Coco Beach Costa Rica

We went to Coco Beach for the day with a few of our friends. We took two taxis from the Sol Papagayo Hotel and paid $20 for each way.

Coco Beach was pretty nice. There are lots of shops to buy souvenirs, lots of restaurants, bars and night clubs. There's a large grocery store there where you can buy everything and it's pretty cheap. We stocked up on cigarettes, cheap wines, some fruit drinks and snacks.

The beach is quite nice with a lot of yachts and boats out on the water. It's a white sand beach with clean blue water. Most of the people we saw on the beach were locals. We had lunch at this greasy spoon type chicken place, I can't for the life of me remember it's name, but the lunch was a bargain price.

We walked around the shops and bought a few things. Dave bought his wife and my husband blowup crocodiles so they can use then around the pool because neither of them can swim. They were really cute floatation devices for kids. Lots of pool fun was to be had later at the pool with the Crocs.

My husband and I bought a few t-shirts, flip flops, earrings (very nice beaded ones), a long sun dress and a couple of shirts which are either called Bermuda or Hawaiian shirts. Don't know the lingo these days. I also bought a beautiful Panama hat for $10 (remember, we were supposed to go to Panama) and I'd always wanted a Panama hat. The sad thing about the Panama hat was that I put it in the luggage compartment overhead and this fat lady threw her back hat on it, totally crushing the thing. I was so upset because I'd always wanted a Panama hat and it was completely destroyed.

Oh, well, I have to get to Panama one day is the meaning of this lesson learned. But we did get to Nicaragua and see some nice things and some lovely little Colonial Granada hotels.  The whole place was really charming and we went and saw not only Granada, but a volcano and many other cities - all in one day, leaving early in the morning and getting back late at night.  It was so exhausting.

The stores at Coco beach had lots of great souvenirs to buy and going to Coco Beach is worth the day trip.

Weather in Costa Rica is hot, hot, hot.