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Yes I have often gotten the stinkeye in San Jose from gnarly older gringa women. One time, one leaned over and deliberately stared at us when a young woman and I were having breakfast at LA. I really felt like telling her to Phuck off, but i kept my cool and ignored her, which probably pissed her off even more.

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I would have thought disapproving looks would be rare at LA. In my experience staying there, although somewhat limited, I never saw another guest that was not participating in our hobby. The only looks from other guests where envy when someone brought back a particularly hot chica.

This incident was a few years ago, when there were probably more ecotourists staying there.

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I thought I had a more recent conversation with Matt where he said they try to screen people making reservations to discourage the ecotourist and others. No one wins. Most of us would rather not get the stinkeye at breakfast, the gringa is offended, who complains to hotel management who has to deal with the situation, canceling reservations, … The hotel business is difficult enough without adding issues.

To get the thread back on topic – I’m 59 and have been coming to CR for 4 years. Actually 7, but the first trip was with a female from the US. Ironically, we stayed at Hotel Vesuvio between SL and LA. I walked by SL and wondered if we should stop in for a drink, no clue at that time about SL.

I’m with the others who have posted, I have meet no women in the US near my age I have any interest in at all. The above mentioned gringa was 29 and worked in a strip club in Columbus. It wasn’t p4p but not too far off, I paid for everything and helped with her bills occasionally. We genuinely liked each other, but both knew it was never going long term. She wouldn’t have been offended in SL. She suggested stopping in a strip club to see how they differed from US. Didn’t happen, but would have been interesting.

An observation during that trip lead to me coming back to CR. We had a great time hiking in Corcovado NP and were in SJ before flying back. Eating downtown there was an older gentleman with a young attractive tica dressed inappropriately for the nice restaurant. Having spent time in Thailand, I know exactly what was going on. So next time I looked for a vacation, I googled, found this board, booked at SL, and have been back many times.

We had a 23 year age gap and definitely got the stares from women close to my age in Columbus. We were both good at ignoring it. On the other side of the reaction, we were in the neighborhood bar/restaurant one night when we ran into one of my neighbors, very attractive mid-twenties. She had never gone out of her way to talk with me before, but seeing me with a hot woman her age must have kicked in the competitive spirt. Nice unexpected side benefit.

I got started when on a business trip to Bangkok in ‘02. We were staying at Novotel in Siam Square which has a disco in the basement, cm2, which attracts high end talent looking for businessmen. An experienced colleague from Italy acted as my wingman. To complicate things, a woman I had dated a few times a year before was with us and staying in the room next to mine. We remained on good terms. I had to sneak Pen (still remember her name) in and avoid my ex next door. Luckily accomplished that. I booked another trip to Bangkok six months later and haven’t looked back since.

Since my start, at age 44, I have spent considerable time in Europe, mostly Prague, Thailand, and many trips to CR. I enjoy the differences in the scene in each place. CR is an easy flight and I do enjoy going to the Osa peninsula and doing some rainforest hiking. I’ll be back in September. I don’t even look in the US anymore. Friday night an attractive, very friendly, 40ish women sat at the bar next to me. It would have been easy, but I had no interest.

Not sure I understand this line of thinking...

Never had any problems in CR, but I have a habit of cultivating "sugar Babi*s" in the USA. My all time fave was a 25 y/0 tall Latina with model looks, I was only in my 50's and still had my black hair, even though there was 25 years between us, the combo of her sophisticated look, height and my hair black, plus I look about 5 years younger than I am on a good day, never an issue. Plus we lived in sophisticated Miami.

Fast forward to age 61 up to now, lots of grey hair, my current sb is a short petite (except nice nat D's and plump booty" early 20's, 20 when we met. Besides pay for play, I take her to dinner often and never got any look, we live in a more conservative area than Miami, a small town where people know one another. One day I figured it out.

One of our favorite restaurants we go to all the time is a Cuban restaurant, and we had a favorite fast smart older waitress. My sb would always speak to her in perfect Spanish and I would order in my broken clumsy Spanish. One day after dinner, I was eating desert, waiting for the tab, she bolts out to have a cigarette which always irritates me. The waitress came back to the table to drop off the tab and asked where did she go. I had a frown on my face and said, "gotta have that damn cigarette right after eating..."

The waitress agreed, she said she has trouble with her teenage daughters smoking, and then she joked that her mother should have taught me better Spanish...inferring the mother would be my wife... There's a lot of retired grandparents where I live, it's a small town, and their K*ds and grandkids are up here visiting all the time. She wasn't wearing anything hot, just casual clothes, and people just assumed she was my daughter although she could technically be my granddaughter, 20-60...

