Frequently Asked Questions

We are in the town of Ojochal, a town noted for having great restaurants.  Ojochal has about 1800 year round residents and more in the winter months.  The town is more like a village than a town and many of the restaurants, hotels and attractions are not readily visible on first glance.  Although we don't have much of a downtown, we have nearly 35 restaurants and bars in town as well as 11 hotels.  Most are on side roads off of the main road.  We have a super market, a gourmet food store, wine bar, liquor, gas station, French bakery, gift shop, garden center, hardware center, etc.  The next town north of us is Uvita where there are a number of large commercial plazas selling everything from furniture to appliances, a farmers market on Saturday, two very modern supermarkets, banks, etc.  There is a duty free port in Golfito, about an hour away where we can buy things like flat screen televisions, sub zero fridges, high end stoves like Viking, Jenn Air, DCS and Wolf and any really high end appliance you might want like Bosch dishwashers or Fisher and Paykel Washers, Roper or Maytag Front loaders, etc..  The town of San Isidro, about a hour's drive from us has a Walmart, owned by Walmart but having a different name in Costa Rica.   We sometimes go to Dominical for nightlife since there is a better live music scene there and now with the new highway nearly complete, we are only about an hour's drive to Quepos.  We have Cortez to our south, the country seat of the area and Palmar Norte and Palmar Sur are about 30 minutes south of us.  We are less than two hours from Panama and many owners in our developments go there to get their 90 day tourist visa renewed.