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Two covered outdoor tennis courts
Full-size courts with a roof and open sides, and LED lighting for cool evening sets, open 7am to 9pm once the club opens. Home of the Guanacaste Tennis Academy.
About Courts under roof, a table under the tree
Finca Escondida Racquet & Social Club will be the place to be in Guanacaste — not only to develop your tennis and pickleball skills, but to make friends and build community.
Courts
10 covered outdoor
Where
Huacas, Guanacaste
The idea
In the shade, then stay a while
Once we open, play in the shade on our two covered tennis courts and eight covered pickleball courts, then refuel and connect with friends at our on-site restaurant, Lotus & Lime Thai (opening 9 November).
How booking worksGuanacaste gives you two reasons not to play: the midday sun, and the rain that arrives once the dry season ends in April. The roof takes care of the sun: every court here is a covered outdoor court, so the one o'clock slot is as playable as the seven o'clock one. Rain is another matter. The roof keeps off rain that falls straight down, but the sides are open to the breeze, so when strong wind drives the rain in, the courts get wet. They are not rainproof: covered, not indoor.
Once we open, the lights stay on until 9pm, so a day runs from the cool of the early morning to sets under the lights. Members book seven days ahead, in sixty or ninety minute slots. Nobody needs to be a member to play.
The other half of the name is the social club. Lotus & Lime Thai sits in the open-air pavilion under the big tree past the courts, and most of what happens here — round robins, leagues, the junior academies, a long lunch after morning doubles — is built to put you at a table with the people you have just played.
Under roof
Ten courts, one pavilion
Every court has a roof and open sides: shade and a breeze, though not a rainproof hall. The clubhouse is open to the air on purpose.
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Eight covered outdoor pickleball courts
Courts just for pickleball, with shaded benches courtside. Home of the Guanacaste Pickleball Academy.
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The clubhouse
An open-air pavilion under a large tree, with Lotus & Lime Thai (opens 9 November 2026) and the pro shop alongside.
Membership details are coming soon on the membership page.
Know your court
Covered, not indoor
Three kinds of court, and what the weather does to each.
Every court at Finca Escondida is a covered outdoor court: a roof overhead and open sides. The roof gives shade all day and keeps off rain that falls straight down, and the breeze still comes through. The courts are not rainproof, though. In a storm with strong wind, rain blows in at the open sides, and the courts can get wet, most of all near the edges, and stay wet for a while.
Finca Escondida
Covered outdoor courts
- Shade from the midday sun
- Yes, all day
- Rain falling straight down
- Dry
- Rain blown in by strong wind
- Blows in at the open sides: courts can get wet, most of all near the edges
- Breeze and fresh air
- Yes, through the open sides
- After the rain
- A wet court waits until it is dry
Open to the sky
Outdoor courts
- Shade from the midday sun
- No, full sun
- Rain falling straight down
- Wet
- Rain blown in by strong wind
- Wet
- Breeze and fresh air
- Yes
- After the rain
- The whole court has to dry
Walls all round
Indoor courts
- Shade from the midday sun
- Yes
- Rain falling straight down
- Dry
- Rain blown in by strong wind
- Dry
- Breeze and fresh air
- Rarely: most need fans or air conditioning
- After the rain
- Nothing to dry
Wet court? It is slippery, so play waits until it is dry. Rainy, windy day? Message us before you come.
The finca
Pasture behind the courts
Finca Escondida sits just outside Huacas, courts under roof and pasture behind them.
Walk out past the last court and the land keeps going: trails, horses in the fields at sunrise, and Guanacaste sunsets at the end of the day.
See the gallery
Sunrise over the pasture behind the courts.
The pro team
Two games, one team
Guanacaste Tennis Academy and Guanacaste Pickleball Academy share the same roof. Lessons, clinics and youth programs are on the academy pages; the people who run them are introduced here.
Pro team portraits
photos to come
photos to come
Lennart Krotki, head coach
Runs the Guanacaste Tennis Academy with assistant coach Stone Yanuck: adult and kids clinics, junior and adult groups and private lessons, in English, Spanish, German or French. Almost twenty years of coaching, from Germany's junior circuit to Costa Rica.
Pickleball director
Runs the Guanacaste Pickleball Academy: group classes by DUPR level (the pickleball rating), leagues, open play, Cardio Pickle, youth programs from age six and private lessons.
Where we are
Huacas, Guanacaste
Just outside Huacas, on the road between the beach towns. Here is how to find us, and our hours once we open.
- Address
- Finca Escondida, Huacas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
- Hours
- Mon–Sun · 7am–9pm
- Lights
- On until 9pm
- Peak hours
- From 4pm
For general information and questions, send us a DM on Instagram or Facebook, or email info@fincaescondidacr.com. Directions, hours and the contact form are on the contact page.
A country that put roughly a quarter of its land under protection and built a tourism economy on it. Two coasts, twelve microclimates, and a dry season on the Pacific side that runs from December through April.
The northern Pacific province: savanna, tropical dry forest and volcanoes behind a coastline of surf beaches. Liberia international airport is about an hour from the club.
The crossroads town between Tamarindo, Flamingo and Brasilito. Finca Escondida sits just outside it, courts under roof and pasture behind them.