This is really beautiful hotel in the city. Super clean and very professional staff. The restaurant there is also excellent. We had dinner and breakfast. It is a little pricey but worth it. The only thing that is a little tricky is there is not much to do around the hotel. Also, there is a roof top jacuzzi that is great after you spend a week traveling through CR. I would stay there again if I was in San Jose.

The hotel is very nice, but if you can skip San Jose - do so. There is NOTHING to do. I thought we would be able to walk around and visit stores and have dinner. Boy, was I wrong. We walked up the boulevard and it is just filled with junk type discount stores. We ended up eating at Wendy's or something like that.....so disappointed.

The great thing about the Hotel Grano de Oro is that most of us have heard not to spend that much time in San Jose, that there isn't much to see, etc. So when you pull up to HGO, you feel that you found a gem because it's such a wonderful hotel with tons of character. We stayed one night before we left for Tabacon and it was such a wonderful first night. We had a cute room facing an outdoor courtyard. There are multiple rooms scattered about the hotel with tons of winding hallways! The manager left us a tropical fruit plate since it was our honeymoon which was nice. The room was moderate sized and the bathroom spacious. Everything was extremely clean. The front desk was extremely helpful. We ate dinner the first night at the hotel which was delicious and then the next day, we had breakfast in the courtyard which was lovely!! We took the advice of the front desk and did a 3 hour walk through downtown which was great to just experience the city. We walked back to HGO and used their hot tub which was really nice (although not that hot). If there was more to do in San Jose or the hotel was closer to the airport, we would have stayed longer. The hotel does offer pickup from the San Jose airport to their hotel for $30 which was reasonable and our driver was super nice!

We have been to San Jose in 1996, 1998 and again this year. Each time we have stayed at Hotel Grano de Oro and although it has changed over the years, it still has the feel of a small luxury hotel with wonderful, friendly staff. The rooms are updated and very comfortable. The restaurant, while expensive, is fair value for the money. Everything about this hotel is professional and done with the guest in mind. Cannot imagine staying anywhere else in San Jose.