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Hi All
Just returned from cr and stayed at the courtyard marriott . Nice hotel, fairly reasonable and chica friendly. There is a strip mall across the street with several restaurants, all pretty good and reasonable, not necessarily chesap. One in particular was fitzgeralds coffee. Great breakfast, best pancakes I ever had, good prices. Check it out for a treat outside the gulch.

Agree with WordWiz. There are several good restaurants in Itzaku (sp?) Plaza, just across the parking lot from the Courtyard Marriott. I particularly enjoyed the Cuban place, but there is a good seafood restaurant as well as an Outback steakhouse. Taxi fare from the Gulch is about $10 these days. The one thing I would add is, pricing is close to US prices. Makes sense, given Escazu is basically Gringoland.


Osogrande

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Whatever you do, do NOT take the bus downtown after dark. You end up at Coca Cola Terminal, and that place is not a good place for a gringo to be after dark.

Escazu is a very nice part of San Jose. Lots of american restaurants, etc.. and it's a bit quieter than most of the hotels downtown. The problem will be finding a girl who wants to go all that way out there. Plus, you'll likely have to give them cabfare back downtown.

The many escazu buses end up either at Coca Cola or one block from Park La Merced. The various stops and final destination are listed on the buses fron window. I take the bus from Escazu all the time coming to town before dark. It is either 215 or 260 colones (40 to 50 cents) for the equilvalent of a six dollar taxi ride. I then either walk or take a taxi to the SL or Amon Plaza depending on weather and my time constraints. It adds 5 minutes or so but you can see much better and the buses are very laid back. I do stay away from Coca Cola after dark.


BKTUNA
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