Surfers and a 4x4 beneath palm trees on a black-and-white shoreline.

Culture

at House of Somos

Boards shaped a few feet from where you’re standing, art made in real time, food worth gathering around, and enough happening after dark to make an early night unlikely. Somos is built around the people making, sharing and bringing it all to life, giving you plenty of reasons to stay a while.

A man wearing a white t-shirt, beige shorts, a face mask, and protective earmuffs shapes or repairs a white surfboard inside a wooden workshop with multiple surfboards stacked on a wall rack.

Shapers

World-class shapers come, stay, and build boards in our on-site factory. Watch the foam fly, pull one off the rack, or get a custom shaped while they’re here.

The Somos

Shop

Boards shaped right here at Somos by our rotating cast of world-class shapers in residence, alongside a tight edit of fins, gear and brands we actually rate. Demo one, dig through the racks, or come talk boards for longer than you planned.

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Artists

We give handpicked artists a studio, a blank wall, and no brief. From painters and makers to a Michelin chef who traded the kitchen for a paintbrush, they move in and bring their world into ours. Some of what they make stays on our walls, building the house one residency at a time. The faces change, but Somos keeps a little of everyone.

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Weekly

EVENTS

Cantina Tuesdays

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The SOMOS Restaurant

Mexican flavors, live Latin music, and cold drinks pouring all night.

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Somos Thursdays

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The SOMOS Restaurant

Live music over dinner, DJ sets till late.

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Somos Saturdays

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The SOMOS Restaurant

Afrobeats, dancehall, reggaeton, cold drinks, and a packed dance floor till midnight. Get in early, stay late.

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Culture Guides

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Peninsula Peregrination

The Nicoya Peninsula along Costa Rica’s Pacific Northwest is the ultimate canvas for the traveling surfer in search of unspoiled beaches and surf zones.

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Surf Tours

South swells call for a surf trip and a few of the crew went searching.

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Girls Trip

Surf trips are the reason we got started at House of Somos in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.

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Somos Dos

At House of Somos, surfing is our favorite excuse to have fun, experiment, connect, and sometimes pretend we know what we’re doing.

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Surfboard Demo Day in Santa Teresa

On February 14th, we hosted our first Demo Day right in our backyard, La Lora Amarilla.

A surfboard builder sands a board in a brightly lit shaping bay.

The Bay: Inside Nuevo Camino Surfboards

The Bay is a series of conversations with the people who make surfboards.

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Surf Hideaways

Santa Teresa has no shortage of surf lodges, but SOMOS built something different.

Two men carrying surfboards, one yellow and one white, walking barefoot on a dirt path surrounded by greenery and trees with a blue off-road vehicle and a wooden house in the background.

Stab

The best "non-surf" surf resort on earth. That's Stab Magazine's verdict, not ours. Custom boards shaped on-site. A kitchen that means it. A crowd worth staying up for.

Overhead view of guests lounging on the wooden pool deck at House of Somos, with surfboards laid out beside the pool.

Monster Children

"Not just a place to stay. A cultural oasis in the jungle".

The House of Somos café courtyard with a vintage Airstream, wooden tables, hanging woven lamps and painted surfboards along the wall.

Silhouettes of two people and three motorcycles on a beach at sunset, with the sun low over the ocean and a small thatched shelter on the right.

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