El Silencio Lodge & Spa

Environmentalism gone high-end, deep in the cloud forest of Bajos del Toro: the forest first, the luxury a close second.

Four-star · From $600 per nightAny mandatory hotel fees are shown before you confirm.

Golden hour over Bajos del Toro

Bajos del Toro · Costa Rica

A sense of the place

El Silencio Lodge & Spa — suite — A Deluxe Suite cabin at El Silencio Lodge & Spa in its cloud-forest garden: a teal timber cabin under a brown tile roof, its covered deck with two wooden lounge chairs and the lit bedroom behind sliding glass, a wooden door and a lit window, framed by overhanging branches, ferns and a lawn, with a gravel path and the suite's number plate on a post; nobody in frame — © El Silencio Lodge & Spa

El Silencio Lodge & Spa — exterior — El Silencio Lodge & Spa at blue dusk: the main lodge with its glass gable on exposed timber trusses, the lounge and restaurant lit behind the glazing and a stone chimney trailing smoke, the low wings with lit terraces of tables and chairs, a mown lawn with garden chairs in front and the cloud forest climbing the mountain behind in mist; two small figures at the far right edge, by the terrace and the stone wall — © El Silencio Lodge & Spa

Why it's in the collection

Because Costa Rica was doing ecotourism before anyone else and this most socially minded of tropical paradises was among the first to fuse green with luxury the right way round — environmentalism first, high-end second: the guest is expected to appreciate the natural cleaning products and the low-consumption bulbs along with the thread count, and the cloud forest is best met outside the room, which the lodge makes easy.

In the cloud forest of Bajos del Toro, in the highlands north-west of San José; independent house.
Suites with fine linens and private hot tubs; a guide desk that lines up the forest on foot, horseback, raft, bike and zip-line; the spa with treatments drawn from the jungle; the option of offsetting the flight by funding the lodge's forest conservation.
Two MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 selection; holds four-star standing.

Rooms at El Silencio Lodge & Spa

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Which room do you need?

Deluxe Suite

the mist-covered cloud forest surroundings

From $1,800 per night

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Two-Bedroom Suite

the cloud forest or crystalline streams

From $1,800 per night

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Three-Bedroom Villa

Sleeps 8

From $1,800 per night

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From the hotel's website, checked Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

Address — 20101 Bajos del Toro

From the hotel's website, checked Oct 15, 2026

The neighborhood

Dusk over Bajos del Toro

Bajos del Toro

A valley of cloud forest and waterfalls in the highlands north-west of San José, with one lodge in the forest. The valley holds the Toro and Catarata del Toro falls, trout streams and coffee farms on the slopes, about two hours from the capital.

The cloud forest and its waterfalls, at the door.
The Catarata del Toro, thirty minutes; the Poás volcano, an hour.
San José airport, about two hours.

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