Holiday review by Rebecca K

There was so much that was really good that t's hard to select just one. The main things that in my mind are: Going kayaking in the early morning at Tortuguero. We booked it easily through the hotel when we arrived, the trip left punctually (6a.m., no messing about), the guide was very good and the place itself was beautiful. Riding on the beach at Tamarindo. The girls and I went back two days later for another go, and never have I had such a long, exuberant, yee-hah! canter on such an enthusiastic horse, and I've ridden since I was a small child. Swimming under waterfalls: we did this a lot, very cooling in the heat. And the wildlife, all over the place - peccaries at Arenal, spider monkeys at Tortugeuro and several other places, Capuchin monkeys at Cahuita, sloths all over the place, snakes, butterflies, incredibly varied birdlife (some of it watching and waiting as you ate your breakfast), insanely tame iguanas (including one swimming in the hotel pool at Tamrindo), and of course the dawn chorus of very vocal howler monkeys. I spent ages one morning watching howlers in the hotel grounds at Tamarindo, some of them maybe only 15 feet away.