Customer Reviews

The New Key to Costa Rica (14th ed)

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Great Family guide. We traveled and volunteered for six weeks with a 12 and 14 year old, and found the book invaluable. Everything was accurate and helped use get around on a limited budget. Bus schedules and directions were great. Since we got back, we have compared it to several other books for places we stayed, no other book compared. It has great reviews of the national parks and the country Map includes the National Parks.

As a president and founder of the Bed and Breakfast Asoociation and Central Reservation System for B & B's in Costa Rica for the past 10 years, I highly recommend "The New Key to Costa Rica". The information provided is invaluable. Both of the authors have lived and travelled extensively for over 14 years in Costa Rica. Readers couldn't possibly find a better updated travel book written, by the book's authors who have experienced and continue to travel this wonderful country first hand.

I traveled to Costa Rica for a study abroad program with my college, and I found The New Key to Costa Rica to be the perfect guide book. I loved all of the recomendations the book offered while I was in Costa Rica: places to visit, places to eat, places to stay, etc. So, when I planned to return to Costa Rica I consulted the book again. However, I do not suggest using Americas Tours and Travel to buy tickets to Costa Rica, as the book suggested. I did, and I regret it. This is my only complaint about the book. Otherwise, it is the best that can be offered.

Although my review refers to an earlier edition, I'm sure subsequent editions are just as good. When I lived in Costa Rica for a year in 1991, this book was my constant companion for useful information in a format that was really user-friendly. I've used it on seven or eight visits to the country. I really deserve to get myself a new one! I highly recommend it.

The authors' thoughtful comments are always on target, whether they are reviewing cabins on the beach, describing monkeys scrambling through treetops, or the view from a volcano. Their sustainable tourism rating system is the best "eco-label" I've seen -- if you are a concerned "green" traveler, refer to this book. I've lived in Costa Rica for 10 years, and this is the guidebook I always use, always recommend.

Hi, I am working at ILISA, Spanish Language Institute in San Jose, Costa Rica and I just want to let you know that this book helps our students a lot by making travel plans and by getting their way around in Costa Rica. Thanks!