By day, Playas del Coco is a colorful, laid-back, and family-friendly destination wildly popular with tourists and locals alike. The area is brimming with markets, shops, casinos, local microbreweries, and restaurants, all easily accessible thanks to the well-established road system. After sundown, the nightlife in the area can’t be missed. The crescent-shaped sandy shores of Coco Bay and calm warm waters beyond it make the area’s famous beach especially suited to sunbathing and swimming. Venture only twenty minutes off the coast of Coco to explore the famous Catalina Islands, where white-tipped reef sharks and rays await in La Pared, and giant stingrays swim La Punta. For incredible fishing, Papagayo Bay beckons, twenty minutes in-shore. Liberia, the largest town in Guanacaste and a hub for tourism and business, is only twenty miles away. Playas del Coco is one of the closest beach communities to an international airport in all of Costa Rica, sitting only thirty minutes from Liberia International Airport for easy flights in and out of paradise.