Product Description

Are you ready to experience the latest and best in hotels, restaurants, nature tours, nightclubs and wildlife that Costa Rica has to offer?  Join our host, Aria Alexandra, as she explores the best of Costa Rica, including the Damas Mangrove tour, deep sea fishing off Quepos, Manuel Antonio National Park, Monteverde Cloud Forest Tours, Volcano Arenal, the beautiful beaches of the Central Pacific Coast and the La Paz Waterfalls. Featuring outstanding boutique hotels and spas such as Xandari Resort & Spa, La Mansion at Manuel Antonio, La Mansion at Lake Arenal, Villa Caletas, Monteverde Lodge, Hotel Alta and much more. Use this traveler's guide to plan your next trip to Costa Rica. Filmed and released in 2004, this DVD is the very latest video travel guide to Costa Rica.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84107 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-08-21
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 52 minutes

Customer Reviews

Costa Rica - A Traveler's Guide
I personally didn't CARE for this video. I wanted to see a more comprehensive view of places to stay while traveling in Costa Rica. It seemed to cater to the refined high end traveler vs family or adventure traveler.

This was a shameless promotion for the hotels!!! I want my money back!!!
This video should just be sold to people who are using "Travel Sophisticate" (the sponsor of this DVD) for tours and are interested in finding out about the hotels and the tours they offer. The DVD is very limited and is purely an advertisement for the hotels they offer.

The video spends most of the time INSIDE hotels...and whenever the host is NOT in the hotel, she's on a tour organized by the hotels...and even then, the sightseeing is only 10-15% of the "movie".

It's all an advertisement and is a waste of money, not to mention time.

For those who really want to see Costa Rica and find out more about the people, the culture, different national parks, the party life in different towns, the beach life, etc., this video is NOT FOR US.

All it does is show you a few hotels in a FEW places in Costa Rica who I'm sure is linked to "Travel Sophisticate". It spends a LOT OF TIME zooming in on vases and paintings in hotel rooms, and the host sitting in spas. Oh, and they zoom in on the food they serve in the hotels. And oh, they interview hotel owners. Ooooh, big f-n deal.

Most people who want to go to Costa Rica want adventure and to see the country for its natural beauty, as well as to find out about the culture and the people and the nightlife.

It can't be said enough times that this video is a waste of money. It's such a rip-off!!!! It should just be sold to those who are 60years old and over and are just in Costa Rica to hang out in hotels. And they're not even the better hotels in costa rica!

DON'T BUY IT! WASTE OF MONEY.

I want those 52 minutes back...
ok, well i guess ill list the positives first: The film is only 52 minutes long, and there's monkeys - that's about it. Anything else that may be somewhat entertaining/educational is due to the country itself, not the way it was shot. That annoying thing blocking the camera is the host, who also provides a pointless narration. About 20 minutes is wasted watching her eat something, blocking a nice sunset, or trying to pull off a personality. Another half hour is spent listening to ex-american hotel/resort owners babbling about the posh sense of style of their establishments.

Once you get past the out-of-place host, shaky camera, infommercials, and tons of filler, there is some nice "stock footage". If you plan on taking a trip there, this will probably not help you in any way. Buy the books.