Magic Carpet Houseboat

Your floating alternative is here! Stay aboard an authentic and elegant houseboat moored to our dock along the Golfito Marina strip - town center on the bay. This fully appointed houseboat moored at our dock is a true 'On the Water' lodging choice. The handsome captains cabin offers a queen size bed and built in wardrobe. Additionally, the crew cabin can offer 2 single beds. Enjoy your own waterfront deck, a living salon with large screen cable TV and WiFi, hot shower and marine head on board. Access to Clubhouse area for social lounging. Laundry services. If you enjoy a marina environment or want to experience the romance of the boat bum life, you'll love this elegant and well appointed novelty lodging. This prime location between the calm Golfito bay anchorage and the pristine wilderness of the protected rain forest reserve will be a highlight of your holidays in Costa Rica. The houseboat is "all yours". Conveniently centered between Banana Bay Marina and Fish Hook Marina just 2 kilometers to the Duty Free shopping area, you have easy access to the best of Golfito. In addition to your houseboat lodging, guests enjoy daily access to the Cruisers Clubhouse with a book exchange, salon, auxiliary shower and toilet facilities, laundry, WiFi deck and free morning coffee. Guests are respectfully left in peace to enjoy their lodging - however anyone looking for a little social time, pet interaction or local information need only walk on up the pier to the patio deck and Clubhouse where morning coffee clutches and evening sunset gatherings are a regular thing and your host is never far away. We offer several tour options from hiking to local boats exploring the waterways (picking you up there at your deck doorstep) to zip line adventures up in the forest.... Assistance and local information for guests is always at hand. The "Magic Carpet" houseboat is moored bay front, among the yachts of neighboring Fish Hook and Banana Bay marinas - both offering great dining and bars with daily happy hours. Your entry to our dock is via a private garden access from main street. Taxis pass by 24 hours a day. 5 minutes walk to groceries, cantinas, restaurant options and the central park area with it's iconic old locomotive from the by-gone era. Many say we are the best location you can get in this historical old town, formerly headquarters and loading dock of the Chiquita-Dole banana operations of Central America. Driveway or street front parking. Bus lets passengers off less than 30 meters from our entry. 5 minutes by economical taxi from Golfito's airport landing strip. Taxis operate round the clock for very economical fares. Convenient daily schedules for neighboring ferry's and buses to the Panama border, Puerto Jimenez on the Osa and Pavones surf break make this a great stopover in route to or from those popular areas. A marina environment can be quite active with boats of tourists or offshore residents coming and going. Our patios are open to social activity during typical hours so guests should be open to the lifestyle. Local charter captains are welcome to pick up directly at your cabinside decks. Local taxi boats can pick up at the houseboat if you'd like to go on a tour or explore the shores of the Golfo Dulce, the quaint coastline community and estuaries. Our kayaks may be lent to houseboat guests staying 3 days or more to give special access to explore the bay and rustic Golfito island restaurants. Happy hours and international menus next door on either side offer great waterfront dining. A dozen options from sea food to local fare are in walking distance. Local groceries and cantinas are all in walking distance. Our BBQ galley on the deck is available to guests by request. Buses and flights in and out daily. Economical Taxis pass by 24 hours a day. Parking available on the road or driveway in front of the property. If enthusiastic mutts and a bit of "dog liberty" isn't agreeable then this may not be a good match. It's only fair to note the shore side clubhouse is also home for 4 adopted "street dogs" (3 small, 1 large). It is our intention that the dogs do not enter or "hang out" at the houseboat. But if you allow it, they will always give it a try. There is a gate to the houseboat deck and they've learned it's "off limits" but that won't stop them if they think you're open to their visit. They will bark... at things going by on the street or waterside and they'll be "guarding" with their stern barks when they think it's warranted. They're great dogs and a warm part of the scene that most of our guests embrace along with the entire experience. But some renters prefer dog free environments so I felt it worth noting.... We are not that.