Macua Tours Costa Rica · Private Travel
Since 2009, we have been learning which hours those are. Tell us when you are coming. We will build the week around them.
Free to request. Yours to keep.
On these roads since 2009
long enough to have opinions about them
Your own vehicle and driver
the day starts when you do
Guides chosen region by region
Monteverde and the Osa are not the same job
The week in writing
before any of it is real
Someone awake while you are here
the country keeps odd hours
Costa Rica is small enough to cross. Large enough to cross too quickly.
What your week looks like
By eleven the cloud forest is still beautiful. It has simply finished saying the interesting things.
Rain almost always keeps its appointments. Around four, most afternoons, for an hour or two. Which is why the best time to be in hot springs is while it is raining on them, and why the walk happens in the morning.
None of that is on a map. It comes from having stood on the same trail at both hours.
Both land in Liberia. One wants three regions in eight nights and a naturalist out at six every morning. The other wants two regions and the hot springs on day two. Their weeks cost different amounts, and they should. Yours gets its own number, and you see what that number covers before you owe anything.
A deposit holds the week. The rest arrives in installments, finished 45 days before you fly.
Three minutes to send. Nothing owed either way.
What every trip has
01
Three regions in eight nights can be a very good week or a long drive with views, and the difference is entirely what goes where.
02
Yours is chosen region by region and named before you approve anything, because the person who reads a cloud forest is rarely the person who reads a mangrove.
03
The difference is where the stop is. The soda by the road has served the same casado for thirty years, and that is the reason to stop. Your own vehicle is what makes stopping a decision rather than a delay.
04
So the early start goes where it buys something, and the slow morning goes where it costs nothing.
05
Your week arrives less romantically: regions in order, nights in each, and what the whole thing costs. Take it apart, send it back, move things around.
06
Plans change anyway. For every day you are here there is somebody on this side who already knows your week and picks up whenever the phone rings.
Send what you have. A rough idea and two dates is plenty.
Traveler stories
Where to next
Regions, order, nights, all of it visible before you speak to anybody. Find the
one closest to yours and say what you would change.
What a package can hold, the two ways to build one, and how the private side of it works.
Monteverde and Arenal sit close together on a map. The lake between them has other ideas, which is exactly why the order of this one matters.
Arenal and Manuel Antonio, with the travel days cut short so the good part of each one happens outside.
Each route above was cut, stretched and rearranged for one traveler. Yours
will be too.
How we work
01 · Tell us when, and who
three minutes, reply within 24 hours
Dates, who is coming and how old they are, a number you are comfortable with, and how you like to travel. Bring an idea, not an itinerary.
02 · Then we get to work
within 48 hours of confirming the brief
Within 48 hours of confirming the brief, your week comes back in writing: regions in the order that works, nights where they earn their keep, and what the whole thing costs.
03 · Take it apart
as often as you like
Move a region, lose a day, upgrade a room, add a guide. Nothing is fixed until you say so, and nothing is charged while you are deciding.
04 · Then it gets real
A deposit holds the week and the detailed version follows: properties, operators, times, documents, all of it named. The balance can arrive in installments, finished 45 days before you fly.
The first three steps cost nothing.
Service fit
Ours
The vehicle is yours, the pace is yours, and the argument about what to do tomorrow happens at your own table.
The other one
Before you ask
Within 24 hours. That first reply confirms what we have and asks for whatever is missing. Once the brief is settled, the written week follows within 48.
It depends on the week you pick and how you like to sleep. Tell us a number you are comfortable with and we will show you what it buys, in writing, before you owe anything.
Nothing, and it is yours to keep.
Yes. A deposit holds the week and the rest arrives on a schedule we agree, finished 45 days before you fly.
At any hour of a multi-day trip. You reach the people who built your week, and they already have it in front of them.
It is how most people start. Send your dates, who is coming, and what you want the week to feel like. The route is our job.
Send it on its own. You will get an answer either way.
Start here
Who is coming, roughly when, and a number you are comfortable
with. That is enough to begin.
Free to request. Yours to keep.
TripAdvisor
Send the week you are thinking about and how many people are coming.
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