Gregg and Jennifer contacted Elite Escapes for their upcoming anniversary vacation. They had been looking for a travel agent to plan their 10 year wedding anniversary vacation and a mutual friend suggested Elite Escapes travel agency. Gregg and Jennifer were going to be celebrating their anniversary in April 2015 and wanted to travel without their children. They had previously been to Hawaii for their honeymoon and to Cancun a few years ago. Gregg made one comment that stood out: Cancun was a little boring for him. Several days in a row of just laying on the beach or in the pool was not an exciting time. This time, they wanted to do something “different”.
We tossed out Costa Rica or Belize as suggestions. While these countries are both in Central America, they are very different from each other in accommodations, excursions, and environment. Gregg and Jennifer decided to stay in Costa Rica at the Tamarindo Diria Beach Resort in Guanacaste. Tamarindo is a nice, small beach town where only local food and drinks are served. It’s a good place for surfing and there are surfing competitions that come to the area a couple times of year.
8 days and 7 nights of Costa Rican fun was packed into their schedule: Monteverde Cloud Forest, Arenal Volcano and the Springs Hotel, the Buena Vista tour with ziplining and horseback riding through the jungle.
When Gregg and Jennifer returned we asked them to describe their Costa Rican anniversary. Here are a few pictures and their experience:
“This trail took us along the tree tops and over suspension bridges. I am scared of heights but this did not even bother me because the sights are so spectacular. This is a must do for anyone who is going to Costa Rica. After the bridges, we went on a tour of a butterfly garden where they breed butterflies. My favorite part of this tour was being able to actually walk into the butterfly habitat and have them land on you. They even have a part of the tour where you see all of the butterflies getting ready to hatch or hatching.”
“The zip line was the first part of the trip. It was pretty cool to fly though the tops of the trees in the jungle.”
“You can sit in this grass area {near the beach} and hear and see the ocean and not get sandy or worry about being bothered by the locals. We loved this hotel.”
