
Feeling overwhelmed by where to go? Explore our expert guide to the 10 best, customizable Costa Rica Vacation Packages for first-time visitors, moving you from logistical stress to Pura Vida. Planning a first trip to Costa Rica produces a specific and recognizable kind of overwhelm. The country is small enough to feel manageable on a map and large enough in its diversity — twelve distinct ecological zones, two coastlines, active volcanoes, cloud forests, lowland rainforests, indigenous territories, and a Pacific coast that changes character every hundred kilometres — to make the question of where to go, in what order, for how long, genuinely difficult to answer without guidance.
The vacation package exists precisely to resolve this problem. A well-designed Costa Rica package removes the logistical burden of independent planning, combines the destinations and experiences that work best together into a coherent sequence, and delivers a first-time visitor to the most important moments of a Costa Rica journey without the weeks of research and the risk of consequential planning errors that independent itinerary building involves.
The challenge is that not all packages are equal. The Costa Rica tourism market supports a wide range of packaged offerings — from the genuinely excellent, built by operators with deep local knowledge and real relationships with the guides and properties they use, to the assembled-from-a-supplier-list product that looks comprehensive on a booking page and delivers a generic experience in practice. The difference between these two categories is not always visible from the outside, which is why understanding what a good Costa Rica package actually includes — and what distinguishes one operator’s offering from another’s — is the foundation of a good first-trip decision.
At Mapache Tours, we have been designing Costa Rica packages for first-time visitors for years. The ten packages in this guide represent the frameworks we return to most consistently — the combinations of destination, experience, and travel style that produce the best first Costa Rica trips for the widest range of visitors. Each one is available as a starting point that the Mapache Tours team customises to each client’s specific requirements, timeline, and budget. If you are planning your first Costa Rica trip and want expert guidance from the first conversation, Mapache Tours is where that journey begins.
What Makes a Costa Rica Vacation Packages Worth Booking
Before the packages themselves, the criteria that separate a genuinely good Costa Rica vacation package from one that merely looks appealing in its marketing.
Local guide quality. The guide is the trip in Costa Rica more than in almost any other destination. A package that includes professional, locally trained naturalist guides — people whose knowledge of the specific ecosystems they work in is deep, current, and personal — produces a fundamentally different experience from one that uses contracted generalist guides whose familiarity with the destination is adequate rather than exceptional. Ask specifically about guide qualifications, local origin, and experience in the specific regions covered by the package.
Accommodation that fits the destination. The right accommodation for an Osa Peninsula package is not the same as the right accommodation for a Central Valley or Nicoya Peninsula package. Properties should be selected for their fit with the surrounding environment, their genuine welcome of the kind of traveller the package attracts, and their operational reliability — not for their star rating or their marketing photography.
Honest transfer logistics. Costa Rica’s distances are deceptive, and the transfer times between destinations are among the most consistently underestimated variables in package planning. A good package builds real transfer times into the itinerary — with private vehicles appropriate for the roads involved and timing that accounts for real traffic conditions — rather than optimistic estimates that leave travellers exhausted by the logistics of moving between places.
Flexibility within structure. The best Costa Rica packages provide a clear itinerary framework while building in genuine flexibility — a free afternoon at a destination worth lingering in, an optional activity that suits some clients and not others, a pace that allows the country to reveal itself rather than a schedule that requires constant movement toward the next programmed experience.
Transparent, complete pricing. A package price that excludes national park entrance fees, guide gratuities, meals at specific properties, or domestic transport between certain points is not a complete package price. Every Mapache Tours package includes a full cost breakdown that covers all elements — so clients know exactly what is included and what, if anything, they will spend additionally on the ground.
Package 01 · The Classic Costa Rica — 10 Days
Best for: First-time visitors who want the country’s most celebrated landscapes in a coherent, well-paced sequence
Destinations: San José → Arenal → Monteverde → Manuel Antonio
Overview: The Classic Costa Rica package is the itinerary that the country’s geography most naturally suggests — a logical route through three of its most distinct and celebrated environments, sequenced to produce a journey that feels like a progression rather than a list of stops. It is the package we recommend most frequently to first-time visitors with no strong prior preferences, because it reliably delivers the moments that define a first Costa Rica experience: the volcano, the cloud forest, the wildlife, the Pacific beach.
