Unlike many Costa Rican travel sites, we do not try to see how many hotels we can list. We select the best hotels in each area based on our years of experience. We have had numerous hotels wanting to be listed on here that we have chosen not to put up. We have also removed several hotels over the last fourteen years because of complaints. We represent only hotels that consistently maintain a high standard of service. Our Costa Rican travel advisers are knowledgeable about all these hotels. If you have any questions about a hotel, would like a suggestion, or wish to make a reservation please call us toll free in Costa Rica. The following numbers will be answered by one of our bilingual travel advisers in our San Jose, Costa Rica office.

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The country is divided by a backbone of volcanoes and mountains, an extension of the Andes-Sierra Madre chain which runs along the western side of the Americas. Costa Rica has four distinct cordilleras or mountain ranges %u2014 Guanacaste and Tilaran in the north, Central and Talamanca in the south. Costa Rica is part of the Pacific %u201CRim of Fire%u201D and has seven of the isthmus%u2019s 42 active volcanoes plus dozens of dormant or extinct cones. Earth tremors and small quakes shake the country from time to time.

The last major quake hit on April 22, 1991. Centered on the Caribbean side southeast of San Jose, it measured 7.4 on the Richter scale. The country%u2019s highest point is Mt. Chirripo (3,797 meters(. The capital, San Jose, and the neighboring major cities of Alajuela and Heredie lies in the middle of the Meseta Central (Central Valley(. Almost two-thirds of the nation%u2019s population live in this small, fertile valley. The Pacific coastal plain is much narrower than its Caribbean counterpart. Both coasts are lined with white and black sand beaches