The Zoe Report: The New Costa Rica Resort Bound for Insta-Fame

The luxe, one-in-a-lifetime five-star Auberge Resorts Collection property in Perez Zeledon calls itself “an escape for those seeking total well-being and unbridled adventure” and just opened last November 2021. It already counts Emma Roberts among its fans (“the most magnificent setting, the kindest people, the most mind-blowing experiences,” she said in an Instagram caption). There are no food restrictions — in fact, all food expenses are included in the nightly rate and you can purchase alcohol at any time with no shade.

For me, a New Yorker who lives and works in a studio apartment and sleeps with her phone (I know, I know, it’s so bad), a three-night, rule-free luxury wellness escape in the warm, animal-filled forest could not have been a more compelling antidote. My lungs called out for fresh air, my spine cried for movement, and my eyes begged to look at anything other than another screen. I was told I’d literally get to climb a tree and bathe in a river. To Costa Rica I went.

 

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