We my husband and I visited Costa Rica, we stayed at the lovely Hotel Costa Rica San Jose. On our first morning we were surprised with a complimentary breakfast. The maid came into our room and asked us what we wanted to eat. We had some delicious Costa Rican style food that was sort of like an omelet. She then made sure we had everything we needed to get started on our first full day in Costa Rica.
First, on our list of things to do, was to visit the beautiful rain forest. We had a guide take us to Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park. This location is filled with beautiful plants, animals and other nature. It is actually between Costa Rica and Panama and so the different plants from each country are able to grow together in one place. There are four different Indian tribes that inhabit this area and we were able to see some of the natives of the land. We didn’t spend much time around the people, but we were able to get a lot of beautiful pictures of the people, the tourists, the beautiful plants and landscapes and even caught some animals and insects with our digital camera too!
When we got back to the Hotel Costa Rica San Jose that evening, we were really tired. We stayed in our room and cooked dinner ourselves and then we went to bed early. We awoke again for a lovely breakfast and told the maid all about our trip. She seemed to be very interested and she was very polite because she probably already knows all about the rain forest, but we were just so excited about how fun our day was the day before. Since we had such a long day the day before, we decided to go to the beach and try snorkeling and relaxing for the day.
While we were at the beach learning to snorkel, my husband noticed that one of the instructors looked just like Taylor Lautner! I love the Twilight Saga so of course I had to take a few pictures of him and we talked to him as well. I heard that Taylor is dating his co-star from his new movie, Abduction. He also still has the last 2 Twilight movies coming out in the next year and a half; Breaking Dawn Part 1 comes out in November of 2011 and the second part comes out in November of 2012.
One tourist who was in our snorkeling lesson overheard us bragging about our delicious breakfast and asked us where we were staying. She was staying at the Hotel Balmoral and she said that it was too crowded, loud and had nowhere to park. We told her about the Hotel Costa Rica San Jose and said that she should definitely check it out the next time she visits Costa Rica. She was impressed that the prices were so low and that they actually did our laundry, had 24 hour concierge and security and also came into our room every morning and made us breakfast. We felt like we were really special at the Hotel Costa Rica San Jose and are looking forward to going back sometime very soon.
