While many national parks still remain difficult to reach and minimally serviced, La Pacifica offers the ideal combination of outdoor activities, ecological focus, and comfortable accommodations. Everything about the place is wonderful. There's a large dairy herd, irrigated fields, experimental agriculture, and research center. Various nature studies are conducted by outside sources each year, using the Hacienda as their base. Even the resort makes an effort to maintain the environmental focus.
Guests find their rooms stocked with natural soaps and shampoos.
Located two hours north of San Jose, beside the Interamerican Highway, La Pacifica is easy to reach on the Liberia bus. Once the summer retreat of a Costa Rican president and named for his wife, the Hacienda became the property of a Swiss immigrant family. Environmentally committed, they gave the hacienda its present focus, although the property is now owned by a corporation. With its large dairy herd, morning milkings provide a fun outing for children. Accommodations are in small bungalows with porches, set under shady trees.