Yearly Archives: 2015

Airlines fees are mystery to most travellers. It seems that airlines are done absorbing the costs of things like airport check-in, printing boarding passes and the cost of maintaining their website. I have decoded for you some of the mystery behind these surcharges that can easily almost double the cost...

(qCOSTARICA) Get ready for another (not) fun week in Costa Rica, more particularly in San Jose, where protests are expected wreak more than usual traffic havoc. Announced is a one day strike by workers of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) for Monday, July 27, protesting the privatization and "insults"...

(qCOSTARICA) Despite the facilities offered by various payment methods offered by the country's financial institutions, Costa Ricans still prefer to use cash, as shown by the survey "Bancarización, finance and savings in Costa Rica" by UNIMER for the Costa Rican Banking Association (Asociación Bancaria Costarricense - ABC). The data show...