Do’s and Don’ts of Costa Rica: Top Tips from Locals

With more and more tourists visiting Costa Rica every year, it’s extremely important for us to share tips like these, our top “do’s and don’ts” to help everyone have a great and safe time and respect local customs.

Some of these come from Yeison, a Costa Rican and some of these come from me, an American in Costa Rica so that you have a better idea of what to expect, how to plan a great trip, what to be aware of and how to behave.

Here are our do’s and don’ts of Costa Rica.

The Do’s of Costa Rica

Do plan ahead

Costa Rica is not exactly the best country to just “wing it.” You can have a very bad time if you do that! It’s not super easy getting around Costa Rica, it is extremely busy during the holidays, it’s more expensive than other Central American countries and rainy seasons here are nothing to joke about (I’ll get to that part in a second).

So make sure you plan your trip. Research and decide which places you want to go to, what are your “Must sees”…