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As many of you know, I've been a big fan of Scotland Apartments but my experience with them last week left a bad taste. The prices have also gone up A LOT.
I stayed there all of September then moved in with Alicia. I was paying $550 a month for the decripit side. Well, after things went south with Alicia, returned to Scotland to try to get a room for a few days.
"We don't rent rooms by the day" said the lady.
"OK, then I'll need a week." I say
"Well, we don't have any of the less expensive apartments and a week across the street is $350 plus $200 deposit for the key".
"I don't have that much with me now, can you wait till Monday?"
"No"
So, after staying there for a total of four months, they weren't willing to help out and even seemed to be making it difficult. Left me in a bind for a place to stay on short notice.
I just thought, after staying there for so long, being a good tenent, meeting the owner and all, they'd have tried to help out a bit but I guess down here it really is all about the money!
Or maybe I'm still in a bad mood....

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It really is all about the money.

A week at Hotel Castillo in a standard room cash with CRT discount... less than $240. I guess, though, you have found a place for the moment.

Berk....

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Never understood why anybody with any experience in CR would ever stay there. Way way over priced and so many better options.

Good location though.

Scotland Apts.....I'm there now...Front office is not too friendly.

Place would never pass code. Ceiling drips water. Wall has mold. With the faucets, I cant remember which side is hot or cold..

Charges me 2K to change towels, but I have to bring them over.

Man, I'm glad I didn't chose to stay there.

As soon as I read Prostoner's post I was thinking the exact same thing.

Is Marlene gone? Sure she'd follow the boss's rules but she was always helpful and friendly. They have never rented by the day, which is why they are called apartments and you don't have to pay the hotel tax. I stayed there for a month 10 years ago and am not tempted to go back, though getting mugged in Barrio California some years later makes it even less attractive for me. They stay pretty full from what I heard from Marlene when a friend and I stopped in about 2 years ago when he was looking for a place. The apartment I had 10 years ago was above Marlene's and her yappy dog kept me awake, which was the biggest annoyance. It was around the corner from the Spanish Language school I went to and I saw an ad for it in the Tico Times. In those days, I walked home from the gulch in the middle of the night, though I wouldn't think of it now.

I would expect that the whole country is a little bit mildewed right now after all the rain I've been reading about. That is not unusual at this time of year.

Compared to the Scotland Apartments, Hotel Nuevo Johnson is a freaking bargain.

$300 a month. More towels = 1K colones, they change for you. TV, private bath, average bed.

You *might* want to bring your own linens and purchase a freaking pillow. My head needs some pump (either flesh or fabric) and those so called pillows don't cut it.

But, the rooms are clean, the hotel is built solidly and should at least let you live several minutes after it collapses in a 5.0 trembler, minimally. Fires would be fun as you'd have to run down a flaming hallway, or take you chances and jump in an enclosed alley-like passage outside your window where you'd be electrocuted while falling as you brush past the exposed electrical 220v contacts.

In all, a fun place. But, its' a hella lot cheaper. And the only thing that was dripping was me. Ehr, lemme revise that...