I am from Chicago and I can tell you this.....there will be NO problem with that issue. If you have money in your pocket you will be more than welcome.

I've talked to several middle age black guys who came here, you're just a different variation of the gringo with a credit card and cash in hand, they'll love you. I see middle age and up black guys here all the time and like their white counterparts, their problem is getting the smiles off their faces, it's tough.

The girls sometimes don't care for young guys, black and white because they work them too hard and often are drunk and crazy. A nice quiet calm cool black or white middle age and up guy with condoms n cash is welcome everywhere.

C'mon down and get in on the fun, there's more than enough for everybody!

I've talked to several middle age black guys who came here, you're just a different variation of the gringo with a credit card and cash in hand, they'll love you. I see middle age and up black guys here all the time and like their white counterparts, their problem is getting the smiles off their faces, it's tough.

The girls sometimes don't care for young guys, black and white because they work them too hard and often are drunk and crazy. A nice quiet calm cool black or white middle age and up guy with condoms n cash is welcome everywhere.

C'mon down and get in on the fun, there's more than enough for everybody!

A good question.

Based on observation, when face-to-face, generally no issues. The girls like money.

However, Costa Rica is a pretty homogeneous society. Black Costa Ricans (or 'Afro-Caribbeans') are 3% of the population and until 1949 blacks were forbidden to live outside Limon province (which is why Puerto Limon had a distinctly different culture).

I've heard Ticos casually say things that would get a person crucified in the US and no one reacted, but then again there isn't really any 'political correctness' in Costa Rica (or identity politics if you will).

And it's interesting how Ticos categorize. The bartender at our Lodge (who is originally from Bluefields, Nicaragua) says she's the only real black person in the village (900 or so folks). But my staff manager is black? "She doesn't count because her family came from Jamaica".

Most black Ticos are descendants of the Jamaican workers brought into build the railroads or Nicaraguans to work the coastal banana plantations (Ticos basically didn't) and were outside 'mainstream' Tico society (the Central Valley) until the 1950s.

Mi novia is mestizo (part 'aboriginal people' - i.e., Indian) and we've discussed it. She says many working girls start off with preconceived ideas but lose them when money is involved. And not being a douche helps.