The town of Jacó Beach is the closest readily accessible beach to San José due to the new highway opened in Februar 2010 and Jacó is certainly the liveliest and most developed beach town on the Pacific coast. One attraction is the surf and surfers love the consistent beach break here and the neighboring Playa Hermosa is blessed with consistent year-round surf breaks. In August of 2009, the International Surf Association held the WORLD MASTERS SURFING CHAMPIONSHIP hosted by Billabong in Jacó as well as surrounding areas like the popular surfing destination Playa Hermosa, which is located five minutes south of the town of Jaco.
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The active village of Jaco is full of life at all hours of the day and night. There are souvenir shops, local clothing and artisan shops, ice-cream stands, close to 100 restaurants and bars, four casinos and several discotheques where you can dance until the morning breaks. Because of Jacós closeness to the Central Valley, the 4 km long straight stretch of Jacó Beach is frequented not only by tourist and surfers from all over the world, it is also the most popular beach for the young Costa Rican crowd. We recommend Jacó plainly for beach-life, sunbathing, beach-games, beach-walks, beach horse-back rides or for young families, on a small to medium budget and to surfers. Although you will find many hotels in the Jaco area, from basic Cabinas to breathtaking Hotels and Mansions.










Because of Jacó’s unique bio-diversity and overpowering coastal beauty that is composed of brown, black and white sand beaches, which include Costa Rica’s, top three commercial beaches. Jacó is surrounded with the eco-amenities that all tourists come to the country for, such as two of the largest ecological reserves being Manuel Antonio in the south and the 15 miles north located Carrara National park, recognized for it´s scarlet macaws, toucans and white faced monkeys. Other activities such as canopy, aerial trams, ATV and horseback-riding, kayaking and scuba diving are offered around the area and for all nature tours you have to drive a little. You can enjoy some of the backlands if you take a horseback-ride or a ATV-Tour up to the hills, that offer beautiful views and lots of wildlife or at about 15 miles north of Jacó, lies the popular  Carara National Park.












Located in neighboring, 3 miles "far" Herradura is the popular resort Los Sueños, which contains a 5 star Marriot hotel, one of only 9 golf courses in the country and a top-notch and Costa Rica's most exlusive marina. The addition of Los Sueños to the Jaco area has aided tremendously in the growth of the area, creating many jobs for locals as well as establishing the Jaco area as an elite destination among tourists in the Central Pacific Region and made it the number one spot for offshore-fishing, especially for sailfish, Marlin and Dorado.