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justhookit

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  1. I didn’t realize they did that on the villas. Good to know.
  2. Like you say it’s not horrible. Sort of like every other restaurant in this town except Venetian. It’s either fried tourist food or “high end” that is way overpriced for the quality like Roosevelt’s, Phoenix, Black Marlin, Lisabella’s.
  3. We’ve lost our 3 best restaurants (Pelican Club/Liberty Hall/Inferno, Shells, and Marcel’s). All 3 had owners who retired and nobody new has come in with anything good. There is no variety. I’d kill for a good Mexican restaurant.
  4. Just get a driver to get you to Arenal, Manuel Antonio and the airport and save yourself the hassle of driving there. I’m not sure why you are seeing that Tulemar is week long rentals only. But a week there is about perfect.
  5. Despite all the growth in Port A the food scene is somehow worse than ever. Shells is gone it has been replaced by a BierHaus based out of Lubbock. Venetian Hot Plate is still your best bet for dinner. There’s a new oyster place by Castaways called KC’s Oyster Shack that is pretty good. Cinnamon Shore added a new restaurant about a month ago but I have heard nothing about it yet. There are a couple of new bars, the best being Sip Yard. It’s all outdoors with a live music stage and a food court.
  6. August is one of the “cooler” months because it is rainy season but it is always hot in CR. Around 90 degrees and humid year round unless you are in the mountains. If you do end up in Manuel Antonio let me know, I’ll be there and will take y’all fishing one day if you want. I only went down to the main beach once while we were their last trip. Didn’t notice anything going on around Buena Vista. They are starting to see a pretty big decline in tourism numbers - it’s very noticeable. Doubt we will see much new development anytime soon. Yup. August through October is generally the worst of rainy season. Sometimes November too. That said it’s pretty rare to lose a whole day or trip due to rain. I was there for almost 3 months last year from July until the end of September and never had a problem. This year April was much more rainy than usual and it’s been raining a ton in late May. January, February, and March it is sunny every day.
  7. Exactly. Now, if you don’t mind just staying on property all day it’s fine. And at Tulemar you can walk to some really great restaurants. But you won’t be able to take either kid on any excursions.
  8. The problem with Parador is no beach access and it’s not on the main road so you have to take a taxi to anywhere you want to go. There are a ton of nice properties in Manuel Antonio and some are nicer than Tulemar. But because of Tulemar’s location it is really, really hard to beat. And it will be much easier with kids with 10 good restaurants within walking distance.
  9. Tulemar resort in Manuel Antonio is probably my first and only choice for your situation. A very distant 2nd choice would be Los Suenos but there isn’t nearly as much nature stuff there. I’m very hesitant to tell people with kids that young that CR is a good vacation choice.
  10. I had typed out a couple of paragraphs regarding this and hit submit and the post disappeared. Pretty much how my last 5 days have been. The very condensed version is after the Day1 cancellation AA provided a hotel but after waiting for everyone on the flight to collect luggage, waiting for the shuttle that went to the hotel on the opposite side of town from the airport, then waiting to check in it was 3-4 hours of time. So Day 2 and 3 cancellations we just booked our own hotel and paid for it. I wasn’t going to put my wife, or me, through that again.
  11. I think I mentioned I’m leaving a lot of stuff out. One other minor detail that kept us from doing anything in Barcelona was that my wife actually received 29 text messages over the 3 days of flight delays/cancellations/rebookings. So even if we weren’t at the airport waiting, or trying to get to/from a hotel, we never even had a large enough window to plan a nice dinner or something. I got 11 text notifications in the first 24 hours. After that they just stopped. Not sure what we would have done if she didn’t keep receiving hers because it was the only source of communication we have had with anyone at AA, other than calling their help line ourselves.
  12. Well This is the problem. Half of the day 2 days in a row we were actually at the airport. The 3rd day we didn’t actually go to the airport, but didn’t know our flight was cancelled until just before lunch. It’s not like we could have planned anything major. We had already been in Barcelona for 4 days prior to this clusterfuck so we were done with what we wanted to do anyway. Booked with miles. Obviously a full refund plus expenses is coming but they better do a lot more than that. Will keep this thread updated. We finally got home an hour ago. 3 am after traveling Barcelona-Madrid-DFW-Corpus today. 23 hours today. Iberia Airlines got us back. BUT THEY LOST ONE OF THE TWO CHECKED BAGS. Technically it’s not lost as I can see my AirTag sitting at Barcelona airport terminal 1. Despite arriving 3.5 hours prior to our flight that bag somehow never even started our journey today.
