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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Dec 18, 2024
Awesome trip, great people - Had a great time exploring this place. Saw a few animals but it was raining pretty good so the animals were home watching Netflix I guess. The bridges were fantastic and we didn't use a guide.
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Jul 31, 2024
Interesting - After waking the hanging bridges in the morning we then visited the sloth habitat. It was certainly interesting and well worth the visit.
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Aug 17, 2024
Expensive but maybe the only option to see sloths close up - Echoing other comments, this place is crazy expensive but having spent 11 nights in CR at 3 locations including Arenal/La Fortuna, this was the only time we saw sloths close up.
I think they have 12 sloths and you can see them all from several metres away and can get excellent pictures with your phone.
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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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Apr 1, 2024
Sloths up close in a zoo-like indoor setting - Two couples traveling around Costa Rica: We had seen a wild sloth in a high tree, but wanted to see them up close. This zoo-like experience with orphan sloths gave us a chance to see many sleeping, and we were lucky to see a few move as well. It was paired with a butterfly house where we saw many butterflies hatched there from eggs farmed or harvested around the country. For photography, the settings didn't look all that natural. (The company could look at the settings as a photographer would and make some improvements.) But more of a disappointment was the attitude of the guide. He seemed tired and bored with dumb tourist questions. We were on many good guided adventures, and this was the least exciting, not just for being indoors but also for his attitude. We did learn one thing that stuck with me: Many, many sloths are being killed and orphaned as forests are cleared. Costa Rica has some national parks, but those places are outnumbered by increasing city, farm and ranch lands.
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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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May 29, 2024
Poor value at $149 for 2 adults 2 children to see sloths for barely 30minutes - The sloths were great to see and have a nice sanctuary... however very short time actually in there for $149 for 2 adults 2 kids. Then an hour wait for transportation back to our hotel. Bit of a con!
Suggest go elsewhere for longer
Poor value
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