Some VERY Common Mistakes MANY people make about Costa Rica

Here are a few VERY Common Mistakes MANY people make about Costa Rica (MYSELF included!!).  Unfortunately some can be rather costly.

On the Caribbean side we have Puerto ViejO -
it is NOT Puerto VALLARTA (Mexico)
(ok - so this one is more me since I had a biz in Vallarta for 12 years!!)


It's Calle ViejA
(the main/"old road" between San Jose, Escazu and Piedades de Santa Ana)
NOT Calle ViejO



It is COSTA RicA . . .  NOT . . . PUERTO RicO
(and it's Puerto RicO that is an island)

The capital and main airport the majority of tourists fly into is

San Jose, COSTA RICA (airport code - SJO)
NOT . . .
San Jose, CALIFORNIA (airport code - SJC)

(you make the 2 mistakes above and that will cost you a small fortune to rectify it as it WILL be YOUR mistake so you'll need to buy another airline ticket.  In my life I have actually known a handful of people that didn't even realized it and ended up in San Jose, California!!)

elpeji.com/2013/12/03/study-abroad-gringa-takes-five-days-to-realize-shes-in-california

And I think one of the MOST COMMON points of confusion when thinking of Costa Rica is . . . though Costa Rica DOES have the majority of the country surrounded by water and has 2 bays of water on either side (the Pacific and the Atlantic) and Lake Nicaragua at the top -

Costa Rica is

NOT an "ISLAND"!!!

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=map+of+central+america&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8f0b58c0f7680811:0x8dace0c7060b2570,Central+America&ei=cu43UMqZIciX6AGmroG4CQ&sqi=2&ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA

(I TOTALLY thought this MYSELF for AGES BEFORE I moved here - heck - even until JUST before I moved here [I knew NADA about Costa Rica other than it was green and an "Island"!!  What can I say - I'm a geographically illiterate American!!])

Do YOU have any others???

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