WELCOME TO NOSARA, NICOA'S LAND

HOSTEL NICOA

Hostel Nicoa is new and charming location near Nosara Beach. Built with care for backpackers, travellers, surfers and yogis. Everyone is welcome at Nicoa. Come and experience Costa Rican hospitality and stay for the beautiful beaches and communtiy of like-minded travellers. Whether you want a calming yoga haven or daredevil mountain biking base Nicoa is for you.

OUR DORMS

Hostel Nicoa offers brand new facilities with a communal kitchen, 40ms2 doorms with A/C, spacious beds with big lockers, a big common area with game tables and other distractions. We also offer each guest free breakfast and access to our pool!

A NATIVE LEADER

This is the story of Nicoa El Cacique Chorotega. (A native king from the chorotega region). Nicoa was the last great ruler of the Chorotega lineage and the father of the princess Nosara. Cacique Nicoya was a descendant of the first Chorotegas who arrived in what is now Guanacaste and who conquered all the towns in that region, including the Corobicíes of South American tradition.
He was lord and master of all the Chorotega peoples. Upon their arrival in 1522, the Spanish conquerors led by Captain Gil González Dávila were able to confirm Nicoya's supremacy over other caciques and his name lives on today in the second canton of Guanacaste, a gulf and peninsula.
Regarding the origin of its name it is traditionally attributed roots of the Nahuatl language, the one spoken by the Aztecs and its meaning is "way of the warriors" or "corn on one side and the other".

OUR STORY

Nicoa was founded by Federico in 2020. Federico has travelled around the world from his native Costa Rica and stayed in every type of hostel you can imagine.
He loved his time abroad discovering new cultures and wanted to bring something back to his homeland.
Nicoa was always a dream, made by a traveller for other travellers. Named after a native Costa Rican ruler who resisted the Spanish conquest.
Nicoa represents a safe space for all.
Welcome to Nosara, Nicoa's Land.