The ten days begin with one night in San José for orientation — a market visit, a neighbourhood walk, a first meal of casado at a local soda. The route then moves north to the Arenal region for three nights — a hanging bridges walk at dawn, an afternoon at the hot springs, a morning boat on Lake Arenal with the volcano framed behind. The jeep-boat-jeep transfer across the lake to Monteverde follows for two nights — a cloud forest walk with a certified naturalist, an evening tree walk, a morning at the Santa Elena reserve. The final three nights are at Manuel Antonio, where the national park’s wildlife, its calm Pacific beach, and its sunset views provide the closing chapter of a trip that has moved through three entirely different Costa Ricas.
What Mapache Tours includes: Private transfers throughout, accommodation at carefully selected mid-range to boutique properties at each destination, private naturalist guides for the primary activity at each stop, national park entrance fees, and a dedicated Mapache Tours contact for the duration of the trip.
Approximate investment: USD $2,800 to $4,200 per person for a couple, depending on accommodation tier selected. Green season pricing from $2,200 to $3,400.
Package 02 · Wildlife First — 10 Days
Best for: Nature-focused first-time visitors whose primary motivation is wildlife encounters at genuine depth
Destinations: San José → Sarapiquí → Tortuguero → Osa Peninsula
Overview: The Wildlife First package is built around a single organising principle: maximum wildlife encounter quality, in the country’s most biodiverse environments, with the specialist guiding that makes the difference between a wildlife sighting and a wildlife experience. It moves through three of Costa Rica’s premier wildlife zones — the Caribbean-slope rainforest of Sarapiquí, the canal system of Tortuguero, and the primary rainforest of the Osa Peninsula — in a sequence that escalates from excellent to extraordinary.
Sarapiquí provides two nights of lowland rainforest immersion — a morning at La Selva Biological Station with a specialist naturalist, an afternoon river boat on the Sarapiquí River, and the kind of bird density that specialist birdwatchers travel to the region specifically for. Tortuguero follows for two nights — canal boat wildlife tours in the morning, the lodge’s own garden wildlife in the afternoon, and a turtle nesting excursion during the June through October window. The Osa Peninsula concludes the package with three nights at a property bordering Corcovado National Park — a full private Corcovado day with a specialist guide, a coastal boat tour for marine wildlife, and a final morning at the reserve’s trail system for the species missed on the first day.
The domestic flights that connect these three zones replace road transfers that would consume days rather than hours and preserve the energy and engagement that the wildlife experiences themselves demand.
What Mapache Tours includes: All domestic flights, private transfers at each destination, accommodation at wildlife-optimised properties, specialist naturalist guides throughout, all boat tours and park entry fees, and full itinerary management.
Approximate investment: USD $4,200 to $6,800 per person for a couple. This package’s cost reflects the domestic flights and the quality of specialist guiding at three premium wildlife destinations — it is the highest-investment package in this guide and the one that produces the most consistently extraordinary wildlife experiences for first-time visitors.
Package 03 · Adventure and Nature — 8 Days
Best for: Active first-time visitors who want physical challenge combined with natural immersion
Destinations: San José → Turrialba → Arenal → Monteverde
Overview: The Adventure and Nature package builds physical challenge into the itinerary as a primary rather than supplementary element — the activities are the trip, not additions to it, and the destinations are chosen as much for the adventure experiences they enable as for the landscapes they contain.
Turrialba opens the package with two nights centred on the Pacuare River — one of the world’s finest whitewater rafting rivers, running Class III to Class IV through a gorge of extraordinary beauty, accessible only to those who travel it by river. The overnight option — camping on a river beach between two days of rafting — is available for clients with appropriate fitness and adds a dimension of genuine wilderness immersion that no lodge-based experience replicates. Arenal follows for three nights, with a day of canyoning through the volcanic landscape’s river systems, a sunrise hike to the Cerro Chato crater lake, and an evening at the hot springs that the body genuinely needs after two days of physical exertion. Monteverde concludes with two nights — a zip line canopy tour through the cloud forest, a night walk through the biological corridor, and a morning hike to a less-visited section of the Santa Elena reserve.
What Mapache Tours includes: Private transfers throughout, accommodation selected for adventure-traveller needs (early departures, equipment storage, outdoor washing facilities), all activity bookings and guide coordination, and the safety briefings and equipment provision that each adventure activity requires.
Approximate investment: USD $2,200 to $3,400 per person for a couple. Activity costs for the Pacuare River experience and the Arenal canyoning day are included in this range.
