Past Trips

Reviews

Fantastic guide and driver. Very good group. I hate your review process! Plane terrible!!! Too much trouble to get in to this site. Don't like having to make an account. If all we had to go on for this trip was your review process, we wouldn't have gone!
By catherine a for Discover Costa Rica Garden Tour - January 2024 on Feb 09, 2024
We thoroughly enjoyed our garden tour in Costa Rica. Our guide and group leaders made us feel well cared for and well fed as well! Great scenery and lots of knowledge shared, we’d highly recommend this trip.
By Richard K for Discover Costa Rica Garden Tour - January 2024 on Feb 03, 2024
Ah, Costa Rica! The weather was great (only one misty day and none of our days were scorchers), the food was good and surely plentiful! I just loved the coffee (café con leche) at every meal, no matter where it was. All of the sites we visited were interesting and I enjoyed learning more about the processing of sugar cane into brown sugar, coffee production and also spices and how they look "au naturale" in their native environment. Our tour guide (Margherita) was very knowledgeable and readily shared information. And our driver, Alex! What a guy! He got us up-and-down the mountains as well as through San Jose traffic with great skill. Both of these folks were awesome and made our trip a real win! Hotel Bougainvillea was my favorite.... not too American; not too foreign. Hotel San Bada was also great, with very much a resort atmosphere. There was an issue with the hot water at Hotel Villa Florencia (Solar powered water heating system. What!?) but they "made it right" for me by moving me to another building (thanks to Margherita). And not to forget our wonderful tour "chaperones", Caroline & Amanda! They helped us to keep on-track (not easy when you're busy doing "stuff" every day and several evenings!), shared their knowledge of plants & travel and just made everything run smoothly. Great work, ladies! Fewer hotel changes and less back-and-forth driving on the same roads would have been appreciated. I would have liked to stay in a hotel, see everything of interest in that area and then move to another area and hotel to enjoy what's there. Maybe next time!
By Georgiann E for Discover Costa Rica Garden Tour - January 2024 on Feb 01, 2024