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However, the downtown hotel Amón Plaza, who is now managed by Clarion Hotels, was not so lucky, when Tuesday CCSS agents in charge of closures took the yellow tape to the business for unpaid dues to the Caja.

The hotel, according to the Caja, owes ¢148.000.000 colones (us$343.500 dollars) that goes back for the last two years, when another hotel chain managed the property and left it's current investors with the debt.

Hotel owners say that they were aware of the debt accumulated by the former operator and have made efforts to pay down the debt, paying down ¢79.000.000 of what is owed, of which ¢29.000.000 colones was paid last month.

The hotel owners says that, unlike the others, they have shown a willingness to pay.