Costa Rica Vacation Travel Guide
Costa Rica offers travelers relaxation, excitement, peace, natural beauty and investment opportunities.
Traveling to Costa Rica from the United States and Canada is easy and inexpensive. Many airlines offer daily non-stop flights to each of the two international airports in Costa Rica, Juan Santamaria and Liberia International airports. Call your travel agent and book ahead for best deals. Often airlines will offer a very special price of around $300 round trip from anywhere in the USA to Costa Rica - but these deals go fast so keep in touch with your travel agents and airline booking sources. Airlines that fly inside Costa Rica and other destinations in Central America can be found here.
Costa Rican hotels come in all sizes and tastes, from the basic $5 shared shower economy rooms to the world's most expensive hotel, the Four Seasons Costa Rica Papagayo. Travelers find many options while driving the country, it is not necessary to book your room in advance unless traveling during peak times. In many ways Costa Rica is over built with hotel rooms, except in certain markets like Tamarindo beach and old town San Jose in the central valley where quality inexpensive hotel rooms are getting harder to find.
Traveling by car in Costa Rica is a dangerous enterprise, and best left to the professionals. Better to take buses and taxis then rent a car. Unless you absolutely feel you need to have your own car, you will find local buses fast cheap and frequent. Taxis are everywhere and for about $100 will take you just about anywhere! Why rent a car and risk getting in an accident because you don't know the roads or understand the minds of Tico drivers?
The weather in Costa Rica is mild to hot and during the rainy season wet. Anytime of year is a good time to vacation in Costa Rica because during the rainy season, generally called th green season by tour operators, there are less tourists, the air is cleaner and everything is green! The dry season is hotter and dustier and has generally more tourists and higher prices. Current weather conditions in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is an animal lovers paradise with over 200 species of mammals, thousands of birds, reptiles and millions of insects. People travel to Costa Rica for vacations from all over the world, to enjoy the pristine beaches and walk thru ancient primevial rain forests and even to ride the zip line canopy tours thru the tops of the forest trees.
Do you love golf? Now there are many golf vacation options to choose from. See our Costa Rica Golf course listings.
It's amazing how many people think Costa Rica is spelled Costa Rico! Like Puerto Rico. and some even spell the country like Costo Rico. Thank goodness for spell checkers.
Mel Gibson bought land in Costa Rica in the Nicoya Peninsula, but he was only the latest in a long string of Hollywood Icons to invest in Costa Rica real estate. Other notables include: The Olsen sisters, Leonardo di Caprio, Sylvester Stallone, Andre Agassi, Steve Case, Paris Hilton and Michael Owen.
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