A spanking-new residence resort offers the chance for a more permanent acquisition on Costa Rica’s unspoiled shoreline.

In 2004, the forests and beaches of the Peninsula Papagayo, on Costa Rica’s northern Pacific edge, were transformed into a refuge for the harried man of means — a place to soak in an infinity pool while staring over the Pacific, or to share a moment of amused aggravation with your golfing buddies as a monkey swiped your Titleist Pro V1x from the fairway. That place was the sybaritic Four Seasons Costa Rica, replete with an Arnold Palmer Signature course and an assemblage of fanciful armadillo-backed villas. It was, upon its opening, arguably Central America’s finest. Staying there for a few days was merely a matter of scheduling. But even the most acquisitive deal pros who fell so deeply in love with the area that they never wanted to leave — well, they still had to. Unless, that is, they wanted to live in a hotel for the rest of their lives. With the opening this year of Exclusive Resorts Poro Poro, that dilemma has now been solved.

Adjacent to the Four Seasons, perched on the same dramatic stretch of Pacific Ocean coastline, each of Poro Poro’s 21 new cliffside residences is set on an acre of land. Jungle refuges with the amenities of Park Avenue apartments, they boast four bedrooms, four and a half baths, plasma televisions, outdoor showers, Jacuzzis, nearly 4,000 square feet of private dipping pools, ocean-view terraces, Rivolta Carmignani linens — even designer cutlery, should the dealmaker opt to be dinnermaker for the night.

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