If you cant see the video, please. Located in the heart of downtown San Jose, this five-story hotel, built in 1930, is adjacent to the Culture Square and the National Theater. In addition to free parking, this entirely nonsmoking hotel offers laundry facilities, fitness equipment, and airport transportation (surcharge), Valet Parking Service. For those traveling on business, conference and meeting rooms, wireless Internet access in public areas, and a business center are available. Our hotel offers for your convenience 104 rooms Distributed as follows: 52 STANDARD 44 SUPERIOR 5 JR. SUITE 2 SUITE 1 MASTER SUITE. We are very happy to announce that we recently signed an agreement with one of the best and most experienced Tour Operators in the country, Swiss Travel, they are providing tours all over the country for our guests and visitors, who can depart directly from our lobby. (From 06 am to 08 pm). Please contact them at the main lobby next to the stairs or check their information at www.swisstravelcr.com/. We are also proud to inform that we have in house, as well, one of the best rent a car companies in the country, EUROPCAR. They are available for you at the main lobby of the hotel and their vehicles are parked in our property for immediate deliver. (From 8:00am and 8:00pm). Web Site: Live Piano Concerts all day and evening. Art Gallery - Cafeteria. Open air Patio Restaurant in front of the National Theater. Fitness equipment - Gym. Lobby furnished with European antiques. Free Internet facilities. Internet access in public areas and rooms. Complimentary breakfast. Restaurant(s) in hotel. Room service (24 hours). Cell phone/mobile rental. Audio-visual equipment. Number of rooms: 104. Gift shops or newsstand. Dry cleaning service. Airport transportation (surcharge). Limo or Town Car service available. Dining A complimentary buffet breakfast is offered each morning. CAFE 1930 Our famous 24 hour open air patio restaurant serves your favorite breakfast, plus lunch and dinner specials. During lunch we have live piano music, every day. Restaurant 1930 Enjoy our fine dinning while you listen to live piano, cello and violin music. THE GOLDEN FROG BAR EL BUFO DORADO Enjoy our new wood finished bar El Bufo Dorado (The Golden Frog), furnished in leather with exotic fresh fruit cocktails. Menu features 25 Spanish entrees, with live jazz music every night. ART GALLEERY AND CAFE Las Arcadas, enjoy exhibitions of the best Costa Rican artists. RECREATION INTERNET FACILITIES Business or pleasure. Enjoy our recreation facilities. 56 TV, Comfortable sofas, Professional Pool Table, 24-hour High Speed Free Internet Access, Bar-Restaurant service, Chess and Dart Games. WIRELESS INTERNET Available the 24-hour wireless Internet service in the rooms, the Lobby and Restaurants. GYM Open every day between 6:00 am to 10:00 pm. State of the art gym equipment in a relaxed atmosphere. ICE CREAM STORE POPS Costa Rica's most famous ICE CREAM FRANCHISE STORE POPS is located in the North-East corner of the Hotel's building, where tourist can enjoy a variety of over one hundred flavors as well as the world wide spanish sandwich Entre-pans DRUGSTORE FARMACIA ITALIANA We also offer the convenient drugstore FARMACIA ITALIANA located also on the North Side of the Hotel in case you might need any pharmaceutical product or similar. PUERTO MADERO MORANGO, High Quality Leather Goods A fine Boutique for men and women, offering an exclusive line of brazilian clothes for many occasions, leather shoes and nice colorful beach outfits. For your convenience you will find an english spoken attention. For any further information please contact at the phone (506) 223 1734. For more information about our special events Download a PowerPiont presentation. Grand Hotel Costa Rica - Rack Rates SEASON 2008

There are 104 guestrooms and five suites spanning five floors, all of which offer antique reproduction furnishings and neo-classical decor. Our newly remodeled rooms have telephone, Satelite T.V., Mini-Bar, Classic 1930 Classic 1930 bathtub and views of the National Theater and surrounding plazas, coffee maker machine, plus 24 hours room service and same day laundry service. Classic 1930 bathtub. Digital security box. (Max. occupancy per room is 2 adults or 2 adults 2 child). Ample two bed room with great view of the Historic Center. Classic wood furniture. Wood desk and reading lamp. Two bed ample room with great view of the Historic Center. Lobby or reading room. Two bed room with great view of the Historic Center. Three areas: hall, living room and bedroom. Classic wood style furniture. Plasma Satellite T.V. Four areas: lobby, living room, dining room and bedroom

Located in the heart of downtown San Jose, this five-story hotel, built in 1930, is adjacent to the Culture Square and the National Theater. In addition to free parking, this entirely nonsmoking hotel offers laundry facilities, fitness equipment, and airport transportation (surcharge), Valet Parking Service. For those traveling on business, conference and meeting rooms, wireless Internet access in public areas, and a business center are available.

