Guidebook for Getsemani
Food Scene
Great oven baked pizza, tasty pasta, yummy deserts. It has been consistantly good. The vegetarian Managua pizza is our favorite!
11 locals recommend
L' Antica Roma
Avenida 7Great oven baked pizza, tasty pasta, yummy deserts. It has been consistantly good. The vegetarian Managua pizza is our favorite!
Our favorite seafood restaurant close by. Bob loves the arroz con camarones (rice with shrimp) and Monika loves the sopa de mariscos caribena with a side order of rice (coconut milk seafood soup with a hint of spicy). We both love the ceviche mixto and often make it a take out. They also deliver!
Marisqueria y Cevichera Brisas Del Mar
Our favorite seafood restaurant close by. Bob loves the arroz con camarones (rice with shrimp) and Monika loves the sopa de mariscos caribena with a side order of rice (coconut milk seafood soup with a hint of spicy). We both love the ceviche mixto and often make it a take out. They also deliver!
This restaurant is another option to explore. We only had coffee and a pastry there once and it was fine.
Hotel Chalet Tirol
Vía de los CipresesThis restaurant is another option to explore. We only had coffee and a pastry there once and it was fine.
These vegetarian restaurants have been around forever in Costa Rica. They serve basic decent vegetarian food and fruit platters.
Vishnu
Calle 7These vegetarian restaurants have been around forever in Costa Rica. They serve basic decent vegetarian food and fruit platters.
Loving Hut Costa Rica
Simple vegetarian food made with love, decent prices.
Parks & Nature
If you like hiking and have your own transportation, visiting this park is a great way to spend the day in our area. Drive up to it as close as possible and walk into the park. park fees are very affordable. Spectacular flora and fauna. Make sure you take a picture with your head poking through the giant leafs that line the walking paths. Have fun!
44 locals recommend
Barva Volcano
If you like hiking and have your own transportation, visiting this park is a great way to spend the day in our area. Drive up to it as close as possible and walk into the park. park fees are very affordable. Spectacular flora and fauna. Make sure you take a picture with your head poking through the giant leafs that line the walking paths. Have fun!
Drinks & Nightlife
Charming off the road bar and restaurant with amazing views of the valley. Open on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Life music, delicious bocas and a most charming host.
Restaurante Cocooning
Charming off the road bar and restaurant with amazing views of the valley. Open on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Life music, delicious bocas and a most charming host.
Bar Allan
Local hang out, good home cooked food.
Chillax Sports Bar & Lounge
Arts & Culture
Barva is one of the last traditional towns in Costa Rica. Around the towns square all the buildings are still build with the authentic adobe. Home of the BIG HEAD traditional masks makers, one can see these at street corners. The central park hosts many local artists sculptures. An interesting place to hang out and people watch, or maybe shake your booty on Sundays when local bands play at the kiosk.
9 locals recommend
Barva
Barva is one of the last traditional towns in Costa Rica. Around the towns square all the buildings are still build with the authentic adobe. Home of the BIG HEAD traditional masks makers, one can see these at street corners. The central park hosts many local artists sculptures. An interesting place to hang out and people watch, or maybe shake your booty on Sundays when local bands play at the kiosk.
Heredia Center has a nice park to hang out and people watch, while enjoying some rich POPS ice cream. Easy to meet people there.
8 locals recommend
Heredia
Heredia Center has a nice park to hang out and people watch, while enjoying some rich POPS ice cream. Easy to meet people there.
Shopping
Tipical shopping mall, where you will find all sorts of stores and cinema theater. Weekends are really crowded.
70 locals recommend
Paseo de las Flores
Calle CorderoTipical shopping mall, where you will find all sorts of stores and cinema theater. Weekends are really crowded.
AUTOMERCADO is the best sorted supermarket chain in Costa Rica. Just down the road from us, easy to hop off and on the bus or access with your own vehicle.
152 locals recommend
Auto Mercado
126AUTOMERCADO is the best sorted supermarket chain in Costa Rica. Just down the road from us, easy to hop off and on the bus or access with your own vehicle.
Oxygen Mall
111Big mall with cinema and lots of activities available.
Entertainment & Activities
Cinepolis
3Getting Around
Busetas Heredianas para San José
Bus transportation to go to San Jose
Buses Caribeños
Bus transportation to visit the Caribbean side.
Terminal de Buses Rápidos Heredianos
Calle Central Alfredo VolioAnother bus service to San Jose.
Train service from Heredia to San Jose and also Alajuela. Easy access by hopping on the bus in Getsemani and getting off at the last station to get on the train. Specific schedules.
9 locals recommend
Estación del Tren
Estación del TrenTrain service from Heredia to San Jose and also Alajuela. Easy access by hopping on the bus in Getsemani and getting off at the last station to get on the train. Specific schedules.