PacoLoco wrote:
kenbrown wrote:
,, how safe would it be for me to park my stuff with the hotel?
20k worth of camera equipment are you nuts? Leave it home!

What he said. This isn't your last trip here and this one is to get yourself acclimated, so bring minimal equipment--it may be possible to rent better locally. Plus, let's be pragmatic--any room thief seeing that much gear available might suffer a heart-attack and die on the spot--wouldn't want to be responsible for that, right?
All this said, I wish you the artistic best on your photo compositions--there's all manner of stuff in CR that needs another interpretation. Death to CR
kitsch!