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Mal Pais
Surf town · Costa Rica
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Beds: 74 places
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74 places to stay within 2 km.
Budget 2-star · Booking.com£55 a night
Mid-range 3-star · Booking.com£65 a night
Luxury 4-star · Booking.com£80 a night
Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.
Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).
All 74 places to stay · Booking.comSpots near here: 6 surf spots
Surf · this week
Santa Teresa · about 5 min by car · stays in Santa Teresa
69 out of 100Mar Azul · about 10 min by car
65 out of 100Sunset Reef · about 15 min by car
65 out of 100Mal Pais- Santa Teresa · about 5 min by car · stays in Santa Teresa
63 out of 100Playa Jackals · about 5 min by car
63 out of 100Playa los Cedros · about 20 min by car · stays in Montezuma
55 out of 100
Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Mal Pais.
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the town and every place near it
Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for intermediates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 30 km from Mal Pais.
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About Mal Pais
where it is, what is near
Mal Pais is a town in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica.
From Mal Pais you can reach 6 surf spots.
The nearest is Santa Teresa, a surf spot 0.6 km from the centre.
Overture lists 74 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.
The nearest airport is Nosara Airport (NOB), 64 km away.
In Puntarenas Province · Costa Rica
- 74 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
- Nearest airports: Nosara Airport (NOB), 64 km, La Fortuna Arenal Airport (FON), 112 km, Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO), 112 km
Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.
Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).