CUÁNTO CUESTA VIAJAR A COSTA RICA 🇨🇷 | PRESUPUESTO

Hello, my name is John. And in this video I am going to talk to you about our 15-day budget for Costa Rica. We recently returned from a trip to Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and the truth is that it has been one of the best trips I have ever taken. Until now, as I have repeated many times, I have made several videos on tips from Costa Rica, car rental, clothes to carry, and a lot of things, and in this one you have all of that in the playlist that I leave below. in the comments as well as all the day-to-day blogs of the trip in case you are interested and here I want to tell you about the budget we had and the general expenses of what the trip to Costa Rica cost us for about two weeks in case Well Well, yes, you are going to have a more or less similar trip, but to give you an idea, I want to make it clear to begin with that on our trip, it was quite normal in that it was a luxury trip, going to the best hotels, taking the car on better car, eat the best restaurants, nor was it a super wasteful trip to save as much as possible, instead of going by car, go and move by bus, stay, as I know, in tents and eat at the supermarket, it has not been a trip in the middle, the first thing It's the flights if you are going to travel obviously This is going to depend a lot from where you travel to Costa Rica Because if you travel from Panama it will cost you 5 dollars but if you go from Europe or places like that it will be much more expensive so well it depends a lot from where you travel from In our case we went from Spain, we took a round trip to Spain and Costa Rica with a direct flight with Iberia and the prices, to give you an idea, were between 700 and 1000 euros, depending a little on the advance notice and the time of year. If you are going to travel, you can still find it. Even a little cheaper, you can still find it for up to 600 round trip. I am talking above all about direct trips. Obviously, if you make two stops and it takes you 47 hours to arrive, you may find it for 500 or so. But the Normally, that will be between 600 and 1000 euros around there, and if you go from today to tomorrow, it can obviously go up to 1200. But the normal thing should be somewhere around there. I'm talking to you with checked suitcases included, food on the plane, the car in what is the renting the vehicle for a couple of weeks the same obviously depends on the rental company the advance notice the type of vehicle we took a car that was a minivan it was not a 4x4 but it was more than a normal car and for a couple of weeks they were around about 800 euros more apart from the insurance, the insurance was taken separately. This is what I tell you about the tips for driving through Costa Rica, that there the insurance was taken separately because it was much cheaper and it was around 45 or 50 euros for these two weeks and Since we were two people, well, the car plus the insurance did not come out to about 450 or so euros per person, then the hotels, I say hotels, but really a hotel, a hotel, I don't know if there were any, practically all of them were more like accommodations because many were like cabins, bungalows, and well, everything. type of accommodation more nature-based, not as if it were a city but also good to give you an idea, the accommodations are cheaper than other other things in the country because well, Costa Rica in general is expensive a trip to Costa Rica but for example the hotels Well, the average hotels in which we stayed were not so bad, I'll tell you that in cabins, bungalows, some with air conditioning and such are good, practically all of them had a private bathroom, all in good condition, some with breakfast included, the prices were around 35 40 and up to 60 euros more or less per night but normal it was about 35-50 euros per night And then Well, if two people go, it obviously lowers the cost quite a bit. The most expensive hotel we stayed in was the arena at the observatory and the which is in the Arenal area. And this is because, well, it was a whim that we wanted, it was the main hotel that I wanted to stay in. For me, it is one of the best hotels in Costa Rica and within that, for me it was one of the Better, it's quite economical In my opinion Because it was 160 euros per night it could be more expensive depending on how you get it and the type of room And so on But for everything it offers it was like The Little Luxury of the trip in total per person, two people going It was about 25 euros per night on average. Another point are the tickets. During the trip through Costa Rica, you will visit several national parks or reserves that have an associated ticket and some of them have a fairly high price for what should be a national park. Poás Volcano National about 33 euros more or less Tortuguero National Park is also 33 La Fortuna Falls are also around there about 34 euros Tenorio Volcano National is about 26 Balla Marine National Park is a little cheaper, it's 6 euros Although if you go From I think it's 5 in the afternoon they let you enter the Naujaka Falls for free until nightfall, about 25-26 euros. And then, as you can see, there are some that are more expensive than others, for example, the Cahuita National Park, which is managed by locals, does not carry it. the sinac is free, the entrance is through donations so well it's good that you leave some money to support the maintenance of the area and in our case we left 10 euros but well it's a little bit as you can see so in total at the entrance We left about 90 euros And this is per person in almost all of these national parks you will have to leave the car in a parking lot today in other parts of the country also when you go to visit a point of interest And these parks are usually guarded as often as not, but They also charge you an entrance fee