Costa Rica Family Vacation with Costa Rica Dream Adventures

We’re off on a Costa Rica Family Vacation with Nadja Castillo from Costa Rica Dream Adventures. Join us to explore the perfect itinerary full of beaches, sloths, sea turtles, jungles, volcanos, waterfalls, ziplining, and more adventure in this wonderful country.

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Tell us about Costa Rica Dream Adventures.

Costa Rica Dream Adventures is a tour operator based in Atlanta, and we also have an office in San Jose, Costa Rica. We’ve been in business for 20 years. We only sell Costa Rica, and our packages include transportation, lodging, and excursions.

Even though Costa Rica is a small country, it can be complicated to move from one place to another. And people want to go to the rainforest and then they want to go to the beach. We put all the pieces of the puzzle together to give you a dream vacation.

We do a lot of family vacations and multi-generational family vacations. Costa Rica is a place where you can have multiple experiences in 8 days from beach to rainforest to volcano. And we try to offer activities that everyone can do, even grandma and even a two-year-old. When you work with us, we interview you to get to know the entire group.

As we have an office in Costa Rica, you have access to your representative 24/7 while you are in the country. We provide a welcome airport greeting and from there, the driver will take you to your next destination. We’ll pick you up for every excursion and the transfers between locations.

What makes Costa Rica a great destination for families?

Families will love all the activities, like nature walks and sloth nature hike walks. We have the hanging bridges. We have the volcano. It’s always as a backdrop when you go to the rainforest. You can do volcano hiking. You have hot springs that come from the veins of the volcano.

If you’re more adventurous, we can do rafting, zip lining, and rappelling. We have longer hikes. It depends on the preference of the travelers.

And doing all of this together as a family is just something everyone will remember. That’s why we have lots of families that come every two years.

I think the experience that you can give your kids with a trip like this, is how nature connects with people. It will give your children an experience of other cultures and allow them to see more than what they are used to seeing at home.

Costa Rica is one of the original blue zones in the world where the healthiest, longest-living population is. It was also named one of the happiest places in the world.

The food is so fresh. Many of the hotels and restaurants have their farm and they grow their vegetables, and they take it farm to the table. And fishing is good all year round so there’s great fresh fish.

The people are amazingly friendly and welcoming. The Pura Vida lifestyle is laid back and welcoming, and you just feel it from the moment you arrive.

And it’s easy to get to Costa Rica. We have a lot of international nonstop flights available from Florida, New York, Newark, and LA to our two main airports, the San Jose airport and the Liberia airport, and major airlines two or three times a day.

What is a great Costa Rica Family Vacation Itinerary?

For an 8-to-10-day vacation, they fly into San Jose and stay there for one night and the next morning, we take them to the Caribbean side of Costa Rica to Tortuguero for turtle watching which is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It’s the most significant green sea turtle nesting site in the Western Hemisphere. The green sea turtles’ season is from July to October.

You do a boat transfer and then you arrive at your destination as all the accommodations are eco-lodges and located inside the National Park. On one side you have the ocean and on the other side, you have the river.

You are in the middle of the jungle with lots of wildlife to see. We recommend 2-3 nights here. It’s like the little Amazon of Costa Rica with all the river canals.

Costa Rica Family Vacation: La Fortuna

What we do next is take them to La Fortuna, which is home to the Arenal Volcano. That’s where you get your adventure. You have hot springs. There are tons of spas in that area as well. You can do zip lining, hanging bridges, sloth hikes, rappelling, rafting, and lots of adventure.

I always recommend doing 3-4 nights as there is tons to see in Arenal.

Here you can see the three-toed sloth in the wild which is very unique. We also have a lot of rescue centers in Costa Rica where people can go and visit to see sloths being rehabilitated before they are released back into the wild.

Costa Rica is very conscious about wildlife. You will see a lot of monkeys during your trip, jumping from one tree to another. When you are out with our guides, they know when the monkeys are coming. They even smell the monkey before the monkey shows up. And then you see all those howler monkeys coming. And with that deep voice they have, they are the loudest mammal in the world.

You will also notice how respectful we are to Mother Earth. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse places in the world. We believe in renewable energy. I think we are 99.7 percent of renewable energy. You will see how clean, protected, and well-maintained places are.

You’ll love enjoying your local Costa Rican coffee every morning on your balcony seeing the backdrop of the volcano. The volcano takes the entire city as it’s a small town. And in the evening, you’ll be relaxing in the Arenal hot springs.