Travel to Central America

Lonely Planet Costa Rica

Format: Paperback
Author: Carolina A. Miranda
ReleaseDate: November, 2004
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Rating:

Put this book among History Books!
Although the overall impression of the book is positive (so the 3 stars. . ) I could not find ANY hotel still close to the price range listed for them, not to say that some of them are now defunct (restaurants included). But what I found worse were the low-planning content of the proposed routes (I eventually started one of them and had to remodel it on-the-fly for the loss of time it would cause me) and the misguided information on some attractions (take Las Baulas National Park for example: it has NO touristic structure besides the beach itself, being mostly a scientific facility for the preservation of turtles, but is currently being sold - in a unethical way, with thousand of unfulfilled promises - by local guides who in fact make you pay USD28 for just a night on the beach. The books says something about dozens of turtles coming EVERY NIGHT to the beach, which is totally false if not impossible, providing free-but-wrong advertising for those unethical guides and not helping at all the buyer of the book).

The perfect companion for a Costa Rica trip
The book covers popular destinations as well as providing the history of the country and highlighting wildlife that is unique to the region. Once again, Lonely Planet delivers a thorough guide for travellers heading into an unknown destination. The book is broken up by region so it is easy to reference as you travel throughout the country. The restaurant guide is so thorough it included a bakery that we saw at a remote village in the jungle only accessible by boat. And the review was right on! I will definitely keep this for my next trip and look to Lonely Planet when venturing somewhere new.

This is a lucky book.
This book is good luck. My friend said he has loaned this book to six people, all of whom have returned from Costa Rica, ecstatic and safe. . . I said write to the author to tell him, and he said, "No, this is a really popular book, he gets hundreds of emails every week. " I thought I'd try anyway. .

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