Dusti Disorder: Costa Rica

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g309271-s304/Jaco:Costa-Rica:Taxis.And.Rental.Cars.html
Car rental article in Jaco , CR

$1 usd=517.93 colons (crc)

fishing in los suenos
http://www.stayincostarica.com/fishing/index.htm wooo muy $$$

fishing trip all inclusive.. stay on boat http://www.southfishing.com/pages/CRlossuenos2POP.html

full day $1250
http://www.captaintoms.com/reservations.htm

getting better priced
http://www.costarica-fishingcharters.com/charters.html
$700/day

tico fish
http://ticofish.com/fandango.html
rates $275 open boat 4 passengers min? i emailed them to question the "open boat"

tours & airport transfers & heli rides from airport
http://www.hookedoncostarica.com/costa-rica-tours/

Monday, July 14, 2008

EcoTours
http://www.costaricatours.net/
http://www.costarica-ecotourism.com/
http://www.southernexplorations.com/costa.rica.htm actual cruises
http://www.earthfoot.org/cr.htm
http://www.ecotours.com/dest_cr.html
http://www.naturetours.com/costrica.html
http://www.wildplanetadventures.com/content/view/11/30/ packages muy $$
http://www.caravan.com/costa-rica-tour/costaricaecotours.html
http://www.journeysouth.com/ packages 10days
http://www.ecotoursincostarica.com/ecotours/ all from san jose
http://www.crocodilebay.com/ - resort, fishing and tours :) way south of jaco beach

where is La Paz Waterfall Gardens ?
http://www.waterfallgardens.com/

Manuel antonio nat'l park
http://www.manuelantoniopark.com/mapk/default.asp

blog
http://wordpress.com/tag/costa-rica-travel/

surf board rental
http://www.wowsurf.net/

Friday, July 11, 2008

Costa Rica
1/6/09-1/13/09-1/20/09
Flight to SJO(San Jose), then to Maz, home to Den- $950
Den-ACA-MZT-DEN =$930
Den-Mzt-Sjo-Den=$1120
Den-LIR (liberia)-mzt-den = $2081 ($1517 for 1/7/09-1/14/09-1/21/09)

Jaco Beach- Near Los Suenos

7 nights; 6 days ?

what we want to do:
Surfing
White water raft
Canopy tour http://www.skytrek.com/index/index.html
hanging bridges http://www.hangingbridges.com/
Monteverde
Volcano/hot springs
hot springs reservations http://reserve.anywherecostarica.com/arenal/tour_reserve/add.htm?id=79&timeId=167

Arenal Volcano- hot springs night time... stay at spa?\
hotels at volcano area map
Tabico hot springs - no available rooms 1/6---- 300+ per night w/ 2 night min.
Arenal Paraiso- has own hot springs and houses the canopy tour company
$75/standard
$105/superior - wood building, enclosed balcony
this hotel site has a lot of info on activities in the area!~
Monteverde Cloud forest is close to arenal.

Guanacaste
Tamarindo beach
Hotel Bula Bula

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Los Suenos Marriott near Jaco beach.
Jaco Beach is the big surfer hangout, but the quality of the sand isn't the best.
The best place is near Guanacoste on the Pacific side just north of Jaco Beach. It's ranked as one of the top spots in the world, with perfect sand, etc. There's a Four Season's Hotel there, but I hear it's like $1000 USD per night. You could stay across the street in a condo like place, which has use of the Four Season hotel pool/beach/amenities for much, much less. One of the gals that works for me did that.
At the Los Suenos Marriott, it was only like $135 USD per night. It's a 4-5 star hotel with a huge pool that's like a maze. You can feed giant iguanas and lizards french fries, etc like we did. From the hotel, you can take about any excursion for a reasonable price. Heather and I stayed there and went to Arenal.
At Arenal, you can go to the Tabico Hot Springs and sip some drinks while watching fire/lava/rocks come down the erupting volcano while sitting in the volcano heated water/springs.
Costa Rica is well known for the zip lines and mostly for what some say is the best white water rafting in the world. If you stay in San Jose (capital city in the mountains) you need to have dinner at the Monastery. It's an old Spanish monastery that overlooks San Jose up in the mountains, amazing view and sometimes live music/bar scene. The drive to the beach near Jaco or Guanacoste is only like 1.5-2 hours from San Jose. English literacy is like 94%. They're forced to learn it all through school. Almost every restaurant has menus in both English and Spanish.