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Celebrity Hideaway in Costa Rica Unveiled

5/29/2007 at 12:36 PM
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A tipster named Charlie from the U.K. let us know that a TV actress named Bobbi Phillips is supposedly the woman responsible for bringing celebs to her hidden hotel in Mal Pais, Costa Rica.

Her hotel, Casa Chameleon (named after her most successful TV series) was recognized by Conde Nast in 2006 as one of the Best Hotels in the World.

There are TripAdvisor reviews on the place which are all glowing reviews--some suspiciously so like this one, "Let me just say as soon as I walked in our villa tears of joy just filled my eyes."

But Charlie is having no luck booking one of the four bungalows. He couldn't even find it on one of his recent trips to the area. But he did get some scoop on how celebs get brought in there.

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Here's the full email from our frustrated tipster:

Page Six just reported (May 23) about Vince Vaughn's recent trip to Mal Pais, Costa Rica. As well as all the celebs flocking to the area and purchasing property such as Giselle(who is building a house there) Sting, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, to name just some. What they didn't report was that TV actress Bobbi Phillips is the one who started bringing all these celebs to town.

She moved to Costa Rica in 2003 and built a little hotel and as soon as it opened in 2005 it was written up in UK's TATLER magazine and their Travel Guide as the new celeb hot spot.

Since then "Casa Chameleon" her hidden private hotel(I actually couldn't even find it on my recent visit) is known even by the locals as the hotel who hides celebs. The locals didn't know exactly where it is (or wouldn't tell).

They helicopter them in and drive them through the jungle in a black tinted out Defender to the hidden spot. People see them when they head out to party at the local hot spots and then they disappear when people start bothering them.

I'm trying to get a reservation to check this place out. I'll let you know if and when I get in. So far, they're telling me they're booked and won't give away the location. I'm determined to get in there!

The hotel's website does have directions listed but we have no way of knowing if those will actually bring you to the front of the hotel.

Some other cool things we learned about the hotel: Children under 13 are not allowed, each bungalow comes with its own set of walkie-talkies and there are monkeys on the grounds.

[Photo: BeverlyGlen]

Related Stories:
· Casa Chameleon reviews [TripAdvisor]

Hotel Reviews:
Casa Chameleon

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