Holiday Inn San Jose

... thankful for that because once I start spotting random, weird bugs I WILL call for a money gram and take my butt to a hotel motel Holiday Inn! Oh and we're staying by these train tracks that make it look real 'hood right and we're walking to Marci's ...

... , but as Costa Rica has a thriving tourist industry, the cost of most things is far beyond the realms of a backpacking budget. San Jose is an interesting city with attractive parks and cosmopolitan vibe and high price tags to go with it. So we made ...

... the city itself was the same, but sadly it´s not very pretty at all.  The hotel, Hotel Aranjuez is really nice... not in a Holiday Inn sort of way, but in terms of charm and comfort it´s certainly the best hotel we´ve stayed at on this trip.  ...

... in :D BUT it has a Texas licence plate. It however didn't come with a complementary gun or even a gun-rack :( Our destination was San Jose, where we were going to meet up with Jennifer (a friend of Trude's), but we wanted to do a little sight-seeing ...

After our lunch in Jaco we were on our way back to the airport where we had booked the Holiday Inn Express for a night (our flight to Miami was to leave at bloody 07:15). After checking in to the hotel we decided to check out San Jose and try an Asian ...

We made it!  We have just unpacked our suitcases and are in Central San Jose at the Aurola Holiday Inn.  Initial impressions are that we won't be going out tonight as the streets seem to be busy but a bit risky.  Everything has roll down ...

... Island unto a 3rd world, hot, underdevellopped, poor, country, full of mountain road, beaches and rain forests... She stayed the Holiday Inn Hotel with pool, jacuzzi, gym, restaurant, bar and climatized room on the 12th floor with a view of the capital. ...

So I woke up and left the Holiday Inn without breakfast. Even though I had free food coming to me, I had to get my white butt to the airport. In Line I met one girl going for ISV. She met one, and so that made 3 of us. We got to the gate and talked ...

... Ometepe Island and El Castillo), and began my adventures in Costa Rica (on the Nicoya Peninsula, and in the capital city, San Jose) together.  We boated, motorcycled, climbed, jungle trekked, crocodile hunted, ATVed, snorkeled, swam, ziplined and ...

... ?"..... and that is how this trip evolved. After several weeks of switching potential dates we finally settled on flying down to San Jose on the evening of October 10th, arriving there around 9:30pm. Initially we had the following persons that were going ...

Sitting here in San Jose on the last morning of our last day in Costa Rica it's hard to even think of how to wrap this blog up or what to say.  Instead, I am going to start the list that the housemates started talking about a few days ago ...

We left Guanacaste yesterday morning and drove back to San Jose for our last night. On the way, we stopped for a boat cruise along a crocodile infested river. The driver of the boat would ram the boat up on a sand bar and then step out barefoot with a ...

... I should be glad we came today so that we didn’t have to deal with that mess tomorrow.  We ended up trying the Holiday Inn first but they had no decent bed availability and wanted to squeeze Jym and I into a double bed.  I was thinking ...

... up and walk into the dark and rain. The park and templo de musico are nearly empty as I turn right, in front of a Holiday Inn highrise which I had not previously seen and seemed bit comforting as I began my walk for 800 somethings, searching for the ...

... airline had printed the wrong gate number on our tickets. This meant that we had a brief stay in New Jersey at the Holiday Inn, which was actually quite nice and a welcome break between flights. We bought some massive American cuisine with our ...