9 Days in Costa Rica
Overview
Highlights
- --Scenic Drive to San Ramon visiting en route the Artisan's Town of Sarchi --Scenic Drive to Arenal Volcano --Lecture On The Exotic Life Forms of Costa Rica --Guided visit to Manial Antonio National Park --Boat Excursion through the Tropical Mangrove Canal
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Trip includes
- --Meet & greet service upon arrival --Arrival transfer from Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) to hotel in San Jose --2 nights lodging at the First Class Cariari Doubletree Hotel or similar --3 nights lodging at the First Class Villa Blanca Hotel --3 nights lodging at the First Class Parador Resort & Spa --Private English-Speaking guide throughout including/during all airport transfers --Private ground transportation throughout in deluxe motorcoach --Meals included as noted in the itinerary (8 Breakfasts, 3 Lunches, 8 Dinners) --Spanish class - including materials --Aerial tram and hanging bridges OR zipline --Lecture on the Exotic Life Forms of Costa Rica --Tamale cooking class in Eco Ranch, including implements --Typical dancing show --Damas Island Estuary boat trip --Snacks and water aboard the bus on days: 2, 5, 8 --Entrance fees to: National Museum (or Gold Museum) --Arenal Reserve and Manuel Antonio National Park --Sales tax & service charge for restaurant meals included on the trip --Tips for Bellboys, Maids and Porters --Water and snacks during transfers on days 2, 5 and 8 --Departure transfer from San Jose to Juan Santamaria International Airport
Itinerary
Meals: Dinner
This morning you're off to your tropical paradise! For your reference, the flight is about 5 hours from New York. Upon arrival at Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), you will be met by a Perillo Tours representative and transferred to you...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
This morning you'll enjoy a leisurely breakfast and a lesson on useful Spanish expressions. (But luckily, most local residents are far better at English than we are with Spanish!)
Next, you'll visit the city of San Jose...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation
After breakfast, a scenic drive northwest through beautiful rolling farmlands. You're bound for La Fortuna, home of the iconic Arenal Volcano, rising one mile above sea level overlooking Lake Arenal. You'll ascend to the top of the Arenal Rainforest Reserve ...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Villa Blanca
This morning you'll enjoy a lecture by the resident ecosystem biologist followed by a guided nature walk of the Los Angeles Private Cloud Forest at 3,000 feet above sea level. You'll witness insect...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Bidding farewell to our home in the mountains, we descend toward the warm, drier air of the Pacific coastline and head southeast toward the Manuel Antonio National Park area. You'll stop at a private ranch to learn how to mak...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: El Parador Resort & Spa
After an early breakfast, we'll visit Manuel Antonio National Park which was established in 1972 when the people of Costa Rica decided to preserve, for future generations, one of the ...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: El Parador Resort & Spa
This morning it's a boat trip through the Damas Island Estuary which allows you to navigate through the wonders of the tropical mangrove ecosystem. The first part of the journey is th...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: San Jose
After a leisurely breakfast, head back to the Central Valley.
This evening, dine in a rustic casona (country house), offering a panoramic view of the Central Valley. Tonight's menu include...
Meals: Breakfast
Morning at leisure. Take a private transfer back to Juan Santamaria Airport (SJO) to catch your flight home.
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For 66 years, three generations of the Perillo family have perfected the art of traveling to Italy. And this means that when you book your vacation, you can relax and let Perillo take care of all the details. For my grandfather, Joseph, and my father, Mario, nothing was better than receiving letters of thanks from the thousands and thousands of travelers who've journeyed with us. That's still true today. We invite you to discover why we've always been number one for travel to Italy.
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