Gran Hotel Costa Rica
San José

Travel to Costa Rica is currently offering a seasonal special.  Your San José portion of your vacation package can be spent at the wonderful five star Gran Hotel for only $50 more!

The Gran Hotel Costa Rica, in business since 1930, is a majestic five-story building that is an example of beautiful neoclassic architecture, located in front of the square where the statue of the first Costa Rican President, Juan Mora Fernández, is displayed, and diagonal to the superb National Theater.

The Gran Hotel’s central location, just 20 minutes from the International Airport, enables easy access to the National Theater, Plaza de la Cultura and pre-Columbian Gold Museum all which are adjacent to the hotel.  Within a few minutes walk you can visit the Jade Museum, one of the world's largest exhibits of pre-Columbian jade, Costa Rica's National Museum, which features over 40,000 pre-Columbian artifacts plus local handicraft markets and restaurants.

Even with modernization, the Gran Hotel has maintained its neo classic architecture and European style charm.  The Gran Hotel Costa Rica, located in the "Corazón" or heart of our capital city, invites you to experience the original charm and friendliness that has made our hotel "the place to stay in San José." 

The Gran Hotel Costa Rica offers one hundred and twenty ample carpeted rooms, with view towards the National Theater and Plaza de Cultura; bathrooms with tub, satellite TV, casino, restaurant and piano bar open twenty four hours a day, coffee shop-terrace, halls for special events, private parking lot, laundry service, ice cream parlor, drugstore and optics store.