Ok.. Here is my first review in years!!! I have stayed at the sportsmens, I have stayed at HLH, del Rey and even stayed at the mona lisa but I have yet to experience the kind of value as my recent stay at the Hotel La Amistad.
Here are the details. I stayed for 2 nights and took advantage of the ALL INCLUSIVE package.
Now to be honest when I first heard of the all inclusive the first thing that popped in my mind was a buffet style set up with the same repetitive foods sitting for hours in those aluminium trays like in the buffet Chinese places back home.
NO WAY JOSE!!
The food at La Amistad is excellent and probably the best food downtown and I don't say this lightly and I have NOTHING to gain by saying so.
I had this 3 inch thick delicious pork chop, and also had the ribs. I wish I knew how I could post some pictures of the meals. I may do this so people can appreciate better what I am saying here.
Guys.. you can eat anything on the menu!!! And you can drink yourself silly if that is your thing.
personally I am a moderate drinker.
I ate like a king, surf and turf, Porkchops, Chicken and I drank like a warrior. You can order anything on the menu.
here is what I chose:
breakfast: omelette with ham cheese and homefries, coffee and natural juice
Lunch: chicken and mushroom risotto plus a few rum and cokes
Tapas: smoked porkchop and salmon carpacio a few afternoon cocktails
Dinner: surf and turf with a few cocktails. Excellent!!
late night: cocktails cocktails cocktails and a few nacho chips
so for $79 smackeroonies I got to stay at a great place, ate and drank fresh high quality meals to my hearts content.
it reminded me of the old Club Med except with more perks
I know I may have overdone it but shit I am on vacation.
and I deal with enough stress at home. Normally the stay at la amistad all by itself is a very good experience but this is a game changer.
Here is an extra perk.
for an additional $50 I can add a guest of which they can drink and eat all they want. I had 2 ticas for todo la noche and they drank and ate like queens and I was thier king. This is of course after the bumping the grownup for a few hours. so for an extra $100 I had 2 girls with me and we had a blast.
I know that once the word on street gets out there will be no rooms so i would suggest booking all future trips at least this year here. Matt just extended this special for the rest of the year.
Those Amistad arms bands will become famous downtown like the yellow popular bands.
Look at a time and I am sure alot of guys that visit here can agree.
Costa Rica in general has risen dramatically in prices especially in the area of entertainment with no additional value correspondingly.
Heck they even get more money from you when you pay the extra exit tax.
And then once in a whileyou see some sort of a special promotion or enticement
and you go to take advantage of it you find all the restrictions that go along with it which makes it more a less a bait and switch.
so this was a nice treat.
I could easily have had a meal ( as previously done) with a tica and a 1 or 2 cocktails and drop $60 just for that one meal at the sportsmens.
I have to say kudos to Matt for ZIGGING when everyone is ZAGGING. And its nice to actually be in a position of enjoying immense value at a time where everyone else is trying to nickle and dime you to death.
I hate nickle and Dime stuff.
thanks for being such a great host.
now if you can just offer free
shuttle back and forth to Jaco- you would be my heroDanny
hope your having a great trip