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Tourism in Costa Rica

Costa Rica has over the past 5 year seen a significant increase in the number of Tourists walking through its doors. Costa Rica now boasts 2 International airports, Juan Santamaria and Liberia International airport. The Liberia airport has seen such a exponential increase in incoming flights it has had to expand the terminal and it [...]

Investing in Real Estate

Under the Costa Rica Constitution, non-Costa Ricans have the same rights as Costa Rica citizens to purchase, own, develop and transfer real estate.
All title deeds are registered on the National Property Registry Registro Nacional. This national registry serves the same purpose as town or county title records in the United States. You can check Costa [...]

Medical Care in Costa Rica

US and Costa Rican medical tourism agency Health Choices International has developed answers to perennial questions they are asked by potential customers.
There are three principle reasons why individuals from a developed nation would travel to Costa Rica for healthcare.
1. Affordability – For many, healthcare at home is too expensive.
Costa Rica has cost savings of 40%-80% [...]

Pet Relocation

Pet relocation is a topic that never gets old.  There is so much to it that the normal pet owners never think about. What is the best airport to send my pets out of? What is the best airlines?  Is it safe to send my pet as cargo?  I’ve heard so many bad things about [...]

Horses in Costa Rica

Expats might have felt a bit left out yesterday if they did not bring their horses. December 26th is the day for the Tope Nacional, a horse parade of some 4,000 to 5,000 riders and their mounts through downtown San José.
This is the traditional day-after-Christmas event that also attracts other horse-related participants: carriage
owners, wagon drivers [...]

Tree Decorating 101

Please excuse my inability to write a full post this holiday season but I have run across some of the most interesting sites and want to share them with you in their entirety so follow the link and laugh your way to Christmas. You will have to cut and paste the link into your [...]

Sounds like what happens when you try to bring a pet into Costa Rica without the help of Pet Relocation Specialists like World Pet Travel

Trouble in Mexico
I write this letter in the hopes that it will reach as many people as possible and perhaps a little change will come of it. Pet owner BEWARE, things are not as they seem when you are trying to do the best for your pet.
Due to my husband’s and my work, these coming [...]

Christmas in Costa Rica

This title may be a little misleading because this post is not about the beauty of Christmas in Costa Rica or the fact that you can hang out at the pool and work up a sweat on Christmas Day without guilt.  What this post is about is everyone taking off work for 16 days.  From [...]