Celebrate Festive Season Costa Rican Style with Hacienda AltaGracia

The holiday season at Hacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection is celebrated with vigor and excitement rooted in the region. Families and communities can gather together through transformative wellness, soulful culinary, and thrilling adventure met with deep local tradition, spirited events, and reflection.

Selva Oaxaca Cocktail Bar: Alexandra Purcaru, Beverage Director and Co-Founder of the award-winning Oaxaca City cocktail bar, will host a series of spirited events celebrating the artistry of mixology and developing signature cocktails utilizing indigenous Latin American flavors. From a coursed dinner menu, curated by the resort’s executive chef couple Arno Janse van Rensberg and Liezl Odendaal, to an engaging mixology workshop led by Alexandra and a special cocktail hour on the terrace at Grano featuring a selection of enticing spirits. (Timing: December 12-16)

Festival de La Luz: The resort is symbolically marking the start of festive with a ‘Festival de la Luz’experience, where the many holiday lights across the resort are turned on simultaneously at sunset. (Timing: December 21 & 22)

Cienfuegos & Costa Rican Horse Show: Guests can enjoy an immersive dinner, featuring a fantastic meal and a traditional stable show. Dinner centers around a menu of land, with the open-fire cooking being a central part of the experience. Dinner is served family style alongside various choreographed riding events performed by the resort’s experienced team of caballistas. (Timing: December 21 & 22 | December 28 & 29)

Christmas Eve: On Christmas Eve, families can gather at the resort’s signature restaurant, Grano, for an untraditional Christmas Eve Dinner that perfectly blends expected ingredients with Costa Rican flair and tradition. Dishes include honey-glazed turkey, crispy pork belly with pineapple chili relish, amongst other dishes, and for dessert, a chocolate and vanilla yule log. (Timing: December 24)

Christmas Day Roast: On Christmas Day, as an ode to Costa Rican traditions, Cienfuegos will serve a family-style meal, featuring whole suckling pig, grilled beef cuts, arroz con pollo, tortillas wrapped in banana leaves, grilled cabbage, and palmito salad. (Timing: December 25)

Visiting Master at THE WELL: This festive season, Manjit Devgun, a leading mind coach of Sikh Punjabi, is providing guests with a diverse offering of group and private wellness sessions centered around cultivating joy, self-awareness, and the mind-body connection. (Timing: December 15 - January 15)