About Us

Meet Marijke Mulder, our first general manager, and now Sales Manager. Marijke brings years of experience in luxury hospitality management to our company with a versatile background of managing and operating highly exclusive properties all over Costa Rica. Born in Southern Costa Rica to a Dutch father and a Costa Rican mother, she was raised in Belgium, but finished her high school here in Costa Rica and decided to study sustainable tourism management, in sync with her love for languages and traveling. After working 10 years in a renown Ecolodge on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Marijke left to travel and work abroad in New Zealand, Australia and South-East Asia. After all that, she decided that Costa Rica was her true home and where she wanted to raise her family. Upon return she fell in love with the Guanacaste area and has lived here since 2018, becoming a mom of two, reopening and managing a beautiful all-inclusive property and now recently joining the Five Star Tamarindo Family in our vision to be the best and most exclusive rental and property management company in the Tamarindo area.

Born and raised in San Jose, Costa Rica, Natalia’s working career began down a very different path than what you see today. Studying at the Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, her goal was to become a successful Dental Technician. Once graduated, she spent a few years working in the field in San Jose then moved to the laid back surf town of Tamarindo. Within the first year while at a full moon beach party, Natalia and Mario were introduced through mutual friends. From that day forward, they became inseparable. After 8 years of working as a Dental Technician, she decided to make a drastic change and took on an office role at a property management company. Although her tasks started off quite simple, ranging from maintaining property inventories, to filing invoices and documents, with her warm, welcoming personality and her deep sense of empathy for others, she quickly moved up to take on a more central role in the company’s reservations and customer service department. Years later with the birth of their first child just around the corner, Natalia and Mario decided to take a leap of faith and open up their own property management company.

In her spare time, Natalia enjoys exercising, reading and watching movies. But nothing is more gratifying than playing and reading with her son. She loves Tamarindo because although it’s still a small town, it has so many great restaurants, outdoor activities and entertainment for everyone. Our local adventure and dining expert, Natalia can design the perfect itinerary to keep your days full of excitement, with just enough relaxation.

Natalia’s recommendations of things to do while you are here: spend a day surfing, or indulging at the spa, relax while sailing in Tamarindo Bay, or get you adrenaline flowing on a zipline, ATV, or hiking tour, but don’t miss watching the gorgeous sunsets, trying fantastic meals at different international restaurants, and of course enjoy a few days at one of the many surrounding beaches.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mario spent much of his adolescents working very hard towards his future goals. After graduating from university, he decided to take a chance and moved to Costa Rica. Following 6 months of learning to surf, he took on the role of logistics coordinator for the World Martial Arts Federation where he spent 4 years traveling back and forth to Italy. With his sights set on establishing himself in Tamarindo, Mario accepted a project manager position for a construction company, carrying out inspections of building contracts and coordinating the contract process from start to finish. With this additional experience and all of his valuable skills to date, he was offered a position as a bookkeeper for one of the largest property management companies in Tamarindo. Acquiring knowledge of how the business was operated opened the doors for him to become the operations manager. Under his new position he was given the responsibility to create a maintenance department, which later grew to encompass the housekeeping and gardening department. With almost 10 years of working for the company, Mario decided it was time to move on and establish a business of his own.

When Mario isn’t riding his bike and reading stories with his son, you can find him fishing, surfing or capturing special moments with his camera. He loves the fact that Tamarindo has some of the most spectacular sunsets, and that Costa Rica in general has such friendly and inviting people. A highly productive individual, you can always count on Mario to get things done and find a solution to any problem.

Mario’s recommendations of things to do while you are here: Fishing in either Tamarindo Bay or the surrounding area is a must, followed by surfing the local waves, biking, ATVing, or sailing along the coastline, snorkeling or scuba diving in the Catalina Islands, and definitely trying the great food at the many different restaurants in town.