timon

I read your posting and wondered where, except maybe a villa in the south of France, you would find a villa large enough in M.A. to hold 70 people? What you are looking at would be between 6-10 villas for that amount of people. When you said that all inclusive in C.R. would be different, what did you mean exactly? I was at a wedding in Jaco about a year and a half ago at a beautiful 20 room boutique hotel that the brides parents had rented for 6 nights and it was an amazing time. There were 84 of us at the wedding but only 56 of us actually stayed at the hotel and the entire week was over the top. The hotel pointed out that since we were the only guests we had the run of the place so with there help we basically planned a 5 day/night, party.They actually planned the wedding for the bride and groom on the beach in Playa Hermosa and transported everyone to and from the wedding site. The reception was held at the hotel in the open air restaurant but they actually asked us if we would rather have the reception at the pool which was more than spacious enough to hold a reception of 200 people. From what i gathered from the bride, groom and parents, the hotel took care of everything from flowers to the non-denominational pastor and the legal requirements for being married in C.R. I don't remember the name of the place but it was the only hotel in Jaco that was not in town but on the mountain side of the highway and they were either the highest rated or 2nd highest rated hotel on tripadvisor. My thinking would be that at the villa or villas you would have to pay a chef , usually 50-100.00$ p/d, then the cost of the food and drink???. Well those prices are already built into a hotels costing. So if you think about it 1 villa 2000.00$ p/n( on the cheap side), would be equivalent to 10 hotel rooms. A 20 room hotel would cost you about 1/3 the price of the villas that you would need to accommodate 70 people. Another bonus was that this place also had it's own spa and yoga classes everyday for hotel guests.