From anywhere within about ten minutes of La Fortuna, with a drop-off afterwards.
Picked, pulped, dried, roasted and brewed on the same few acres you are standing on.
The pod opened in front of you, then the grinding and the tasting.
The third crop, and the one nobody expects to enjoy as much as they do.
Of a two-and-a-half-hour booking, which is an unusually generous ratio.
A family-owned farm near La Fortuna that grows coffee, cacao and sugar cane within sight of one another, and a tour built to walk you through all three. It is the busiest booking in the district and the only one whose fare includes a lift, which between them explain most of its popularity.
The coffee half runs the full chain: how the crop is grown, how the cherries are picked, how the beans are dried, roasted and ground. The cacao half is hands-on, with chocolate prepared and tasted in front of you. The cane is pressed at the end. Along the way the guide fills in the birds and the plants, because a working farm on this ground is also good habitat.
If you are choosing one farm morning and want the fullest picture, this is it. It is also the easiest to arrange, which is why it is the first stop for most people booking coffee and chocolate tour in La Fortuna.
You have no car, you want all three crops in one morning, and you would rather have somebody else handle getting there. It suits families, first-timers in Costa Rica and anyone whose only free window is a half-day.
You want cacao specifically, or the lowest price, or a fixed departure time you can plan a day around. In that case take the Don Olivo cacao plantation, which runs at eight, ten, one and three and starts at the floor price.
The farm sits off Calle 506 in San Carlos, Alajuela province, a few minutes outside La Fortuna. Pickup covers hotels no more than about ten minutes away; transport from hotels more than twenty minutes out is excluded, so if you are staying towards the lake, check the radius before you book.
It covers hotels no more than about ten minutes from La Fortuna. Transport from anywhere more than twenty minutes out is excluded. If you are unsure, you can always make your own way to the farm instead.
About two hours of a two-and-a-half-hour booking, which is a better ratio than most. The rest is the pickup circuit. If you drive yourself you get the same two hours and lose the waiting.
Yes. The surfaces take strollers, infants sit on laps, and the tastings run throughout rather than arriving at the end. More on visiting with children.
Coffee, tea, water and the tastings, but no meal. Plan lunch in town afterwards, which is easy because the tour is short.
Yes, alongside the cacao and the cane, and you follow it from the tree to the cup. It is a smallholding rather than an estate, which is exactly why the whole process fits in one walk — what 253 metres does to the coffee.
Yes, if you can get yourself to the farm. The Don Olivo cacao plantation runs two hours at the lowest fare in town, with four fixed departures a day. What you give up is the pickup and the coffee half.
The tour runs, and the tasting area is under cover. If you want a trail that is roofed from end to end, the two-in-one coffee and chocolate tours include one built for exactly that.
Esteban was informative, energetic and genuinely fun. He made time for every question and made sure everyone was included in the activities. We learned a lot, and the coffee and chocolate samples would have been worth the trip on their own.
Julia · June 2026 · small group
La Fortuna Coffee and chocolate tour · North Fields coffee and chocolate
An easy walk, with umbrellas provided. There was plenty on sustainable and multi-generational farming, and more birds and plants than I expected — a sloth as well. Alberto was excellent.
Heather · June 2026 · family
La Fortuna Coffee and chocolate tour · North Fields coffee and chocolate
It ran long, but it stayed interesting the whole way through. Tasting and handling the cacao fruit, and the freshest roasted coffee I have ever had. A good way to spend an afternoon after the drive up.
Lisa · July 2026 · couple
La Fortuna Coffee and chocolate tour · North Fields coffee and chocolate
If this one is not yours, the other two featured mornings are Don Olivo, a two-hour cacao plantation visit at the lowest price in town and a guided sloth trail followed by a farm tasting, in one three-hour booking.
All of them, with prices and hours side by side, are on La Fortuna Coffee Tours.