Kahler - Frommers Costa Rica 2017

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AN IMPORTANT NOTE

The world is a dynamic place. Hotels change ownership, restaurants hike their prices, museums alter their opening hours, and busses and trains change their routings. And all of this can occur in the several months after our authors have visited, inspected, and written about, these hotels, restaurants, museums and transportation services. Though we have made valiant efforts to keep all our information fresh and up-to-date, some few changes can inevitably occur in the periods before a revised edition of this guidebook is published. So please bear with us if a tiny number of the details in this book have changed. Please also note that we have no responsibility or liability for any inaccuracy or errors or omissions, or for inconvenience, loss, damage, or expenses suffered by anyone as a result of assertions in this guide.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karl Kahler was born in Arkansas and grew up in California, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, Alaska, and Bolivia with globe-trotting parents who worked in public and private schools. He has been visiting Costa Rica since 1994 and is currently the travel editor of the Tico Times. An honors graduate of the University of Southern California in history and journalism, he worked for the San Jose Mercury News in California for 25 years, starting as a copy editor and leaving as national editor. He has two grown sons, a lawyer and an actor.

Dedication

To the memory of my mother and father, who instilled in me a love of travel, and departed too soon for their final voyage.

Acknowledgments

I am greatly indebted to Eliot Greenspan, the previous author of this book, for the rock-solid infrastructure he left me to build upon. His research, writing, and experience in Costa Rica are unparalleled, and they pervade every page.

Huge thanks also to my talented editorsGael Fashingbauer Cooper, Shelley Bance, and Erin Geilewithout whom this book would contain an embarrassment of errors.