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| Author: | Witling [ Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Will "eco-luxurious" tourism taint Costa Rica? |
And you guys worry about paying cien! Read the prices on these rooms. http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinat ... csp=Travel I'm a little surprised the big casinos haven't started moving in. |
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| Author: | Novice [ Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:53 pm ] |
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A thousand bucks a night (and up) huh? Looks like they’ll have to get their “sh*t†figured out… Yeah Costa Rica is getting *tainted* all right lol. Feb. 7, 2008 Hotel in sewage flap to start moving guests elsewhere By the A.M. Costa Rica staff Guests will be evacuating the Hotel Allegro Papagayo in their hundreds over the next few days, after the Ministerio de Salud gave the hotel the order to close on Monday afternoon. Some 600 vacationers will have their stay at the four-star hotel located on Playa Manzanillo in Guanacaste cut short, after a scandal emerged surrounding the methods used by hotel management to dispose of sewage and waste water. “Hotel managers are soliciting a plan of the best way to handle the evacuation,†said Mario Calvo, a health official in Liberia. The hotel staff of between 220 to 250 people will also have to be evacuated. Blue flag certification is to be removed from Playa Manzanillo, according to officials of the Laboratorio Nacional de Aguas, who have recently done tests in the sea water outside the hotel. The blue flag certifies that a beach is safe and clean for recreational use. Manzanillo is the second beach to lose the blue flag in the past three months. Tamarindo beach, also in Guanacaste, lost its certification in November. Calvo added that the Ministerio de Salud will be issuing a formal legal complaint against the hotel for acts of contamination. The hotel has been accused of shipping hundreds of trucks full of sewage to an under-equipped sewage plant in the town of El Gallo, as well as running a sewage pipe from the hotel into a nearby stream Hotel management was unavailable for comment Wednesday, but staff were no longer telling callers that the hotel was open and functioning normally, as they had been doing for the preceding three days. |
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| Author: | Counte Dante [ Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:49 pm ] |
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Oh that is just NASTY. |
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| Author: | Fuzebox [ Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:48 pm ] |
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It's been tainting Costa Rica and the rest of Central America for years... Most of the places I stayed at when I first got here 3 years ago have almost doubled in price. All the quieter beach towns are now bustling and filled with new development. It's going to keep happening too 
Does anyone remember Bocas Del Toro when the average hotel price was $20/night and the water taxis between islands were $1? |
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| Author: | HolaB [ Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:20 am ] |
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A friend sends this link and would like to know if I want to join in on the family vacation this summer 
http://www.luxurylink.com/LL/home_3rdpr ... eam.com%2F At 22k per week  I am wondering just how many weeks does this place get leased?
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| Author: | HolaB [ Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:26 am ] |
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Dbl post |
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| Author: | Prolijo [ Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:11 am ] |
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Eco-luxurious is an oxymoron. You can't have that type of development and be eco-friendly at the same time. What you have is a bunch of spoiled rich gringos coming down to soak up and admire the beauty of the environment and THINK they're being made more eco-aware, while the whole time they're actually doing unbelievable damage to the very thing they came to see. Those that truly care at all will even pat themselves on the back that they're seeing and appreciating what is at stake while ironically actually causing more harm than good themselves. |
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| Author: | Fuzebox [ Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:37 am ] |
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HolaB wrote: A friend sends this link and would like to know if I want to join in on the family vacation this summer
http://www.luxurylink.com/LL/home_3rdpr ... eam.com%2F At 22k per week I am wondering just how many weeks does this place get leased?I was reading the Robb report and they were doing a feature on vacation homes, and they had a 2 page spread photo of their new costa rican resort... I had no idea companies were building stuff like that here... doesn't seem like the right place. |
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