Hotel Cristal Ballena Costa Rica’s Southern Pacific

Breathtaking Ocean Views

Welcome to the Hotel Cristal Ballena, your dream destination in the south of Costa Rica! The hotel—with bar, restaurant, 19 fully equipped and spacious suites, 4 Adventure Lodges and a huge 400 square meter (4,300 square foot) pool—is situated in a 12 hectare (30-acre) garden area on a hill between the Pacific Ocean and a rainforest-covered mountain. Each room has breathtaking ocean views, and the area offers a wide range of outdoor activities.

Cristal Ballena is on a hillside with a 180-degree view of Bahia Ballena (Whale Bay) and features rooms with private balconies with stunning ocean views, A/C, private bathrooms and satellite TV. Your hosts are the hotel’s owners, Waldemar Steiner, a former mayor of Salsburg, Austria, and his wife, Gerta.

The hotel offers 14 spacious junior suites, two family suites and three master suites, all with balcony and ocean views. The Pura Vida Bar and Restaurant serves Costa Rican cuisine with an international twist. Their red snapper ceviche and nut-encrusted sea bass is especially good. The open-air dining room has an ocean view on one side and the resort’s 400-square-meter (1300-square-foot) pool on the other.


* Room prices are subject to change without notice. The price you are quoted by our travel coordinators will be 100% accurate based on the exact time of your inquiry.