This Costa Rican Hotel Is Backing World-Class Surfboard Shapers

It’s cooler once you’re inside. Step off the hot, dusty road choked with ATVs, motorbikes and trucks, and a certain multi-story concrete building in Santa Teresa offers more than a reprieve from the oppressive Costa Rican sun. Anyone can walk in from the street and get a glimpse into one of the more unique businesses in the country. 

On the surface, House of Somos looks like many of its neighboring establishments. It’s a hotel, bar and restaurant situated a minute away from the warm beachbreaks at the south end of the Nicoya Peninsula.