Comments on: Le Caméléon Opens – Adding a New Class of Accomodation to Puerto Viejo

By: Colinsito

Colinsito — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:59:11 +0000

Hey Markus… I hate to disappoint you. But we tried to get a room for some friends from Canada that were visiting and we had to move dates because one night they were full.

For a hotel that has been open for 2 months and rooms start at $200 night… that is nothing short of amazing.

By: Campbell

Campbell — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:17:25 +0000

I agree with Marco from Totem. Stay positive, stop criticizing and welcome sustainable development, diversity and new businesses to the most beautiful place in all of Costa Rica

By: A.Ortiz

A.Ortiz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:01:21 +0000

Markus, I don’t know what “ill” elements the town rejects as there are plenty of problems around to shake a stick at if you actually live here which I am sure you living in Spain and other visitors don’t have to worry about when only staying for a brief vacation in this “paradise”. Not every body is here on vacation. The Cameleon provides employment for 30 people in the area which is greatly appreciated especially since many are struggling and don’t have the luxury of second guessing new businesses providing jobs and hope. Welcome and best of luck Cameleon.

By: Markus

Markus — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:18:20 +0000

First of all: it´s great and important that this discussion exists!
Concerning the Cameleon,during the past 15 years I saw Puerto Viejo develop, I find the luxury hotel our of place in a market sense, NOT in a constructural or environmental or social sense.
The town has proved many times, and will again, to reject ill elements in its system. Personny, I think that if Le Cameleon is rejected, it will be by the market. We´ll see…
As fot the “feel”, the mini-mall, bank and other “downtown” development makes me worry a lot more!

By: Edgar Manuel.

Edgar Manuel. — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:33:05 +0000

I am disappointed to heard so much small talk and opposition to the beginning of the financial independence of one of the smallest town many of us claimed to love. With sadness I remember many generations of ancestors praying to God asked him to lift the blanket of poverty that overwhelmed our Caribbean communities. From the progress we can now witness in Puerto Viejo it is evident that God has remember the prayers of those who died with the dream in their hart. It is with deep sadness that I must confess that Puerto Viejo and other counties in Limon were not develop by some of the local people because we did not believe that we disserve any thing better. Foreigners came from distant places with the dreams and care to develop and establish them self among our self. They saw the possibilities to live happily among us and turn their dreams into a reality where they could achieve financial independence and control their destiny. Some of us did not attempt to develop these communities because we did not care nor did we have the vision to believe our community disserve better. we are still sufering from the Slave mentality!!! Despite to positive development of the region all we can see and discuss is the bad, never something collectively good.
The hotel is beautiful, just like the once many of the complainer saved their monies to spend weld serve vacations in the USA or other faring countries. I will support the hotel each time I visit CR. I hope the owner is prosperous and that he continue to be an example to dose of us who are still crabs in a barrel.

Many of us who oppose the development in Puerto Viejo or Limon should remember that if we don’t do what is require we would always be a slave to the lender. Some our young people don’t dreams any more, they don’t see hope lurking in the future. Remember: a man without a dream is a man without a future..

Finally, for years we complain that no one care about the future of Limon and the surrounding counties, but that is not true. lets thank God for the foreigners who care enough to stay develop and beautified the region. we should follow their example .

Que Dios bendiga la Republica de Costa Rica, a su Govierno y su Pueblo!!

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:02:26 +0000

Certainly like you mimi, I would prefer Rocking J’s over this place….wink, wink….

Mimi, have you even seen this hotel before you made this comment? If you didn’t, you are an airhead. If you did, you an airhead blonde.

Pura Vida

By: mimi

mimi — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:46:11 +0000

I do not live in Puerto Viejo. I am not against development, and the jobs certainly are needed. However, just as I would not like to stay in a palapa in the Champs Elysees, or in a mediterranean villa in the Serengeti, I do not want to stay in this hotel in Puerto Viejo, but I do not expect you to understand this concept.

By: Tamanaco

Tamanaco — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:56:09 +0000

Why is it that anti progress/development people such as Rachel and her ilk choose to live in the developing town of Puerto Viejo when there is the option of living quietly in alta Talamanca that is virtually free of all the terrible vices development and progress bring such as jobs (read; income) especially those offered by foreign owned businesses, electricity, roads, bridges, food stores, medical clinics etc?

By: mimi

mimi — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:18:56 +0000

Rachel,
I agree with you, it is completely out of place. To the guy who said even the president approves of it, let me remind you he also approved the Crucitas project. To the one who said only foreigners knew about hospitality and that is why they were the most successful, let me remind you that two of the best boutique hotels IN THE WORLD (according to Travel and Leisure, Conde Nast, and various other prestigious publications, not according to me), Punta Islita, and El Silencio, are 100% tico owned, financed and operated.
This hotel would be perfect in Can Cun, Miami Beach, or any other already ruined beach with boxy white hotels…

By: mr.smith

mr.smith — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:10:14 +0000

rachel This is NOT a positive addition to the area. It is out of place and unwelcome