Playa GrandeGuanacaste, Costa RicaNicoya Blue Zone

Casa Poiema

A private four-suite home with a pool on 1.6 acres of flat, usable land. Three minutes by car from a protected surf beach where the sun sets straight into the Pacific.

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4Suites
11Guests
3.5Baths
1.6Acres
3Min to beach
75Min from LIR

The House

One level. Walls that open. A pool in the middle of it all.

Casa Poiema is a single-storey modern home built around one idea: the inside and the outside should feel like the same room. The great room slides fully open onto the deck, the dining terrace and the pool, so breakfast, a swim and a nap in the hanging chair all happen within a few steps of each other.

Four bedroom suites sit along a quiet hallway away from the living space. The kitchen is a real cook's kitchen with a six-burner gas range, a farmhouse sink, a full pantry and a long island that seats the whole group. Outside there is a second kitchen with a built-in grill, a fire pit, an outdoor shower and a lawn big enough for a game of soccer under a giant guanacaste tree.

  • Four bedroom suites, 3.5 bathrooms, sleeps up to 11
  • Private pool with sun loungers and a west-facing deck
  • Indoor kitchen, outdoor kitchen and BBQ, dining for 10 inside and out
  • Fast WiFi, smart TVs, washer and dryer, bikes, smart-lock self check-in
  • Inside Las Ventanas, a gated community with 24-hour security
The great room at Casa Poiema fully open to the pool deckThe great room

Fresh for the 2026 season

Everything a guest touches is new.

We spent September 2026 at the house with a crew. This is what changed.

01

Brand new air conditioning

Every bedroom and the great room now runs on new inverter mini-split units. Quiet, cold and efficient.

02

Painted inside and out

Every wall, ceiling and exterior surface was freshly painted. The house looks the way it did on day one.

03

New beds and bedding

New mattresses, new linens and new bedding in every suite. Nothing inherited, nothing tired.

04

A new king suite

A king bed with two trundles underneath, so a family of four shares one calm room with its own door to the deck.

Arrival

Fresh flowers on the table. Beds made. Keys in the smart lock.

You walk in to fresh tropical flowers on the table, towels folded on every bed and a house that has been aired and cooled before you arrive. Check-in is self-serve from 3 pm, so a late flight is never a problem.

Welcome flowers
Turned down

The Suites

Four bedrooms, each with its own door to the garden.

All four suites have new beds, new bedding, new air conditioning, blackout curtains and a sliding door to the outside.

Primary suite with four-poster bed and ensuite bath
Primary
Queen bed · ensuite

A four-poster bed, a private ensuite with a soaking tub and a stone walk-in shower, and a wall of glass to the trees.

King suite with two trundle beds
New in 2026
King bed + two trundles

Built for a family. A king for the parents and two trundles that pull out for the kids, in a room with its own door to the deck.

King bed with a loft bunk above
Garden
King bed + loft bunk

A platform king with a hand-built loft bunk above it. The favourite room of every kid who has stayed here.

Suite with twin beds that join to a king
Flexible
Two twins or one king

Two twin beds that push together into a king, so this room works for two friends, two kids or a couple.

Outdoor Living

1.6 acres of flat land, and all of it is yours.

We chose this house over the ones on the cliffs for one reason. Our kids needed room to run, and we needed to stop worrying. The lot is flat, fenced by forest and usable from edge to edge.

The backyard faces west. From the kitchen, the deck or the pool you look out at a single enormous guanacaste tree, and in the evening the light turns gold behind it. Dinner happens at the outdoor table, the grill is steps away and the fire pit runs late.

  • Private pool with loungers and a long deck
  • Outdoor kitchen with built-in grill and fridge
  • Fire pit lounge and a teak outdoor shower
  • Open lawn with a soccer goal under the guanacaste tree
  • Bikes for the community roads and trails
Deck and pool at Casa Poiema
Fire pit at dusk
Soccer goal on the lawn
Casa Poiema entrance at twilight

Las Ventanas de Playa Grande

A gated community in 380 acres of dry forest.

Casa Poiema sits inside Las Ventanas, a low-density community in the hills above Playa Grande with 24-hour gated security, paved private roads and more than five kilometres of walking trails.

Guests use the roads for morning runs and bike rides, the trails for howler monkey sightings, and the community's back road for a ten-minute drive to the calm coves of Playa Minas and Bahía de los Piratas. The clubhouse, its pool and the courts are reserved for owners.

Playa Grande beach3 min
Playa Minas10 min
Playa Conchal20 min
Tamarindo25 min
Playa Flamingo30 min
Liberia airport75 min

Getting around

Three minutes to the sand. Everything else within an hour.

Rent a car at the airport. The road from Liberia is paved the whole way, and a car is what turns one beach into eight.

The house sits in the hills just behind the beach. The surf is a three-minute drive, Tamarindo is 25 minutes by road or two minutes by boat across the estuary, and the calm-water coves at Playa Minas and Conchal are 10 to 20 minutes north. Huacas, 12 minutes east, has the full supermarket and the 24-hour clinic.

Playa Grande beach3 min
Playa Minas10 min
Huacas (groceries, clinic)12 min
Playa Conchal20 min
Tamarindo25 min
Playa Flamingo30 min
Las Catalinas45 min
Liberia airport (LIR)75 min

Open in Google Maps

Pacific OceanParque Nacional Marino Las BaulasCasa PoiemaPlaya Grande beach 3 minPlaya Minas 10 minPlaya Conchal 20 minPlaya Flamingo 30 minLas Catalinas 45 minTamarindo 25 minHuacas 12 minLiberia airport (LIR) 75 min

Drive times are typical daytime estimates. Not to scale.

Playa Grande

Not Cancún. Not even close.

The entire beach sits inside Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas. Nothing is built on the sand, no hotel faces the water, and after dark the beach belongs to the leatherback turtles.

What you get instead is 4.5 kilometres of open sand, one of the most consistent surf breaks in Guanacaste, and a sunset that drops straight into the Pacific every evening around 5:30. Standing in the water at that hour is the reason we bought this house.

Sunset over the Pacific at Playa GrandePlaya Grande, 5:40 pm
Learning to surf
Sunset, every night
The pool
Finca Las Garzas
Beach football
First wave
Breakfast on the deck
The neighbours

The Nicoya Blue Zone

One of five places on Earth where people live longest.

Playa Grande sits in the canton of Santa Cruz, one of the five cantons that make up Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula Blue Zone, a region National Geographic's Dan Buettner identified for its unusual number of healthy centenarians.

The reasons are not complicated. People here eat beans, corn tortillas, squash and fruit picked that morning. They drink hard water rich in calcium. They walk more than they drive, they sleep early, they live close to family and they have a plan de vida, a reason to get up. A week at Casa Poiema tends to look a lot like that.

  • Fresh fruit and fish from the Saturday market in Tamarindo and the Wednesday night market in Playa Grande
  • Morning surf, afternoon pool, evening on the sand
  • No traffic, no noise, no schedule
A child leaping through the surf at sunset, Playa Grande
Andrea and Kennedy at Playa Grande

From the owners

We bought this house almost sight unseen, because we wanted a place that slows life down and is not commercialised. The Blue Zone mattered to us. The three-minute drive to the ocean mattered more. We loved the houses on the cliffs, but with small kids they did not feel safe. This one, with its flat acre and a half, its guanacaste tree and its west-facing yard, was instant love. Tamarindo is a short drive for dinner and nightlife. Playa Grande is where you come home to.

Andrea and Clifton

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  • Check-in 3 pm, check-out 10 am
  • Minimum stays vary by season; holiday weeks book a year ahead
  • Free crib and high chair on request
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