Still deciding where to spend your holiday vacation? Costa Rican hotels are filling up fast for the upcoming year-end holidays, with hotel owners expecting eight of every 10 rooms to be occupied, according to a recent survey by the National Tourism Chamber (CANATUR).
Travelers crossing Costa Rica's border into Nicaragua must now pay an additional $5 "roadway tax." But travelers can only pay the tax at a Bancrédito branch, and there are no Bancrédito offices or ATMs at the border.
Important bills including one that would legalize in vitro fertilization and another that would renew permission for joint patrols with U.S. vessels could be put on hold.
