Costa Rica Family Vacations

Costa Rica is a natural playground for the curious, the active, and the eco-minded. With more than a quarter of the country protected as national parks or reserves, it’s a place where cloud forests meet volcanic hot springs, and scarlet macaws fly over palm-lined beaches. Whether you're watching sloths in the rainforest canopy, white-water rafting through jungle gorges, or learning to surf on the Pacific coast, every day brings a new kind of adventure.

What we love about Costa Rica is its incredible biodiversity packed into such a compact space. You can go from the Caribbean to the Pacific in under a day, with strikingly different landscapes, cultures, and wildlife along the way. It’s this mix that makes it so rewarding and so easy to tailor. One day you could be waking up to howler monkeys in a rainforest lodge, the next paddling through mangroves or zip-lining above the treetops.

Costa Rica is also leading the way in sustainable tourism, with an impressive commitment to conservation and community. Many of the places we recommend stay at the forefront of this, like the wildlife-rich Osa Peninsula, or the Arenal region, where eco-lodges blend into the surrounding forest.

If you’re after a holiday that balances comfort with adventure, and nature with authenticity, Costa Rica is an easy choice – and one you’ll be talking about for years.