Casa Arena is born from a dream, or rather, from a remake of that dream. Playa Santa Teresa beach has a magic that attracts special people from many parts of the world and who today are its habitants and pioneers. Pini arrived in 2001 with the dream of living in front of the sea, surfing and living the Pura Vida. With his own hands and the help of two other men, he built the first house. Made of local wood, almond trees, pochote, ash, and teak, also decorating doors, posts, windows, tables. Natural art. In this house was born the love that unites us for more than 17 years. A summer of 2005, I arrived without knowing it to stay, giving a feminine touch, of home and family to this crazy beautiful surfer. In this house we spent wonderful moments, pure moments of love, friendship and connection with nature. In 2008 Pini suffered a quad accident that turned our lives upside down. Spinal cord injury. After recovering abroad and learning how to live with a wheelchair, the best way to heal was to return to our oceanfront home, and so we did. There was only one small detail, the house was not suitable for wheelchairs and we had gone bankrupt. So we build our current house with a container up the hill and started renting our beachfront palm house. From there it is a road of hard work, renovations, beautiful stories and endless guests and friends. Every person who stayed in the house deeply loved the stay. After almost 20 years, the wooden house began to creak getting older and older. With a stroke of luck we decided to reform and be able to offer and enjoy more space and comfort for you and for us without losing the beauty of the wood, the softness of curves and the essentials of nature. This is how Casa Arena is reborn with lots of love, detail and happiness. Today we are proud, excited, grateful and eager to show you what we were able to do together with patience, perseverance and love. For the enjoyment of those who visit us and are encouraged to feel the 'Pura Vida' life.