Welcome to Casa Oro

Casa Oro has been serving the needs of backpacker’s since 2001. It was built by and for backpackers to make San Juan Del Sur accessible to all budgets. Its ideal location in the center of the village, one block up from the beachfront, makes it a perfect base to explore San Juan del Sur and southern Nicaragua.

Casa Oro is a converted classical Nicaraguan wooden house with Spanish inspiration. When you step into Casa Oro, you will be greeted by our friendly staff and management who speak English, Spanish and French. Inside you will find the reception and Adventure & Info Center. Depending on the time you arrive, you may find surfers getting their boards loaded onto to the shuttle to the beach or a group of sunburned travelers enjoying a cold beer and watching a new release on the large 42 inch flat screen plasma television. Past our lobby, the house opens up into an interior courtyard, a full kitchen, a dining area and of course, for your late afternoon siesta, hammocks. Surrounding the inner courtyard and up above you on the second floor are our dormitories, Tortuga, Coco, Maderas and Majagual, and our private rooms, all with, as one traveler put it, “the best mattresses in Central America.”

The staff at Casa Oro are here to make sure you enjoy your stay. Whether it’s the recommendation on the best pizza in town (Bella Napoli, even New Yorkers agree), the local surf conditions (if you see the staff heading to the beach, start waxing your board), even the best cure for a hangover (a banana/passion fruit smoothie with a touch of cinnamon), we can help you with it all. So, as many of our travelers do it here: come for a night and stay for a month.