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Go white water rafting on the Rio Reventazon. It is a blast. The rapids are rough enough to be exciting but not overly dangerous.

I like flying into Liberia and staying in Guanacaste but if the cheap flight is into San Jose, you have Jaco close by. Stay on the Pacific side of the country.

If Beach, you can head to Los Suenos/Jaco area because it's close to the airport (2 hours) and if you want something different and totally cool go to La Fortuna and do the hot springs. Also, San Jose itself is seriously under-rated.

Highly recommend the Arenal volcano area. We rented a car and hopped around the country. Arenal was really beautiful though. Chilled out in the hot springs. Also, zip lining in the Monteverde cloud forest. Fished out of the Quepos area. Dominical was a really neat little town on the coast. We never did the Nicoya peninsula, so I can't speak to it myself, but I know a lot of people like Tamarindo. The whole country is beautiful, so you can't really go wrong, and the people are really friendly. Pura Vida!

We went to Costa Rica last January for the first time. It was awesome. I ended up booking the trip through their own travel agency and I highly recommend using them. Very easy to use and they were very responsive. I booked some excursions through them and some on my own. I checked around once I got there and found their prices were on par with what I would have gotten on my own.

At worst you can check out the site and they will set up a sample itinerary. They had us picked up from the airport snd travel was arranged for us every day we were there.


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I think manuel antonio(beach), monteverde(cloud forest), and arenal(volcano) is a great trip that gives you 3 different sceneries easily done in a week or so.

monteverde is my favorite spot in costa rica.

My wife and I have been twice. Our first trip was to Mal Pais. We stayed at Casa Chameleon which was owned by one of the original Baywatch girls. She was there and we had a nice visit with her. To the south is Montezuma which was great. Very near Mal Pais is Santa Teresa. It is a fine place. We rented a car and drove everywhere. We flew into San Jose and took a commuter airline into Tambor where we picked up our rental car. The second trip was to Jaco. It is more developed and maybe a little more to do. We rode horses in the mountains and rented a side by side ATV one day. We thoroughly enjoyed it there but preferred Mal Pais.