Websites for Hotel Reservations in Costa Rica
Posted in Costa Rica, Hotels, Kewl Stuff on Nov 6th, 2008
Costa Rica is one of the most developed countries in Latin America. The only Intel microchip factory in all of Latin America is located in Costa Rica. HP,Procter and Gamble and many other large corporations have offices and facilities in this country. You can read more about it here.
I mention this to illustrate what a tech-savvy population Costa Rica has. I’ve found this to be true when it comes to their online presence. I have family and contacts in Costa Rica but I still look to web for information. My wife and I are going to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas at the Mirador Lodge in the Monteverde area. I found the lodge at a website here. This site is part of www.anywherecostarica.com. I have used this site before and have had good experiences. The staff have been super-courteous and the hotels have been great.
Costa Rica is a pretty progressive place so they have wrapped their heads around the internet and its possibilities quite well. You’ll find many internet cafe’s in Costa Rica and many Ticos are online. I was in the Southern Pacific zone of Costa Rica a couple of years ago. Its comfortably undeveloped. No big resorts but you aren’t cut off from the civilized world either. We drove from our cabins to a little jungle-outpost type of deal. There was a small grocery store, a hardware store and pharmacy all surrounded by tropical vegetation. There was a sign indicating that there was an internet cafe on the second floor. In my mind I saw a sparse room with some old desktops and CRT monitors running Windows ME or 98. I walked up a small flight of stairs and opened an unassuming door and went inside. It was like being teleported to a Starbucks in Seattle. The interior was just like a North American coffee shop. They had the baristas, the pastries, the wood floor, the furniture, etc. There were many people sitting around, sipping coffee, eating pastries and surfing on new Dell laptops(provided by the cafe). The laptops were on a wireless network which connected to the internet via satellite. This, to me, speaks volumes about Costa Rica.
When making hotel reservations in Costa Rica many places will ask you to fax them a copy of your credit card with your signature. Alternatively you can print out the form, sign it, scan it and email back as a pdf. This is the law in Costa Rica and its not a bad thing.
I’m making reservations for the beginning and end of the trip but we’ll be winging it in the middle a bit. I have a cousin down there who has graciously offered us to stay with him for the New Years. He is also an mountain bike enthusiast. Awesome.
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