that depends on the area, for example a tortuguero that you pack the car and go by boat, they charge you at night to leave the car there in the parking lot that changes a little depending on the day because we go they take it I think there is no Prices are very official, but it's like having a bit of nerve that day and it usually costs around four or five euros more or less in the normal parking lots in the national park, but for example, places where you spend the night can charge you about 10 euros a night more or less. In total, we spent about 40 euros on parking throughout the trip. So about 20 euros per person going on two boats, we also took a few, for example to go and return from Tortuguero, to go and return from Corcovado National Park, those from Corcovado are Fixed prices are about 12,000 colones per person per trip, that is, 24,000 round trip, which is around 40 euros, and those from tortugueros are cheaper, around 3,000. 5,000 colones can be about 5 euros, which is a trip for us on these traveling by boat we leave a total of 50 euros per person for travel insurance, which is highly recommended that you always travel with travel insurance, each one will charge you a different amount But good for about 15 days Well, calculate that it will be between 60 and 80 euros More or less the insurance of the excursions, we book quite a few tours where you go with a guide and they give you a tour of different national parks to do night tours to search for animals, daytime tours to explain a little about what the own National Park And apart from that, if you can see animals, we also took a tour of a coffee, chocolate and sugar cane farm, we also did some activities such as rappelling and rafting, we also did zip lines in the Monteverde area and then toured a circuit of hanging bridges and then also in the Corcovado National Park area part of a night shift we also did an adventure in an excursion that lasts two days with one night inside the National Park so it is also more expensive because they give you two days for one night includes all meals, you spend the night in some cabins in the middle of the National Park, etc. So this one, for example, is more expensive. Night tours are usually around 30. Between 25 and 40 euros depending on the area, rafting and rappelling, which was a whole day. The tour of the chocolate coffee and sugar cane farm was about 16 euros per person, the zip lines plus hanging bridges tour was about 36 euros per person, which was also an entire afternoon, the adventure was around 100 euros or so. Two days and one night in Corcovado was the most expensive because it was 300 euros per person, which in total, the excursions, activities, etc., were 800 euros per person, but that should take into account that the Corcovado part of the zip lines and rappelling and more rafting takes up practically 60-70% of the budget So if you are not interested in these activities, well here you can reduce a lot and then others that would be for example the SIM card which in my case cost me 40 euros with Hola flight and but if the If you buy there from local mobile phone companies it will be cheaper it can be about 20 euros for example gasoline we had to refill the tank three times including the final one to return it with a full tank and we left 140 euros in two weeks so about 70 euros per person For food we left around 220 euros per person, this also depends on what you like to eat out or if you prefer going to the supermarket and making sandwiches, obviously this can stretch a lot but calculated about 20 euros per person per day tolls in the area Near San José there are toll highways but they are quite cheap we went through quite a few tolls and in total I don't know if they arrived In total I think it was four euros So a couple of euros per person so good it's not it's not very remarkable Regarding souvenirs and such, what you want to buy obviously depends on you. You have a lot of stalls everywhere that sell you all kinds of things. In my case, I spent about 80 euros or so on various purchases. I also bought coffee, chocolates, t- shirts and things like that then more or less an 802 But well, in the end this is already very personal but so that you can also get an idea of ​​why the Souvenirs there are really quite expensive, I know a magnet they can charge you five or seven euros for a keychain also 7 euros So they are not very very cheap So the total of everything that I have told you per person for a couple of weeks so that you can make an estimate is around 2,800 euros more or less So as you see it is not the most trip cheapest in the world you can make it much cheaper by finding cheap flights by not doing half of the activities that are the most expensive eating from the supermarket and food that you do by staying in the cheapest hotels Well maybe instead of for 2,800 you can do them for 1500 or There But well, that's why I tell you that it depends on the type of trip you are going to do. In our case, we filled it to capacity. We had few breaks. No, we didn't go to the beaches and relax a lot, but we packed in all the activities and everything we could. put in to fill up well because we like to go at a high pace and do many things Well, well, that means that in the end, by putting in a lot of activities and moving, the budget increases. So I hope that all these videos that have been useful to you I have asked you so far about Costa Rica, if you have any questions, advice, comment, whatever you want to leave in the comments of the video, please, and if not, if you also have any questions that you want to ask me, you can ask me on Instagram and today I will be happy to answer you and nothing, if you go to Costa Rica, enjoy it, you're going to love it, it's a great country, it's a dream place and we'll see you next time, thank you very much and we'll see you next time Pura vida