Welcome to Tamarindo Estates Beach Apartments

The Tamarindo Beach-house The Swimming Pool

  

PROPERTY  AMENITIES: For your privacy and tranquility, Tamarindo resort only has 12 apartments in a 60-acre undeveloped estate. On-site Resident Manager, day and night. Exclusive Tamarindo neighborhood. All our rentals are kitchen-equipped units, thus saving on food costs. Silverware, cookware, towels, and bed linen are also provided. Air-conditioned bedrooms. The doors and windows are screened. Free use of PC and broadband internet access. Satellite TV for each rental apartment. BBQ facilities. Each apartment has its own roofed verandah to enjoy the ocean views. A beach-house for taking shade while on the beach, and restroom facilities. The beach-house is not for rent. The rental apartments are a bit farther inland, in the hilly vegetated interior, affording great views of the Culebra coastline and other cays. Tamarindo Estates has ample water storage tanks for those times when the city system fails. Swimming pool with an ocean view roofed deck. Easy walk-in snorkeling just off our beach in pristine waters. A few minutes walk to Playa Tamarindo's sandy beach. We are located on Culebra's unique Marine Reserve. Tamarindo Estates is nicely secluded, yet only a 5 minute drive to town. For the more adventurous, exciting kayaking across one mile to the Luis Peña Cay. Kayak rental available Come visit us at Tamarindo Estates. Experience an enchanting vacation.... A perfect resort to rest and meditate, do some watersports, stay close with the best of nature, or just enjoy doing nothing, and you might become one of our many repeating guests! This is our 16th. year

AREA ATTRACTIONS: Home to Culebra's National Wildlife Reserve under the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Culebra is home to the endangered Leatherback Turtle and many breeding seabirds. Several pristine, unspoiled beaches around the island. Many exciting sites around Culebra for scuba divers. Culebra is a secluded paradise largely untouched by development. Culebra is home to Flamenco, rated one of America's top 10 beaches. Good variety of restaurants and grocery stores. Easy access via San Juan and Fajardo, and Ceiba, PR Daily flights and ferry crossing from Puerto Rico No passport needed: U.S. citizens traveling to and returning directly from Puerto Rico or Culebra are not considered to have left U.S. territory and do not need to present a passport. Flamenco Beach Aerial view of Culebra Marine Reserve Culebra Map

CULEBRA ISLAND INFORMATION:

There are no passports or visas necessary for U.S. citizens arriving directly to Culebra Island or Puerto Rico from the United States. U.S. citizens can travel between Puerto Rico and the United States without going through immigration or customs check points. Culebra is one of Puerto Rico's off-shore islands, 10 miles square in area and 17 miles east of Puerto Rico. It is  located midway between P.R. and St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. Presently there are about 3000 residents on the island. Culebra was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493 and was under the Spanish flag until 1898 when it became part of the United States. Presently, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico enjoys a special status of self-government under the U.S. flag. Culebra is an unspoiled divers' and beachcombers' paradise, also coveted by bird watchers. Culebra Island is ideal for the nature conscious people.

TRANSPORTATION TO CULEBRA ISLAND:

For visitors coming from abroad, the fastest way to reach Culebra is via San Juan, Puerto Rico. The flight from New York to San Juan (SJU) takes 3 1/2 hours; from Miami to San Juan it's 1 1/2 hours. San Juan International Airport (SJU) is served from the U.S. Mainland by American Airlines, Delta, US Airways, Continental, Northwest, Spirit Air, and United.

There are basically two ways of travelling from the 'Big Island' of Puerto Rico to Culebra. You can either take an airplane or take the passenger boat. Flying to Culebra is usually the most hassle free option, and in 35 minutes you can get from San Juan to Culebra.  Flying in from San Juan to Culebra is in most cases the only way to be able to check in into your hotel the same day of your flight from abroad. There are several daily flights arriving in Culebra from San Juan Isla Grande Airport (SIG) on Air Flamenco (787-724-6464) and Vieques Air Link (787-722-3736). Click hereairline information and ferry schedules for more

Cost of boat vs. flying in: If you are coming to Culebra from San Juan, whether the boat or airplane is less expensive would depend on the number of people in your party. The boat between Fajardo to Culebra costs $2.25 each way, and the San Juan-Fajardo taxi costs about $80 each way. If you are a party of one person, flying in would be cheaper by about $22.25 ($60 for plane vs. $82.25 for the taxi + boat.) For a party of two people, the plane would cost $35.50 more ($120 for the plane less $84.50 for the taxi and boat.)

However, if you are flying in from abroad and want to take the passenger boat to Culebra to check-in at Tamarindo Estates that same day, you would need to land into San Juan not later than 12 Noon. This would normally allow sufficient time to get your luggage and then the taxi to the Fajardo ferry dock. The last boat you may take and still be able to check in at the hotel departs Fajardo at 3:00 PM.
 

Twin-engine Islander

The Sound

Some of the Culebra ferries

 

OUR ACCOMMODATIONS AND SURROUNDINGS: Tamarindo Estates is a small, intimate, and unique resort. All our rental units are kitchen-equipped. There are one- and two-bedroom apartments. You will feel a deep sense of privacy and tranquility, as there are only 12 apartments in the midst of its 60 acres of virgin and undeveloped land. The resort is nicely secluded, yet it is an easy 5-minute drive from town. Our charming and cozy apartments have air-conditioned bedrooms. For those who enjoy natural air, the villas also have ceiling fans, and are screened. Each apartment has its own bath with shower, a separate living-kitchen area with an electric cooktop, refrigerator-freezer, microwave oven, satellite TV, and a roofed deck to sit and enjoy the ocean views. These apartments stand high on a hill, a bit farther inland, affording while sitting on the roofed deck, great ocean views and of other offshore cays. Typically there are three independent attached apartments. (Typical floor plan.). There is one computer with a free broadband connection available to guests. We have a staff of friendly caretakers living on the resort's premises to help you have the most pleasant stay at the Estates and the best Culebra, Puerto Rico vacation ever. These are self-catering accommodations. We provide you with a nice, clean villa, with silverware, cookware, towels, and bed linen. In order to keep rates down, we do not provide housekeeping service. We do not offer luxurious lodging but a nice, quiet, comfortable, secluded, and friendly apartment hotel with simple, though comfortable accommodations in a most remarkably beautiful natural environment.

 

Culebra's Marine Reserve as seen from our beach-house Another view of the Marine Reserve from the beach-house

A closer look at our accommodations:

Typical bedroom	Typical kitchen area of the apartments
Facade of one of the villas -	Typical kitchen area of the apartments
Facade of another villa -	View from roofed veranda of one of the apartments

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