Travel Review: Luxury Costa Rica Vacation, Arenal, Canopy Walk, Rappelling, Whitewater Rafting, Zipline Tour, Catamaran Cruise

This Costa Rica travel agency put together a fabulous trip for my 18-year-old granddaughter and myself. The trip was excellent value for our five-star hotels, land and air transportation and many activities. All the local companies and guides that we were hooked up with (including zip lining, canopy walking, rapelling, horseback riding and whitewater rafting were knowledgeable and professional. Near Arenal, the hot springs at the resort is a tropical paradise not to be missed. By the Pacific Ocean, we stayed just outside Tamarindo. I had read that the town was very touristy, but it offers a variety of restaurants and shops and a wonderful beach. It was an easy walk or bike ride from our more secluded hotel and provided a nice change of pace. Our travel planner was easy to work with in setting an itinerary. He met us at the airport on our arrival with a lovely gift basket and was helpful throughout the trip. I would just  encourage anyone who books with the company to carefully read the details and dates for their upcoming trip. I have a few suggestions for our agent to go from a 4.2 rating to a 5. Handing clients a printed schedule for their trip on arrival would be most helpful. His office is trying to go paperless, but the internet doesn't always work, and we had to have the hotel call him four or five times to get our daily schedule. Also, it would have been great if he had the the resort prepare us a daily "to-go" breakfast. " The hotel includes a fabulous breakfast starting at 6:30, but all our activity pick-up times were at 6:30 so we went off for the day without eating. We occasionally raided the dining room on our own, but his arranging something would be going that extra mile.