Adventure Inn, a modern Costa Rican hotel bed and breakfast inn is in the prestigious, clean, and safe neighborhood of Ciudad Cariari, surrounded by green blanketed mountains on the outskirts of bustling San Jose only ten minutes from the international airport. The area offers wonderful peaceful walks through the parks, around the duck ponds, along the golf courses, and further along is the large new Cariari Mall and Cineplex theatre. There are large, posh hotels nearby with casinos, and entertainment venues. Bustling San Jose, with its Central Market, promenade shopping street, museums, zoo, business district, and exciting nightlife zone is about ten minutes away by car, taxi or public bus. All you can eat American-style breakfast. Start your adventure each morning with a complimentary American-style tropical breakfast. Choose from: crisp bacon, ham or sausage delicious French toast exotic fruit garnish robust Central Mesita coffee freshly-squeezed exotic fruit juices. Breakfast is served from 6 - 9 am and included in your rate when reserving your room directly with us. Moon Glow Seafood Grill. Similar to the amazing biodiversity found on the Central American isthmus where two great continents became one, for over half a millennium, people of various cultural backgrounds; the Mayan and Aztec cultures to the north, the Mesoamerican and Inca cultures to the south, their European conquerors, and even the slaves from Africa and the Caribbean, have all lived together in Costa Rica. This fabulous fusion of cultures has encouraged the sharing of wonderful recipes, spices, flavors and food types found on every generous plate served at the Moon Glow Seafood Grill. To round out your selection, we have also included Mediterranean favorites such as Sicilian-style pizza, superb pastas, and fresh fruit olive salads. After your dining experience, the Moon Glow Seafood Grill invites you meet new friends and old at our full service bar including exotic tropical cocktails and lively conversation! Stop in and enjoy! Click here to download our menu. Mayan Waterfall Jacuzzi. After a day exploring volcanoes, rainforests or nearby San Jose, relax and unwind in our new Mayan waterfall Jacuzzi, created by local Indian artisans. Broadband Wireless Internet Access. We are proud to announce that we now have wireless internet access in almost any area of the hotel. Connect to the internet in the comfort of your own room. With our multiple firewalls and 128-bit wireless data encryption, you can connect safely and securely. Forgot your laptop computer at home? We also have three computers available for your use in our computer room, free for our guests. You won't miss a workout while staying at Adventure Inn. Stay in shape in our new fully equipped 24 hour gym, or use it as an answer to our delicious home-cooking! Explore the Ecological Paradise Called Costa Rica. Adventure Inn is midway between two oceans. You leave in all directions on the best Costa Rica travel and tours to the deepest rainforests, or relax in dozens of natural hot pools in a tropical garden setting under a thundering volcano, see pirate history on a sun-drenched Pacific cruise to an exotic white sand and palm-covered island, or have an adrenaline rush with world-class whitewater rafting on the warm Pacuare and Reventazon Rivers. Our team of bilingual front desk receptionists have developed many contacts through years of experience in arranging the most value-priced Costa Rican tours for our guests. Click here for a brief description and prices of the most popular tours of Costa Rica. Also, private climate-controlled buses will pick you up at our door and deliver you to any point in Costa Rica. With laundry service, free luggage storage and complimentary secure overnight parking, the Adventure Inn's central location makes it a great home-base to discover all that Costa Rica has to offer. Perfect Year-Round Climate. All guest rooms have air-conditioning but you will probably find this unnecessary. Our location has been rated as having one of the world's best climates by National Geographic because we are in a large central valley a kilometer above sea level. Adventure Inn guests enjoy a constant 72-78 degree temperature year-round. You can also create your own adventure and drive yourself. As a free service, our knowledgable bilingual staff will shop around on your behalf with several of the most reputable car rental agencies for the best vehicles, prices and services. We will make all your arrangements to rent a reliable car or 4X4. Be careful renting vehicles online with the big multinationals as they try to hide the high costs of insurance and taxes. You can never talk to a real person, and are never quoted a final price. Many of our best guests have been forced to pay nearly double what they expected after it was too late, so we decided to step in. On days when you want to just relax in our perfect year-round spring-like climate and stay around Adventure Inn, round out your Costa Rica travel adventure and let the whole family enjoy complimentary admission to the private club, WaterLand, a fun water theme park with pools, slides, mini-golf and go-carts. WaterLand is about 2 km from Adventure Inn. We will shuttle you both ways, or you may simply enjoy the pleasant walk back through the quiet elegant