Luxury Costa Rica Tour Review: Arenal Volcano, Manuel Antonio, Traditional Cooking Class, Boat Ride, Wildlife, 9-Day Travel

We had an outstanding trip to Costa Rica. Alex and Francisco are extremely professional and genuinely wonderful to work with. We were met by Francisco and his wife when we exited the airport in San Juan to welcome us to Costa Rica. The travel agency called when we moved between hotels and departed for home to check that all was going as planned. They were very responsive to questions we had while planning the trip.  
We wanted to spend 4 days on the beach and 4 days in the Arenal area in the rainforest. We explained the type of accommodations we like when traveling and we’re provided with two hotel choices for each area. We selected a hotel in the Manual Antonio Beach area and another in the Arenal area. Both hotels were beautiful and offered us lovely rooms, great views and private pools. The one in Manuel Antonio Beach had only one resturant with a set menu. The food was good but did not offer as much variety as we would have liked. However our driver who met us at the airport and drove us to hotel showed us various other restaurants in area with wide range options. The resort in Arenal has multiple restaurants offering a variety of cuisines. The food was excellent at all of the ones we tried.

The staff at both hotels were very responsive to any needs we had. We did have internet trouble at the hotel in Arenal and the IT people were in and out of our room several times working on the issue. Without us even asking the hotel apologized and said they would comp our dinner that night.  
We planned a number of activities as part of our trip. We are older travelers and have some mobility issues. Alex worked with us to ensure the planned activities would work for us.  For each of the activities we were met at our hotel by a driver and taken to the activity. The drivers were on time and very knowledgeable of the area we were traveling to giving us history and context of the area.