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5-day The City & Dry Forest Beach

5-day The City & Dry Forest Beach

5 Days | 4 Nights - From $1,150 USD* per person

Destinations Visited: Tamarindo, San Jose

Discover San Jose's main landmarks and attractions and experience the Tamarindo beach's paradox: tranquil, yet touristy; developed, yet authentic and close-knit, but transient. Glide through Tamarindo Bay chasing marine life. Tub, horseback, zip line and relax your body on hot spring pools fed by Rincon de La Vieja Volcano. Sunbathe, play in the waves and enjoy Tamarindo, Langosta and Playa Grande (make sure you do not step on the crocodiles sunbathing near the mangroves!).

Highlights

  • 4-night Standard Accommodations
  • Meals: 4 breakfasts, 2 lunches
  • All ground airport & airport strip transfers
  • One round-trip local airfare included: San Jose – Tamarindo. When it's time to make the local flight reservations we will use your credit card to pay for it directly to the airline and the airfare cost will be deducted from the total price of your trip

Activities Included

  • Double-Decker VIP City Bus
  • Tamarindo Bay Catamaran Tour
  • Ride, Zip, Tube & Soak Combo

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival and Spend the Night in San Jose & Double-Decker VIP City Bus

Meet your bilingual driver at Juan Santamaria Airport (SJO) near San Jose and jump in a private van that will whisk you away on a 30-to-45 minute ride through the central valley to your hotel in San Jose.

Check in your hotel!

Experience the magical sights and sound of San Jose in comfort and safety aboard a double-decker bus and inspire yourself from Costa Rican folk music traditions and performing artists.

Overnight: San Jose
Meals: None

Day 2: Cruise Around Tamarindo Bay on an all-you-can-drink Catamaran

Smell the sea and the air, watch the sky, with a cocktail in hand. Join the Marlin del Rey 66-foot Catamaran to chase wildlife north along the sandy stretches, coves, jagged cliffs and the rocky island jutting out of Tamarindo Bay.

Overnight: Tamarindo
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 3: Ride, Zip, Tube & Soak Combo

Experience the thrills of Guanacaste in one day that combines a zipline, horseback and tubing adventure with outdoor reheated mud-masks and hot springs pools fed by Rincon de la Vieja Volcano in the dry tropical forest patched with pastures, savannahs and dotted with small hills.

Overnight: Tamarindo
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 4: Explore Close by Beaches on foot

Take a 2-hour morning walk (one way) south of Tamarindo, past Playa Langosta to Playa Avellanas. Take a look to the secret dry-mangrove forest and at the surfers trying to catch their wave. Then, head back and bask in the sun in Tamarindo. If you still have energy, walk north to Playa Grande and make sure you do not step on the crocodiles sunbathing near the mangroves on the rivermouths.

Overnight: Tamarindo
Meals: Breakfast

Day 5: Rejoice in Tamarindo & Take Your Private Transfer to the Airport

Enjoy those last few hours of relaxation with a private return transfer to the Juan Santamaria Airport near San Jose for your journey back to the real world.

Meals: Breakfast

* Price is for reference only, subject to availability and the confirmation at the time of booking.

All prices are per person (8 years old & above) based on double occupancy in standard rooms & traveling during a year except on Easter Week, the last two weeks of December and first two weeks of January.

Prices do not include airfare, fuel surcharges, airport taxes and fees, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks.

Tours are subject to a two-passenger minimum (or management discretion), weather conditions and age limit. costarica.com reserves the right to suspend a tour based on non-complying conditions and provide an alternative tour.

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