Monteverde, Costa Rica: Getting There, What It Costs, and What Is in Town

Verified on 26 August 2026, on the bus regulator’s own tariff dataset, the route concessionaire’s and the shuttle operators’ own rate pages and booking engines, the transport ministry’s own 2026 news item, the national meteorological institute’s regional climate documents, and each Monteverde operator’s own rate page. Every fare, timetable, rate and opening-hours figure was re-checked at source on 24 September 2026; the IMN climate documents, the 2018 road communiqué, the lodge’s driving PDF, the Wikipedia entries and the Booking.com band were not re-read that day.

Getting from San José to Monteverde costs CRC 3,885 to CRC 3,900 on the regulated public bus — about USD 8.57 to USD 8.60 — against USD 54 to USD 62 per person on a shared tourist shuttle and USD 220 for a private minibus. The two colón figures are the route concessionaire’s and the regulator’s own, for the same route, and they do not match. On either of them the shuttle seat is six to seven times the bus fare and the private van about 26 times it, for a run Tropical Tours Shuttles’ route page puts at four hours in its headline and four and a half in its own timetable block. Monteverde is a cloud-forest area in Puntarenas province reached from the Interamericana by one mountain road — National Route 606, which MOPT describes as connecting the Interamericana Norte with the Monteverde sector, and whose new two-lane bridge over the Río Guacimal MOPT reports was officially inaugurated on 29 September 2026. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve charges USD 29.00 per circuit — we priced that reserve and its three neighbours separately, on Monteverde’s four reserves compared.

On the tourist shuttles, reaching Monteverde costs more than being in it: the shuttle seat up the mountain is roughly double the reserve circuit it delivers you to. The public bus is the exception — at CRC 3,885 to CRC 3,900 it is under a third of that circuit. The three canopy operators we priced all charge more than the circuit as well — a place where the transport and the adventure companies, not the forest, set the size of the day’s bill. What a whole trip built on those figures comes to is on our Costa Rica trip cost page.

Getting there, and what each way costs

All checked 26 August 2026 and re-checked 24 September 2026; the 15:00 Interbus departure appeared in its engine between those two reads. The Interbus figures are booking-engine quotes for a 15 October 2026 travel date, not published fares — Interbus’s route table carries departure and travel times only. The jeep-boat-jeep row is a range across three operators’ own pages: Jeep-Boat-Jeep La Fortuna publishes from USD 33 at 08:00 and from USD 40 at 14:00, MonteTours USD 35 and USD 50, and Arenal.net from USD 36. A dash means the figure was not on the pages we read — neither the regulator’s dataset nor the concessionaire’s rates page carries a departure time, and the only timetable we found for the public bus is Yo Viajo CR, a secondary Costa Rican bus-timetable site, which gives two departures a day, 06:30 and 14:30, identical on weekdays, Saturday and Sunday. Dollar conversions of colón fares, and the multiples quoted above, are our arithmetic on the published figures, at the Banco Central de Costa Rica reference sell rate of 453.50 colones to the US dollar for 26 August 2026 — the rate and date used throughout this site.

The bus fare has two official versions and we are printing both. ARESEP, the regulator that sets bus tariffs by law, records route 675 (San José–Monteverde, operated by Trans Monteverde) at CRC 3,900 regular and CRC 2,930 for seniors, in force from 4 September 2026 under resolution RE-0115-IT-2026 of 28 August 2026, published in La Gaceta 165, Alcance 115, on 2 September 2026. When we first read the register on 26 and 27 August it carried CRC 3,910 for the same route, in force from 1 July 2026; the September resolution replaced it. Both current figures, the route 625 pair below, and both route lengths were re-pulled from ARESEP’s dataset on 24 September 2026. Trans Monteverde’s own rates page still publishes CRC 3,885 and CRC 2,915 — while stating that its fares are the ones ARESEP sets officially. They are about 0.4% apart, 15 colones or about three US cents, so one of the two is lagging the other. The same split shows on the Puntarenas run: ARESEP CRC 2,700 against the carrier’s CRC 2,870 via Guacimal (the carrier prints CRC 2,685 for the reverse direction). We are not averaging either pair. At CRC 453.50 to the dollar, the San José pair is USD 8.57 against USD 8.60, and the Puntarenas pair is USD 5.95 against USD 6.33 — both conversions are our arithmetic on the published colón figures.

