Apr 5, 2025
The sloths are so cute! - We loved seeing the sloths up close! They were asleep but 3 or 4 of them lifted their heads and allowed us to get pictures of them. The guide was really knowledgeable and was patient answering everyone's questions.
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Jan 25, 2025
Bridges, butterflies, sloths - We booked the hanging bridges, butterfly garden, and sloth habitat. The canopy views from the hanging bridges were neat. We saw howler monkeys, a bright colored slug and millipede, and lots of flora and fauna. Our tour guide Guillermo led us through the butterfly garden and sloth habitat. He was incredibly knowledgeable, passionate, and friendly. Overall, we had a wonderful experience!
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Jan 6, 2025
Incredible Wonder! - This was one of the most treasured things we did when visiting Monteverde . We were able to get up close to the cute, adorable sloths and watch them move and feed, only about 5 to 10 feet away allowing for great photos but I’ve coarse no touching per the rule in Costa Rica because it can harm them. We had paid for a sloth tour earlier in our trip only to see a patch of fur curled up about 100ft in a tree. This was worth every dollar if you want to see and learn all the beauty about the sloths and also get great photos.
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Jan 2, 2025
Wonderful Experience - The staff here were super kind to us. We had just finished the ziplining canopy tour, and wanted to add on a tour of the sloth sanctuary. We arrived 2 minutes late for the tour that had just started, but they quickly sent someone off to ask the tour group to wait for us. They got us quickly check out for the tour, and had a staff member take us right to the tour group, and we didn't miss out on anything. Once in the sanctuary, we learned a lot about sloths from our tour guide, and even got to see the veterinary team come and interact with a couple of the sloths who needed medical attention. We didn't get to see any sloths in the wild during our 10 days in Costa Rica, so we are super grateful that we got to take a tour of the sloth sanctuary. I also very much appreciated that the sanctuary is just that--a place for injured (female) sloths to live and thrive when they can't be returned to the wild due to their injuries. It's clear that the staff here are well-trained and have a thorough knowledge and respect of sloths, and they are passionate about sharing their knowledge with the public.
Thank you so much for the great experience, and everything you do to keep sloths safe!
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Apr 27, 2025
Expensive activity for the duration - Lazy in a large enclosed hangar.
Interesting explanations of the guide but very expensive for less than 30 mins visit
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Apr 16, 2025
Sloths were awesome, tour was not. - Let me start by saying the sloths themselves were a 10/10. They’re in a small greenhouse-style environment and we saw lots of them along the paths inside (there are 12 right now).
The tour experience, on the other hand, was extremely overpriced and underwhelming. We got to the park at 2:40pm (our shuttle picked us up at 2), and we bought our tickets. We were then told the next tour departed at 3:15 so we waited until then. We had quite a small group, maybe 10 people. The guide brought us to the habitat and we started the tour around 3:20. We walked around the paths a single time, he gave us some basic information, and we were then rushed out of the habitat 25 minutes later. No time to walk around by ourselves, not even CLOSE to the 45-60 mins we were told it would be. Some of our tour group was heading to the butterfly sanctuary after the sloths and we got the impression the guide was rushing to get them through, because at 4pm SHARP everyone clocked out for the day. We then had to wait another 20 minutes for a shuttle back. Waiting double the time of the tour length, not counting the shuttles to and from the park, was not worth the money spent at all. Really good place to see sloths up close though.
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Jan 9, 2025
Mixed feelings - The tour itself was ok, yet: you will only see adult females which mostly are asleep. There are no babies (which they claim on their website).
If you did not see sloths yet: good to go there. If you have seen them in the forests as wild animals, it is probably not worth going.
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Feb 23, 2025
Sloth - The place is good but like everything else depends on how lucky you are if the sloth bears are awake. If they're not it's lost money 😥
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Jan 7, 2025
Overpriced and Disappointing - The Selvatura Sloth Tour is unfortunately not worth the cost. While you will see sloths up close, the experience feels overpriced compared to what you can enjoy in Costa Rica’s national parks, where sloths are often spotted in their natural habitat for free.
The sloths here are rescues, and while it’s good they are being cared for, it felt more like a tourist trap than an authentic wildlife encounter.
If you’re eager to see sloths, save your money and visit one of the many incredible national parks where you can spot them in the wild. This tour adds very little value and left us wishing we had skipped it.
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Feb 13, 2025
A disappointment - We visited the sloth park and were extremely disappointed. They put us in a group of about 50 people and 1 guide. The guide appeared bored. He gave us information, we all crowded around 1 sloth and then moved on to the next sloth. At the end of 40 minutes, he said we had to leave and that was it. No time to walk around on your own. Sloths are in an enclosed building and that is it.
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