The catch at La Casa de los Naranjos

The house opened with eight rooms in December 2021, and it is now growing. In August 2025 a €1.25m project with state funding was approved to add new rooms, a restaurant and a swimming pool, and guests in March and July 2026 found the works under way. No completion date has been announced. A stay in late 2026 or in 2027 may fall while building is still going on, and until the work is finished there is no pool, no new restaurant and no new rooms. Expect the house to change: the eight-room hotel on this page is the one that exists today, not the one that will exist when the expansion opens.

Haría is an inland village in the valley at the north end of the island, and the hotel has no pool for now. The nearest swim is Playa de la Garita at Arrieta, a 10-minute drive, and the Papagayo beaches in the far south are about 70. The hotel lends beach towels and umbrellas. Getting here without a car is slow: the airport is 36 minutes by road, nothing runs direct from it, and buses 7, 7-D and 8 reach Haría from Arrecife by way of Arrieta. Parking at the hotel is free.

The candlelit dining room cooks modern dishes built on traditional recipes and local produce, but it does not open for dinner every evening, and the hotel does not publish which nights it does. Guests in December 2025 and January 2026 ate in on the nights it was open, and one found it closed on Sunday and Monday. The last seating is at 8.30pm. Breakfast is served every morning and is included in every rate. On the other nights, Tacande on the square, five minutes away on foot, serves every day, and La Puerta Verde, eight minutes away, keeps evening hours at the end of the week.

The house kept its 19th-century bones, and that includes its stairs. Several guests in 2026 mention the big steps up to the front door, a very narrow, winding staircase to the first floor and a lot of stairs overall, which is hard work with bad knees or heavy luggage. There is a ramp to the right of the building, though it is not signposted. Two of the family rooms add a level inside the room: Room 2 has two single beds on a mezzanine and Room 3 has two single beds on an upper floor. Ground-floor rooms open off the corridors around the central patio.

With eight rooms, the house fills quickly, and a two-night minimum applies, so it cannot be a one-night stop on a tour of the island. Prices change little through the year: for two with breakfast, a midweek night in June 2027 runs from about €275 in Room 3 to €382 in Room 1. The pressure is on availability rather than price. By mid-October 2026, a midweek stay in mid-November had one room left, and the New Year week was down to its last room at €600 a night, about double the usual rate.