Where the senior fare comes from, since it is not three-quarters of anything obvious. ARESEP publishes the rule on its own bus-tariff page: “En recorridos menores a 25 km las personas mayores de 65 años no pagan el pasaje; en trayectos entre 25 km y menos de 50 km pagan el 50% del pasaje y en rutas con más de 50 km pagan el 75% del pasaje.” Route 675 is 151.50 km, so it sits in the 75% band — and 75% of CRC 3,900 is CRC 2,925.00, while the register publishes CRC 2,930. Route 625 does the same: 75% of CRC 2,700 is CRC 2,025.00 and the register publishes CRC 2,030. On our arithmetic across those two, ARESEP computes the percentage and then rounds it to a multiple of ten colones — both of these land on a five and were rounded up. We are printing the regulator’s own CRC 2,930, not the CRC 2,925.00 the percentage implies — the published tariff is the fare, and the multiplication is only how it was arrived at. The rule was read at source on 27 August 2026 and again on 24 September 2026; the register figures are the 24 September pull.

Buying the bus ticket online costs more than the tariff. Trans Monteverde states that a separate “Cobro por Servicio” — a charge for using its payment platform and running the site — is added on top of the ARESEP fare. It does not publish the amount.

How far it actually is, officially. Road authorities publish no point-to-point distance to Monteverde, but ARESEP’s tariff record does carry a route length for each bus concession: 151.50 km average per trip on San José–Monteverde, and 97.35 km on Puntarenas–Santa Elena. Those are the regulator’s figures for the bus routes, not a road-authority measurement of the drive. From the La Fortuna side, a lodge’s own driving-directions document puts the road route — La Fortuna, Nuevo Arenal, Tilarán, Quebrada Grande, Santa Elena — at 106.5 km and 3 to 4 hours; Arenal.net independently states 66 miles (106 km).

The same operator prices the same corridor differently by direction. Tropical Tours Shuttles’ route page for San José airport to Monteverde publishes USD 54 per person and a ride it gives as 4 hours in its headline and 4½ hours in its own timetable block; its route page for Monteverde to San José airport publishes USD 65 and 4.5 hours. Its Monteverde hub page, meanwhile, advertises fares from Monteverde “starting at” USD 54 shared and USD 240 private, against the USD 65 shared on its own Monteverde-to-San José airport route page and the USD 220 private on its route pages. Read the route page for the direction you are travelling.

The onward shuttles run in the morning going south and take longer coming back. Interbus’s route table lists Fortuna → Monteverde at 08:00, 4 hours, with no afternoon service and no Monteverde → Fortuna row at all — Monteverde departures on that table run to San José, the Pacific and Guanacaste instead. Southbound to Manuel Antonio, Interbus, Monteverde Tours and Easy Ride all publish a single 08:00 departure taking about 4 hours — the tightest timetable constraint in the four-leg loop our Costa Rica 10-day itinerary page prices leg by leg. Coming back the other way they part company: Interbus and Monteverde Tours both give 13:30 and 4.5 hours; Easy Ride publishes 07:30 and 12:00 and about 5.5 hours. Use the figure for the operator you booked.

The road in from the Interamericana: Route 606

MOPT, the transport ministry, describes National Route 606 as the road connecting the Interamericana Norte with the Monteverde sector in Puntarenas.

The new Río Guacimal bridge on it is open. MOPT reports that the new bridge over the Río Guacimal was officially inaugurated on 29 September 2026, with two lanes in service where the bridge before it carried one, a protected walkway for pedestrians, and a total length of 35 metres on five beam lines; MOPT puts the investment at CRC 680 million, with construction begun in December 2025. MOPT’s earlier item of 21 August 2026 had given the work as 85% progress, the cost as USD 1,452,000 and the start date as 2 December 2025. We read MOPT’s inauguration item on 15 October 2026.

