Guides
How to get around Costa Rica, answered honestly
No sales pitch: real drive times, real road conditions, and when a shared shuttle or a rental car beats a private transfer. Written by the people who drive these routes.
SJO to La Fortuna: shuttle, private transfer or bus?
Four ways to cover the 131 km from SJO to Arenal. Which one is right depends less on price than on what time you land — here is the honest comparison.
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The road to Monteverde: what the drive is actually like
About 140 km that takes 3 to 4 hours, because the last part is not highway. Here is what the road is really like, why your map app is wrong about it, and how people decide whether to drive it themselves.
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Santa Teresa: ferry or the long way round?
Santa Teresa is the hardest mainstream transfer in Costa Rica. Both routes take about 5 to 6 hours, but they fail in different ways — and the one that suits you depends almost entirely on when your flight lands.
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