Beach Reviews (Puerto Viejo)

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Posted by Keyon 947 days ago (http://www.tripadvisor.com)

I dunno who wrote the two reviews above, but I'm gonna differ strongly. We stayed in Cahuita and Punta Uva (south of Puerto Viejo about 15 minutes) in January and found an array of very pretty quite clean beaches. No hassling vendors....the occasional dog (I never saw the "packs of stray dogs". Dark sand north of PV, pale sand farther south and up around Cahuita. the only place I saw much of any trash on the beach is north of Cahuita where driftwood has washed up in piles, but the beach itself was lovely, dark sand, we were there on a sunday "family" day and it was packed with kids, then on monday it was almost abandoned. We only got in the water in cahuita, Punta Uva, Manzanillo and playa chocles and found them all to be easy in and out and not a lot of pulling current. The surf beaches are certainly not for snorkeling or water play but the beaches are still nice.

Please don't let these two reviews stop your investigation of the Puerto viejo area. We fell in love with the area last Jan and are going back in October. You may have to look a bit to find the perfect beach for your group, but there's a good selection and (except for scuba diving which is probably gonna suck in Jan/Feb...it did when we were there in Jan) there's a ton of beach and nature stuff to see and do. If you wanna pm me, I can let you know where we stayed, what beaches we've been to before and how PV area compared....

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