Marbella Tours · From San José
A full day from three San José hotels: breakfast and a two-hour coffee tour at Doka, about 50 minutes in the national park, then three and a half hours at La Paz Waterfall Gardens with lunch. Pick it for the most coffee and garden time of any Poás tour here, and for a listing that tells you exactly how the park visit runs.
Marbella Tours picks up at three hotels: the Gran Hotel Costa Rica Curio in central San José, the Wyndham Garden Escazú and the Radisson San José. The day starts at Doka, now Hacienda Doka, a coffee estate that grows its beans in the volcanic soil of Poás (Hacienda Doka), with breakfast and a coffee tour of about two hours through the fields, the processing and the old red mill building.
Its listing is the most honest about Poás. It gives about 50 minutes inside the park: 10 for the ranger talk, 10 to walk up, 20 at the viewpoint and 10 back. That 20 minutes is the limit for every group since 28 August 2026 (Delfino), so no tour gives you more at the rail. The catch is the order. Coffee comes first, so the group reaches the crater later than a tour that drives straight up, and cloud usually fills it by 10:30 or 11:00. Book this one for the coffee and the gardens, and count a clear crater as a bonus.
The afternoon is three and a half hours at La Paz Waterfall Gardens with lunch: about 3.5 km of trails past the falls, the hummingbird garden, the butterfly observatory and the rescued animals (La Paz Waterfall Gardens). The tour runs in English. Tips are not included, and the operator needs passport numbers for the park ticket.
From the Gran Hotel Costa Rica Curio, the Wyndham Garden Escazú or the Radisson San José.
Breakfast at the estate, then the coffee fields, the processing and a tasting.
10 minutes of ranger talk, 10 walking up, 20 at the viewpoint, 10 back down, the listing says.
Lunch, then the trails past the waterfalls and the animal enclosures.
About ten hours in total.
★★★★★Excellent! Choose this instead of the others. The tour is super and the volcano amazing.
★★★★★Thank you, Filander, for showing us around your beautiful country and for going above and beyond!
★★★★★The guide (Mario) accompanied the day trip perfectly. It was a celebration for us. It was very informative.
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About 50 minutes, the listing says: a 10-minute ranger talk, 10 minutes walking up, 20 at the viewpoint and 10 back. The 20 minutes is the limit for every group since August 2026.
At three hotels: the Gran Hotel Costa Rica Curio, the Wyndham Garden Escazú and the Radisson San José. If you stay elsewhere, get yourself to the nearest one.
No. Breakfast, the coffee tour, the park visit and lunch at the gardens are covered; tips for the guide and driver are not.
Nobody can promise it. Because the day starts with coffee, the group reaches Poás later than tours that drive straight up, and cloud usually fills the crater by 10:30 or 11:00.
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Breakfast and a coffee tour at Doka, the crater, then lunch at La Paz Waterfall Gardens.
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