Pricing for the 11 Day Costa Rica Naturalist Eco Travel Vacation

Costa Rica adventure travel: nature watching from silent boats in  Costa Rica Rio Frio.

With your own personal trip guide and specialized guides for each activity, you'll have access to nature the big tours simply can't provide.

Serendipity Adventures provides custom designed private adventures. Every adventure is custom designed, and there is tremendous variation in types of hotels, how much adventure, how many people will be in your self formed group, what tourist season the trip is in, and what holidays are involved.

Toucan

To better understand the logistics of "group size" and to give you a rough idea of what a custom private vacation with Serendipity will cost, here's what the 11 Day Naturalist Eco Travel itinerary would cost per person for the following size groups and room sharing, in high and low season. We can accommodate larger self-formed groups by adding guides, vehicle and equipment.

Prices per person (average) for 2010 for 11 days

Number of participants,
sharing number of rooms

Low Season
(U.S.$)

High Season
(U.S.$) **

Six or more persons, two per room 4,550 4,950
Five persons, two rooms 5,010 5,400
Five persons, three rooms 4,500 4,900
Four persons, two rooms 5,100 5,400
Three persons, two rooms 6,100 6,400
Three persons, one room 5,250 5,550
Two persons, one room 6,800 7,100
One person, one room 12,450 12,600

Low Season: April 16-June 1 and September 1-December 15
High Season: December 16-April 15 and June 2-August 31

** Christmas travel (Dec. 18-Jan. 5) and Easter Week(March 27-April 4) adds approximately 5% to the costs listed

When more than six traveling, we use multiple 4x4 vehicles and Serendipity adventure leaders. This makes travel both comfortable and allows flexibility.

Blue Morpho

Most of the hotels we've selected for this trip would be classified as 3+ star. We believe "our" hotels have equal comfort to the hotels classified as four star in Costa Rica.  In each location we've selected the hotel which provides the best service, and is most central to the activities. This reduces the time spent getting places, and allows more time away from tourist centers. "Our" hotels are remote from road traffic, with beautiful gardens and trails and intrinsic natural beauty. They are clean, fresh, and have good service.

Traffic noise pervades Costa Rica, where ventilation is normally through open windows.  In San José it is both noise and diesel fumes which lull you to sleep, so we avoid San José completely.

Care to compare costs?

Woodpecker

These are other reputable travel companies offering tours in Costa Rica of varying lengths, with varying activities and included items (meals, guides, etc.). All have good reputations in Costa Rica and the United States, with adequate infrastructure to assure their tour groups operate with minimal problems. Serendipity uses many of the same hotels they list, if we are operating in a similar area.

The first step to enjoying a Serendipity adventure is to contact us.

Quote:

I expected and hoped it would be the experience of a lifetime. It was that great an experience! I know I must do this (or something similar) again, hopefully many more times.

—Sue M., Los Altos, CA, February 2007