If you're looking for a good blend of comfort and adventure, check out Costa Rica Expedition's Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp, which is built on a low bluff right above the beach. Forested mountains rise up behind the tent camp, and just a few minutes' walk away is the entrance to Corcovado National Park. Just reaching this lodge is an adventure in itself. You can either take a five-seat chartered plane to the gravel landing strip at Carate and then walk for 45 minutes to the lodge, or take the lodge's specially designed pontoon boat from Golfito or Puerto Jim nez. Once you're there, you have a real sense of being away from it all.
Accommodations are in large tents pitched on wooden decks.
Each tent has two twin beds, a table, and a couple of chairs on the front deck. Toilets and showers are a short walk away, but there are enough so that there's usually no waiting. Meals are served in a large screen-walled dining room furnished with picnic tables. A separate but similar building is furnished with hammocks, a small bar, and a few board games. Services at the lodge include guided walks and boat excursions, both into the national park and out to Ca o Island.