Select your language: The only hotel in Costa Rica declared as a Historical - Architectural landmark by the Costa Rican Government. The Best Location in town! In the heart of the city... yet in between National Monuments, squares, museums and pedestrian streets. It is vivid during the day but quiet during the night thanks to the fact that no streets with vehicles surround the hotel. Click here to see The Gran Hotel Costa Rica video. Free admission to our Guests. National Theater of Costa Rica. Dining at the Gran Hotel Costa Rica The Grand Hotel Costa Rica has 5 distinctive dining areas, talent pianists for lunch and dinner, and 4 different menus waiting for you, with an international menu that covers from a typical dish to cheeseburger. You will also find the best sea food and steaks, or if you prefer a light and tasty crepe. Read more and see our NEW Web Site! Tours and Rent a Car in Gran Hotel Costa Rica. Reserve your tour and rent your car directly at our hotel lobby, in Swiss Travel and Europcar??s offices. More about Swiss Travel. The History of Grand Hotel Costa Rica. The idea to establish the first big hotel in the then small Costa Rica of that time arose in 1920, when the flourishing coffee exports became our main trade activity, around which the social-cultural life of the country took place. Those distinguished men traveled to Europe to educate themselves and commercialize the valuable product on which our economy was sustained. Inspired by the beauty of the Opera House in Paris, they promoted the opening of our National Theater in 1897, a replica of the magnificent French building in the quiet city of San Jos?. More about Grand Hotel Costa Rica. Copyright 2008 ? Grand Hotel Costa Rica. Customer Service +011 (506) 2221-4000 - Reservations 1-800-949-0592

The idea to establish the first big hotel in the then small Costa Rica of that time arose in 1920, when the flourishing coffee exports became our main trade activity, around which the socio-cultural life of the country took place. Those distinguished men traveled to Europe to educate themselves and commercialize the valuable product on which our economy was sustained. Inspired by the beauty of the Opera House in Paris, they promoted the opening of our National Theater in 1897, a replica of the magnificent French building in the quiet city of San Jos?. It was followed in 1930 by the opening of Gran Hotel Costa Rica, with a majestic five-story building that offers one hundred and twenty rooms, an example of beautiful neoclassic architecture, located in front of the square where the statue of the first Costa Rican President, Juan Mora Fern?ndez, is displayed, and diagonal to the superb National Theater. It was such a significant event for the country that the Government of the Republic decided to build the roads to the Po?s and Iraz?? Volcanoes to promote visits by foreign tourists. Great and famous people who have visited our country have stayed at Gran Hotel Costa Rica, such as the U.S. Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, and sports and movie stars, like the King Pel?, John Wayne, Cantinflas, Julio Iglesias, among others. In the 21st century, Gran Hotel Costa Rica, together with the National Theater, Las Arcadas, the Juan Mora Fern?ndez Square, Plaza de la Cultura Square, the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum and the beautiful surrounding buildings declared to be part of our historical patrimony, conform the cultural-historical circuit of our capital city. Gran Hotel Costa Rica maintains its exquisite architectural style, a delicate reminiscence from the beginning of 1900, where the 21st century visitors may start touring the capital city. Just getting out of our hotel, you can get inspired by the architectural beauty of the National Theater, the Costa Rican site most visited by tourists. Inside the Theater, you will enjoy the magnificent finishes, the beautiful antique furniture, frescoes and sculptures, as well as the best concerts, operas and plays at night. After enjoying the National Theater on the East side of Gran Hotel Costa Rica visit the underground museum located beneath the Plaza de la Cultura Square, the impressive Pre-Columbian Gold Museum of Costa Rica, which houses a large collection of more than 2000 archeological gold artifacts, an artistic and historical treasure of the indigenous groups that lived in Costa Rica. You can enjoy the national Jade Museum located three hundred meters North of Gran Hotel Costa Rica, currently the only existing museum of pre-Columbian jade, featuring the biggest exhibit of this type of collection. And you cannot miss the former Bella Vista Fortress, currently the National Museum, located 400 meters East of Gran Hotel Costa Rica. It is an old and majestic fortress built in 1917, declared to be part of our historical patrimony, and which, after the abolishment of the army in Costa Rica, became the site of the National Museum, a museum founded in 1897. The Museum occupied various public buildings in San Jos?, being finally settled in 1949 at the building formerly occupied by the Bella Vista Fortress. The National Museum features an exhibit of 45,000 Pre-Columbian artifacts, made of stone, as well as ceramics, colonial paintings and sculptures of sacred arts, documents of great historical value, stamps, textiles, weapons and antique furniture, among others. The National Herbarium is located at the same museum, featuring 190,000 specimens, including 60,000 insects, 8,000 Costa Rican birds, as well as rocks, fossils, mollusks and vertebrates. Av. Central y Segunda Entre calles 1 y 3 Apartado 527-100 San Jose, Costa Rica. Telephone: (506) 2221-4000 info@grandhotelcostarica.com. Reservation Toll Free: 1-800-949-0592 (US)

 Guest rooms have air conditioning
 Luggage storage
 Breakfast may be served in the room
 Central situation
 Clothes dry cleaning
 Conference and meeting room
 Credit cards accepted
 Dinner may be served in the room
 Facsimile services
 Games room
 Hairdryer
 Access to internet
 Laundry services/washing machine
 Licensed bar
 Smoke-free guest rooms
 Parking lot
 Clock/radio
 Restaurant
 Around-the-clock room service
 Shop on premises
 Private/Ensuite bathroom
 Tea and coffee making facilities
 Phone at reception
 Phones in rooms
 TV sets in rooms
 Patio, summer terrace
 Common room with a TV set