Day
1 Arrival San Jose International Airport
Once
you clear customs and immigration and exit the terminal
doors.
A Marbella representative will greet you
with a name sign and will transfer you to the Quality
Inn overnight or similar
Day
2 Pacuare River Class IV Rafting trip. A
Rios Tropicales shuttle will provide transportation
from the hotel to the Pacuare River for an exciting
world-class rafting adventure. On completion, the Rios
Tropicales Shuttle will drive you to the Guapiles area. Suerre Hotel overnight
Meals included- Breakfast
and lunch.
Day
3 Tortuguero National Park Adventure. Mid
morning Laguna Lodge representative will transfer you
to the embarkation point, A guide will escort you on
a short boat ride through Tortuguero National Park,
on arrival at your leisure for optional activities. Laguna
Lodge overnight
Meals included- Breakfast, lunch
and dinner
Day
4 Tortuguero Canals After
breakfast, guided boat trip through the canals, local
bilingual guide will provide exciting insight. After
a hearty meal at the Lodge, you’ll proceed on another
hiking tour through the jungle to the Tortuguero Hill.
For those travelling between July and October, Laguna
offers a magnificent egg-laying ritual evening tour
Atlantic Green Sea Turtle. Laguna Lodge overnight
Meals
included- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day
5 Arenal Volcano
area. After
breakfast, boat transportation to the Tortuguero airstrip
where you will board a domestic flight to San Jose (30
minutes approx.).
On arrival car rental representative
will greet you at the airport with your vehicle a Economical
Car for your 3-4 hour drive to Arenal Volcano area. Volcano
Lodge overnight
Meals included- Breakfast
Day
6 At leisure at Arenal area. Suggested
activities which can be arranged directly at the front
desk of the Volcano Lodge (at extra cost)
Arenal
Hiking Trails
La Fortuna Waterfalls
Canopy Tour
Tabacon Resort Natural Hot Springs Volcano Lodge
overnight
Meals included- Breakfast
Day
7 Drive to San Jose/Departure Early
drive back to the San Jose International Airport, drop
off your vehicle and board your flight back home. Airport
procedures are you must check in 3 hours prior your
departure time.
Meals included- Breakfast
Package
Price: USD $1550.00
Per Person USD $775.00
Prices
subject to change without notice
Prices based on
Private Transfers
Shuttle Transfers available
Packages
Includes: Quality
Inn 1 night
Laguna Lodge 3 day-2 nights (all meals
included)
Volcano Lodge 2 nights
Economical Car
3 days
All Ground-Local Air- Aquatic- Transfers
Breakfasts
Included
Not
Included: International
airline flight
Exit Visa $26.00
Meals unless
specified above.
Additional tours and activities
as arranged on your own. Gratuities
Should
you have questions or problems?
Payment
and Cancellation Policy -- A 30% deposit is required
to confirm Reservations, with full payment 30 days prior
to the trip If a trip is cancelled 45 days or more prior
to the trip, a 95% refund will be made.
Cancellations
from 30 to 45 days prior to the trip will receive a
75%
Refund and cancellations from 15 to 30 days
prior to the trip will
Receive a 50% refund. No
refunds will be made on cancellations less than
Two
weeks prior to the trip. There is! A charge of $25 per
person for
Any changes in the itinerary made within
30 days of the scheduled trip.
Please keep in mind
Marbella Tours assumes no liability for the loss of
personal
Effects or baggage, or for delays or cancellations
of international
And/or domestic air flights or
other public carriers resulting in delays
Or cancelled
reservations
If you have any questions with regards
to this itinerary
Call us TOLL FREE at 1 888-234-2296
Prices in affect after April 15 2008
TROPICAL
AND CLOUD FOREST EXPERIENCE
Services:
Day
1 Arrives to Costa Rica.
A
Marbella Travel & Tours representative will greet
you at the airport and provide transportation to the
Don Carlos Hotel, located downtown
San
Jose.
Overnight
at Don Carlos Hotel or similar.
Day
2 Tortuguero National Park.
Early
morning one representative of Laguna Lodge will pick
up at your hotel in San José and ride through the Braulio
Carillo National Park, passing along pastureland and
banana plantations, stopping for a typical Costa Rican
breakfast, on the way to the small village of Caño Blanco;
here you take the boat that lead you through the main
channel of Tortuguero to the comfortable rustic lodge
that is located on a small land strip situated between
the channels and the Caribbean sea.
After
lunch your naturalist guide takes you to the small village
of Tortuguero for a short tour and visit of the turtle
museum, you then walk back to the lodge along the beach.
After dinner there is the possibility for an optional
guided night hike along the beach to observe the nesting
of the sea turtles. (Season March-April and July –October,
approx. US $ 15 p.p.).
Overnight
at Laguna Lodge.
