I would highly recommend this company
Costa Rica | Sep 6 - Sep 14, 2023

Yelena
Yelena S.
Castro Valley, CA | Reviewed on Sep 15, 2023

My husband and I are very happy with the trip we took to Costa Rica. It was such an amazing experience. We did variety of tours that included waterfalls, volcano hike, thermal pool day pass, lots of rainforest walks with plenty of animals to see, beach time. We had great experiences with the tours, very knowledgeable tour guides that made the tours fun. Hotels that we choose were also pretty good with tasty food options and free breakfast. I love about Kimkim how they planned the trip for us. From the beginning they answered my questions, were very responsive, made adjustments based on our budget and requests, made recommendations what tour to choose and when. Able to answer questions about the country such as currency, charging ports, weather. Very knowledgeable in trip planning. I would book a trip with them again. It’s worth the money.

Hotel Reviews
Hotel Presidente San Jose City Center
San José

Hospitable workers, clean room, amazing jacuzzi, tasty breakfast. Pretty place.

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In center of town, close to airport
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Arenal Country Inn
Fortuna

Hospitable workers, clean room, tasty breakfast and beautiful location. Nice pool. Negative: poor lighting in the room.

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Hotel Heliconia
Monteverde Costa Rica

Very beautiful place. Room with a beautiful view. Very spacious and clean. Good breakfast, nice staff. Negative: bathtub plunge didn’t work so it kept draining the water, no space in bathroom for personal hygiene items and poor lighting. But overall we would stay at this location again.

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Karahé Beach Hotel
Manuel Antonio

Hospitable workers, clean room, tasty breakfast which was included. Lunch and dinner and drinks to buy but also pretty good. Beautiful view of the ocean. Has a pool but very strict on the close time which is 730/8pm. Provide beach towels. Location central to the tours we took. Negative: poor lighting in the room.

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Holiday Inn San José-Aurola
San José

We stayed at the place for 6 hours to rest before flying out back home. Clean room with AC, friendly staff. In center of San Jose. Negative: poor lighting.

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Activity Reviews
San José City Tour
San José City Tour
San José

The tour guide gave us information in the car and then told us to get out of the car and look around at the location we stopped at. We stopped at 3 places and rest of the time we sat in the car looking out the window. We would not recommend THIS tour company for San Jose tour .

Quality of Experience
Food
Lunch we paid for it but the recommendation for lunch was good.
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Arenal Volcano Hike & La Fortuna Waterfall
Arenal Volcano Hike & La Fortuna Waterfall
Arenal/La Fortuna

The tour guide was great. Very knowledgeable and took as many photos as we wanted of us. Provided great knowledge of the places we saw.

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The Springs Hot Springs
The Springs Hot Springs
Arenal/La Fortuna

This place is soo amazing and pretty. It has lots of pool options with different temperatures. There were bars in each pool section. Very pretty views. Nice staff. Negative: the included dinner didn’t have good options. The food we choose wasn’t great.

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Food
Drinks were good but included dinner options weren’t.
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Sloth & Bird Hike
Sloth & Bird Hike
Arenal/La Fortuna

The tour guide was very knowledgeable. We saw 4 sloughs, bats, frogs, insects and different plants/trees. Pretty good tour.

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Treetopia: Tram,  Zip Lines & Hanging Bridges
Treetopia: Tram, Zip Lines & Hanging Bridges
Monteverde

This was a fun activity. Great staff and your guides. Very knowledgeable. The zip line staff made us comfortable and safe during the activity. We saw monkeys, snakes, slough, plants/trees in the cloud forest.

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Coffee Experience and Nighttime Nature Walk
Coffee Experience and Nighttime Nature Walk
Monteverde

The tour guide taught us about coffee, gave us samples to drink, showed us how to extract sugar from sugar cane, provided a sample of a sugar cane drink. During the night hike we were able to spot different birds, a snake and insects, frogs.

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Guides, Drivers and Staff
Transport
Picked us up 30 min late because the drive couldn’t find the hotel.
Full Day Waterfall Adventure
Full Day Waterfall Adventure
Costa Rica

This was an amazing tour. We had a driver and two young tour guides who were fun, knowledgeable but at the same time respected us. On this tour you visit different waterfall locations that you can jump into the waterfall pool including a waterfall slide. My husband loved jumping off the waterfall but I decided to just swim/cool off in the water just because I am afraid if heights. The tour guides showed my husband how to jump safely and provided clear instructions. The tour guides didn’t push me to do stuff that I didn’t feel comfortable with. We had a delicious lunch at a tilapia farm and headed to a secluded beach. We had a coco loco drink and swam at the ocean. We had an amazing time this paddle 9 company.

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Manuel Antonio National Park Guided Nature Hike
Manuel Antonio National Park Guided Nature Hike
Manuel Antonio

Guide was very knowledgeable and fun. In the park we were able to spot monkeys, sloughs, crabs, birds and different types of plants/trees. We had option to stay at the beach and swim but we didn’t have the time as we had to check out and get transferred to San Jose for our departure. But we were still able to see the beach and take photos.

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Local specialist: Gustavo Camperos