We visited Costa Rica last year during the summer months and were delighted with the warm weather. It was about 80 degrees every day and I got a great tan. It wasn’t too hot like it is in some other tropical locations. We stayed at the Hotel Costa Rica San Jose and were so happy with the service we got there. Every morning when we woke up the maid came into our room and cooked us breakfast in the little kitchen that is in the room. She would also come around in the evening and pick up our laundry and have it ready for us by the evening or the morning.
When we decided to go to Costa Rica, and stay at the Hotel Costa Rica San Jose, we knew we wanted to go to the rain forest. We took the Rain Forest Aerial Tram through the rain forest and learned that there are over 1,400 types of orchids among 14,000 different types of plants and over 850 types of different animals! Since we were in the Braulio Carrillo National Park, the tram helped us to be able to see some of the birds and other animals that aren’t able to be seen from the ground. I don’t like bugs and reptiles much, so going over the forest rather than walking through it was the perfect thing for me. Our guide was nice and he even took some of the plants down and showed them to us to let us smell them; it was a very educational experience.
In the gift shop and the little cafes we spent about an hour looking at all the cool things they had to offer. We had a light lunch and also ran into someone who looked just like Kate Middleton who just married Prince William. She was so beautiful and there were a lot of people around her asking her if she was the Princess. I recently read a story about Kate Middleton about their honeymoon. They went on a tour of Canada and to Los Angeles. When they got back to London, they moved into their new apartment at Kensington Palace. You’d think a Prince and Princess would have a bigger apartment, but the one they moved into is only a 2 bedroom, one bathroom apartment. Since Prince William is stationed in Wales, they will probably get a bigger apartment after he is finished with his service in the Royal Air Force.
The lady who looked like Kate Middleton was actually named Laura and she told us about her hotel that she was staying in. She was staying in the Marriott Costa Rica Hotel and she said that they didn’t even have a laundry service available! She didn’t seem to be very happy with the service at the hotel either. We told her that our hotel, the Hotel Costa Rica San Jose, was the best place we could have picked to stay at. She was jealous about the breakfast because she was paying for restaurants every morning on top of her nightly hotel rate; our breakfast was delicious, cooked for us every morning in our room and it was free!