  13. It’s AA. Status isn’t helping. We have the best friend of one of their VP’s with us and she is stuck too. We also all tried other airlines but this being a busy travel weekend everything else was booked up too. One of my phone calls this morning was pretty funny. The agent I spoke with said oh my god I just dealt with another passenger on your flight. She said “what the fuck I can’t fucking believe this is happening”. I laughed and so did she.
  14. Day 1 was mechanical for sure. Our flight was delayed an hour to begin with, then they called their club members and first class which included us. We then stood on the jetway for 30 minutes until they finally let us go to our seats. They already knew something was wrong. Sometime in the 1st hour the pilot said they were having an instrument problem but they were going to try “turning the plane off and on again”. Not kidding. I then took an hour nap and when I woke up the pilot said they were flying a new part in from London and they would take us to a hotel and fly out the next day at 8am. Hahaha. sometime during the night we got about 5 texts informing us of various delays that kept pushing departure up until it finally settled at about 6 pm. With nothing else to do we went ahead and headed to the airport at noon. They cancelled our flight at 5 while everyone was at the gate. No explanation and no gate agent. Nobody at ticket counter. Text saying flight rescheduled for 3 pm today. So we booked a hotel and spent the night only to get the text at 11 this morning that flight was cancelled again. At least we hadn’t left the hotel yet. New text says we are rebooked tomorrow at 1:30 in the afternoon. On Iberia. Thank god. im leaving a lot of shit out.
  15. Well plenty of time now. But I’m too pissed to type much of anything. Just got the text that our flight was cancelled again. Good news? Is we are rebooked tomorrow on Iberia so maybe they can actually make the flight happen. surly we can’t get cancelled 4 days in a row.
  16. I don’t have time for the details now, but in about an hour my wife and I will be headed to the Barcelona airport for the 3rd time in 3 days to try and fly home. Day 1 they cancelled our flight after everyone had been on board for 2 hours. Day 2 they cancelled the flight an hour before departure. Can’t wait to see what fun we have in store for us today. Good news is I now know where to find good cheap beer at BCN. As a United and Southwest flyer the lack of customer service from AA has been shocking. Fuck these people.
  17. I always tell people to spend as little time as possible in San Jose. You are very near Escazu. Avenida Escazu has great restaurants and some shopping. There’s an excellent Capitol Grill, a very good Italian restaurant, a Peruvian restaurant, and more.
  18. Man the best surf fishing trip I ever had was at that jetty in May about 10 years ago. Crystal clear water flat surf and fish everywhere chasing mullet. Caught well over 200 bull reds, kingfish, jacks, and tarpon. Also had a sailfish show just out of casting range.
  19. I love basketball. I love women. I will never watch a second of WNBA basketball. It’s trash.
  20. Finally found the translation and it turns out the reference to Dallas isn’t interesting. He might as well have called out the two of us from Port Aransas or maybe just said “muledick”. It’s been an incredible trip so far due to timing that was pure luck. After the pope we have managed to hit Monaco as they are staging for next weekend’s F1 race and then traveled over to Cannes film festival. Cruise has been on a small ship (Windstar line) and has hit some really cool places between Italy and France. We arrive Barcelona in 2 days which is probably what I’m looking forward to most. so far Portofino Italy has been our favorite stop on the cruise.Absolutely stunning scenery and the locals all got a kick out of our boat name.
  21. It appears to be 1. Possibly more?
  22. Wife and I had lunch in Ferrara on our way from Venice to Florence a few days ago so looks like you were there. Currently in Portofino. This is my first time in Italy and absolutely loving it so far.
  23. That’s crazy. I have to put at least an hour or 2 per month making a trip to nowhere on my diesel engines just to keep all the moving parts working.
  24. Josh Garcia. Great, funny guy and also a Longhorn.
  25. We were able to get about halfway inside the square to see Leo at noon. We got there later than we wanted but it worked out because by the time he started speaking people were lined out way outside the actual square. Really, really cool to be there even though I didn’t understand a thing he said. My Italian needs some work. He did mention Dallas, TX for some reason and that seemed to be the only reference he made to the United States. Internet here is shit but I will try to post more when I have better service.
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