A private four-suite home with a pool on 1.6 acres of flat, usable land. Three minutes by car from a protected surf beach where the sun sets straight into the Pacific.
The House
Casa Poiema is a single-storey modern home built around one idea: the inside and the outside should feel like the same room. The great room slides fully open onto the deck, the dining terrace and the pool, so breakfast, a swim and a nap in the hanging chair all happen within a few steps of each other.
Four bedroom suites sit along a quiet hallway away from the living space. The kitchen is a real cook's kitchen with a six-burner gas range, a farmhouse sink, a full pantry and a long island that seats the whole group. Outside there is a second kitchen with a built-in grill, a fire pit, an outdoor shower and a lawn big enough for a game of soccer under a giant guanacaste tree.

Fresh for the 2026 season
We spent September 2026 at the house with a crew. This is what changed.
Every bedroom and the great room now runs on new inverter mini-split units. Quiet, cold and efficient.
Every wall, ceiling and exterior surface was freshly painted. The house looks the way it did on day one.
New mattresses, new linens and new bedding in every suite. Nothing inherited, nothing tired.
A king bed with two trundles underneath, so a family of four shares one calm room with its own door to the deck.
Arrival
You walk in to fresh tropical flowers on the table, towels folded on every bed and a house that has been aired and cooled before you arrive. Check-in is self-serve from 3 pm, so a late flight is never a problem.
The Suites
All four suites have new beds, new bedding, new air conditioning, blackout curtains and a sliding door to the outside.

A four-poster bed, a private ensuite with a soaking tub and a stone walk-in shower, and a wall of glass to the trees.

Built for a family. A king for the parents and two trundles that pull out for the kids, in a room with its own door to the deck.

A platform king with a hand-built loft bunk above it. The favourite room of every kid who has stayed here.

Two twin beds that push together into a king, so this room works for two friends, two kids or a couple.
Outdoor Living
We chose this house over the ones on the cliffs for one reason. Our kids needed room to run, and we needed to stop worrying. The lot is flat, fenced by forest and usable from edge to edge.
The backyard faces west. From the kitchen, the deck or the pool you look out at a single enormous guanacaste tree, and in the evening the light turns gold behind it. Dinner happens at the outdoor table, the grill is steps away and the fire pit runs late.




Las Ventanas de Playa Grande
Casa Poiema sits inside Las Ventanas, a low-density community in the hills above Playa Grande with 24-hour gated security, paved private roads and more than five kilometres of walking trails.
Guests use the roads for morning runs and bike rides, the trails for howler monkey sightings, and the community's back road for a ten-minute drive to the calm coves of Playa Minas and Bahía de los Piratas. The clubhouse, its pool and the courts are reserved for owners.
Getting around
Rent a car at the airport. The road from Liberia is paved the whole way, and a car is what turns one beach into eight.
The house sits in the hills just behind the beach. The surf is a three-minute drive, Tamarindo is 25 minutes by road or two minutes by boat across the estuary, and the calm-water coves at Playa Minas and Conchal are 10 to 20 minutes north. Huacas, 12 minutes east, has the full supermarket and the 24-hour clinic.
Drive times are typical daytime estimates. Not to scale.
Playa Grande
The entire beach sits inside Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas. Nothing is built on the sand, no hotel faces the water, and after dark the beach belongs to the leatherback turtles.
What you get instead is 4.5 kilometres of open sand, one of the most consistent surf breaks in Guanacaste, and a sunset that drops straight into the Pacific every evening around 5:30. Standing in the water at that hour is the reason we bought this house.

The Nicoya Blue Zone
Playa Grande sits in the canton of Santa Cruz, one of the five cantons that make up Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula Blue Zone, a region National Geographic's Dan Buettner identified for its unusual number of healthy centenarians.
The reasons are not complicated. People here eat beans, corn tortillas, squash and fruit picked that morning. They drink hard water rich in calcium. They walk more than they drive, they sleep early, they live close to family and they have a plan de vida, a reason to get up. A week at Casa Poiema tends to look a lot like that.


From the owners
We bought this house almost sight unseen, because we wanted a place that slows life down and is not commercialised. The Blue Zone mattered to us. The three-minute drive to the ocean mattered more. We loved the houses on the cliffs, but with small kids they did not feel safe. This one, with its flat acre and a half, its guanacaste tree and its west-facing yard, was instant love. Tamarindo is a short drive for dinner and nightlife. Playa Grande is where you come home to.
Andrea and Clifton
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We book Casa Poiema directly, which keeps it personal and keeps the price honest. Send your dates and your group size and Andrea will reply with availability.