Grupo Islita, Costa Rican capital business, expands its tourist offer, offering clients not only a beach hotel, Punta Islita in Guanacaste, but a mountain hotel, the new Hotel El Silencio Lodge & Spa barely 2 hours from the international airport Juan Santamaría.
To get there you travel between green mountains and very colorful places. When you reach the hotel, there are 2 10 hectares of cloud forest, the mountains of the Central Volcanic mountain range, in Bajos del Toro Amarillo, Valverde Vega, Alajuela. The hotel is surrounded by National Parks: Juan Castro Blanco and Poas Volcano, enjoying a deliciously fresh climate, trails with high biological diversity, waterfalls and an exuberant natural landscape.
It's on ecologically friendly hotel, offering close encounters with nature, and a comfortable, high-level ambiance in harmony with its entourage. The hotel offers Eco-concierges, "non-smoking policies", an organic vegetable garden, uses no chlorine or disposable water bottles and owns a sewage treatment plant. It's a modern tourism concept, implementing the responsible Tourism action initiative or RTI (Responsible Tourism Initiative) so successfully applied in the community of Punta Islita, Guanacaste.
It has provided development means for local dwellers: employment, cultural promotion, small business management, educational programs and artistic development. Benefits expected are the integration of communities located in the nearby areas of Hotel El Silencio.
El Silencio has 16 beautiful and comfortable deluxe suites with on architectural design in tune with the natural and environmental characteristics, elaborated with eco-friendly materials, huge window panes with a view to the mountains, and a rustic, open-air Jacuzzi.
A spa surrounded by the forest, the staff in charge of health and beauty offers relaxation treatments, and therapies for well-being, based on natural and fresh ingredients. The Spa also has a conic room, designed in concert with ancient practices, to channel positive energies and detoxify body and spirit from daily stress, revitalizing, purifying and renewing the mind and body.
Cuisine is a Costa Rican fusion: dishes are prepared with organic products, creatively elaborated by the Costa Rican chef Marco González. He has united local traditions and flavors, blending spices and techniques from other latitudes as Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Many of the products consumed are cultivated by local farm workers, carefully chosen by Chef Marco; dishes are exquisite, and use no red meats:, very wholesome and healthy.