The gravel approach was asphalted years earlier. A February 2018 government communiqué records MOPT and CONAVI paving 17.5 km of Route 606 between Guacimal and Santa Elena, with geotechnical solutions at at least 23 points, wildlife crossings and signage, for CRC 6,869 million, completion estimated for December of that year. That release documents the works; it is not a 2026 condition report, and no such report exists for the full run — see the gaps below.

Coming in from the La Fortuna side is a different road and a different surface. The Monteverde Lodge driving document describes narrow winding gravel sections between Tilarán and Santa Elena, recommends a 4x4, and notes the last fuel is at Tilarán, 42.5 km after La Fortuna.

How high the mountain is — nobody official says

Costa Rican authorities publish no elevation for Monteverde. We looked on the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve’s own site, the Tropical Science Center’s, the Monteverde Institute’s and the Municipalidad de Monteverde’s. The preserve publishes only the generic statement that cloud forests form between 3,900 and 8,200 ft (1,200 and 2,500 metres) above sea level — a global range, not a measurement of this place.

The figures in circulation are all secondary and they do not agree: Wikipedia’s Monteverde entry gives the district an average of 1,330 m (4,360 ft) and the cloud forest itself roughly 1,400 m (4,600 ft), while the tour operator Arenal.net’s route page puts Monteverde at about 1,500 m (4,921 ft) against La Fortuna’s 350 m, making the crossing between them a climb of over 900 metres. We are printing the spread rather than picking a number none of the authorities stands behind.

What the sources do fix is the local geography. Santa Elena is the town: it is where the properties we priced sit, and the point the area search we ran measures its distances from. The regulator’s own route names treat the two as one destination — ARESEP route 625 is “PUNTARENAS – MONTEVERDE Y RAMALES”, with its fare section named “PUNTARENAS – SANTA ELENA.” Of the reserves, Curi-Cancha gives its own address as 300 m northeast of the Monteverde Cheese Factory. Of the canopy parks, Monteverde Extremo sells transport from Monteverde to the park at USD 10 per person, and 100% Aventura’s two tour pages both state “Bus: Not included” — so the adventure parks are a drive from town, on the operators’ own wording.

When to go: one mountain, two climate regions

The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional publishes no climatology for Monteverde. Its own regionalisation puts Monteverde on the Cordillera de Tilarán, on the boundary between two of the country’s seven climate regions — and those two regions run different rainfall calendars.

Both sets of figures come from IMN’s regional climate documents, whose baseline is the 1961–1990 period; they are a long-run climatology, not this year’s weather. The closest thing IMN publishes to a Monteverde figure is its sub-zone line for the Guanacaste and Tilarán mountain ranges — close to 2,200 mm a year, 25 °C by day and 17 °C at night. Monteverde sits on that cordillera, but IMN does not name it in that sub-zone, and we are not going to claim it does.

Two operators price the seasons, which is the closest thing to a local calendar anyone publishes. MonteTours runs the La Fortuna crossing twice daily in high season, December to April, and once daily from May to November. Arco Iris Lodge in Santa Elena defines its own high season as 1 July–31 August and 1 November–30 April, low as 1 May–30 June and 1 September–31 October, and charges USD 176 against USD 166 for the same standard double, tax and breakfast included — a gap of about 6% at that one property, which is not a figure for the town. Our dry versus green season page sets out the national picture.

What a night costs

Monteverde’s lodging runs from about US$25 to US$437 a night on a Booking.com area search for 10–12 November 2026, two adults — the widest floor-to-ceiling spread of the four areas we priced on the same basis that day, with one hotel’s own engine quoting above the whole band. The full 25-property table, the outlier and what distance from town does and does not predict are on our where to stay in Monteverde page.

