Written by Nikki Solano

Nikki is the CEO of Pura Vida! eh? Inc. (Costa Rica Discounts), and the author of the guidebooks Moon Costa Rica (2019, 2021, 2023, and 2025 editions) and Moon Best of Costa Rica (2022 edition) from Moon Travel Guides. Together with her Costa Rican husband, Ricky, she operates the Costa Rica Travel Blog, created the online community DIY Costa Rica, built the Costa Rica Destination Tool, oversees the brand-new (summer 2023) Costa Rica Travel Shop, and designed the Costa Rica Trip Planning 101 E-Course. Also, Nikki wrote the Costa Rica cover feature for Wanderlust Magazine's sustainability-focused Travel Green List issue, showcased Costa Rica destinations and experiences on Rick Steves' Monday Night Travel show and podcast/radio show, and served as the Costa Rica Destination Editor for Essentialist, a luxury travel brand. Want to show your appreciation for her free article below? Thank Nikki here. ❤️️

We’re proud to call Costa Rica tourism companies our friends

Success is about precision: you don’t need to be the best at something to be successful at it, you just need to be precise. Take sports, for example. You don’t need to have kissed the Stanley Cup or earned a Super Bowl ring to be a remarkable player. You need know-how, technique, and talent, and that’s about it. Even if you’re not the greatest person to have ever stepped on the field or the ice, if you’re good, consistently and meticulously good like a precise player always is, you can achieve greatness.

Victory, then, is more about making a steadfast commitment to the practice of preciseness than it is about final scores. In other words, being victorious is about investing in the challenge of a win, not the win itself.

We’ve operated our business, Pura Vida! eh? Inc., since the mid-2000s and we learned early on that no business is perfect. And we don’t strive to align ourselves with perfect colleagues because, spoiler alert, they don’t exist either. Who we hope to work with are precise individuals, workers who pay attention to detail and carryout their jobs with care consistently throughout the tenure of their employment. Both successful and victorious, these individuals are the champions of Costa Rica’s booming tourism industry. They aren’t interested in clobbering opponents or being MVPs, they simply show up and contribute, day after day. Because of them, the industry train keeps chugging along like a well-oiled machine that has no reason to run off the rails.

The business relationships we have with many Costa Rican tourism companies are reciprocal: when our colleagues do a great job, our business flourishes, and vice versa. We know we can count on our faithful colleagues and they know they can count on us because we’ve spent many years developing mutual trust. In many cases, lasting friendships, which we continue to cherish, are born out of that trust.

Kudos to you, Costa Rican tourism companies!

On behalf of the team behind this blog and our sister projects, Pura Vida! eh? Inc. and DIY Costa Rica, we dedicate this post to our colleagues, who are positively pura vida.

To each one of you who goes above and beyond your work duties to make our clients’ experiences extraordinary, or who brightens our days with friendly communication, thank you for being you. We are able to perform well because you precisely and committedly do your best, and for this we could not be more grateful.

Salud (cheers) to the following Costa Rican tourism companies and individuals who have made a positive difference in our business operations:

Note: We have done our best to compile a complete list of company and employee names below. However, we may have missed some faithful partners, and if so, we apologize. An omission of a name below is not a suggestion that the company or employee isn’t valuable. Please also note that the employees named below may no longer work for the companies cited.

Listed in alphabetical order by company name:

• Daniela, Pamela, and Sonia at 100% Aventura
• Gordon, Wendy, and Tatiana at Adventure Tours CR
• Wendy, Emily, and Fabian at Amigos Del Rio
• Randall and Anyuli at Arenal Manoa
• Karen, Jorge, Evelyn, Luis, Mariam, Jeffry, Stephanie, Ricardo, and Macoy at Arenal Mundo Aventura
• Ronald, Allan, Cecilia, and Estelia at the Arenal Natura Park
• Miguel and Erlyn at the Arenal Springs Resort
• Betsabe, Esmeralda, Cindy, and Brian at Buena Vista Lodge
• Maricela, Nicole, Tatiana, Katherine, Lexie, Abigail, Tania, Ivonne, Rommel, Byron, Grettel, and Yessenia at Canoa Aventura and Maquenque Ecolodge
• Carolina at Casa Del Mar
• Milton and Elieth at Casona Rio Fortuna
• Roberto and Chepa at the Club Rio Outdoor Center
• Simon at Conchal Hotel
• Christine, Suresh, Daniela, Daisy, David, Diego, Leo, Cesar, Kathy, Kathe, Kimberly, Danny, Bryan, Roy, Geovanny, Yency, Maichal, William, Jason, Tatiana, Joilyn, Eduardo, Jordana, Pablo, Keylor, Vanessa, Ruddy, Josue, Victor, Ronny, Luis, and Onel at Desafio Adventure Company
• Alejandro, Jessica, and Jeffrey at the Costa Rica Chocolate Tour
• Cristina and Alex at the Don Juan Coffee Tour
• Viviana, Roger, and Sylvia at Ecotrans Costa Rica
• Yalile at El Establo
• Eliomar and Erlyn at El Silencio Del Campo
• Marjorie and Jairo at El Trapiche Tour
• Miguel, Yency, Carolina, Andrea, Monica, Veronica, Laura, Taz, Roberto, Michael, Kenneth, Greivin, Yonder, Esteban, Jefferson, William, Roy, Henry, Leo, and Vivian at Exploradores Outdoors
• Johanna and Jorge at the Falls Resort
• Sandy at the Gaia Hotel and Reserve
• Leo, Edwin, Jose, Andrey, and Sharon at H2O Rios Tropicales
• Johanna and Susan at Hotel Arenal Jireh
• Paula, Cindy, and Gaby at Hotel Buena Vista
• Lisbeth at Hotel Campo Verde
• Federico and Yanory at Hotel Cerro Lodge
• Manrique at Hotel Fonda Vela
• Josephine and Manrique at Hotel Leyenda
• Andrey and Manfred at Hotel Mariposa
• Jennifer and Chip at Hotel Mono Azul and Kids Saving The Rainforest
• Gabriela and David at Hotel Playa Espadilla
• Javier and Nelson at Hotel Plaza Yara
• Isabel at Hotel Poco a Poco and the Monteverde Country Lodge
• Josue and Manuel at Hotel Presidente
• Randall at Hotel Verde Mar
• Diego, Silvia and Jennifer at Interbus
• Gina and Jorge at Laguna Lodge
• Mike and Jonathan at La Posada Jungle
• Jason, Jackelin, and Noribeth at La Pradera Del Arenal
• Cody at Lodge Las Ranas
• Juan, Pablo, and Edgar at Manuel Antonio Expeditions
• Alejandro, Javier, Eduardo, Ricardo, Manuel, Bryan, Elieth, Carlos, and Yazmin at Mapache Rent-A-Car
• Jeff, Cinthia, and Jonathan at Marlin Del Rey
• Eugenia and Julio at Mawamba Lodge
• Johenny and Maria at Midworld Costa Rica
• Tadeo, Jimmy, Cristina, Marianela, Marilu, and Andres at the Mistico Park
• Ignacio, Cinthya and Keilor at Montana de Fuego
• Manrique at Monteverde Extremo
• Jose, Argerie, and Ernesto at Monteverde Rustic Lodge
• Heiner and Ana at Monteverde Villa Lodge
• Meynor at the Morpho Souvenir Store
• Milton, Randall, Santos, Alonso, and Alcides at Planet Dolphin
• Mario at Punta Fusion
• Cristian, Gabriel, Alex, and Nuelvin at Pure Trek
• Jimmy at Restaurante Nene’s
• Violeta, Sandra, Roy, and Mario at Royal Corin
• Clemence at Samara Pacific Lodge
• Daniella, Scarleth, and Yahaira at Selvatura
• Antonio, Jennifer, and Karolina at Shuttle Bus CR
• Irenia, Evelyn, and Dennys at the Si Como No Resort
• Nuria, Luis, Marlene, Alexandra, Yazmin, Keiner, Jesus, Xiomara, Maria, Yasmin, Nadeska, and Antonella at Sky Adventures
• Emmit, Carlos, and Jimmy at Soda La Parada
• Mario and Marita at Soda Viquez
• Andrea, Joselyn, Alvaro, Yorllinela, and Delio at the Springs Resort and Spa
• Kathya, Yahaira, and Enrique at Tamarindo Diria
• Byron, Manuel, and Abel at Titi Canopy Tour
• Suzy, Dan, and Miguel at Villa Decary
• Leonardo at Villa del Sueno
• Henry at Villa Vanilla
• Wendy and Karina at VIP Costa Travel
• Adriana at Volcano Lodge
• Lucy at the Xandari Resort

QUESTION TO COMMENT ON: Did you have a great experience with a Costa Rica tourism company or one or more of their employees? We would love to hear about it!

Pura vida!

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