Cariari neighborhood. ^ Free admission to WaterLand, a private club ^. Getting Here for Free. The Adventure Inn is open 24 hours per day, and is about 10 minutes from the international airport. After clearing customs, pay at the 'Taxi Unidos' booth only for your orange taxi or van to Adventure Inn, save your receipt, we will credit your account the normal fare, so it costs you nothing to arrive safely and effortlessly to our front door. Coming from the airport into San Jose after about 7 km exit right under the second overhead bridge (Francisco J. Orlich Bridge) and go straight ahead for 1.5 kilometers. You will see the Los Arcos gate to your right, and the Adventure Inn is one block to the left of the gate. *** Click here for a Map ***. The Adventure Inn is strategically located near three big Costa Rica hotels, the Herradura, Marriott and Cariari. Each have conference centers, and represent the three largest in Central America. Being only a few minutes from the Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), and central to the Free Trade Zone makes the location of the Adventure Inn an ideal Costa Rica bed and breakfast style hotel for any businessperson needing to attend nearby conferences and other business functions. Finance Your Vacation. Some of our guests have been able to finance much or all of their vacation with the savings from Costa Rica plastic surgery, eye surgery and dental work. Clean, private hospitals are fully equipped with modern facilities, and manned by American and European trained doctors who use the latest techniques. They charge about a third of what you would normally pay for the same proceedure in the US and Canada. Spend your first day or so having the work done, then recover a few days in seclusion and comfort at Adventure Inn, with room service and 24 hour staff, then later tour Costa Rica when you feel more up to it. If you are interested in having any type of work done, please let us know and we will gladly refer you to a highly experienced and reputable English speaking medical doctor specializing in your field. Mayan/Olmec murals decorate the halls of Adventure Inn. The Owner and Management. The Adventure Inn is owned and operated by a father/son team, Canadians, Eric Robinson, a 1974 University of Waterloo graduate environmentalist and Mike, his son, a 2004 chemistry graduate from the Carleton University in Ottawa. While operating three consecutive lodging establishments in northern Ontaria, Eric (and later with his family) managed to travel tens of thousands of miles exploring the farthest reaches of the Pacific Rim including South East Asia, the three Americas, Japan, New...

Adventure Inn, your centrally-located Costa Rica Hotel, invites you to participate in any of the following tours, leaving daily from our front door. Pacuare Whitewater Rafting. Price: $95 Meals: (B L) Departure time: 06:00 Duration: 10 hours. Minimum Age: 12 years World renowned whitewater rafting in Costa Rica is perfect for the average tourist. The warm Pacuare is my favourite river. They pick you up early in the morning from the Adventure Inn and have you back around dinner. A nice buffet breakfast is set out for you before rafting. You are given about 15 minutes of instructions. You learn to all work as a team, listening for your guide/captain calling out paddling orders. You'll never forget the experience. The Pacuare River flows quickly along the 30 kilometer rafting course, starting at a place in the jungle just below the last big waterfalls cascading down Mount Turrialba. Class II rapids are a cake-walk, Class III are fun and not very difficult. The exhilarating Class IV are a challenge but manageable. These rivers are for tourists, not professionals, and thousands of rafts go down them every year. You are provided with a helmet, a lifejacket and a paddle. Wear something like tennis shoes, and bring a change of clothes. You will soon be totally soaked by the warm waters of the Pacuare. Before leaving for San Jose, they once again set out a hearty late lunch buffet. Steven Spielberg was so impressed with the scenic Pacuare River that he filmed the movie Congo here. Plans to turn the Pacuare River basin into a national park will halt other plans to flood the area with a hydroelectric dam. This is a beautiful original-growth rainforest gorge. Your $95 cash per person for the rafting goes a long way to encouraging the national park option. The milder Sarapiqui River is $75. 4 in 1 - The Best of Costa Rica. Price: $90 Meals: (B L) Departure time: 06:50 Duration: 11 hours. This is definitely a tour we recommend to all of our guests. It is great for people of all ages, kids, adults or seniors and has a huge variety of activities and is a great way to experience a lot of what Costa Rica has to offer. Taking the the Pan-American road through Alajuela, you pass by what is called the the Agricultural Monument, which is a monument to Juan Santamaria. From there, the next stop is the Mango Park and finally the famous Doka State, where you will eat a typical Costa Rican style breakfast and then visit an actual coffee plantation up close where coffee is grown and exported around the world. They will also show you the mill and the roasting process so you can tell how coffee is processed. Don't forget to order a coffee at breakfast. I