Wide panoramic view of the outdoor lounge with jungle on all sides

Your Stay · Digital Nomads

Plug in.Walk to the surf.

Fiber as primary, Starlink as backup, a generator that holds through the storms. A dedicated office bedroom with a wide desk built for two laptops side by side. Twenty-eight nights minimum — the rate drops, the rhythm sets in.

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Built for the ones who stay

A villathat earns the long stay.

Santa Teresa quietly became one of Costa Rica's most established remote-work towns — Outsite up the road, Selina's coworking room down by the beach, and a dense weave of laptop-friendly cafés that have invested in the infrastructure (Starlink, generator backup, the right chairs). The hard parts of working from a beach town — the wifi that drops in a storm, the kitchen that can't handle a real meal, the desk that wasn't built for eight-hour days — are exactly what Casa Calyx was built to solve.

Below — the six pieces of infrastructure that make a 28-night stay actually work, the eight-stop rhythm of a real working day, and the addresses you'll come to know by name: where to plug in, where to move, where to lunch, and what to do when the laptop closes.

The third bedroom — built as a workspace with a wide desk for two

“The third bedroom is the office.”

Wifi: 50–200 Mbps
Long-stay rate: 28+ nights
Time zone: UTC−6
Power: Generator backup

The rig

Six pieces.

The infrastructure that turns a beach week into a working month. Pin these in your head before you book — they're the parts you'll thank yourself for on day eighteen.

Kitchen with stove and ocean view — Cook your own lunch in twelve minutes.
Lunch · the kitchen

Stone stairs leading down to the infinity pool, framed by jungle — The reset between focus blocks.
5pm · the pool

Outdoor seating area with two chairs facing the jungle — Take the call from the deck.
Calls · the deck

Open sliding doors connecting interior living to outdoor jungle — Doors open. A/C off all day.
Always · the air

Primary bedroom with linen-dressed bed and soft morning light — Sleep deep in the cross-breeze.
Then · the bed

Two wooden chairs on the deck with morning light filtering through the jungle — Coffee before the first block.
First · the deck

The five moments that hold the week.

The rhythm

A working day.Eight stops, dawn to dinner.

Hover or tap a time to see where you'll be. Skip what doesn't fit you — this is the frame, not the rule. The point is most days look something like this within a week of landing.

05:30
Dawn patrol or sunrise yoga
Out by 5:30am at Playa Carmen for two hours of glassy waves before anyone else is up. Or sunrise Shakti at Pranamar — your call. The day begins with movement, not the laptop.
07:30
Coffee at home
Outdoor shower for the salt. Coffee and eggs in the kitchen with the ocean in the window. The first emails before the first focus block.
09:00
Morning block
Three hours straight at the wide desk in the office bedroom — A/C low, balcony door cracked. The fiber holds the standup, the screen-share, the cloud upload. Calls done by noon.
12:00
Lunch · Cafe Social
Walk down for the change of scene. A/C, hard chairs, a cortado, the strong wifi. Or stay in and assemble a poke bowl from what's in the fridge.
13:30
Second block · the deck
Move to the deck or the daybed for the lower-stakes work. Calls done, head-down mode. The wifi reaches everywhere; the breeze finds you.
17:00
Cold plunge · re:center
Walk fifteen minutes to re:center. Cold plunge, infrared sauna, ten minutes of red light therapy. Back to the villa for a pool float before sunset.
18:30
Sunset hang
Walk down for the last light. Banana Beach if it's a Wednesday for the DJ; Brukas' cliff deck for the dinner table; the empty south end of Playa Carmen if you want to be alone.
19:30
Dinner, light
Corazón for the plant-forward bowl. Soda Tiquicia for the cheap, fast casado. Sushi at Katana on the night you splurge. Asleep by ten — tomorrow starts with the surf.

Empty Pacific wave at dawn off Playa Santa Teresa

05:30

Dawn patrol or sunrise yoga

Santa Teresa · in context

Not just our take.The town has the receipts.

We're biased — we built the villa. But the town earned its reputation long before this listing. A few things that are true regardless of who's telling you.

Top 5
In Costa Rica for digital nomads.
Consistently named alongside Tamarindo, Nosara, Uvita, and Dominical in 2026 nomad rankings from industry press (Travel Off Path, Coldwell Banker, Digital Nomad World).
Blue Zone
The Nicoya Peninsula is one of five.
One of the world's five regions where people live measurably longer (Dan Buettner's Blue Zones research, National Geographic). Santa Teresa is on the peninsula — the climate, the food, and the pace are part of why.
+20% YoY
Costa Rica nomad visa applications.
The Estancia para Trabajadores Remotos grew over 20% in 2025 versus the prior year — most applicants from the US, Canada, and Europe (Tico Times, December 2025).

Casa Calyx from the air, pool deck and jungle canopy

A note from a real long stay

“I came for ten days and stayed sixty. The fiber held through three green-season storms. The desk fits two. The pool is the meeting room.”

— Returning long-stay guest, software founder

Where to plug in

Cafés thatwelcome the laptop.

The change-of-scene days. A/C inside, real espresso, fast wifi, hard chairs that keep you upright. Selina's formal coworking room is the day-pass option.

Call-friendly · A/C

Work-friendly · A/C

Cafe Social

The work-from-here morning spot — A/C inside, strong wifi, hard chairs designed to keep you upright.

TipBest café in town if you need to take a call.

Terrace + A/C inside

Pastries · A/C inside

The Bakery

Pastries, eggs, smoothie bowls. The morning anchor. A/C is inside only — terrace seats are open-air.

Operator site →

Single-origin · head-down

Single-origin · A/C

Roastery Coffee

Single-origin beans, proper espresso, A/C. The most coffee-forward café in town.

Oat-date latte

Aussie-style brunch

Brekki

Aussie-influenced brunch — avocado toast, eggs benedict, oat lattes. The lattes are the real reason.

Bright · airy · slow

Bright · airy · easy

Ani's

Bright, airy breakfast spot. Smoothie bowls, eggs, the kind of place you linger in.

Garden cafe · workspace

Cafe · remote work · biggest Thursday party

Somos

The most loaded venue in Santa Teresa — a creative-soul boutique hotel with the best garden cafe in town for daytime work, a serious kitchen for breakfast and dinner, an open-air gym and sauna circuit, and on Thursday nights it transforms into the biggest party of the week. The vibe shifts hour by hour; the staff just keeps up.

TipCafe by 9am for the workspace tables. Thursdays after 9pm for the party. Sundays slow afternoons in the yard.

Operator site →

Call-friendly · A/C

Work-friendly · A/C