ALSO SEE OUR 3 BR LISTING with pool table VRBO 573635 **300 Mbps fiber optic internet/cable TV plus 100 Mbps backup, see below the list of 106 types of birds seen from this house in 30 days ** Here is the complete, unedited review from guest Dan of Ontario, Canada: "This was one of the most beautiful homes I have stayed in ... The pictures do not do it justice it is much better in person ... The kitchen was our favourite! New appliances and everything you need was provided... Currently staying at a very expensive apartment in Tamarindo and does not provide anything, a coffee maker or frying pans or even hot water! I miss this home in Heredia! Some other positives are the manager picked me up at the airport, took me for groceries, got to the house it was very clean, the internet was fast, I recommend bringing apple tv ;) it does have satellite TV, beautiful view, the grocery store was relatively close by ... the weather was never too hot or too cold it was always perfect. Anyway I recommend this house hope to stay again someday soon!" (end of Dan's review, and yes, he and his wife became repeat customers) Owner Steve's property description: As Dan stated, we will pick you up at my expense at the airport or your car rental office, so you will not have a problem finding the place, and we will take you grocery shopping at a nice nearby supermarket on the way to the house. If needed we will arrange a taxi back to the airport at your expense. This newer 2 BR 2 Bath is in a park-like country setting, yet close to the city. It is an architect designed passive solar penthouse with high end materials and artistic details. All ceilings, cabinets and doors are renewable teak. Spring weather year round (high 70's/23-26 C, never too hot). 3 roofed balconies catch sun and birds all day. Electric gate with remote, part time handyman-gardener-mechanic, covered parking for 2 cars. All floors and bathrooms have imported Spanish tile, ceramic and stained glass artwork by local artists, an all glass separate sunroom with stationary exercise bike, fully furnished and equipped with US appliances including new dishwasher, new teak queen bed frames with Guatemalan bedspreads, Fiber optic 300 Mbps internet and cable TV, TWO Wifi internet systems running simultaneously exclusive to this house (the backup wifi is 100 Mbps) to drive ALL your wireless devices simultaneously and run clear video calls, landline and 49 inch LED Smart TV hooked to wifi (your Netflix and Youtube will run on TV), 3 desks (two with amazing views), granite kitchen island seats 7, fully screened but well above the mosquito altitude zone, all rooms have ceiling fans, but the natural cross ventilation from local breeze allows easy temperature adjustment. 30 minutes to the downtown National Theater and the museums, 25 minutes to the Universidad Nacional (UNA) in Heredia. Under 2 1/2 hours by car to either Atlantic or Pacific beaches. 20 minutes to the 2013 Lincoln Mall, 30 minutes to the new Oxigeno (2018) mall and recreation site with first run movies and top restaurants, 12 minutes to the Brumas del Zurqui coffee shop with the coffee judged best in the world in 2012. 12 minutes to the Toucan Rescue Ranch exotic animal park. 14 minutes to the award winning Bougainvillea hotel gardens and restaurant, 13 minutes to the Bromelias del Rio restaurant and bakery, 18 minutes to the Sibu organic chocolate factory-restaurant and tour, 17 minutes to the new Riverside Pizzeria and Gastropub, 30 minutes to the Britt coffee tour farm and packing plant. 60 minutes to the Jungle Tram or Zoo Ave bird sanctuary, 1.5 hours to the Sarchi woodworking town or the Lankester gardens. No Pets, No smoking. We call this the Birdwatching House. Marilyn and Bill of Michigan saw 25 kinds of birds in a one week stay, Drew of Canada saw over 40 kinds of birds in a 20 day stay, but the record is now held by Bruce and Joan of Vancouver, who saw the 106 kinds of birds listed below in a 30 day stay in Feb 2019: Brown jay Blue and white swallow Black vulture Indigo bunting Great Kiskadee Greyish Saltator Clay-coloured thrush Turkey vulture Cattle egret Rufous tailed hummingbird Band-tailed pigeon Red-billed pigeon Bullocks oriole Baltimore oriole Social flycatcher Summer tanager Lesser goldfinch Peregrine falcon Sharp-shinned Hawk Rufous-collared sparrow Hoffman woodpecker Lineated woodpecker Rose-breasted grosbeak Tennessee warbler Ruddy pigeon Western kingbird Belted kingfisher Montezuma oropendola Little blue Huron Blue-gray tanager Cerulean warbler Rough-legged tyrannulet Paltry tyrannulet Melodious blackbird Gray-necked wood-Rail (sound) Great-tailed grackle Black phoebe Common Bush-tanager Common ground dove Cooper’s hawk Flame-coloured tanager Tropical kingbird Ringed kingfisher Common pauraque Great black-hawk Vermillion flycatcher Gray hawk Golden-bellied flycatcher Lesser greenlet Gray-headed chachalaca Common Nighthawk (sound) Great blue heron Philadelphia vireo Great egret Common Tody-flycatcher Snowy egret Rock pigeon Crimson-fronted parakeet White-winged dove White-napes brush-finch Greenish Elaenia Brown-crested flycatcher Red-lored parrot House wren Fiery-throated hummingbird Sulphur-winged parakeet Golden-olive woodpecker Crested caracara Yellow-winged vireo Chestnut-collared swift Vaux swift Ochraceous wren Broad-winged hawk White-eared Ground-sparrow Hepatic tanager Inca dove Northern harrier Buff-throated saltator Mountain thrush Black-headed Nightingale-thrush Yellow Tyrannulet Yellow-bellied elaenia Northern rough-winged swallow Piratic flycatcher Striped owl (sound) Orchard oriole Golden-naped woodpecker Black-headed Saltator Slate-coloured Saltator Yellow warbler Yellow-winged warbler Boat-billed flycatcher Sooty robin Masked tityra Rufous-capped warbler Blue Dacnis Chestnut-sided warbler Orange-billed nightingale-thrush Yellow-faced grassquit Gray-breasted wood-wren Slaty antwren Yellow-bellied seedeater Cabanis’s Wren Dusky-capped flycatcher Gray catbird White hawk