Your guests ask your front desk the same question every day: “Where do we book the park tour?” This program gives your concierge one answer, one tracked link, and a commission on every booking that comes from it. No contract fee, no minimum volume, no exclusivity.

Costa Rica Wakoo Tours is based in Manuel Antonio, Quepos. Tours are led by Jason Solano Zamora, a naturalist guide certified by the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT), in English and Spanish.

Who will be guiding your guests?

Jason Solano Zamora, ICT-certified naturalist guide, founder and lead guide of Costa Rica Wakoo Tours. Guest reviews are counted platform by platform below — nothing here is aggregated or estimated, and every number can be checked live on the guide page.

  • Tripadvisor — 4.9 / 5 across 257 reviews
  • Viator — 366 reviews
  • Google — Costa Rica Wakoo Tours on Google Maps

Guests receive the full set of tour photos afterwards at no extra cost, which is the detail your front desk will hear about at check-out.

What does the hotel actually receive?

15% of the published tour price, with a floor of $5 per guest, paid per booking. There is no monthly fee, no minimum volume and no exclusivity clause. Here is what that means per guest, at the prices published on our website today:

Tour Guest pays Hotel receives
Classic Group $30 per person $5.00
Premium $65 per person $9.75
Classic Private $69 per person $10.35
VIP Private $100 per person $15.00

A family of four on the Premium tour is $39 to the hotel, from one sentence at the front desk. Beyond the commission, the property gets three things:

  • Your own tracked link and QR code — one per hotel, so every booking is attributed to you automatically. No vouchers to reconcile and no paperwork to file.
  • WhatsApp confirmation — your concierge gets the booking confirmed directly on WhatsApp at +506 8514-1361. Same-day answers from a real person, with no ticketing system to log into.
  • No risk to the property — you take no payment, hold no inventory and carry no cancellations. The guest books direct, and you are paid on what actually runs.

How does the QR code flow work?

Three steps, and the front desk only touches the first one. The concierge shows or sends the hotel’s own link, which carries a hotel tag at the end:

https://www.costaricawakootours.com/book-december-manuel-antonio-tour/?h=YOURHOTEL

The guest scans the QR from a table card in the lobby or the in-room directory, lands on the booking page, and finishes the conversation on WhatsApp with our team. The hotel tag travels with them the whole way, so attribution happens without anyone writing anything down. The QR prints on a single table card — we deliver it.

What does the guest get for the price?

Four ways to visit Manuel Antonio National Park, all with a certified guide and a professional spotting scope:

  • Classic Group — $30 per person. Certified guide plus scope. The park entrance ticket is not included ($18.50 adult / $5.65 child, sold online only). The best entry price for guests who want the guide and nothing else.
  • Premium — $65 per person. Entrance ticket included, round-trip transport from your hotel, and a snack. The easiest one for a concierge to sell: one price, nothing left for the guest to arrange.
  • Classic Private — $69 per person. A private guide for that party only. Entrance ticket not included. Departures every 30 minutes from 7:00am to 1:30pm.
  • VIP Private — $100 per person. Everything included: private guide, entrance ticket, transport and a traditional casado lunch.

Group departures run at 7:00, 7:30, 9:00, 11:00 and 13:00. Wildlife is wild, so we never promise a specific animal — what we promise is a certified guide who knows where to look and a scope that lets your guest actually see it.

Why does Tuesday matter so much?

Manuel Antonio National Park does not open on Tuesdays. If the concierge books a park tour for a Tuesday, the guest arrives at a closed gate. The rest of the week the park runs 7:00am to 4:00pm, and entrance tickets are sold online only through SINAC using the guest’s passport number.

These are the nine Tuesdays in the season ahead: December 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 of 2026, and January 5, 12, 19 and 26 of 2027. On those nine days we run alternatives instead, and they carry the same commission — Damas Mangrove day tour at $55 per person, Damas Mangrove night tour at $70 per person, and the Manuel Antonio Night Tour at $50 group or $75 private.

Why start before December instead of after?

December and January are the driest and busiest months in Manuel Antonio, and the 7:00am departures sell out first — they are also the slots where wildlife is most active, before the midday heat. Across the two months there are 62 calendar days; nine of them are Tuesdays with the park shut, which leaves roughly 53 operating days, with peak pressure between December 20 and January 5.

What that means for your front desk is concrete: a guest who asks on Wednesday for a Thursday 7:00am tour in late December will often find nothing left, while a guest who books the week before gets the slot. Send the link at check-in, not at check-out. It points straight at our December booking page.

How does a hotel start?

Message us the hotel name on WhatsApp and we generate your tracked link and QR code the same day. We then deliver a printed table card for the front desk, your concierge sends the link, and that is the entire workflow. Commission is settled monthly against the bookings your link produced.

Start on WhatsApp: +506 8514-1361 — tell us your hotel name and we will send your link and QR today.

Costa Rica Wakoo Tours · Manuel Antonio, Quepos, Costa Rica · ICT-certified naturalist guiding.