San Jose Costa Rica Adventure

This is an outdoors adventure vacation, definitely not a relaxing beach style vacation. But you can see lots of exotic plants and animals!

Costa Rica was absolutely beautiful! I traveled with my daughter, mother and best friend. We were all pleased with the trip. Each hotel was completely different; the accommodations were determined by the location. One of the places we stayed was a Bed and Breakfast. There was no air conditioning or TV. We weren't sure how that was going to work with a 10 year old; it wasn't a problem at all! There were minor glitches, but overall the experience was wonderful and unforgettable!

I went on this trip with my girlfriend in May 2010, and we had a wonderful time! The 3 different area were uniqely different, and each wonderful. The deal was great and the service was top notch, even when there was a problem, it was resolved quickly. I have yet to find a person who hasn't enjoyed their Costa Rica vacation.

My friend and I loved the Hotel Barcelo San Jose, Los Lagos resort, and the Hotel Claro de Luna. The service at all three hotels was excellent. These were also great parts of Costa Rica to explore, especially if you like hiking. But, the transfers provided by Vacaciones Barcelo were always at the worst times. They picked us up so early from San Jose (8:30 a.m.) that we couldn't check in yet in Arenal, and there was no time to do anything in San Jose. Then, they told us to be ready to be picked up at 7:20 a.m. in Arenal, but they never showed up until after 9:30 a.m. and NUMEROUS phone calls to an emergency number which was never answered. FInally, for our last transfer out of Monteverde, they scheduled the pick up so late in the day (1:30 p.m.), that we were just stuck in the hotel lobby after being required to check out by 11 a.m., and again, it was so late by the time that we got to San Jose, we couldn't really do much in the city. We called and asked Vacaciones Barcelo to change our pick up time from Monteverde, so we could see some museums in San Jose, and they refused. They could be over two hours late in picking us up one day, but we couldn't negotiate better pick-up times. It was very inconvenient.