Costa Rica Travel Tips – Fly Sansa and Bring Earplugs on the Plane

Travel to the Pacific side of Costa Rica from the US has proven to be a little difficult at times. And when I say difficult I mean expensive. The closest airport to Coco Beach is in Liberia. The facilities are really not much more than a hangar, but based on the cost of an airplane ticket and the cost of a cup of coffee from the airport’s only restaurant, you’d think you were flying to Club Med.

Despite all that, the Liberia airport is still pretty nice and easy to navigate — you can even sneak on to some Wi-Fi if you sit in the right spot.

Here’s Jason writing a blog post for OurNewOffice.com before we boarded our plane back to Denver.

Last week we flew to Denver to catch up on a few things and take care of some business. We were only gone for about a week so it wasn’t long before we were back on a plane headed to Costa Rica again.

On the return flight we decided to take the red eye from Denver to San Jose and then take a smaller flight on Sansa Airlines to Liberia. The Sansa route was less expensive and it was far more adventurous to sit on a 12-seater over a 747.

The biggest hassle wasn’t that our flight left at 12:10am. It wasn’t even that difficult to pack four months worth of supplies into two small suitcases.

The hardest part of our return trip was the fact that the two flight attendants on the Denver-San Jose leg would not stop talking. Not only were they talking a lot, but they were talking loudly and right next to us (of course we were in the back of the plane).

Having both took a Benedryl we were ready for sleep almost immediately and were not too happy about the constant interruption. Is it so hard? I mean, isn’t it obvious I don’t want to drink? I’m sleeping!

Jason resorted to a few deep sighs and at one point I even put my fingers in my ears trying to shut it all out.

So learn from us. Travel tip number 1,216: Bring earplugs on each and every flight. They might even be more valuable than some silly pillow that hardly helps anyway.