La Fortuna History

When the Arenal Volcano in La Fortuna in San Carlos erupted in 1968 and killed a lot of people in the area, Don Miguel- who was 25 years old- and his wife Doña Carmela were in the Cuerpo de Paz rescue team, helped a lot of people to start the reconstruction of the new Arenal town.

After this situation, especially in the 90’s the attractive of the Arenal Volcano, the hot springs, La Fortuna waterfall and all La Fortuna area was exceptionally high for a lot of tourists, scientific and students travelers.

At that time, La Fortuna in San Carlos had just two hotels in all the area, so don Miguel, decided to sell all his cows to start the construction of the cabins, because he knew that some day the Arenal Volcano will be one’s of the greatest in the world and La Fortuna in San Carlos will be a tourist niche.

It was the year of 1992; when don Miguel and his wife Carmela decided to start to build of their own hotel in La Fortuna

Well now you can find hotesl all over La Fortuna, Hotels near to La Fortuna waterfall, Arenal Volcano National Park, Hotels with Arenal Volcano and lake view and others hotel with hot springs.

In La Fortuna you have more than 15 different options of Tours that you can do in San Carlos region. That is why we always recommend to stay here in Arenal Volcano more that two nights.