Package 04 · Luxury Costa Rica — 10 Days
Best for: First-time visitors whose priority is exceptional accommodation and exclusive experiences at every point
Destinations: Central Valley → Arenal → Monteverde → Osa Peninsula
Overview: The Luxury Costa Rica package is built around a single commitment: the finest available property at each destination, combined with private guiding, exclusive access experiences, and the logistical management that allows a trip of this quality to unfold without friction. It is the package for travellers who want Costa Rica’s extraordinary natural world without any compromise on the standard of comfort, service, and exclusivity within which it is experienced.
The Central Valley arrival is at a boutique coffee farm property in the highlands above Heredia — a property where the accommodation is beautiful, the coffee is exceptional, and the orientation to the country’s food culture begins with a private farm tour and a meal prepared from the surrounding land. Arenal follows for three nights at a property with private thermal pools and direct volcano views — the hot spring experience is private rather than shared, the guiding is exclusive rather than grouped, and the lake kayaking is arranged as a private sunset charter rather than a scheduled departure. Monteverde is experienced from a cloud forest lodge whose rooms open directly onto primary forest — two nights with a specialist ornithologist as the dedicated guide. The Osa Peninsula concludes four nights at one of the peninsula’s premier small lodges, with a private Corcovado day, a private coastal boat charter, and a final evening with a private chef’s dinner on the property’s ocean-view terrace.
What Mapache Tours includes: All domestic flights, private transfers in premium vehicles, accommodation at the highest-quality property available at each destination, fully private guiding throughout, all exclusive access arrangements and activity fees, restaurant reservations, and full concierge management for the duration of the trip.
Approximate investment: USD $7,500 to $14,000 per person for a couple. Green season pricing from $5,500 to $10,000.
Package 05 · Honeymoon Costa Rica — 12 Days
Best for: Newly married couples experiencing Costa Rica for the first time as a honeymoon destination
Destinations: Central Valley → Arenal → Monteverde → Nicoya Peninsula → Osa Peninsula
Overview: The Honeymoon Costa Rica package is the itinerary we have designed most carefully for couples whose trip carries the specific emotional weight of a honeymoon — the combination of extraordinary natural experience, genuine privacy, and the considered personal details that distinguish a honeymoon from an excellent holiday. It moves through five distinct environments in twelve days, each one offering a different register of beauty and intimacy, and it is structured to alternate active exploration days with genuinely restorative ones.
The itinerary opens with two nights at a Central Valley coffee farm — a quiet, beautiful arrival that allows jet lag to resolve before the main journey begins. Arenal follows for two nights with a private villa accommodation and a dedicated evening at private hot springs. The jeep-boat-jeep transfer to Monteverde precedes two nights at a cloud forest lodge with a private terrace facing the forest. A domestic flight to the Nicoya Peninsula brings three nights at a boutique beachfront property at Sámara — the calmest and most romantically appropriate beach on the Pacific coast. The Osa Peninsula concludes with three nights at the peninsula’s finest small lodge, where the wildlife, the isolation, and the quality of the environment produce the specific experience of being genuinely alone together in one of the world’s most extraordinary places.
Honeymoon-specific details — private beach picnics, in-room arrival arrangements at each property, a sunset boat charter on the Nicoya coast, a private chef’s dinner on the Osa — are integrated into the itinerary rather than offered as optional additions.
What Mapache Tours includes: All domestic flights, private transfers throughout, accommodation at romantic boutique properties with privacy as a primary selection criterion, fully private guiding, all honeymoon-specific arrangements, and a dedicated Mapache Tours coordinator available throughout the trip.
Approximate investment: USD $6,500 to $11,000 per person. Green season pricing from $4,800 to $8,500.
Package 06 · Family Costa Rica — 10 Days
Best for: Families with children aged four to twelve experiencing Costa Rica for the first time
Destinations: Central Valley → Arenal → Tortuguero → Manuel Antonio
Overview: The Family Costa Rica package is built around the specific requirements of travelling with children — wildlife encounters that are accessible rather than demanding, accommodation that provides space and family infrastructure, transfers timed to work with children’s rhythms, and a pace that allows each destination to be fully absorbed rather than rushed through. It covers four environments in ten days, each one chosen for the quality of the family experience it produces.
