Jungle Living Tree House (Capuchin Monkey)

Jungle Living is a small family-run cluster of treehouses on a forested property near Monteverde, and each cabin is named for an animal — this is the Capuchin Monkey unit, with sister houses Aguti and Howler Monkey next door if your dates are taken. It's a proper wood cabin on stilts with big windows, a full bathroom and a kitchen, so you're comfortable while the forest does its thing around you: hummingbirds and toucanets in the morning, agoutis poking around below, howlers at dawn. Monteverde is cool and misty most of the year — pack a fleece, not just shorts. You're about ten minutes from Santa Elena town for groceries and restaurants, and close to the hanging bridges, ziplines and both cloud forest reserves. For a couple wanting the classic Monteverde canopy experience without lodge prices, this is the one that shows up on every list.