EXCELLENT hotel - highly recommend!! Residencias Samara is clean, spacious, perfect location and great staff! I stayed several nights in a very nice one bedroom apartment and LOVED it. It is very new and has all the amenities including a full kitchen, balcony and very large bedroom. The property has a lovely salt-water swimming pool too. Another huge bonus is that the beach is only one block away - which has many nice restaurants. In addition, it is only 2 blocks from the center of town which has more very nice Costa Rican and international restaurants and cool boutiques shops. One activity you can do on the beach is surf lessons, the surf school is only a block away from Residencias and has a super friendly staff. The beach in Samara is nice and not overly commercial and you are located near other scenic beaches as well. I definitely plan to return!