The Central Valley opens with a day at Zoo Ave wildlife rescue centre — the finest accessible wildlife experience in the country for children, with close-range encounters of species that national park visits reveal only at distance. Arenal follows for three nights with the hot springs as the daily anchor, a family hanging bridges walk, and a morning on Lake Arenal by kayak. Tortuguero follows for two nights — the canal boat system, the lodge’s wildlife-rich grounds, and the turtle nesting experience for families visiting between June and October. Manuel Antonio concludes with three nights — the national park’s toddler-friendly trail system, the protected bay beach, and the kind of wildlife encounters at close range that produce the specific memories children carry forward from a first Costa Rica experience.
What Mapache Tours includes: Private family vehicle transfers throughout, family-appropriate accommodation with connecting rooms or family villa configurations, family-pace guiding that is explicitly designed for children’s engagement levels, all park fees and activity costs, and pre-trip logistics advice covering packing, health preparation, and family-specific planning.
Approximate investment: USD $3,200 to $5,500 per family of four. Green season pricing from $2,500 to $4,200.
Package 07 · Two Coasts Costa Rica — 10 Days
Best for: First-time visitors who want to experience both of Costa Rica’s coastlines and understand the genuine difference between them
Destinations: San José → Tortuguero (Caribbean) → Arenal → Manuel Antonio (Pacific)
Overview: Costa Rica’s two coasts are not variations on a single beach theme — they are genuinely different landscapes, cultures, climates, and ecological environments, and experiencing both within a single trip produces a depth of understanding of the country’s diversity that a single-coast itinerary cannot achieve. The Two Coasts package sequences them in a way that allows each to be understood on its own terms before the contrast between them becomes apparent.
Tortuguero opens with two nights on the Caribbean — the canal system, the turtle season wildlife, the specific green-heavy quality of Caribbean-slope rainforest, and the Afro-Caribbean cultural context of the surrounding communities. Arenal provides the interior transition — two nights at the volcano, the hot springs, and the lake, positioned as the pivot between the two coastal experiences. Manuel Antonio concludes with four nights on the Pacific — the national park, the protected bay beach, the drier Pacific light, and the specific visual language of a coastline that is everything the Caribbean is not. The final day in San José before international departure allows a closing meal, a final market visit, and the kind of reflective decompression that a trip of this quality deserves.
What Mapache Tours includes: Private transfers throughout including the boat transfer connection to Tortuguero, accommodation at properties that genuinely represent each destination’s character, private naturalist guides at each wildlife destination, and full itinerary logistics management.
Approximate investment: USD $2,900 to $4,500 per person for a couple. Green season pricing from $2,300 to $3,600.
Package 08 · Slow Travel Costa Rica — 12 Days
Best for: First-time visitors who prioritise depth over coverage and want to know fewer places well rather than many places superficially
Destinations: Arenal (4 nights) → Monteverde (4 nights) → Manuel Antonio (4 nights)
Overview: The Slow Travel package is a deliberate counterpoint to the multi-destination itineraries that define most Costa Rica first trips. Instead of moving through five or six destinations in ten days, it spends four nights at each of three — long enough to genuinely settle into a place, to return to the same trail on a second morning and find different wildlife, to eat at the same local restaurant twice and be remembered, to develop the kind of familiarity with an environment that produces understanding rather than impression.
Arenal at four nights allows a full hanging bridges morning, a Corcovado comparison afternoon, a lake day, a hot springs evening, and still a morning of genuinely unscheduled time to sit on a terrace and watch the volcano exist. Monteverde at four nights allows a cloud forest morning, a Santa Elena afternoon, a night walk, a chocolate tour, and two mornings of birdwatching at a pace that produces species lists rather than glimpses. Manuel Antonio at four nights allows two park visits — one focused on primates, one on birds — a full beach day, a sunset boat tour, and an evening at the area’s finest restaurant without the feeling that the meal is competing with the need to pack.
What Mapache Tours includes: Private transfers between the three destinations, accommodation selected for properties with enough depth to reward multi-night stays, a flexible guiding structure that provides professional guidance for the primary activities at each destination while building in unscheduled time, and restaurant recommendations and reservations throughout.
Approximate investment: USD $2,600 to $4,000 per person for a couple. The slow travel structure produces the best value per day of any package in this guide — by spending more time in fewer places, accommodation rates benefit from multi-night discounts and the daily cost of transfers disappears.
