El Mangroove, Autograph Collection

El Mangroove, Autograph Collection is a beachfront, all-suite hotel on the Gulf of Papagayo in Guanacaste, about 23 km from Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport at Liberia. It has an outdoor pool, a second pool area with a jacuzzi, and Bearth Spa.

For weddings, the hotel offers a Garden Plaza, a Garden Park, an Ocean Terrace above the beach, four beach terraces and a ballroom. Marriott Certified Wedding Planners help with budgets, menus, table settings and suppliers such as florists, photographers and bands, and on-site planners run the day itself. With the beach right at the hotel, ceremony, drinks and dinner can all happen without anyone getting in a car.

The Garden Plaza is the largest outdoor space, listed for up to 200 seated. The Ocean Terrace takes up to 140 seated for dinner, the Garden Park 100 and the ballroom 60, and the four beach terraces hold up to 20 each for dinner, ideal for a small welcome night. Catering menus can feature Costa Rican cooking.

Ask the team about legal ceremonies, ceremony times, packages and the music curfew, as these are not published on the pages we could read. Ask too whether Marriott's New Beginnings offer still applies, as it lets rooms and the reception earn triple Bonvoy points towards an anniversary stay.

The hotel is all suites, so the wedding party can stay on site, and a group rate applies to blocks of 10 or more rooms. Ask for the total room count.

There are three restaurants, Makoko for Latin American food with ocean views, open-air Matiss by the pool and Mediterranean-style Malú, plus Wyl Gym. The hotel has two private boats for beach hopping, and guests can paddleboard, kayak, fish, surf, snorkel or borrow a bicycle. Santa Rosa National Park, a dry forest park known for its wildlife, is nearby. The hotel runs a paid shuttle from Liberia airport.