Beautiful Costa Rica Nature Tour for Solo Travellers
Coast Rica has mind-blowing wildlife diversity and natural beauty. On this budget, nature holiday in Costa Rica for solo travellers, you can enjoy a jungle walk, a wildlife boat ride, a nature night walk and you can bathe in volcanically heated pools. Join other solo travellers on this visit to beautiful Costa Rica for an all inclusive stay.
From being met at the airport with fast track and airport lounge services, to the farewell dinner at the end of your tour, we’ll try to ensure you get the most out of your visit. During your tour look forward to visiting Carara National Park famed for its birdlife, tour the capital and walk on the wild side on a rainforest walk, as well as enjoying experiences and social activities. At the end of the day relax in convivial company over dinner as you share new experiences with your travelling companions.
Your Tour Includes
TRAVEL
Return flights and transfers
Included travel insurance
VIP door-to-door travel service from anywhere on the UK mainland
ACCOMMODATION
14 nights in hotels and 1 in flight
Porterage at all hotels
EXPERIENCES
Tour Manager
San José city tour
A wildlife tour in Carara National Park
Rainforest walk
La Paz waterfall gardens
Nature night walk
Don Juan Eco-farm visit
FOOD & DRINK
Welcome drink and dinner
Drinks party
Farewell dinner
Sundowner drink at a memorable location
42 meals: 14 breakfasts, 14 lunches and 14 dinners
Free bar open up to 16 hours a day serving local alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks throughout the tour
Day 1 UK to San José
After UK door-to-door travel service to the airport, depart in the morning for your daytime flight to San José and stay two nights at the locally rated 4-star Barceló San José (3Q). The hotel's free bar is open from 10am to 10pm. Look forward to a welcome drink and dinner this evening.
Meals Included: Dinner
Day 2 San José
This morning join an optional visit to Irazu Volcano and Orosi Valley. Enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 3 San José-Tárcoles
An included morning tour of the capital visits the National Museum and the National Theatre.
Spend four nights at the locally rated 3+-star Hotel Villa Lapas (3Q) in a private reserve on the River Tarcolitos, staying in basic, bungalow-style lodges. Free bar from 10am to 10pm daily.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 4 Tárcoles
An optional excursion visits one of Costa Rica's most beautiful reserves where turquoise waters lap white beaches fringed by lush rainforest. You may see sloths, iguanas, howler and white-faced monkeys.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 5 Carara National Park
Look out for scarlet macaws and flycatchers on an included excursion to one of the finest birdwatching sites in Costa Rica. There's also an optional aerial tram ride in the afternoon.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 6 Tárcoles
At leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 7 Tárcoles-Muelle de San Carlos
You can join an optional boat ride this morning, venturing onto the river in search of crocodiles.
You leave Tarcoles later today and travel to the locally rated 4-star Tilajari Resort Hotel (3Q+) for a seven-night stay. The hotel is set in 35 acres of gardens with orchids and a butterfly garden dome. The free bar here is open from 10am to 10pm daily.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 8 Muelle de San Carlos
Spend today at leisure, either relaxing at your hotel or exploring your surroundings.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 9 Rainforest walk
Explore the foliage, flora and wildlife of the rainforest on a half-day included guided jungle walk, with a further optional guided walk of the lava trails.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 10 Muelle de San Carlos
Today's optional excursion is a boat ride down the Peñas Blancas River, with unrivalled opportunities to spot hummingbirds, monkeys, sloths, anteaters and rare butterflies.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 11 Muelle de San Carlos
Today you can join a thrilling optional excursion to the rainforest and cross bridges and walkways suspended high above the ground in the canopy. Alternatively, indulge your sweet tooth with a visit to a chocolate plantation. This evening, look forward to an included nature night walk. Walking for approximately one kilometre, you’ll have the chance to spot bird, reptile and rodent species that are active primarily at night.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 12 Muelle de San Carlos
Visit the Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge and enjoy a two-and-a-half-hour floating safari on an optional excursion. At dusk there's an optional excursion to a hot springs complex in the middle of the rainforest. Take a dip in the pools, naturally heated by the Arenal Volcano, stand under a cascading waterfall and enjoy a drink at the bar.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 13 Muelle de San Carlos
See how a Costa Rican family grows pineapples, papayas and medicinal plants on an included excursion to the Don Juan Eco-farm. Here a Costa Rican family will show you the most important facets of a self-sufficient farm, and your tour of the farm will also show you how waste material is recycled in order to produce methane for cooking. Enjoy a farewell dinner and live marimba music this evening.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 14 Muelle de San Carlos-San José
Return to San José and the Barceló San José Hotel (3Q) where you stay overnight. En route there will be an included tour of La Paz waterfall gardens. Tonight enjoy a farewell dinner with your group.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner
Day 15 San José to UK
Travel to the airport for your return overnight flight to the UK.
Meals Included: Breakfast | Lunch
Day 16 UK
Arrive in the UK this morning and take your included UK door-to-door travel service home.