Package 09 · Off the Beaten Path — 10 Days
Best for: First-time visitors who have done enough research to know they want something beyond the standard circuit
Destinations: Turrialba → Sarapiquí → Nicoya Peninsula Interior → Dominical and Ballena Coast
Overview: The Off the Beaten Path package is built for the first-time visitor who arrives in Costa Rica with a specific appetite for authenticity — who wants to see the country that exists beneath its most celebrated surface, to visit the destinations whose tourism industry is still forming, and to have the experience of being somewhere that most international visitors do not reach. It requires more planning confidence than the Classic package and rewards the traveller who brings genuine curiosity rather than a checklist.
Turrialba opens with two nights — the Pacuare River, the Guayabo archaeological monument, a meal at a family-run soda in the town itself. Sarapiquí follows for two nights — La Selva, the river boat, the great green macaw corridor, a morning with a specialist bird guide who has been walking these trails for twenty years. The Nicoya Peninsula interior provides two nights at a community tourism property near the town of Nicoya — Guaitil pottery workshop, Blue Zone community visit, traditional Chorotega cooking class. The Dominical and Ballena coast concludes with four nights — whale watching, Hacienda Barú wildlife and reforestation, a hillside boutique property with Pacific views, and the specific experience of a Pacific coast beach town that has developed enough to be comfortable and not enough to have lost itself.
What Mapache Tours includes: Private transfers throughout on routes that require local knowledge and appropriate vehicles, accommodation at community-connected and locally owned properties, specialist guides with specific expertise in each region, all community access arrangements and cultural experience coordination, and Mapache Tours’ established local relationships that make every element of this package accessible.
Approximate investment: USD $2,700 to $4,200 per person for a couple. Green season pricing from $2,100 to $3,400.
Package 10 · Complete Costa Rica — 14 Days
Best for: First-time visitors with the time and appetite for a comprehensive introduction to the country’s full diversity
Destinations: Central Valley → Arenal → Monteverde → Tortuguero → Osa Peninsula → Manuel Antonio
Overview: The Complete Costa Rica package is the most ambitious first-trip itinerary in this guide — fourteen days through six destination zones, covering the country’s volcanic interior, its cloud forest highlands, its Caribbean canal system, its most biodiverse peninsula, and its most celebrated Pacific coast destination in a sequence that builds understanding progressively rather than simply accumulating locations.
It is not a package for every first-time visitor — the pace requires genuine engagement and the transitions require energy. But for the traveller who arrives in Costa Rica with real appetite for the country’s diversity and enough travel experience to manage a dynamic itinerary, it produces the most comprehensive first-trip understanding of any package in this guide. By the end of fourteen days, the traveller understands what makes the Caribbean coast different from the Pacific, what the Osa’s primary rainforest offers that Monteverde’s cloud forest does not, and what connects all of these environments into the ecological and cultural coherence that makes Costa Rica the specific place it is.
Two nights each in the Central Valley and Arenal open the itinerary before the jeep-boat-jeep transfer to Monteverde for two nights. A domestic flight to the Caribbean coast brings two nights at Tortuguero before returning to San José for the connecting domestic flight to the Osa Peninsula for three nights. Manuel Antonio provides the final three nights before the return to San José for international departure.
What Mapache Tours includes: All domestic flights, private transfers throughout, accommodation at destination-appropriate properties across the quality spectrum, private naturalist guides at every wildlife destination, all park entrance fees and boat tour costs, full logistics management including real-time support throughout the trip, and the pre-trip planning consultation that a fourteen-day first-time itinerary specifically requires.
Approximate investment: USD $5,500 to $9,500 per person for a couple. Green season pricing from $4,200 to $7,200. The domestic flight costs and fourteen nights of accommodation drive this package’s investment level — the per-day cost is broadly comparable with the Classic package, with the additional days producing proportionally additional experience.
How to Choose the Right Package for Your First Trip
Ten packages is a range that deserves a framework for choosing between them, and the following questions — the ones Mapache Tours asks at the start of every first-trip planning conversation — produce clarity efficiently.
What is the single experience you most want to have in Costa Rica? If the answer is wildlife, the Wildlife First or Complete Costa Rica packages are the clearest fits. If it is adventure, the Adventure and Nature package. If it is beaches, the Nicoya Peninsula or Manuel Antonio-centred options. The answer to this question should anchor the package choice, with the other elements arranged around it.
