I can't vouch for peak season but when I travelled there was plenty of scope for seclusion with acres of empty white sand and uncluttered seas which feel like a bath tub even at three in the morning.
Set above a wooded valley, this has the advantage of seclusion (at night you can play "spot the houselight"), while being a 20-minute walk downhill to the Old Ferry Inn at Bodinnick and a slap-up Sunday roast.
This is a renowned surfing beach in the quiet southern reaches of the Nicoya peninsula, so total seclusion and wild adventure are the draw here – epic ocean views from the minimalist, open-plan spaces with floor-to-ceiling doors.
Its location, combining seclusion with city centre convenience, has always played in its favour and now the place feels buzzing again.
So, too, does American diplomacy, for using calibrated concessions to draw the rulers out of their seclusion, culminating in Mr Thein Sein's visit to Washington this week.Yet Mr Thein Sein and Miss Suu Kyi both have much more to do.
All too often, though, it makes for an irritatingly disjointed read.One might suppose that prolonged seclusion at Camp David allowed the rivals to build trust.
His allies spread across the two provinces, taking control of mineral-smuggling networks worth tens of millions of dollars.Last month Mr Kabila, who was widely criticised for stuffing ballots in last year's re-election campaign, came out of self-imposed seclusion on his farm on the other side of the country, 1,200km (746 miles) to the west, to say he had had enough of the general's antics.
They are encouraged to forfeit material possessions, to live in seclusion and refuse to vote or register for the national census.
Comprehensive Western sanctions hit home from the mid-1990s onlyrdslightlyslightly alleviated by an injection of Asian money.Yangon, with its old cars and bookshops selling textbooks from the 1950s, attests to this seclusion.
But in Saudi Arabia, the principle appears to apply to rape victims who have the temerity to appeal, after they have been convicted along with their aggressors.Last year a 19-year-old woman in the eastern town of Qatif appealed against a sentence of 90 lashes for the crime of khulwa (seclusion) with a man who was not related to her.
But most authors are by nature bookworms, happiest in cloistered seclusion.