Meals
included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day
3 Tortuguero National Park. This
day is full of activities; in the early morning go for
a tour to admire the awakening of the wildlife of Tortuguero.
Return for breakfast. Then you will go on another boat
tour through the small channels of the national park,
where you will observe the flora and fauna of this unique
area. Return for lunch and free time for a “siesta”,
relax at the pool or go for a walk on the beach. In
the afternoon you can either participate in another
boat tour or stay in the Lodge to explore the jungle
trails around the Lodge. You also may visit the open
butterfly garden or enjoy your time on the pool. Dinner
at the Lodge.
Overnight
at Laguna Lodge. Meals
included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day
4 Arenal Volcano National Park. After
breakfast, you will embark the boat around 9 a.m. leaving
for Caño Blanco. Continue by bus to a typical Costa
Rican restaurant for a delicious home-cooked lunch.
Right here, one representative of Marbella Trabel &
Tours with private vehicle will be awaiting you in order
to transfer you to Arenal Volcano National Park area.
In
the evening at the hot springs of Tabacon (optional,
entrance not included) you may enjoy a bath in the sulfurous
water of a little river forming natural pools within
a beautiful tropical setting, where - with some luck
- you will be able to watch the fascinating volcano
eruptions of red sparkling lava.
Overnight
at Volcano Lodge. Meals
included: Breakfast and lunch.
Day
5 Monteverde Cloudforest Area. After
breakfast you will explore Arenal Volcano National Park
and hike with your private guide through secondary forest
and over the lava fields at the foot of awesome Arenal.
After
the hike and stop for a lunch (nor included) drive around
Arenal Lake to Cañas and on the Interamericana south,
until you turn left on an adventurous gravel road that
will take you on a 35 km long ride to Sta. Elena in
the Monteverde Cloud Forest Region.
Overnight
at De Lucia Inn or similar. Meals
included: Breakfast.
Day
6 Monteverde Cloudforest After
early breakfast, explore with your private guide the
Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve. Right at the entrance,
you will already meet many different kinds of hummingbirds
that come very close to their feeding stations.
After
lunch (not included), you will go for a "walk in
the clouds". The „Walkways" of Selvatura,
a complex of suspended bridges, platforms and trails,
built within the cloud forest, allow a vision from a
different perspective which starts with a walk on the
ground through the forest and takes you up to explore
the tops of the trees, a world which is very close but
yet unknown to most of us - the canopy of the cloud
forest. The bridge system is located along a 1.7-mile
trail designed to walk by people of all ages and physical
conditions so most of the way is level with occasional
small slopes. It has 8 suspension bridges, which add,
up a distance of 1200 feet of total bridge length, plus
the trail goes 90% through primary cloud forest.
Overnight
at De Lucia Inn or similar. Meals
included: Breakfast.
Day
7 Returns to San José
Private
transfer to San Jose (4 hours approx.)
Afternoon
free for optional activities which can be arranged with
your guide.
Overnight
at Don Carlos Hotel or similar.
Meals
included: Breakfast.
Day 8 Departure transfer. A representative of Marbella Travel & Tours will drive you to the Juan
Santamaria International Airport for
your return flight.
Meals included: Breakfast.
Package
Price: USD $1395.00
Per Person USD $697.50
Prices
subject to change without notice
Prices based on
Private Transfers
Shuttle Transfers available
Packages
Includes: Hotel
Don Carlos 2 nights
Laguna Lodge 3 day-2 night (all
meals included)
Arenal Paraiso 1 night
Finca
Valverde 2 nights
All Ground- Aquatic- Transfers
Breakfasts
Included
Not
Included: International
airline flight
Exit Visa $26.00
Meals unless
specified above.
Additional tours and activities
as arranged on your own. Gratuities
Should
you have questions or problems?
Payment
and Cancellation Policy -- A 30% deposit is required
to confirm Reservations, with full payment 30 days prior
to the trip If a trip is cancelled 45 days or more prior
to the trip, a 95% refund will be made.
Cancellations
from 30 to 45 days prior to the trip will receive a
75%
Refund and cancellations from 15 to 30 days
prior to the trip will
Receive a 50% refund. No
refunds will be made on cancellations less than
Two
weeks prior to the trip. There is! A charge of $25 per
person for
Any changes in the itinerary made within
30 days of the scheduled trip.
Please keep in mind
Marbella Tours assumes no liability for the loss of
personal
Effects or baggage, or for delays or cancellations
of international
And/or domestic air flights or
other public carriers resulting in delays
Or cancelled
reservations
If you have any questions with regards
to this itinerary
call us TOLL FREE at 1 888-234-2296
Prices in affect after April 15 2008
Costa
Rica is the ideal vacation spot, as Central America’s
crown jewel, and rated as one world’s top eco-adventure
and eco-tourism destinations along
with its many beautiful beaches along both the Pacific
Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