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Lol I know what you mean. We were in a restaurant close to our house one time and there was a couple that was enjoying dinner in at table close to us. When I went to use the bathroom they stared at me as I left an my fiance said she and the K*ds could hear them talking when I walked away. Needless to say when we left I slipped the money to pay to my fiance and told her to go with the K*ds and pay the bill. After they got out of earshot I got up and as I walked past the couples table I said "Estoy con ella por su dinero y ella está conmigo por el sexo" that I was with her for the money and she was with me for the sex.............The look on their faces was priceless.

I read a story once on a travel site where an older husband and wife came down from USA for an eco tour and for some reason they were to stay in San Jose one night before the bus picks them up. The lady said they thought the Holiday Inn prices were too high where it was suggested they stay, and wanted to stay in a Old Classic Tico Hotel and somehow chose the HDR not having any clue...I've seen it displayed on some travel sites where it doesn't say anything, just shows pics, estimated prices, location...

She said they checked in fast in the late morning or afternoon, and it may have been slow, they didn't notice anything. Long story short, upon coming downstairs to stretch their legs and see some sites after napping and getting settled in, it was early evening and the place was jumping...The old gal was mortified, they stayed in their room, ordered room service, checked out fast in the a.m. and got their taxi to the H.I. for the tour bus. She wrote a big warning to everyone on the site and was shocked to say the least...I bet hubby was agonizing...so near and yet so far...

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here is from "Booking.com", their entire site says only this, shows tons of pics, no girls. Some sites say "ADULT" and that's it, this one doesn't even do that, so I bet a few suckers get shocked every year...


In the heart of San Jose, this beautiful hotel features a restaurant and a casino. The Hotel Del Rey also has free Wi-Fi and 3 on-site bars.

Rooms here will provide you with a cable TV, air conditioning and a minibar. Featuring a shower, the private bathrooms also come with a bathtub.

The hotel’s Restaurante del Mar serves international cuisine and is open 24 hours a day. Guests can also find other dining options in La Sabana neighborhood, just 3 miles away.

Morazan Park is only 350 feet from the property, and the Plaza de la Cultura, where guests will find the Gold Museum and the National Theatre, is a 5-minute walk from Hotel Del Rey.

Free private parking is available at the hotel. Juan Santamaria International Airport in neighboring Alajuela is a 25-minute drive away.

This is our guests' favorite part of San José, according to independent reviews.

We speak your language!

Hotel Del Rey has been welcoming Booking.com guests since Oct 23, 2013!

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Damn the similarities between you and I
Never married, no K*ds, and I turned 50, April of 2016. Maybe I should also try pattawa at least once, one of these days.. don't think I'd retire there, due to my love for latinas, but sometimes I interpret coincidences, as a sign for me to try out something I see mentioned

I was once on a jetblue flight down to San Jose for one of my mongering trips. I was surrounded by annoying eco tourists who were asking me too many questions. I just wanted peace so I said "I go to Costa Rica to gamble, do drugs and Phuck hookers." The drugs part was a lie but it had the intended impact. They didn't talk to me the whole rest of the flight and I zoned out blissfully. It is a bit out of character for me to do something like that but I was desperate for them to shut up and leave me alone. I still laugh about that one and it was about ten years ago.

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I phuck 'em just to see the look on their face.
Klatu, berata, nicto.

That's a bit bold, you might have been a little more tactful and say "I have a 19 year old girlfriend there, I'm going to visit her now"...It's polite but still aggravates the hell out of nosey old ladies....

One time before one of my trips, an older lady I work with caught me off guard, she asked me, "Are you going there to fish? I heard men love the fishing there! I just said "no" kind of startled at her surprise question. Then she asked me if I was one of the older "surfer dudes" since we live close to the beach here in Florida, she heard CR is a hot surfer destination...again, poker faced, I did what Nancy Reagan advises, I just said "no".

Speaking of poker face, she got a wry grin on her face...She heard you can gamble in CR, it has casinos like Vegas...was I going to "gamble"? Once again, straight faced..."no"...By this time, she's getting flustered, I should have just said I love exercise and I'm going there because I love nature...that technically would be true, for a monger...

Finally she blurts out, I heard guys get really drunk there and "party", is that it? She didn't define "party" and technically I don't drink, and I get my mischief out of the way in the morning, afternoon and early evening, I don't go running around late down there, I'm usually sound asleep in my HDR hotel room when the wee hours creep up on us, so naturally...I once again, just said "no".

Surprisingly she knew quite a bit about CR but never mentioned "younger girlfriend" which I might have said yes to just shut her up, if she mentioned hoe-ing I might have had some fun with her and acted shocked, saying "My church does volunteer work for the really poor there, I go there and help build huts for them..."

In any event she was full blown flustered and very nosily asked "Well what DO YOU do there???" i was about to avoid a potential problem at work and tell her I love nature and mountain climbing, I would tell her I was going to Mt. Arenal and the hot springs when another cooler older lady I worked with suddenly intervened and said..."I'll tell you later..." at which time I slipped away to my desk, the issue never brought up again...

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