Sustainable Practices

Greentique Hotels, formerly Green Hotels of Costa Rica, is renown as a sustainable hospitality operations and property management group, helping each of its properties achieve world-class environmental and economic sustainability. That expertise and heritage is now being expanded across the full Greentique collection of boutique hotels and nature-based resorts. Two of our properties, Si Como No Resort Spa and Wildlife Refuge and Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Hotel and Nature Reserve are CST 5 Leaf certified operations. Aguila de Osa Rainforest & Marine Adventure Lodge near Corcovado National Park, the third Greentique property, is well underway in its certification process, incorporating best practices developed by Greentique Hotels over the past 17 years.

Authentic “Ramonense” hospitality: The hotel staff is comprised of over 95% local residents of the Canton of San Ramon.

The recycle way, reducing our carbon footprint: We have an strict sustainable program that re-cycles hotel waste, produces its own compost, organic pesticides, enhancing native orchid, bromeliad and native plant landscaping programs, and operates its own organic vegetable, medicinal, organic green house.

Sustainable Practices

Natural spring water: Villa Blanca receives its water from two wells fed by natural springs that are tested regularly by an accredited – certified laboratory in San Jose, for their quality levels.

Biodegradable products: The hotel uses biodegradable cleaning products and avoids the use of chlorine and other harsh chemical cleaners whenever possible.

Energy savings: The majority of hotel light fixtures (those that are non-dimming) are low-wattage fluorescents. Although solar energy is very limited in a cloud forest, the entire hotel was converted from electric water heaters to propane, a significant energy efficiency improvement.

Share and invite guests to join us: We invite our customers to join our conservation program by cutting back on energy consumption and by sharing what we do with others whenever possible.  Please follow posted suggestions on the property.