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The recently completed JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa will receive a very special guest on Wednesday night.  The president of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize Winner Oscar Arias will be traveling to Hacienda Pinilla to inaugurate the newest 5 star resort in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

The JW Marriott is located in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste on a secluded beach in the North Pacific Coast.  The resort is made up of 310 luxurious guest rooms and 20 deluxe one-bedroom suites.  The 25,000 sq. ft. pool offers a variety of ambiances for the family as well as private coves for couples.

The Spa at the JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa offers world class treatment at its 10 rooms, 2 vichy shower rooms and 6 outdoor palapas for relaxing massages.  The Spa also includes a beauty parlor as well as a gym equipped with the latest technology.

For the golf enthusiast, an 18-hole golf course is located near the resort and offers its guests magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean while putting golf skills to test.

The location of the JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa is also very convenient for those who seek adventure and sight seeing.  Guanacaste has a variety of adventure tours and protected national parks.  One of the most visited is the Rincon de la Vieja National Park.

The Rincon de la Vieja National Park is home to the volcano with the same name and offers visitors an exciting experience.  Well kept trails will guide visitors through lush vegetation, boiling mud pots, vapor vents, waterfalls and breathtaking views.

The Santa Rosa National Park is also nearby and protects a variety of monkey species and other wildlife while preserving the historic structure of La Casona where a group of Costa Rican farmers defeated the invading forces of William Walker in 1856.

Full article at CostaRicanHotels.com

The exclusive collection of Enchanting Hotels of Costa Rica, will be participating with an own booth at this year’s ITB (Internationale Tourismus Börse), taking place in Berlin, Germany March 11 – 15, 2009. The ITB is world largest and most important tourist fair and benefit the participation suppliers, such as the Costa Rican Hotels, which are proud members of Enchanting Hotels, one-on-one with the ever-growing, yet hard-to-reach audience of European Travel Professionals.

Enchanting Hotels is a prestigious, though young hotel franchise, belonging to Profimercadeo, whose manager is the renowned, professional and well experienced marketing expert Daniel Chavarria. It groups some of the most exclusive Costa Rican hotels and prime tours, such as Hotel Montaña de Fuego at the National Park & Volcano Arenal, Hotel L’Acqua Viva at Guiones, Nosara Beach, both in Guanacaste, Hotel Manatus in Tortuguero, on the North Caribbean Coast, Hotel El Paso de Las Lapas in Jaco Beach, and Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge at Golfo Dulce Osa Conservation Region.  Part of this exclusive group are also with beach location, the Hotel Ecoplaya at Salinas Bay or Isla Bolaños Natural Wildlife Refuge & Esencia Hotel at the stars Beach Santa Teresa & Malpaís.

With this aggressive strategic action, Enchanting Hotel hopes to penetrate an important market niche of over 20,000 participants at this important tourist fair.  This enchanting group of Costa Rican Hotels is focused in bringing an important business share from those attractive sales figures. The whole world meets at ITB Berlin: People, working in the travel industry and people, who want to catch up on the most beautiful travel destinations. The combination of trade exhibition, public exhibition and the biggest professional convention worldwide attracts tens of thousands of visitors, exhibitors and media representatives every year.

Enchanting Hotels will be the only Costa Rica booth at the Pavillion 4 of this Expo, which is dedicated to Youth, Adventure and Ecotourism, so they hope its participation will yield an important competitive advantage, for those leading Hotels from Costa Rica.

Full article at CostaRicanHotels

After remaining closed over a week after the 6.2 earthquake that struck the area on January 8th, 2009, the Poas Volcano National Park has reopened to the public starting Tuesday January 20th.

None of the buildings at the Poas Volcano National Park were harmed during the earthquake.  However, authorities closed the park after the National Emergency Committee requested them to do so in order to leave the roads free of traffic so that rescue teams and volunteers could freely transit the region..

The Poas Volcano is one of the most visited volcanoes in Costa Rica’s Central Valley as it exhibits two magnificent craters.  One of the craters is called the Lake Botos as it has been filled up by nature by deep blue waters.  The other crater has a diameter of 1.5 kilometers and holds a medium sized lake that sends out boiling sulphurous gases.

The trip to the volcano unfolds exuberant vegetation and several acres of coffee plantations that are abundant in the region.  Several tour operators offer a combination of a visit to the Poas Volcano with a visit to a local coffee plantation.

Visitors are guided through the Coffee Plantation as they learn all about the plant and the weather conditions needed for its perfect growth.  The guide then proceeds to explain the entire process from the moment the coffee bean is picked to the moment when a delicious hot cup of coffee is placed on the table.

Lunch is normally served at the Coffee Plantation as guests overlook the lush green mountains of the Central Valley while enjoying a typical Costa Rican dish.

Hotels in the area are normally lodges that also function as a diary farm.  Spending the night in the cloud forest and waking up to the sounds of a diary farm is an experience that should not be missed.

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OK, so the holidays have only just ended, but if you’re planning your next break to give yourself something to look forward to, perhaps you should consider Latin America — especially if you want a holiday that won’t damage anything but your wallet.