www.CostaRicaTicas.com

My buddy that does not do internet just stayed at the SL and thank god. If the SL didn't exist, I'd have had to babysit him for 10 days.

Of course he had a great time.

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* These are the "Good Ole Days". Enjoy Them.

* RENT but, "Don't Buy a Home in Costa Rica" until you have lived here for THREE years.

Every email as well as every toll free phone call receive is GOLD to us at Sportsmens Lodge. Our staff knows that everything we do here at SL oringinates with a call or email from our guests. It still frusterates me to see that some people think we do not read or respond to emails. We will continue to work on it from our end however as SRILM said it depends soooo much on spam filter settings on the end we are responding to. Please dont give up on us. If we did not respond to any emails received we simply would not be in business with the current level of low vacancy rates we enjoy at this time.

Thanks,

Bill

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I can vouch that emails originating here often get stuck in Spam filters. It happened to one of my confirmations this week.

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I am never going home

Costa Rica has been identified by the international internet service provider community as a huge spam engine. As a result, IP addresses (and entire blocks of IP addresses) are BANNED/BLOCKED by many big time USA providers such as AT&T; Comcast; TimeWarner, blah, blah, blah.

Outfits like the SL are simply victims of the mass IP bannings/blocks. I have had emails "go missing" to pretty much every business I have interacted with in Costa Rica at one time or another. "Our" hotels have all been victimized by these IP bannings and there is nothing they can really do about it, so cut 'em some slack, eh?

Most places have toll free numbers anyway!! And, even if they don't, it's peanuts to call 'em up on the phone. (Guys will spend $150 USD for a strumpet but not $1.00 for a 5 minute phone call?!! Incredible!!). I rely myself very heavily on faxes as well as emails for "documentation" but have found picking up the phone is pretty simple when an email goes, seemingly, unanswered. Each and every time said email has "gone missing" it has been a result of a banned IP that one of the larger carriers has identified. Here is but one outfit that works 24/7 on bans: http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml and there are TON more. Here's another: http://www.dnsbl.info/ or http://www.dnsbl.org/ . Again, these IP bans are done here in the USA and elsewhere. It isn't done in Costa Rica. There are exceptions to everything, however.

When in doubt, pick up the phone!

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- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

One time I walked into the Sportsmans Lodge and all the employees and Bill were having a big party with jello shots and doing keg stands. And for every shot you drank, you were allowed to delete one email. If you could do 4 shots without puking , you got to break a window too.

It was a great party ! Sorry you missed it.

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* These are the "Good Ole Days". Enjoy Them.

* RENT but, "Don't Buy a Home in Costa Rica" until you have lived here for THREE years.

Thank you Steven 1 and my long time Buddy Boyd for your educated insights,

Toll free number from 7:00am until 11:00pm daily Mountain-time for SL reservation or other onfo requiries...1-800-291-2798 or non toll free 011-506-2222-0218 or 011-506-2221-2533. No excuses..please call if there is an email interuption or no response to your inquiries.


Thanks and ALL the BEST,

Bill

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I use Gmail and I've never had any problems sending/receiving emails from the Sportsmans. I guess it doesn't have any pesky built in filters.

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Man I'm living life like a great white shark swimming with minnows! It's all about panocha, great scotch, fine cigars, loud-ass rock music and speed, speed, speed - plus spending as much time as possible in paradise on earth, Costa Rica!

Believe me it happens. It is why I at least take a glance every couple of weeks in my spam.

Well Bill, I didn't want to start a whole big thing with this post, but a couple of years ago, I wrote the same thing, you sent me a PM on here which I answered & there was no response. Spam filters have nothing to do with PM's on this board.

Don't get me wrong, I like SL & go there for dinner & drinks when I'm in SJ. The service, which used to be pretty bad, has really improved at the bar/restaurant & I've posted to that effect elsewhere. But I'm really not willing to struggle to make a reservation at SL when LA responds to my emails so quickly. They seem to value my patronage, & after the incident described above, I got the opposite impression of SL. It may not be true, I'm just saying that's the impression I got. I'm glad you guys are doing well, but I'll be sticking with La Amistad. Thanks.

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I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

Thanks for the advice, but I use yahoo mail, which sends any spam to a folder so I can review it before deleting. That's not the issue.

Just went back to edit this post...in my original post, I clearly said that a followup PM here was ignored, so I don't know why everyone is thinking that it's a spam issue.

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I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

Well then why not drop it..you act like anybody gives a fugg if you stay there or not...

Stick to Amistad, ain't nobody worried about you. But I will buy you a drink the next time you come into SL


Cujo

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Oh, I have dropped it. I wouldn't have said anything more if everyone hadn't just assumed it was a spam issue. I don't give a rat's ass if anyone cares where I stay. I assume you saw the part of my post that says I'm glad that they're doing well. You must have since you quoted it.

And I'll pass on the drink.

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I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

I've been thinking that someday maybe I would decide to someday
come down if I someday could.
Can anyone recommend whether the Sportsmens Lodge is a nice place to stay?

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Contrary to what folks have said on here about having a hard time to reach the Sportmen's Lodge, I had a good time while there, especially since I feel they went out of their way to make me feel welcome. They answered my emails quickly whenever i emailed them and answered my concerns. There were a few times that it took a couple of hours to answer me back, or the next day, depending on what time I sent the email, but it was always within a few hours at the earliest to 12-24 hours at the latest. The email address that I get a quick response from is info@sportsmenscr.com. Hope this helps.

In my opinion it's the best and always my first choice, That said I am not a frequent traveler been to sick with back problems the last couple years so I am way overdue. They treat you like family will do anything to help and are very genuinely cool people Bill has working with him.


And don't worry half the damn board argues like 12 year old's and it's hard to find a thread without wading through the bullshit, But rest assured you don't see this in person it's all board bullshit.

Now my second choice is where ever Boyd is, not that we are friends but I just have to help anyone who has so many friends has them for a reason, that and it seems like he makes where ever he goes funner and better for us!!!

Have fun and book months early bro!

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LOL I would Love to never hear the word game used again ever again! :)