you get it

It was marvelous to be in such a remote place experiencing the primary forest. Beautiful views of the Gulfo Dulce and nice birding. Lovely family owns/operates the lodge and we really enjoyed meeting them and learning from them about the area and the wildlife. Also the meals were quite good. So amazing to be somewhere with no light pollution and no road noise.

Filipe and his family were the most gracious hosts imaginable. Extremely welcoming and very knowledgable on the local flora/ fauna. The place is far away from the nearest town, which is great if you want to switch off from the day to day life.