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It will be a JW Marriott all-inclusive resort.
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Marriott Has Big Expansion Plans in Costa Rica, With a New All-Inclusive On the Way 

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - March 25, 2025 - 3:02 pm

A St. Regis (including a Piza golf course). A Ritz-Carlton Reserve. Now, a major new JW Marriott-branded resort. Marriott has big plans in Costa Rica, and that includes another opening scheduled for next year. 

The company is adding another major new resort to its portfolio: a new JW Marriott All-Inclusive in Costa Rica, part of a growing portfolio of all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean-Mexico region. 

The property will debut next spring (2026, that is) in the Costa Elena luxury development in Guanacaste, one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations. 

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Marriott is also planning a St. Regis in Costa Rica.

So what do you need to know? 

The new Costa Rica resort will have 415 rooms, 11 dining concepts and a whopping 17 different pools, part of what Marriott says will be “44,000 square feet of water amenities.”

The resort will be on the beach, set on a stretch of just under 900 feet of beach on the country’s Pacific coast. 

The closest airport to the resort is the Daniel Oduber Quiros Airport, about one hour and a half by car. 

It’s one of just a handful of all-inclusive JW Marriotts in the pipeline, including one also in development in the Riviera Maya. It will be the second JW Marriott-branded resort in the Guanacaste area (the other one is not all-inclusive, however).

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