guarantee you will never get a fresher cup of anywhere! Continuing the ascent up the Poas Volcano, you will pass through the coffee plantations, flower and fern nurseries, strawberry fields and finally up into the exuberant cloud forest surrounding the Poas volcano crater. After stepping off the bus and taking a short hike through the cloud forest, you will be able to peer down into the impressive main crater of the Poas Volcano with its sulfur fumaroles still smoking. Heading back down towards the Caribbean side of the Central Valley, the next stop is at La Paz Waterfall Gardens, a natural park with its many jungle paths and finally a cascade of waterfalls. One of the most impressive sights of Costa Rica. Inside the park there is also the largest butterfly observatory in the country, a collection of tropical jewels, a the hummingbird gallery, a frog exhibit and even a serpentarium (don't worry, the snakes are behind glass). After your hike, you enjoy a buffet lunch right at the waterfall garden park. After lunch, it's off to Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, where you will take a relaxing boat trip down the Sarapiqui River. Just sit back and enjoy the surroundings. During the boat ride, the guide will point out any wildlife, such as birds or caymans and give you a close up view of the simple life of those who live along the riverside. On the way back to San Jose, you will drive throw the Braulio Carrillo National Park, one of the largest tropical rain forest reserves in Costa Rica. The tour includes breakfast, coffee plantation visit, craters and trails in Poas Volcano National Park, the entrance to La Paz Waterfall Gardens, including butterfly garden, hummingbird gallery and waterfall trails, buffet lunch, boat trip on the Sarapiqui River with soft drinks on-board and drive through the Braulio Carrillo National Park. Suggested Equipment: hat, a light jacket, comfortable shoes, insect repellent, binoculars and camera. Turu Ba Ri Tropical Garden. Price: $80 - $104 Meals: (L) Departure time: 08:30 Duration: Prices depend on the number of activities you choose from. For just the nature tour, the price is $80, for 2 adventures, the price is $94 and for the Pure Adrenaline package, the rate is $104. Welcome to the biggest and most complete Tropical Park in America where you will discover Nature, Sports Adventure Entertainment in 583 acres of land and ancient mountains, strategically designed to meet excellence towards our country ecological goals. 150 bird species share their habitat within our park and their wonderful singing melodies and colorful plumage with all those who get involved in this magical journey to TURUBARI, COSTA RICA. Besides, you can see exclusive Botanical collections, Butterflies Garden, a Crocodile Pond and a Souvenir Store. We designed this Park thinking in the family entertainment, where even the elders can enjoy peacefully. Definitely, TURUBARI fulfills the circle where excitement, nature awareness and comfort get together for you to choose in the best ONE DAY TOUR you can get in Central Pacific only at 46 miles away from San Jose. These adventures you can choose from include: - Butterfly Garden - Palm Collection - Countryside Farm - Herbarium - Cactus Collection - Tarcoles River - The Indian Trail - Bamboo Area - Bromeliads Garden - Orchid Garden - La Loma Trail - Garabito Restaurant Attractions may vary based on weather conditions. Sarapiqui Rafting and Canopy Combo. Price: $99 Meals: (L) Departure time: 7:45 Duration: 9 hours. Costa Rica provides White Water Rafting experiences that take your adrenalin to top levels and fascinating Canopy Tours going high above the treetops. Now you can enjoy the two activities in an extraordinary way. Discover the natural marvels of Sarapiqui; an extensive territory located in the north-eastern parts of the country, a variety of crystal clear rivers, an abundance of beautiful tropical forests and villages inhabited by friendly and laborious people. Leaving San Jose, the tour traverses the majestic scenery of Braulio Carillo National Park and arriving at Sarapiqui you will enjoy two marvellous attractions: the Canopy Tour in the middle of the secondary forest with towering trees, and after lunch, the White Water Rafting in the agitating water of the River Sarapiqui. The Canopy Tour takes about an hour and a half and the nine cables of different lengths stretch over the forest with the last one crossing over the Sarapiqui River. The rafting on the Sarapiqui River has different levels between class II and class III, presenting vibrant scenery to those who want to participate in this exciting activity. Nine miles of unexpected rapids in combination with calm and relaxing intervals makes this an unforgettable experience for bird watchers and nature lovers. Calypso Catamaran to Tortuga Island Tour. Price: $104 Meals: (B L) Departure time: 06:40 Duration: This is a fun-tour to scenic Tortuga Island on the ultra-deluxe catamaran, the Calypso. Included is a guided air-conditioned bus from the Adventure Inn to the Pacific fishing port of Puntarenas where you board the Calypso. Huge open decks, Jacuzzis, fruits and drinks, you might be accompanied by dolphins swimming along side, strings of swooping pelicans, cruise through historic pirate islands, and a full day swimming and...