This is a lovely hotel with exquisite grounds that reflect the natural beauty of Costa Rica. The staff are pleasant and accommodating. The casitas are charming with a bohemian and tropical feel. The vistas from the casitas are outstanding and the pool side rooms enjoy the beautiful landscapes. Yes, it is a steep climb to one of the casitas but ...what a great work out! The casitas have fans only, no ac. We loved the hammocks and wish there were more, also more comfortable sitting for outside the casistas. I would suggest to the management that they upgrade the mattresses and sheets, as they were dingy, ill-fitting and gave the feel of a less desirous hotel. The town is very alive at night, so bring your earplugs or join in the wonderful madness!

We where four adults, renting one of the houses. The one with two bedsrooms. The location is very good, but Montezuma is such a small place, so any location would be good. We wanted to stay in the house because it had kitchen. The kitchen was nice, clean, quite new. But, the whole house is crooked. And not just a bit. You get seasick just crossing the floor. I never experienced that before. The one bedroom down stairs is build on a later stange, and is dragging the house down the hill. We where a big scared actually. One day that house will fall apart.

They have also build a terrace, with greate view. Except that big three blocking everything. The whole hotel had no comfortable chairs! None! We only got two chairs on the terrace, which was weird because we are four persons. We asked for two more chairs. The owner thought that was very strange, nobody had ever asked for that before. (?) After asking two times, they got us two plastic chairs, which where sooo much more comfortable then the wooden chairs they have. Another thing is that the owner was not sure if the terrace could hold the weight of four adults!!! WARNING!

The house was clean, hot shower, be aware that the housekeepers likes cocolate.

We had a good time, and fed alot of the animals outside the house! One skunk and 3 different racoons came by every night.

The pool is clean, of course the sunbeds are not comfortable. And there is not sun many hours during the day around the pool.

They have free coffee, at the reception, but, remember to bring your own cup from your room!

In the end: To pricy!! And scary with the house beeing so crooked. Maybe the private rooms as better, I hope so. There is also no A/C in the houses.. seriously, how much can that coast to get...

Montezuma is a tiny town, but El Jardin is located right in the centre of it all. We stayed here over the New Year so prices were a bit inflated, but overall we were happy with our choice. The steps up to the rooms are STEEP so be prepared. The rooms themsleves are nice and spacious and are clean. The bathroom was also clean. We enjoyed the pool area but found that sometimes there were not enough chairs since the place was fully booked. Our room had A/C but we would have liked to have had a fan as an option. We were unable to keep the windows open as they did not have a screen and we would have been eaten alive by mosquitios.
The hotel also offers free coffee in the mornings in the reception area.

Overall I give Hotel El Jardin 2 thumbs up!

We stayed in the two bedroom villa at the top of the hill. The steps up to the loft bedroom are steep but worth the climb, great view of the ocean. A breeze travels through the villa therefore not having A/C is not an issue. The staff are very friendly, the pool is refreshing and you are steps away from the action. If you are booking tours, go across the street to the tour company's. We were stood up by our boat captain (Tortuga Island) that was booked through the front desk. We were told that weather was the factor for cancellation, but it was a beautiful day. No problem finding alternate arrangements.