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The 10 Best Resorts in Central America

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As it did last year, Costa Rica leads the pack of winners for 2022’s best resorts in Central America with a whopping seven spots. Belize managed to secure two spots on the list, with Nicaragua snagging the last slot this time. It seems, for now, Costa Rica’s hospitality prowess remains unmatched by its neighbors.


Every year for our World’s Best Awards survey, T+L asks readers to weigh in on travel experiences around the globe — to share their opinions on the top hotels, resorts, cities, islands, cruise ships, spas, airlines, and more. Hotels (including safari lodges) were rated on their facilities, location, service, food, and overall value. Properties were classified as city hotel, resort, or safari lodge based on their locations and amenities.


Belize continues to represent an incredible value, with a landscape that can go toe-to-toe with Costa Rica, offering lush rain forests, powder-sand beaches, and pristine waters for diving and snorkeling. Eco-lodge Hamanasi Adventure & Dive Resort (No. 6) is a prime example, offering personalized service and friendly staffers who lead “excursions that are excellent due to their top-notch tour guides,” according to one voter, who also gushed, “Hamanasi now has a special place in my heart!”


Nayara Tented Camp, hotel pool, Arenal Volcano National Park, Costa Rica.
Constanza Nayara Resorts

Rancho Santana, which came in at No. 4, is a dynamic surfing spot in Nicaragua. One person mentioned its “spectacular beaches, fishing, turtle sanctuary, and truly unique birding.” Other highlights include farm-to-table dining and its “excellent private beach” that one reader praised. Another fan summarized: “hidden treasure.”


The best resorts in Central America all elicit similarly enthusiastic comments from readers. So what set this year’s No. 1 apart? Read on for the details — and to see the entire list.



1. Nayara Tented Camp, Arenal Volcano National Park, Costa Rica

Nayara Tented Camp, hotel guest room, Arenal Volcano National Park, Costa Rica.
Brice Ferre Studios/Courtesy to Nayara Tented Camp

A Nayara property has topped this category for the last three years — and the two sister resorts are never too far behind. This is the second year

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7 Immigrant Gals Who Revolutionized Meals in America”

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MAYUKH SEN’S enthralling debut guide, Flavor Makers: Seven Immigrant Women of all ages Who Revolutionized Food items in The us, opens in 1880 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when anti-immigrant xenophobia was an acknowledged point of everyday living in The united states. The social stress to assimilate was pervasive, and food was integral to this process, as we find out from Sen’s vignette of Elizabeth Kander, the creator of the influential The Settlement Cookbook: The Way to a Man’s Heart (1901). Kander was a Jewish immigrant from Germany dwelling in Milwaukee who crusaded for assimilation as a survival mechanism her cookbook, which taught modern European immigrants American meals behaviors, offered in excess of two million copies.

The virulent xenophobia that shaped Kander’s culinary endeavor may possibly now seem to be a issue of the earlier, but Sen dispels the illusion of development. Taste Makers anatomizes the insidious ways xenophobia persists in the American meals planet, depriving immigrant culinary professionals, specifically ladies, of recognition and regard. Sen weaves two strands together. The first is a chronicle of the life of 7 immigrant culinary connoisseurs in The usa: Chao Yang Buwei from China, Elena Zelayeta from Mexico, Madeleine Kamman from France, Marcella Hazan from Italy, Julie Sahni from India, Najmieh Batmanglij from Iran, and Norma Shirley from Jamaica. These women are superheroes of a kind: combating cultural prejudices, they introduced Americans to a vast array of ethnic food items, cooking models, and food stuff traditions. They wrote influential cookbooks, taught modern cooking courses, ran meals companies, hosted tv reveals, operated eating places, and labored as government chefs. Their collective endeavor has changed the way The us cooks and eats nowadays. But persons do not always hear about them or go through their cookbooks. Sen’s e book blazes with rage at this injustice as it commemorates these creators’ merit and mettle.

Style Makers is a operate of restoration. Sen attracts on cookbooks, memoirs, media coverage, and interviews to create a energetic team portrait of these gifted gals omitted from the American culinary canon. He tracks the seismic effects of immigration rules and political situations,

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