We Got Scammed in Costa Rica

CAT TOURS ARE SCAMMERS!

Well, if all good things come to an end, we got home from Costa Rica, tired, suntanned and with a squished Panama hat.

We had lots of photos and even made some new friends.

However, imagine our surprise when we got our credit card bill. We had booked a few days trips with CAT Tours of Costa Rica. They canceled one of our tours the day before the tour. We asked for the receipt but were assured that the charge didn't go through on our credit card. They seemed like a trustworthy company to book a tour with and we didn't think they would rip us off. But rip us off they did!

They charged us $130 american dollars for a trip to the rain forest. We were really hoping to go on this trip because we had never seen a rain forest, plus the trip offered zip-lining which sounded like fun, swinging by rope from tree to tree.

We got home and found the charge for this canceled trip on our credit card statement. We contacted CAT Tours repeatedly and they kept saying the tour was not canceled and that we did take the tour. They were lying to us and keeping our $130.

I read around the internet and found a site which had an article about it on scams in Costa Rica by CAT Tours. It must be a common experience for people to get scammed by this company. It's really left a bad taste in our mouth about Costa Rica. I did some other searching on the internet and found out there are many other tourist scams in Costa Rica. I guess if Costa Rican travel businesses can't operate honestly they're going to lose a lot of business to tourists. Business I thought they wanted and needed. That's the last time we'll use CAT TOURS because they're such tourist scam artists.