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Four people walk up a green slope at Rancho Regeneración toward the hills, under an orange sunset sky

Roots

Before the houses, there was the land.

A farm in the hills of San Juan del Sur, a team from town and a question that still drives us: what if every night someone stays here leaves the place a little better?

San Juan del Sur bay from the air at sunset, with the town's rooftops and the sailboats

The question

What if a business could fix things instead of breaking them?

Muffadal came to Nicaragua with that question. Casa Oro is the answer we keep building with the whole team, night after night.

You notice it in small things: who welcomes you, where your food comes from, where the leftovers go. Every night you spend here supports jobs in town, a farm that brings the land back to life and another way to travel in Nicaragua.

Rancho Regeneración's dry forest runs down between two hills to the Pacific Ocean under a cloudy sky
People on the earthbag dome at Rancho Regeneración, with a ladder and blue sky

The land

It all started at Rancho Regeneración.

Before any house, there was a farm. There we grow food while letting the forest come back, with agroforestry and permaculture.

We build differently there too, with earthbags and bamboo: cool, comfortable places that take almost nothing from the land. That's where we learned that being comfortable and caring for the place can be the same thing.

The circle

What the kitchen leaves over comes back as food.

It works like a forest: each part feeds the next.

  1. The kitchenScraps from the Café Oro kitchen.
  2. The farmAt Rancho Regeneración they become compost.
  3. The landThe compost grows food.
  4. Your tableAnd that food comes back to the kitchen.
A man in a red shirt lifts a bundle of soaked leaves out of a blue barrel on a stick, in the Rancho Regeneración garden
A round bed of red soil with newly planted pepper plants, trees and green hills behind
A large circle of people standing under the trees, all with their arms raised
A man with a cup in front of the black and yellow Oro sun mural in San Juan del Sur

The town and its people

We live here, not next door.

A team from San Juan del Sur runs the houses. The same people clean your room, find you a board, tell you where to eat and book tomorrow's shuttle.

Someone from the team is at every house, day and night, and a real person answers you on WhatsApp. When you sleep here, eat at Café Oro or taste the chocolate, that work stays in town.

Café Oro's corner in San Juan del Sur: red CAFE ORO letters over yellow balconies, the doors open to the dining room
Melted chocolate pours from a metal bowl into bar molds

Made here

A kitchen and a chocolate factory.

On the ground floor of Casa Oro is Café Oro, the original Oro: coffee, cacao and cooking, made here.

And in San Juan del Sur we make chocolate from Nicaraguan cacao: it's roasted, ground and turned into bars right here. What started in that café is now in Chicago too, at Oro Chocolate & Coffee.

Where to eatOro Chocolate
Casa Oro's corner on a street in San Juan del Sur
The Nuestra Casa pool next to a covered terrace with two hammocks

Staying with us

Then, a corner in town.

Through Círculo, a regenerative tourism project, came Casa Oro, the hostel with the most history in town. The other four houses grew around it, all within walking distance in San Juan del Sur.

Wherever you stay, everything else comes with it: the shuttle to Maderas, the surf lesson, the turtles, the chocolate tour and breakfast at all five houses.

What you spend here works here: for the team, the town and the land.

Your home in San Juan del Sur. And everything else.

Pick a house, or message us and we'll help you choose. A person from the team will answer.

See the housesMessage us on WhatsApp