What a special place Costa Rica is! It is a tiny country with a whole lot of fun packed in. For instance, we have a gorgeous Pacific coastline with more great beaches than I can count. In fact, most people think of our Pacific when they think of Costa Rica beach destinations. But that ignores […]
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It is common to either start or finish your Costa Rica vacation in San Jose. There is some misinformation out there saying San Jose is boring. That there is nothing to do or see. Quite to the contrary. I lived in San Jose for 10 years and I can tell you that there is plenty […]
Sorry if I seem to have become enamored with the list post, but all the experts tell me they work. Usually I would think to write about the 5 things, or 10, or 20 that you should bring with you to Costa Rica (yea, a packing list, so to speak). But this morning I thought […]
I must admit, it has been nice living in Costa Rica for the past 10 plus years and designing custom Costa Rica vacation packages for folks primarily in the U.S. and Canada. One thing doing that has permitted (or required) me to do is travel around a lot. I have been to just about every […]
Well, this weekend, I put a big dob of super glue in my chair and sat down to finish the Costa Rica’s Hidden Gems guide. It’s live! Please follow the advice below and you will make old Costa Rica Guy extremely happy…not to mention enlighten your knowledge of Cost Rica both broadly and deeply! Although […]
If you have visited our Costa Rica vacations site, you may have seen the link to our Costa Rica Hidden Gems page. This is an e-book that I am putting together. It will be downloadable, completely free, for anyone who subscribes to the mailing list of our site. Signing up not only means you get […]
The Costa Rica Green Season has begun. Technically it starts in May and runs through the middle of November. Our customers often ask us about rain during this time of the year. Typically what you will see are afternoon showers that last from 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon to around dusk at 5:30 to […]
As a kid we all hated when that bratty brother or sister, cousin or more distant relative or friend, told on us. Made you want to do bodily harm to the you know what, now didn’t it? Right now I have one of those here in Costa Rica. His name is Nik Clayton and he […]
Have you ever raised, or taken part in raising, a “strong-willed” child? You know the one that always goes left when you say say right and up when you say down. Well this morning I am not going to talk about children, but customers (who, frankly, often behave as children)…and it seems that 99.99% of […]
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