White water rafting in Costa Rica with kids. ChiChi is 4, and already a fearless whitewater veteran. ChiChi plays with the river with the same ease as the Indigenous kids – an enviable confidence for a young child.
We welcome you to travel to Costa Rica with Kids— Serendipity Style
For parents, adventure and discovery are most rewarding when viewed through the eyes of our children. Kids want new excitement while parents want security. With Serendipity, these are very compatible goals. We design private, custom family trips to your personal priorities, and we’ll push your whole family to try new challenges together.
Exploring Costa Rica with kids can be a delightful and exciting experience for all, regardless of the age span of the family. We will make sure everybody is challenged at their own level.
All parents know that the best part of life is exposing their kids to new and interesting experiences. But traveling with one or more young children can be so much work that you need a vacation when you get home. It starts with the planning, when you have to determine whether the hotels are child-friendly and child safe, and restrict your activities to those you can do with a child in tow, or determine how you can find a sitter for your child so you can still do the things that your children can’t.
Travel to Costa Rica with kids is like hitting a natural playground. Veronica (7) enjoys climbing the smooth branches of the guava tree.
At Serendipity, we are aware that traveling in Costa Rica with kids can and should be an enriching experience. There are many activities that children can do that make for a fun and interesting trip for everyone, but you have to find the right company: one that recognizes children’s natural abilities and caters to their enthusiasm. Most travel companies are oriented toward entertaining adults, but Serendipity prides itself on developing trips that will be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of their age.
Horseback riding in Costa Rica with kids. Mattias, on his third birthday, insisted he could do it alone. Dad agreed. Horses are still a primary form of transportation in Costa Rica. Therefore, it is quite common for parents to ride with small children and for children to learn to ride when they are quite young.
Serendipity specializes in family vacations in Costa Rica with children
Designing a perfect plan for traveling in Costa Rica with kids requires a special understanding of both of Costa Rica and of children. Before we design a trip for you and your family, we will spend time talking with you to qualify your expectations and understand what you and your children want to experience while in Costa Rica. Nature — of course, but also the freedom to play as children should play, to meet locals who can share their country with your kids, to learn a little Spanish, to broaden their understanding of the world just by enjoying themselves and their surroundings.
Costa Rica Travel with children – family travel to experience adventure, culture, nature
We stopped with Minor, who trains Serendipity guides in snake recognition and treatment. Garfield, a pet Boa, loves the attention of newfound friends.
Serendipity is the only company in Costa Rica that can take young children on a variety of great adventures — like horseback, rafting*, climbing trees and rappelling. And we know where to find the animals that will enchant them. We know which guides work best with kids, and what equipment makes their entry into real adventure both secure and not frightening. We are also experts in persnickety eaters, and we have answers for the thousands of extra questions they will ask.
While the older kids are off riding, the youngest get to take care of the horses — food and water, and washing them down with hoses.
Traveling with very young children
Serendipity Costa Rica has a long history of traveling with children of all ages. We have au pairs who can travel with you if that makes more sense for very young children. After your younger kids develop trust in their borrowed nanny, parents and older siblings can go gung-ho! on the adventures.
Costa Rica travel with kids requires some courage — and it helps to ask someone who has been there before you
We LOVE to share Costa Rica with children. Kids really take to the people here, and the animals and the adventures too, like a duck takes to water. We encourage you to speak with some Serendipity adventurers from recent trips. We are happy to give you referrals for kids similar to your own, so give us a call.
Discovering the natural beauty of Costa Rica with kids is a delightful experience. Small children will be amazed by Costa Rican wildlife
Check out a sample itinerary for an adventurous Costa Rica Active Family Vacation, that tends to work great for families with kids older than 7 years. Our Pure Nature Travel Itinerary can be a good starting point for multi-generation family trips or trips with younger children.
When you think you have your ‘wish list’ ready (check out all the options for designing your family vacation in Costa Rica), we’re ready to talk and design your family expedition in Costa Rica.
Your Serendipity vacation in Costa Rica with kids will be the vacation that both parents and children will talk about, laugh about, and reminisce about, for the rest of your lives. The first step to start planning a trip is to contact us.