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Description: | A 16 day vacation in Costa Rica! Joined a GAP Adventures tour and 14 other people, including Lisa, as we toured around the country. |
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Location: | Costa Rica |
LOVED seeing all of your pics! Looked like you all had a wonderful time. My boyfriend and I will be leaving September 5th to take the same 16-day GAP tour in Costa Rica. Can you tell us which hotels you stayed at? Did you find that you had enough time to enjoy the areas vs. the travel time it took to get to each?
Sure thing Karyn, I’ll do my best to remember:
San Jose – Hotel Rincon de San Jose
Puerto Viejo – Bungalows Escape Caribeno (Garden Side)
Tortuguero – La Baula Lodge
Rara Avis – 5* Accomodations (actually, it’s a no-electricity-or-hot-water type rustic lodge. It’s fun though 🙂 )
La Fortuna – Hotel Cabanitas
Monteverde – Hotel Los Cipreses
Quepos – ??? – This place was an absolute crappy hole of a place, the only bad one we had. I can’t remember the name. We were supposed to be Hotel Babaloo Inn I think, but it was booked up. We lost out big time, their replacement sucked.
Overall though, besides the place in Quepos, my friend and I were happy with the accomodations. For the most part clean, and we had hot water…in most places. One or two were hit or miss for that. When you have a hot shower, eenjoy it, there might not be another the next day!
As for time available – I felt we had enough time to enjoy things. Some travel days were indeed very long – especially Tortuguero to Rara Avis, which took the entire day and we arrived in the dark, but we still had plenty of time in the towns I thought. La Fortuna you could easily spend a week at anyways, but you do get an extra day there compared to the rest. We got lots of activities in! The trip all together was great – one thing I suggest, get away from the ‘authentic’ Costa Rican restaurants when you can! You’ll be tired of beans and rice by the 3rd day. Costa Rican food really is quite bland. The slightly fancier, ‘touristy’ type restaurants only cost a few dollars more and had GREAT food. We didn’t learn this until Monteverde though. Our guide Deinor always had great suggestions for places to eat though, he never steered us wrong.