Costa Rica accommodations help please
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Costa Rica accommodations help please
Hello. I have just begun to research Costa Rica for a vacation this spring. I must say I'm over whelmed by all the information here. We would like to find an area that has a nice, uncrowded beach with soft sand & beautiful water that's good for swimming. We'd like a nice, clean, quiet place steps from the beach. We'd also like this place to be walking distance to restaurants & bars (we don't want to rent a car). We aren't into the late night wild partying but would like to be near a laid back place to go to for a drink or two (or ten) and maybe listen to some music. Any ideas to get me started?<BR><BR>Thanks<BR>Terri
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Check out El mono azul or the Blue monkey in Quepos and Manuel Antonio. I stayed there last year and paid about $75. a night, Its a decent place with 2 pools and a good restaurant. A bus passes buy all the time to take you two the beach which is 5 minutes away. You can also hail a taxi pretty cheaply.<BR>My advice is to high tail it out of Sn Jose as quickly as possible. You talk about a dump. The rest of the country is nice though. Good luck
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Terri - Check out Hotel Capitan Suizo at Playa Tamarindo. It sounds exactly like what you are looking for. (www.hotelcapitansuizo.com.) You can fly, drive or take a bus to Tamarindo - just depends on your budget and your time constraints.
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Terri,<BR><BR>To get from San Jose to Quepos, you can fly (either on Sansa or NatureAir) or drive (must be up to challenges of navigating w/minimal signage and potholes galore) or take the bus. On a visit to CR this past September, I flew back from Quepos to SJ on Sansa Airlines; it's a small plane, seating 12 passengers and took about 45 minutes. Quick and easy.<BR><BR>Alternatively, if you choose to stay in Tamarindo (it's nice, too) or another spot along the Nicoya peninsula, you might consider flying into Liberia rather than San Jose. Starting Dec-1st, Delta Airlines now has a flight into that city out of Atlanta. I'm not sure how long it'd take you to get from Liberia to Tamarindo; it may be easier to do so without having to stay overnight (as you often do when arriving in San Jose).<BR>
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