Please put me on the Interested List for Costa Rica!
When I return to Costa Rica this July 2011 for three weeks, I think it will be my 9th or 10th trip. It's a BEAUTIFUL place to visit for any reason, in any season.
Since I always stay with my Tico friends (locals call themselves Ticos), I don't have any recommendations for hotels or resorts. However, there are hundreds to choose from!
If we are traveling, one of my friends always 'knows' someone so we stay free at someone's house or we just stay at the local building that is sort of used as a fire station.
If we are near San Jose and find a place to dive, then we just use the dive gear from the main fire station, otherwise we rent gear from whichever dive shop we dive with that day.
Playa Ocotal is a big resort area (west coast of CR), lots of choices for lodging or diving, plus food & other activities. Visibility (in 2009) was about 30ft /- most days, better at night.
I doubt if anyone would want to hear about the lakes, ponds and rivers we also dove in around CR, but most were a bit chilly and had better viz.
I'd like to dive at Playas del Coco on this trip, but not sure what my friends have planned. They know I will go diving with or without them, so they usually plan at least one dive trip for us.
Generic dive info on Costa Rica
http://www.govisitco...ngCompanies.asphttp://www.divingmania.net/ (website is Spanish only) Is one of the better dive shops in San Jose, and a Scubapro dealer.
Going on a liveaboard trip to Isla de Cocos (Cocos Island) from Costa Rica is on my "To Do" list. It would be EXCELLENT if SD would organize a liveaboard dive trip here!!
Edited by Resqdew, 12 April 2011 - 11:29 AM.