Travel to Latin America

Frommer's Costa Rica 2007 (Frommer's Complete)

Format: Paperback
Author: Eliot Greenspan
ReleaseDate: 28 August, 2006
Publisher: Frommer's
Rating:

Very Helpful Resource
The book follows the standard format for Frommer's with "Best of" lists detailing some of the top attractions followed by general information and suggested initeraries. Frommer's generally puts out comprehensive and up-to-date guides and for the most part this one is no exception. After that, we get into more detail for each region of the country beginning with San Jose and working through each area of the country in turn.

I was looking primarily for information on the natural attractions that Costa Rica has to offer and I found exactly what I was looking for. There are numerous descriptions of the beaches, rain forests, volcanoes, and hiking opportunities. As another reviewer mentioned, however, they probably should have included more hotel reviews. I suppose this is an inherent difficulty in writing a guide for an entire country (even a small one) and keeping it under 1,000 pages.

Overall, I found the book very helpful in planning my trip and would recommend it to anyone looking for information on Costa Rica.

lonely planet is better
The pullout map is a joke, it only shows the bigger towns, and there aren't any good maps inside the book. This book only lists a few hotels per town and lonely planet lists as many as possible. Lonely planet may not be as new, but still has twice the info this book has. .

Try Lonely Planet instead
The author recommended hotels that turned out to be really seedy. I have trusted Frommer's travel guides for years, but this one was a complete disappointment. I wondered if he had actually visited some of the places he mentioned. The book itself was confusing in its organization, and the only useful parts were the pull-out map and the suggested itineraries.

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