How many days do you have? Eight to ten days suits the Classic, Adventure, Two Coasts, Wildlife First, and Off the Beaten Path packages. Twelve days suits the Honeymoon and Slow Travel options. Fourteen days is required for the Complete Costa Rica package. The Luxury and Family packages adapt to the time available within a range.
What is the travel style that makes you happiest? Active and on the move, or settled and deep? First-time visitors who are experienced travellers in other destinations often benefit from the slower packages — they know how to make the most of depth and they have learned to resist the anxiety of covering less ground. First-time international travellers often feel more comfortable with a clearer itinerary structure and more programmed movement between destinations.
What is the honest budget? The packages in this guide span a range from approximately $2,200 to $14,000 per person for a couple, with green season pricing providing meaningful access to the higher-quality packages at lower investment levels. Mapache Tours discusses budget honestly at the outset of every planning conversation and designs within parameters that are real rather than aspirational.
Frequently Asked Questions | Mapache Tour’s Costa Rica Vacation Packages
Can any of these packages be modified for a solo traveller? Yes. All ten packages are available for solo travellers. The per-person cost for a solo traveller is higher than the couple rates quoted — private transport and private guiding costs do not halve for a single person — but Mapache Tours designs solo itineraries with the specific experience of travelling alone in mind, building in the guide relationship and the community connections that make solo travel in a new country more enriching rather than more isolating.
How far in advance should we book a Costa Rica package with Mapache Tours? For dry season travel (December through April), six to eight months in advance is recommended for the packages that include the finest small-lodge properties, which fill early during peak season. For green season travel (May through November), three to four months provides adequate planning time for most packages. The Complete Costa Rica and Luxury packages benefit from the longest lead time regardless of season, due to the complexity of coordinating domestic flights, multiple premium properties, and specialist guide availability simultaneously.
Are meals included in the package prices? Meals are included at properties where the accommodation package covers dining — most jungle lodges and remote properties include all meals as part of their room rate. At destinations with independent restaurant access — La Fortuna, Santa Elena, Manuel Antonio town — meals are not included, and the per-person daily food budget should be added to the package investment figure. Mapache Tours specifies exactly which meals are included at each property in every itinerary proposal.
Can Mapache Tours combine elements from different packages into a custom itinerary? Yes, and this is the most common outcome of the planning consultation process. The ten packages in this guide are frameworks — the combinations and sequences that we return to most often because they work consistently well for first-time visitors. They are not fixed products. Most Mapache Tours clients end up with an itinerary that draws from two or three of these frameworks, modified by the specific priorities, constraints, and interests that emerge from the planning conversation.
What happens if something goes wrong during the trip — weather disruption, supplier failure, illness? Mapache Tours maintains active support for every client throughout their trip — not through an automated system but through a real local team member who is reachable and responsive. Weather contingencies are built into every itinerary at the planning stage. Supplier issues are managed through established backup relationships. Medical situations are supported through our knowledge of the local medical infrastructure and, where necessary, our connections with the nearest appropriate facility. Our clients are not managing these situations alone — that is one of the most concrete differences between travelling with a professional local operator and travelling independently.
Begin Your First Costa Rica Journey Here | Custom Costa Rica Vacation Packages
A first trip to Costa Rica is the trip that most people describe, looking back, as the one that changed how they thought about the natural world — the one that made the wildlife documentaries feel inadequate, that made the biodiversity statistics feel personal, and that produced the specific desire, almost universal among people who have been, to return and go deeper. It is a trip worth planning well.
Mapache Tours builds first Costa Rica trips with the local knowledge, the guide quality, the accommodation relationships, and the planning honesty that this kind of journey deserves. Every package in this guide is a starting point for a conversation — one that begins with your specific priorities and ends with an itinerary built around them.
Start that conversation at mapachetours.com — where Costa Rica’s finest first trips begin.
The Mapache Tours Team — Costa Rica’s Finest Local Tour Operator.
All package descriptions, destination assessments, and investment figures in this guide reflect Mapache Tours’ operational knowledge of the Costa Rica travel market as of May 2026. Package pricing is indicative and varies based on travel dates, group size, accommodation tier selected, and green season versus dry season travel windows. All figures are quoted in US dollars per person based on double occupancy unless otherwise noted. Confirm current pricing and availability with the Mapache Tours planning team at the time of enquiry.




