Hilton Hotels has come to Costa Rica. The newly refurbished ( ex Fiesta Premier ) Hilton Papagayo Resort in Guanacaste, together with the Doubletree Puntarenas ( former Fiesta Puntarenas ) and the Doubltree Cariari Hotel in San Jose has seen the arrival of the Hilton Hotel chain in Costa Rica. Offering their well known services and facilities, these Hilton Hotels offer a new and exciting option for Tourists in Costa Rica.
This Winter season has seen another increase in tourism to Costa Rica. The amount of flights to San Jose as well as to Liberia in Guanacaste has opened mor posibilties , especially in the US and Canadian markets
La Nacion Monday 23 july 2007-07-23
Costa Rica increased 508 flights per month compared to 2006, wich represents a growth of 37%. The new arrival of new airlines and more options has more planes flying.
Every month 1888 international flights land in Costa Rica that is 472 per week. The first semester of this year three new airlines started operation. In april Spirit Air, in may the english First Choice Airways started direct flights from London to Liberia and the spanish Air Comet comenced this month with flights to Madrid. The last two operate as charter flights for now.
Frontier Airlines has anounced it will operate 4 weekly flight to and from Denver, Usa in the near future.
The Daniel Oduber International Aiport of Liberia receives 10.7% of all flights, Juan Santamaria Intl. Airport receives 89.2% while the Tobias Bolaños Intl. Airport (located in Pavas for general aviation) deal with 0.1%.
Delta Airlines just anounced it will include more flights to San Jose and Liberia starting in february 2008.
On february 15 the first flight San Jose – New York will take off and the next day passengers can leave from Liberia to New York.
These new flights are being offerd due the increased demand of passengers coming from the U.S. as well as Costa Rican flying abroad.
Delta has been flying to Costa Rica since 1998 from Atlanta, Gerogia and this past december has included flights to Los Angeles. New York will be Delta Airline’s third destination from Costa Rica.
While Tamarindo is one of the most developed beach areas of Guanacaste, Playa Flamingo remains one of the most beautifull beaches of Costa Rica. Playa Flamingo is located aproximatly 75 kilometers east from Liberia between Playa Potero and Playa Brasilito.
With it’s almost white sand and pristine water you will enjoy an unfogetable vacation. A vast selection of activities are offered in the area. From scuba diving wich can be done year round to several Golf on one of several courses. Deep sea fishing is also top on the list. But also day tours catered to nature lovers such as Palo Verde Nature and Santa Rosa Reserves are offered.
At Playa Flamingo you will find all that you need. Even some Hollywood Stars have set aside some piece of paradise.
This year an increase in scheduled US airlines flying to Costa Rica has helped the flow of tourists. American Airlines, Continental Airlines, US Airways, Delta as well as the newcomer Spirit Airlines have greatly increased the posibilty for travel from the USA to Costa Rica. The airport in Liberia now has scheduled service from Miami with American Airlines AA as well as DELTA airlines from Atlanta.
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With the addition of SPIRIT airlines new flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Jose, more and cheaper flights will be available. This will increase the accessability to Costa Rica from the USA market and open new posibilities. Together with the allready existing services by American Airlines and TACA from Miami and the daily flights by MARTINAIR a drop in air fares may be expected as well.
Spirit Airlines Makes Application for Service to Costa Rica
Good news for all those who purchased the low priced tickets offered by Spirit Airlines that promised to commence regular service between San José and Florida.
The airline yesterday presented a formal application to the Aviación Civil to begin the service.
Earlier this month Spirit began selling low cost tickets for the new service, the first tickets offered at us$0.08 cents, then offering tickets at us$97, plus taxes, on a one way ticket.
Spirit, if the application is approved, would commence service in April, according to Transport Minister, Viviana Martín, adding that the airline has to meet all the requirements for it to be approved.
The airline has to demonstrate that it is economically viable to operate in the country and then has to meet the requirements set out by the Consejo Técnico de Aviación Civil (CTAC), which can take up to 15 days from the application to make a decision on whether the airline can operate in Costa Rica.
Martín added that beginning today the application will be closely scrutinized, ensuring that all the requirements are met, before giving the airline the rights to operate.
Costa Rica will be the first country in Central America for Spirit, offering low cost flights between San José and Fort Lauderdale, with three flights a week and expanding to five in may.
With great pleasure I read today in www.nacion.com that a new area for Sea Turtle protection was created in the north pacific province of Guancaste, Costa Rica.
Last week the Costa Rican government created Caletas-Ario Wildlife Refuge which includes the nesting area of the Leatherback Sea turtles at Playa Caletas. With this new addition to the already existing Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas at Playa Grande the almost extinct Baulas (Spanish name for Leatherbacks) have a better chance of surviving.
In this new area which covers 313 hectares of land and 19.846 hectares of coastal waters it is estimated that a colony of 12 Baulas lay between 20 and 40 nests each year, each with around 60 eggs.
But no only Leatherbacks are found here. Hawksbill and Green Sea Turtles are among other species that come back each year to the same beach they hatched on.