Hotel Jose Antonio

... equipment: Swimsuit, sweater, and a towel. Overnight in Arenal. Day 4 Breakfast at your hotel 09:00am. Transfer to Manuel Antonio National Park and Beach. Stay: 2 nights Day 5 Breakfast Manuel Antonio 8:05am. Catamaran and ...

... courtyard with a fountain and plantings. After my stop here, I walked over to Casa Navarro, which is the former quarters of Jose Antonio Navarro, a prominent figure in his day and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.   Finally, I ended ...

... rest of the group for dinner (a restaurant owned by locals that was a short walk from our hotel, El Arado). The following day we went to Manuel Antonio National Park (just adjacent to the public beach we visited the night before). We wandered around the ...

... beautiful in the country, and the forest is home to sloths, iguanas, squirrel monkeys and millions of colorful little crabs. Manuel Antonio town is a small "pueblo" on the outskirts of the park, and although the local beach isn´t part of the reserve, ...

... Jens couldn't remember the name of the hotel (Barceló something) and there are 4 hotels "Barceló something" in San Jose... Eventually we found the hotel as well as a cash machine.  As usual we try to escape those big cities as soon as possible. So, ...

Took a trip from San Jose down to the Manuel Antonio national park which takes about three hours by "express bus" (the normal bus apparently takes six hours) and involved another early start , getting up at the unearthly hour of 5am on a Sunday morning . ...

... rolled into the beachfront town that is a few hundred meters' worth of restaurants and surf shops away from the entrance to manuel antonio. after finding a hostel, we got down to business to make the most of the few days we had at the park. getting ...

... going in the direction of Quepos. Our aim was to visit El Avion which is a bar on the road in between Quepos and Manuel Antonio. El Avion is a bar constructed out of an old 1954 Fairchild that was meant to be a donation for the Nicaraguan Contras from the ...

... , durften wir das Museum sogar umsonst besichtigen. San Jose bescherte uns zwei regnerische Tage, weshalb wir beschlossen nach Quepos - Manuel Antonio zu fahren, um uns am Beach bräunen zu lassen und den nahegelegenen Nationalpark zu besuchen. ...

... in the river below us. That was very exciting, but I was glad we were far away from them. When we were entering the Manuel Antonio area the sun was setting over the ocean, it was a very amazing sunset and a nice into to the trip. The first night we ...

... Jan and I went out for a Mexican lunch which was really great and we sat chatting for ages, then I got transferred back to the hotel Europa.Well I was welcomed like royalty, they gave me a huge room, the hotel is very classic style and reminds me of an ...

... . By the time we arrived, it was dark and rainy, but we hit up a bar anyway after getting all of our stuff into the hotel. I was on the second floor, and in the morning when I woke up, the balcony was literally paradise. It reminded me of Peter Pan's ...

... , and through the window we can see people lying down on the beds sleeping - very weired. We were told later that these are massage beds and cost $20 per hour. We are heading back to our hotel ready to go to Manuel Antonio, south-west of the country. ...

... dabbled in some indoor rock climbing before, but getting on some actual rock was quite the experience.  There is more to Manual Antonio though, and we spent our remaining time here relaxing on a perfect beach.  It's time to catch the bus ...

... night out, but once we were finally ready, Davo, Glenn and the two of us headed to the bus terminal to go to Manuel Antonio for a few days. The bus terminal was notorious for thieves, so we had plans to keep all our gear in sight and safe.  As ...

... and ditches we were travelling in people controlled alternate times. 6 hourslater in brilliant sunshine we arrive at our hotel in Manuel Antonio. Our first room although delightful was overlooking a building site and I could just imagine the noiseof the ...

... up leaving for awhile to do some shopping for my family, and spend a little more time in the water. The waves in Manuel Antonio were something completely new to me. Don't get me wrong here, because I'm sure that they aren't anything a surfer would ...

... hour bus ride to San Jose. Somewhere between seeing a family of monkeys walk across the street of the hotel on a rope and getting off the bus in San Jose, Karen lost the camera. It is pretty disappointing, but luckily we did change the memory card a day ...