Notes on living, working and staying in Quepos and Manuel Antonio, written from the apartments and the roads between them.
Four furnished apartments on the hill road between Quepos and Manuel Antonio, and an honest account of who they suit.
Read the articleThe health certificate, the fourteen-day window, the rabies record and the SENASA permit, in the order they are needed.
Read the articleWhat changes when a stay passes three weeks: the nightly rate stops making sense and the monthly one starts.
Read the articleInternet, desks, time zones and the shape of a working day in a town where the nearest beach is seven minutes downhill.
Read the articleA park that closes on Tuesdays, a marina, a handful of beaches and the small trips worth planning around the rain.
Read the articleWhat the pensionado residency requires, what health cover costs, and why a quiet Pacific town may suit a new chapter better than the Central Valley.
Read the articleThree ways to spend four weeks, with real 2026 ranges for housing, food and transport, and the costs that only appear at the end.
Read the articleThe kitchen inventory, the speed test to insist on, hot water, humidity, laundry and the deposit, as a checklist for a month or more.
Read the articleWhere the listings actually are, what the three-year term means, how to verify the owner, and the red flags that should end the conversation.
Read the articleOne is a working town, the other is a hill above a national park. How to choose between them for a first visit and for a long stay.
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