Trip to Costa Rica

Day 9 - Friday, January 14, 2022 - (Ron's birthday)- Manual Antonio to San Jose

We're moving again. Back to San Jose so luggage out at 7 and on the bus by 8. It was about a 3 hour drive but we had a stop at Maravillas de Costa Rica for our last chance at souvenir shopping. We got back to the hotel around 12:30 and they had someone there to do our Covid tests. Everyone tested negative.  I have to say as apprehensive as I was at the start of the trip my fears were allayed as the trip went on. All restaurants had hand washing stations or temperature and sanitizing stations. We wore masks on the bus or when inside and then could take them off if we were comfortable when outside. It did take me a bit to get the test uploaded to the United site so that we were "travel ready" but eventually I got everything set. Our room wasn't ready so we had lunch in the hotel and got our room right before we left for the walking city tour of San Jose.  San Jose was pretty much ignored by the Spanish so it really doesn't have a historic center or the colonial look of many other Latin American cities. We did see the Cathedral of San Jose, the National Theater, the Gran Hotel, and the Pre-Colombian Gold Museum. Then it was back to the 5th floor of the Gran Hotel for our final dinner of the trip. They had very nicely arranged for a special treat for Ron. Everything was wonderful.


The pool at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Corobici


Statue by the Cathedral by Jimenez Deredia,
famous CR sculptor


The Cathedral


Gran Hotel Costa Rica


The National Theater, built in 1897


The National Theater



The Gold Museum



The Gold Museum


The Gold Museum


Bust of Queen Isabella downtown

View from the Gran Hotel


Dinner at Gran Hotel


Dinner at Gran Hotel



Dinner at Gran Hotel


 
A special treat for the birthday boy

A chorus of feliz cumpleanos



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