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You might want to check out Avianca airlines, based, I believe,in Columbia. (Limited egress/ingress ports in the USA.)
Reasonable fees, sensible luggage restrictions… and they feed you, at no additional cost. (Beer, wine and sprits included, if you are so inclined.) Service levels surpassing anything I have experienced with any North American based airline in the past twenty years.
Cheers![quote=”sweikert925″]Anyone have any recent experience flying to LIR from the US? I just found out that United has direct service from O’Hare to Liberia so my routine 10 hour travel time to Costa Rica just potentially got cut in half. It’s a bit more expensive – about $100 more – but saving 5 hours off the trip seems worth it.
[Since my next trip is probably going to concentrate on the north part of the country it also seems more convenient than SJO. And frankly, whatever charm San Jose had for me has long since worn off.]
At the other end of the scale I see that Copa Airlines has flights into LIR at almost half the price but those seem to involve a 19 hour layover in Panama City. Anyone have any experience with Copa?
Spirit is the other cheapo airline that services SJO but I’ve heard bad things about them and my only firsthand experience with Spirit involved a 3 hour flight delay to Fort Lauderdale a few years back. Apparently the plane was ready but they couldn’t find the flight crew.
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Renewed my plates (ending in “2”) last month via post office and BCR. It meant being without plates for a week, therefore not legal to drive, but such an inconvenience was easy to plan around.
[quote=”Scott”]AutoMercado has rye flour ….[/quote]
Por favor, WHICH AutoMercado? Been to three of them and have yet to find rye flour.[quote=”barbara ann”]
Where do you get the form? /We are renewing our drivers license next week. do they provide you with the form?[/quote]The form can be downloaded from the COSEVI website: http://www.csv.go.cr
Click on “Dirección Electronica Vial” then “Información y Formulario Aqui” then “Descarga Formulario.”(Two current threads on the same subject?)
An article on this subject in today’s ‘crhoy.com’ starts out by saying that changing to the new alphanumeric plates is not obligatory, but then goes on to say that one must renew the plates anyway, (retaining all numeric format,) and quotes fixed costs – not dependent on vehicle type or age – for doing so. No mention of doing it through the post office.
With apologies, given my limited Spanish, (estoy aprendiendo,) I may not have interpreted the ‘crhoy’ article accurately.[quote=”DavidCMurray”]Thank you very, very much! I was afraid that would be the answer.[/quote]
I believe that income generated in Costa Rica is only taxable if it exceeds a certain amount… Last I heard, that was ¢215,000/month.… so want to get the better/best quality.
Just a thought… if you really want the “best” then you might want to look for porcelain (here called porcelana or porcelenata) rather than ceramic tiles. They’re harder and more durable than any ceramic tile and they’re non-slip.
They are also more expensive.It may be that David’s information on home insurance through INS is out of date.
Our home has no bars on either windows or doors and just last month we insured it – and its contents – through INS. And while, as David correctly points out, they would not insure cash or jewelry, they DID insure electronics and even works of art.
We had to itemize any household items valued at $2,000 or more, and those included such things as an iMac computer, an electric piano, a 35mm telephoto camera lens, certain suites of furniture, various works of art and so on. Each of these items, along with the value that WE assigned to them, are individually listed in the policy, which covers virtually everything from earthquakes to landslides to lightning strikes to flooding to robbery to vandalism etc.
Coverage includes a guest house (and contents) on the property, which also lacks window bars.
As for other options, many insurance companies based outside of Costa Rica offer various insurance products, from home to health to travel to… you name it. (Lloyd’s of London once insured Betty Grable’s legs for a million dollars! Great publicity and as it turned out, because of almost hysterical media coverage, a good investment!)
Anything one can do to enhance the security of the home would contribute to reducing the cost of the policy, and yes, being in a gated, guarded community would certainly be one of those things. Metal bars would be another, if you are willing to commit yourself to a virtual prison. A security/alarm system – whether it simply sets off a siren to alert neighbors,:roll: (U.S. spelling there, ‘though it goes against the grain,) or is connected to a central dispatch office is another option, (and based on our own experience, a very affordable one, here in CR.) A number of folks we know insist that the best and most affordable ‘security system’ in CR is owning a dog!
Cheers!