Three Monteverde properties publish a rate on their own website rather than behind a booking engine, and between them they run from USD 10 a bed to USD 217 a room:

• Monteverde Backpackers — USD 10 per person in a 7-bed dorm, USD 12 in a 4-bed dorm, USD 30 for a private double for one or two people. Caveat: that page carries a 2013 copyright line and no validity date, so treat it as the cheapest published figure we found rather than a guaranteed current price.
• Arco Iris Lodge — USD 176 standard double in high season, USD 166 in low, USD 217 superior double in high season, all stated as including 13% tax and breakfast. It is one of the few Costa Rican hotels publishing a clear tax-inclusive table.
• Monteverde Mountain Hotel — publishes two rate tables on one page and both validity windows have expired, one stamped for 2025 and one for 2016–17. We are recording neither as a current price.

That last case is the normal one here rather than the exception. Of sixteen Costa Rican property sites whose rooms pages we fetched and searched for a currency figure, most carried none at all — including Monteverde Lodge & Gardens, Senda Monteverde and Hotel Fonda Vela — handing off instead to a JavaScript booking engine. At those three Monteverde properties, an advertised nightly rate could not be verified without running a dated quote through that engine.

Ziplines and bridges: three operators’ prices, and one that no longer sells Monteverde

Besides the four reserves, the Monteverde attractions we priced are hanging-bridge walkways and ziplines, run by private operators.

All checked 26 August 2026. Selvatura’s rates are “plus 13% tax plus fees” and it does not say what the fees are, so no all-in figure can be computed from its page: 13% on the USD 80 canopy is USD 90.40 on our arithmetic, before whatever the fees add. Selvatura’s bridges are open 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., 365 days a year — 3 km of trails and eight bridges between 55 and 157 metres long, certified by Costa Rica’s Federated College of Engineers and Architects. Its canopy tour runs 13 lines including a 1 km cable, over 2 to 2.5 hours, departing 8:30, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 and 2:30 p.m. 100% Aventura bills its longest line as the longest zipline in Costa Rica at 5,220 ft (1,590 m), across 10 lines with a hammock bridge, a rappel and a Tarzan swing.

We are not picking a price for Monteverde Extremo’s longest canopy tour. That operator’s own page prints USD 67.80 and USD 72 for it in two rate blocks on the same page, with different inclusion lists. Its standard canopy page is internally consistent, so USD 51 is the figure above.

Sky Adventures no longer sells a Monteverde park. As of 26 August 2026, skyadventures.travel markets and prices only its Arenal park: its /monteverde/ URL resolves to the Arenal-only homepage, and its Ziplines, Hanging Bridges, Aerial Tram and Tickets pages list Arenal products exclusively. The company still describes itself as founded by three siblings from Monteverde and its corporate footer still reads “Valle Monteverde S.A.” — but nothing in Monteverde is bookable on the site, so any price attached to “Sky Adventures Monteverde” is not on the operator’s own site. We have deliberately not reproduced its Arenal prices here.

Against those, the forest is the cheap ticket. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve’s USD 29.00 per circuit is below every zipline and every hanging-bridge price in the table above. The four reserves’ full price ladders, opening hours and trail lengths — and which of them publishes its rate on a page you can read — are on Monteverde’s four reserves compared.

What we could not establish

These are gaps in what the authorities and operators publish, not places we stopped looking:

• A point-to-point road distance to Monteverde from San José, La Fortuna or Liberia, from a road authority. MOPT’s own road-section database (PEMIST) is publicly reachable but its route-number search throws a server-side error, so no official distance table could be pulled. The only official kilometre figures for the corridor are ARESEP’s bus-route lengths above.
• Route 606’s total length from MOPT. The only figure found, 52.880 km from Sardinal to Santa Elena, is Wikipedia’s National Route 606 entry — secondary, and MOPT’s own database could not be made to confirm it.
• A 2026 condition report on Route 606 stating whether the full Sardinal-to-Santa Elena run is now paved end to end. MOPT’s 2026 news items cover the Guacimal bridge only, and its site search returns 404.
• Anything official on the Route 145 / Tilarán approach. We found no MOPT or CONAVI page describing its surface or condition.
• A primary-source elevation for Monteverde or Santa Elena, in metres or feet, from any Costa Rican authority.
• A departure timetable for the public bus from either official source. The Trans Monteverde page we read is a rates table and ARESEP’s dataset is a tariff record; neither carries a time. The 06:30 and 14:30 pair above comes from Yo Viajo CR, a secondary Costa Rican bus-timetable site, and is marked as such.
• The amount of Trans Monteverde’s online “Cobro por Servicio.” It states that the charge exists and not what it is.
• What Selvatura’s “fees” are, on top of the 13% tax it names. Without them no all-in canopy or bridge price is computable.
• Interbus fares on the pages a reader lands on. Its route table has columns for departure and travel time only; the USD 62 and USD 71 above are booking-engine quotes for one date.
• A current published room rate at most Monteverde hotels, including Monteverde Lodge & Gardens, Senda Monteverde and Hotel Fonda Vela — their rooms pages carry no figure and hand off to a booking engine.

How we researched this

Scope: this page reports source research, not an on-site test. We checked the booking systems, timetables and official sources named below on the date shown; calculations, unresolved disagreements and information we could not verify are labelled explicitly.

On 26 August 2026 we pulled ARESEP’s open bus-tariff dataset — the regulator’s own record behind aresep.go.cr/autobus/tarifas/ — for routes 675 and 625, and pulled it again on 24 September 2026, which is where the current CRC 3,900 and CRC 2,700 fares, the 4 September 2026 effective date and the 151.50 km and 97.35 km route lengths come from. The competing CRC 3,885 and CRC 2,870 fares, and the online service charge, come from Trans Monteverde’s own rates page and homepage. The 06:30 and 14:30 departure pair is the one figure in the transport section from a secondary source, the bus-timetable site Yo Viajo CR, and it is labelled at each appearance.

Shuttle fares come from the operators’ own route pages — Tropical Tours Shuttles for both directions of the San José corridor and its Monteverde hub page, Easy Ride for Manuel Antonio — except the Interbus figures, which were read from book.interbusonline.com, its own booking engine, quoted for a 15 October 2026 travel date; Interbus’s timings come from its published route table. The jeep-boat-jeep summary is a range across three operators’ own pages and is set out fare by fare on our transport page for that crossing. Road distance and surface from the La Fortuna side come from a lodge’s own driving-instructions PDF and a tour operator’s route page, both named where used.

Road information comes from MOPT’s own August 2026 news item and a February 2018 communiqué from the Presidencia. Climate figures come from IMN’s own regional climate PDFs for the Pacífico Norte and the Zona Norte plus its national regionalisation document, all on the 1961–1990 baseline, which we state rather than presenting them as current weather. Lodging figures come from three properties’ own websites and, for the area band, a Booking.com area search loaded in a browser for stated dates — the aggregator is marked as such. Canopy and bridge prices come from each park’s own rate pages. The Sky Adventures finding comes from fetching five of its pages and finding no Monteverde product on any of them.

Where two sources disagree — the regulator against the concessionaire on the bus fare, an operator against itself on its own longest-canopy price, the operator’s hub page against its own route pages — we print both and pick neither. Where the number does not exist, as with Monteverde’s elevation, we say who we asked.

Figures on this page labelled our arithmetic are calculated by us from the sourced inputs cited below — comparisons, percentages, multiples, differences, per-night and per-person conversions, running totals and currency conversions. Every other figure is reproduced as its named source published it. Where an operator or authority publishes a per-person or per-night rate directly, that is their figure and it is attributed to them at the point it appears.

