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April 18, 2008 - The Inn at Coyote Mountain, which opened in late 2004 as an eco-friendly inn, has been named one of the top 10 ultra boutique hotels in the world by globorati.com/Reuters, one of the top 10 hotel culinary schools in the world by gayot.com: the guide to the good life, and one of Costa Rica's top hotels by the Costa Rica Travel Review.
The 4-bedroom inn overlooks the Gulf of Nicoya and Pacific Ocean from about 1000 meters in altitude, and has a 70-acre private nature preserve. A secluded nature retreat, the Inn offers elegant dining and respite from the outside world.
Luxury travel site globorati.com listed 10 of the world's top "ultra boutique" hotels which all have a dozen rooms or less. The list was published by the Reuters news agency and called Coyote Mountain "a standout among Costa Rica's premier eco-lodges."
The Costa Rica Travel Review (www.costaricatravelreview.com) granted the Inn a 2008 Silver Palm Award, and Gayot.com named it one of the top culinary vacation destinations in the world. The Inn has offered seasonal cooking vacations since 2005.
The Inn is owned by Daniel Abel, Charles Leary, and Vaughn Perret, who also operate Trout Point Lodge of Nova Scotia, however Coyote Mountain is enitrely managed and staffed by local Costa Rica. It also follows innovative sustinable tourism practices, such as a completely gravity-fed fresh water system, a grey water system for watering fruit trees, no use of air conditioning, and reforestation.
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