Costa Rica Traveller Reviews - On The Go Tours

Becky was excellent throughout, giving support and advice where needed but also giving us space to enjoy ourselves. The main towns that we visited were also great. ”  

I really enjoyed the 9 day 'Wild Costa Rica' tour i did that started on 22nd Feb. I played it safe by arriving in San Jose on the 20th to give me enough time to settle and look around San Jose before the trip officially started. When i was in the hotel lobby early on the 22nd the guide Cesar saw me and asked me if i was one of the party and he introduced himself when i said yes. I found the printout that was up in the lobby about the start of the tour useful too.

I found the tour was well organised and timsecales for meeting up on certain mornings for travel and optional guide reasonable and liked the flexibility of tour to spend time doing things you wanted if you didn't opt for any optional tours. I especially liked the way Cesar organised meals out in advance so we just walked in to various eateries and had a table of up to 14 already reserved.

I can't of any major criticisms of the tour apart from the accommodation we stayed in for 2 nights in La Fortuna called Cabinas Oriuma was a little poor with a lot of noise from nearby streets a little too audible throughout the night and when it rained heavily it sounded like the roof was paper thin and i and others commented we didn't get the best nights sleep.

Overall i had a really good time though and thank all involved for organising it.

Regards

Matthew Sinclair”  

Tour: Was fine, except for final hotel in La Fortuna, which was too basic, very noisy and worst of all, required a US$10 per night charge for air conditioning, and US$5 for the use of the safe. None of the other hotels had this charge and it left a very nasty taste.

Guide: Cesar was quite competent, but slightly "behind the game". I am aware that the description of the tour made it quite clear that clients would have to carry their own luggage. In practice, this was, on one occasion, very hard (uphill for I/2 km in boiling heat) and it would have been very easy to have suggested a taxi. Cesar also relied on the young men in the party to load and unload the baggage into/from the mini-buses; this was very nice for us, but I'm not sure what the young men felt, as Cesar didn't help at all.”