If you are just en route to the airport stay in Alajuela on your way out of CR, the city is cleaner, more affordable, and closer to the airport.

awesome big shopping town, tax free, but quite criminal

If you can visit a football match (that's soccer for some of us) while you're there. Great entertainment value. Not just on the pitch, certainly off the pitch as well.

Heredia es un pocco aburrido. Hay un mercado grandissimo.

Thats how far the mayan territory reached

Don't Feed the Monkeys

Ville en banlieue de San José, offrant le costa rica citadins dans sa vraie forme

If you are a frequesnt blood donor, the Red Cross will not use you as a donor for one year after visiting this location.

In Heredia, there's an ATM machine near La UNA, or the National University, and the ATM ate my friends credit card, because she left it in the machine to long without touching any buttons, so at ATM machines make sure to not let your card get eaten.

Once you get 20 minutes away from the airport, hotel prices drop to about half.