Pulpería Studio builds thoughtful bilingual websites for vacation rentals, restaurants, property managers, and tour operators across Costa Rica - crafted by hand from our corner of Sámara.
The pulpería is the corner shop. Every Costa Rican town has one. They sell groceries, hardware, beer, sometimes coffee, and sometimes a cold sandwich. They know your name. They keep an eye on your kids. They know where to send you when you need a plumber.
That's the energy. Useful, local, fairly priced, run by people who live here. A studio you can walk into.
Across Costa Rica, the people who actually serve travelers - rental owners, restaurants and cafés, property managers, tour operators - hand a big slice of every sale to someone else. Airbnb takes around 15%. Delivery apps take 15-30%. The booking platforms and OTAs take their cut, keep the customer, and pay out on their own schedule. They all share one thing: they don't own the relationship with the people they serve.
A real website - at your own domain, with your photos, your story, and your own booking or ordering - changes that. You get found on Google and in AI search instead of renting attention from a platform, you take payments directly at a fraction of the commission, and the customer - and their email - stays yours. It's not glamorous or new. It's just expensive to get right when you outsource to a US agency or wrestle with Squarespace yourself. So we built Pulpería Studio to do it well, in two languages, at a fair price.
Lars Beurskens - Dutch by passport, Costa Rican by choice. 15 years in digital - ran several companies and worked as a senior product manager managing the website experiences for Adidas, RetailMeNot, and Gumtree.com. Now lives in Sámara with his wife and two kids, and runs Pulpería Studio from a small office five minutes from the beach.
Go direct. Your site gets you found on Google and in AI search, takes payments at a fraction of platform commission, and keeps the customer - and their email - yours. Not rented from Airbnb, a delivery app, or an OTA.
Every site we build ships in EN/ES out of the box. Not Google Translate - actual translation that reads like a human wrote it, because a human did.
No Wix, no Squarespace, no WordPress. We write the actual code. That's why our sites load in under a second.
Pay monthly. Cancel any time. We send you the source files. You always own your work.
Whatever you earn through your site is yours. We take a flat monthly fee. That's it.
This is what's running your site. All of it production-grade, all of it fast, all of it ours to maintain.
WhatsApp is fastest. We answer within an hour - text and voice notes preferred. No bots, no platform - a real person who'll listen first and pitch second.