Sources

• ARESEP — current bus tariff dataset — the regulated CRC 3,900 / CRC 2,930 San José–Monteverde fare (route 675), the CRC 2,700 / CRC 2,030 Puntarenas–Santa Elena fare (route 625), resolution RE-0115-IT-2026 and its 4 September 2026 effective date, the superseded CRC 3,910 of 1 July 2026, and the 151.50 km and 97.35 km route lengths. Re-pulled at source on 24 September 2026.
• ARESEP — Tarifas de autobús — the regulator’s own statement of the senior-fare bands and the over-65 qualifying age, which is what puts route 675 in the 75% band. Read at source on 27 August 2026.
• Trans Monteverde — Current Rates — the concessionaire’s own CRC 3,885 / CRC 2,915 and CRC 2,870 / CRC 2,155 fares, and the CRC 2,685 reverse Puntarenas figure.
• Trans Monteverde — home — the statement that its fares are ARESEP’s, and the separate online “Cobro por Servicio.”
• Yo Viajo CR — San José to Monteverde bus — secondary. The 06:30 and 14:30 departures and the 4-hour journey time only.
• Tropical Tours Shuttles — San José airport to Monteverde — USD 54 shared, 08:15 and 15:00, the 4-hour ride and the USD 220 private minibus.
• Tropical Tours Shuttles — Monteverde to San José airport — USD 65 shared, 08:00 and 13:00, the 12:30 and 16:30 arrivals and the 4.5-hour duration.
• Tropical Tours Shuttles — Monteverde routes — the hub page’s “starting at” USD 54 shared and USD 240 private from Monteverde, which its own route pages (USD 65 shared from Monteverde, USD 220 private) do not match.
• Interbus booking engine, quoted for 15 October 2026 — San José–Monteverde USD 62, La Fortuna–Monteverde USD 62 and Monteverde–Manuel Antonio USD 71 — the adult and child shared fares.
• Interbus — our routes — the 08:00 Fortuna–Monteverde departure and 4-hour time, the absent Monteverde–Fortuna row, the 13:00 Monteverde–San José departure at 4.5 hours, and the 08:00 / 13:30 Manuel Antonio timings.
• Easy Ride — from Monteverde, shared shuttle — USD 69 to Manuel Antonio, 08:00, about 4 hours.
• Jeep-Boat-Jeep La Fortuna — the from-USD 33 morning and from-USD 40 afternoon fares, the 08:00 and 14:00 departures and the 3.5-to-4-hour crossing.
• MonteTours — jeep-boat-jeep from La Fortuna to Monteverde — its USD 35 morning and USD 50 afternoon fares, and the twice-daily December–April and once-daily May–November frequency.
• Arenal.net — Arenal to Monteverde taxi-boat-taxi — its from-USD 36 fare, the 66 miles (106 km) road figure and the ~350 m / ~1,500 m elevation pairing between La Fortuna and Monteverde.
• Monteverde Lodge & Gardens — driving instructions from Arenal to Monteverde (PDF) — 106.5 km, 3–4 hours, the gravel sections between Tilarán and Santa Elena, the 4x4 recommendation and the last fuel at Tilarán 42.5 km out.
• Tamarindo Transfers & Tours — Liberia airport transfers — the USD 160 private transfer and 3-hour drive from LIR.
• MOPT — Inaugurado nuevo puente en Guacimal que conecta Monteverde con Interamericana Norte (29 September 2026) — the 29 September 2026 inauguration, the two lanes in place of the earlier one-lane bridge, the pedestrian walkway, the 35-metre, five-beam-line structure, the CRC 680 million investment and the December 2025 start. Read 15 October 2026.
• MOPT — Nuevo puente en Guacimal quedará en servicio el próximo mes — the 21 August 2026 status at 85%, the September 2026 service date, the bridge dimensions, the USD 1,452,000 cost, the 2 December 2025 start, the old bridge still in service, and Route 606’s description.
• Presidencia de la República — Mejoras en la ruta 606 entre Guacimal y Santa Elena (14 February 2018) — the 17.5 km paved, the 23 geotechnical points and the CRC 6,869 million investment.
• Wikipedia — National Route 606 (Costa Rica) — secondary and unconfirmed. The 52.880 km length quoted only as the figure MOPT’s database could not be made to verify.
• Wikipedia — Monteverde — secondary. The 1,330 m district and ~1,400 m cloud-forest elevations, quoted only as part of the spread.
• Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve — The Cloud Forest — the generic 1,200–2,500 m band that is the only elevation statement on the preserve’s own site.
• Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve — booking system rate table — the USD 29.00 per-circuit adult rate quoted above.
• Reserva Curi-Cancha — Natural History Tour — the reserve’s address, 300 m northeast of the Monteverde Cheese Factory.
• IMN — El clima, su variabilidad y cambio climático en Costa Rica — the seven climate regions, the Pacific dry and rainy seasons, the veranillo, and the 1961–1990 baseline.
• IMN — Pacífico Norte — the 4% / 50% / 46% seasonal shares, 1,500–2,500 mm, 136 rain days, and the Guanacaste and Tilarán mountain sub-zone at ~2,200 mm and 25 °C / 17 °C.
• IMN — Zona Norte — the single May-to-December/January rainy season, more than 3,200 mm and 199 rain days.
• Arco Iris Lodge — rooms and rates — USD 176 / 166 / 217, the tax-and-breakfast-included statement and the stated high and low season dates.
• Monteverde Backpackers — rates — the USD 10, USD 12 and USD 30 rates, on a page carrying a 2013 copyright and no validity date.
• Monteverde Mountain Hotel — rooms and rates — the two rate tables whose validity windows, 2025 and 2016–17, have both expired.
• Booking.com — Monteverde area search, 10–12 November 2026 — aggregator, not the properties. The US$25–437 a night band only.
• Arenal Observatory Lodge — rates — one of the sixteen Costa Rican property rooms pages we fetched and searched for a currency figure. The sixteen-property survey itself is our own research, not this page’s content; its Monteverde entries are Monteverde Lodge & Gardens, Senda Monteverde and Hotel Fonda Vela, whose rooms pages carry no currency figure at all.
• Selvatura — Canopy Tour — the USD 80.00 / 72.00 / 56.00 rates, the “rate + 13% tax + fees” line, departure times, line count and the age and weight limits.
• Selvatura — Treetop Walkways — the USD 49.00 / 44.10 / 34.30 rates, the 7:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. 365-day hours, and the bridge dimensions and CFIA certification.
• Selvatura — Tours — the butterfly garden, reptile and amphibian exhibit and sloth habitat prices.
• 100% Aventura — the from-USD 72.00 zipline and from-USD 45.00 bridge prices, the 5,220 ft line, the age limits and the “Bus: Not included” statement.
• Monteverde Extremo — Standard Canopy Tour — the USD 51 standard canopy price and the USD 10 per-person transport from Monteverde.
• Monteverde Extremo — Longest Canopy — the two conflicting prices, USD 67.80 and USD 72, on one page, which is why neither is picked for it.
• Sky Adventures — Tickets — the finding that only Arenal products are sold and no Monteverde product is bookable.
• Banco Central de Costa Rica — reference sell rate — 453.50 colones to the dollar, dated 2026-08-26, the basis for every colón conversion above.

Last verified: 2026-09-24 for every fare, timetable, rate and opening-hours figure on this page; the IMN climate documents, the 2018 road communiqué, the lodge’s driving PDF, the Wikipedia entries and the Booking.com band are as read on 2026-08-26; MOPT’s Guacimal bridge items were re-read on 2026-10-15. Bus fares are revised by ARESEP resolution, shuttle fares and canopy prices change without notice, and the Booking.com band is live inventory priced for two specific nights.

• Reserva Santa Elena - Reservaciones — Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve guided walk prices. Read 2026-08-26.
• Asociacion Conservacionista de Monteverde (ACM) — Children’s Eternal Rainforest - San Gerardo, Pocosol and Finca Steller trail-use rates. Read 2026-08-26.
• Asociacion Conservacionista de Monteverde - Bajo del Tigre — Children’s Eternal Rainforest - Bajo del Tigre hours, trails and reservation rules. Read 2026-08-26.

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