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A private, all-inclusive day trip to one of the Nicoya Peninsula's quieter, harder-to-reach beaches.
Cross the Gulf of Nicoya by ferry and boat, explore the Curú Wildlife Refuge, and spend the day on the secluded white sand of Playa Quesera.
A private, all-inclusive day trip to Playa Quesera, a secluded turquoise-water beach on the Nicoya Peninsula known mostly to locals. The journey crosses the Gulf of Nicoya by ferry and boat, taking in the lush Curú Wildlife Refuge en route, with authentic coastal food along the way.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in San José.
Cross by ferry and boat for real views of the gulf on the way to the peninsula.
Explore this protected coastal reserve known for its biodiversity.
Spend time on this secluded, white-sand beach away from the more crowded tourist spots.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Cross the Gulf of Nicoya by ferry and boat, explore the Curú Wildlife Refuge, and spend the day on the secluded white sand of Playa Quesera. A private, all-inclusive day trip to Playa Quesera, a secluded turquoise-water beach on the Nicoya Peninsula known mostly to locals. The journey crosses the Gulf of Nicoya by ferry and boat, taking in the lush Curú Wildlife Refuge en route, with authentic coastal food along the way.
Playa Quesera sits on the southern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula, tucked past the Curú Wildlife Refuge in a stretch of coastline that most visitors to Costa Rica never see simply because it's genuinely harder to reach than the country's better-known beaches. There's no direct road access for the final stretch — the beach is reached by boat from within the refuge's own grounds, which is a large part of why it stays quiet even during high season.
Getting there is part of the experience. The route typically follows the Puntarenas–Paquera ferry route across the Gulf of Nicoya, a roughly 20-kilometer, 70-to-80-minute crossing that passes a scatter of small gulf islands, some of them protected as seabird nesting reserves and closed to landing. From Paquera, it's a short drive on to the Tambor area before transferring to boat for the final approach to Curú and Quesera itself.
Curú has an unusual history for a Costa Rican protected area. Federico Schutt de la Croix settled the land in 1933 and ran it as a working hacienda, growing rice, corn, and mangoes. When squatters began encroaching on the property in the 1974, the Schutt family petitioned the government for protection; by 1981 most of the land was designated protected forest, and in 1983 Curú was formally established as Costa Rica's first private wildlife refuge — a distinction that still shapes how it's managed today. Only a fraction of the roughly 1,500-hectare property (the beach strip, mangrove estuaries, and river corridors) carries full refuge protection; the rest is a mix of protected forest and low-impact agriculture still run as part of the same family ranch.
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