Exotic Getaway Close to Home

The Palms Residence Club is right on Playa Flamingo (Flamingo Beach) on the country's stunning northwestern Pacific coast. This is the Guanacaste region, named for the majestic national tree, and famed for the vast expanse of coastline dotted with countless magnificent beaches, dramatic scenery, charming villages, and the country's greatest concentration of national parks.

The clear, blue Pacific waters and the warm year-round climate lure visitors anxious to unwind on a palm-studded playa, or to enjoy the thrill of world-class diving, surfing and sport fishing, and to venture off to canopy tours, thermal hot springs, rafting, jet skiing, sailing and more.

Guanacaste has charmed the well-heeled and the well known, including Madonna, Bruce Willis, Meg Ryan, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, and many others. What brings them to Guanacaste? The same things that tempt everyone: The best water sports, sunbathing, sport fishing and inland adventures Costa Rica has to offer, easy accessibility, and the opportunity to own a piece of paradise.