I am looking to plan a trip this summer to Costa Rica and wanted to spend it surfing with a few friends and stay at a cheap/safe place. Where is a good area for that, that is also conducive to surfing conditions for beginner to intermediate surfers?
Dominical has cheap accomodations and great surf lessons. Dominical sometimes has BIG waves but you can go further out and ride smaller waves as you get proficient.
Playa Hermosa, just after Jaco is full of surf camps and hotels just devoted to surfers. There’s not a lot else to do there especially if you don’t have a car.
You can get lessons and cheap places to stay in Manuel Antonio but the waves aren’t great there. There is more to do in Manuel Antonio but less emphasis on surfing.
Jaco has a surfing scene as well and again plenty of cheap accomodations. The emphasis in Jaco is more about drugs and prosititution but there is a good surf scene albeit more crime. If you were my kid, I’d spend the money and send you to either Manuel Antonio (you’ll haev much more than just surfing to do there including a great national park, good singles scene at night, lots of restuarant choices and area tours to things like white water rafting, zip lines and horseback riding. Another option is Puerto Jimenez, in the corcovado, but it is much further away and will take a day each way to get there and back. Dominical will take about 4 hours from the airport and if you are planning on taking buses, the answer becomes Jaco or Manuel Antonio. Jaco is only about 65 minutes fomr San Jose now that the new Caldera highway is open. Manuel Antonio will take about 2.25 hours from San Jose if you were driving, now with the new highway. My vote is for Manuel Antonio if you want lots to do and for Dominical is your main concern is surfing.
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:13 am
this doesn’t actually answer your question, but if you were to go to puerto rico instead, i highly recommend Surf N Board in Rincon (link below). The couple that runs it is awesome and they drove us to beginner beaches each day and gave us lessons. The rooms were cheap but really nice and the lessons were great and very reasonably priced. And the rooms also look out onto the rainforest. And there are tons of great local restaurants nearby.
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http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g264369-d283698-Reviews-Rincon_Surf_and_Board-Rincon_Puerto_Rico.html
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:58 am
Rincon in Puerto Rico is awesome , ck out Aguadia in Puertto Rico. Currents are not so deadly as in CR Ck with our embassy on the INTERNET for updates about that, also ‘ if you go ‘ Playa Grande is great and not so expensive .
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February 22nd, 2010 at 5:15 am
Dominical has cheap accomodations and great surf lessons. Dominical sometimes has BIG waves but you can go further out and ride smaller waves as you get proficient.
Playa Hermosa, just after Jaco is full of surf camps and hotels just devoted to surfers. There’s not a lot else to do there especially if you don’t have a car.
You can get lessons and cheap places to stay in Manuel Antonio but the waves aren’t great there. There is more to do in Manuel Antonio but less emphasis on surfing.
Jaco has a surfing scene as well and again plenty of cheap accomodations. The emphasis in Jaco is more about drugs and prosititution but there is a good surf scene albeit more crime. If you were my kid, I’d spend the money and send you to either Manuel Antonio (you’ll haev much more than just surfing to do there including a great national park, good singles scene at night, lots of restuarant choices and area tours to things like white water rafting, zip lines and horseback riding. Another option is Puerto Jimenez, in the corcovado, but it is much further away and will take a day each way to get there and back. Dominical will take about 4 hours from the airport and if you are planning on taking buses, the answer becomes Jaco or Manuel Antonio. Jaco is only about 65 minutes fomr San Jose now that the new Caldera highway is open. Manuel Antonio will take about 2.25 hours from San Jose if you were driving, now with the new highway. My vote is for Manuel Antonio if you want lots to do and for Dominical is your main concern is surfing.
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http://www.pacificlots.com/other-links
February 22nd, 2010 at 5:55 am
Remember that wind surfing in Arenal is realy cheap visit http://www.arenalonline.com
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Try it is really great experience
February 22nd, 2010 at 6:07 am
Playa Dominical in Costa Rica is the place for you, here is the website to the surf school & camp there
http://www.crsurfschool.com/
Also the locals from there give classes. Its a beautiful place and a great place to learn.
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