nice stogies in the custom shop ..colonial plaza escazu...have em roll your own shape wrapper temp preference...wide range of rack stuff...

colonial plaza is in escazu...take the bebedero bus from downtown ...or a cab...get off after you see scotia bank on the corner in escazu..youll be right across the street from mas por menos ...contiinue walking toward the big brick plaza across the street from burger king..go inside ...its on your right as you walk in or straight across the plaza and a little to the left if you enter by don fernandos...the bus back will be on the col plaza side of the street down toward mas por menos about 30 meters..or get a pirate as you walk toward maspormenos and ride up the hill to "time out" for lunch or to multiplaza(about 10 minutes away)...

The vast majority of "Cuban" cigars sold in Costa Rica are not Cuban. They are made in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. I have seen the fake box factories and the torcedors rolling cigars and putting fake labels on the cigars. If you want a real Cuban cigar, Costa Rica is the last place you should look. Costa Rica foreign tobacco taxes, cigar consumption tax and import duties would make a real Cuban cigar cost more here than in London or Montreal. The only real Cubans here are the ones someone has purchased in a duty free store and brought in with them. (Many claim they are doing so, but few actually are). Habanos, S.A. does not export to Costa Rica.

There are companies here that claim to sell you "Cuban" cigars in the cigar stores and over the internet. The internet companies claim they are taking the bands off and sending them to you in a separate envelope. They are selling cheap Costa Rican cigars and they are ripping you off. You have been warned.
Your best bet for a decent cigar down here is to try the local manufacturers. Some are very good.

Go see Karol at the HLH Cigar Shop. Straight across Morazon Park from the Holiday Inn. Tell her BD said Hola.