San Jose Villas - Reviews and Rates

Woke up at the normal time, had toast, eggs, fruit, guava juice, and coffee. Went to class and got our midterms back...I got a 95%!! (I think the highest in the class--so much for the former teacher not 'giving me permission' to switch classes)



Today's Meredith's birthday so a bunch of us went down the street to get our nails don...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We had a pretty uneventful new years eve, we made dinner and played cards while listening to fireworks going off until 2 in the morning! However we did manage to lock ourselves out of our room when we forgot that the door automatically locks very time it gets closed . I almost had a heart attack watching Nathan stand on top of ...

18 hours on the bus....2 hours in a customs "cage" without our passports...no one speaks english and we dont speak spanish...and one kind old man that dragged us through it all, screaming at us in his best spanish and we have arrived only to find our hotel reservation didn't exists. Thankfully the hotel guy had a buddy with a B&B that had a ...

Nice and civilised city. Safer than many think. No story yet.

Eunate left for Bilbao. A very sad farewell. We'd had a great three weeks together.

Not much more needs to be said. Everything worked out fine, but return days are usually not a lot of fun. Our flight was at 1p, so we had a lot of time. Our driver took us to a small zoo close to the airport for an hour. It was a little surprising to hear the birds greet me with "Hola!" How did they learn Spanish! It was more surprising when one...

Well it was no surprise that on our departure from Havana airport and leaving Dad to catch his flight back to London, Ian was once more required to guide a weepy, snotty one onto the plane. After an easy 2 hour flight we arrived back in Panama City. A brief panic episode ensued as we arrived at the gate for our flight to San Jose, for it only to...

Hello hello everyone! I just found out my site this Friday and it looks like Íīm going to somewhere near the border in 3 weeks. Sounds like itīs in Eastern Europe but itīs not. Itīs near a town called Upala since itīs probably not on the map. And itīs near the Nicaraguan border probably about 5 kilometers away. Iīm excited and scared and just em...

Now that I've been here a couple weeks, I'm starting to get a handle on this place. There are some aspects of Costa Rica that are a complete trip, and others that are so outright wonderful that they soften the strangeness of this quirky land. De Donde Sos? HUH?! The Spanish here is out of this world. The Ticos pronounce their Rs more like Johne ...