www.CostaRicaTicas.com

To be honest, the place has always seemed a pretty dreary place to stay with or without Boyd there. Enjoyed going over and hanging during happy hour a couple of times, but didn't look inviting to actually stay there. And this has nothing to do with the controversy. Even though I don't know Boyd that well, I would not stay there personally because of the way he was treated. BUT, to think that everybody associated with CRT will follow some sort of boycott is pretty silly.

Living in Costa Rica and not needing a hotel room here and rarely going to downtown San Jose for food or beverage I do not have a dog in this fight.

I have known Boyd for many years and believe he got a bad deal from the owners. Some members feel that retaliating against the Dunn Inn by boycotting them is an appropriate reaction. That is their right and privilege but to state that those members who do patronize the DI will be ostracized by other CRT members is going a bit overboard.

IMO every member has the right to make a choice and that choice should be respected by others even if they disagree with that choice.

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i have found my stays there great.dont care who fought over this or that. i deal enough with that crap on my dive crews. i just go where i feel well served

This pretty much sums up how I approach what I do... or don't do... on my trips. If I listened to every piece of advice offered on this website, I doubt that I would be enjoying my trips as much as I do.



I agree, this is over the top.

Very well put, ID - agree; also think Boyd is a super person, I wrote a post in another forum defending him as well as saying the management at DI acted very poorly - in fact if this was the USA, he would have grounds for a lawsuit - but your comments nailed it.

I have to add my 2cents

I had stayed at the Dunn Inn from my first trip in 2005
The had an $11 chica fee that was on your bill as an extra tax, I think
Dunn Inn got on board with CRT around mid-year 2008, about the same time I found this site. There was no Boyd then but the place gave a discount to members and waived the chica fee, this made me happy because I liked the place, employees knew my name and went out of there way for me when asked ( I am for the most part an easy guest, but I do have my moments
Chicas loved the place real laided back and a chica was treated like a guest in the bar.. to the front desk calling for a taxi.
They even let my favorita into my room before I arrived so she could set up her welcome home papi suprise
I loved the place and had dibs on room #3

Enter Boyd... he got us more discounts etc, got the happy hour going, (they had that long before boyd but he chatted it up)

The place was doing great... not over run buy mongers ,eco or ex-pats in town to do some paper work... nice mix, and this was good IMHO cuz the place was doing better than I had ever seen it... I had stayed there a few times when I was one of 3 or 4 guest

Next chapter

The place had started a rehab pre-boyd... the banos all needed an up grade and that was under way along with some new TVs... all is good

lets build a casinio/ cat house in the vacant parking lot
A year and half of construction for the a new CRT hangout
I am sure that was a noisey time to stay there ( I had moved to an apt but went often for happy hour)

I thougt it was a good idea, but never liked the idea of the two places being conected right in the middle of the Tropix Bar... never compete with yourself (well almost never)

The owners started to bring in more people to help run the place That ment that the guys in from the start would now be cutting the cake into more pieces

I am not sure what the owners were thinking, when they built "a chica friendly bar casinio with an all clear glass wall facing a busy street "

This is just my thinking on this and it is ONLY my thoughts

The owners of the Dunn Inn used CRT to keep the hotel full during construction

Then they thought they could ride on those coat tails to success

Boyd I think is better off ... but running a night club was his calling

If the place took off in the way many thought... The noise from the place would affect the barrio as well as the hotel guest

I have great memories of the place, but just can not go back

I will not shun a guy from staying there...

Would like to see reservation book

Hey Whisky Jack or Guy Grand... Brick up the door casinio... and stop acting like all is good and I might come back... only to see Tatianna... or did you fire her too

Agree with everything you are saying Nhhank. Just not the bullshit part of crawling on folks that do choose to stay there.

I stayed at the Dunn Inn this past weekend based on necessity. I had booked the Clarion through Boyd several months ago because of my loyalty to BK and was confident everything would be taken care of in terms of my reservation. To my surprise and disappointment I found out through a fellow CRT member that the Clarion was closed. I found this out a week before I was going to SJO. If the fellow CRT member did not let me know the the Clarion was closed then I would have been quite inconvenienced. So I decided to stay at a property that has never disappointed me and I was was very happy with my stay at the Dunn Inn. Loyalty is a 2 way street.

Personally. i don't care who stays there or not. i guess there's a difference between being a crt member and being a crt brother.
IMHO, the DI crossed the line when they accused Boyd of doing something illegal, selling drugs. to me, that's bullshit, if they wanted to get rid of him there were plenty of other ways. i think what's most bothersome is that this was a direct attack on Boyd's character, not to mention the underlying implications that could have been misconscrewed by local law enforcement.

You are correct. I am a CRT Member. Thanks for the clarification. By the way, I have a sister not a Brother.

not sure what i clarified, but you're welcome.

Yeah? What?

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- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

Being as I started/reinforced that CRT Brother thing, let me say--A CRT Brother flies the flag under their handle. There are some "honoraries" due to service to us--Thirdworld comes immediately to mind.

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maybe you could be just a little specific concerning that post?

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Maybe that's what YOU meant, but I got the distinct impression from what I read and posted about that a dues paying member, even a lifetime member, can be simply a "member" as oppossed to a "brother". Ya know as in "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" kind of jive....

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- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16