Let's Go Costa Rica: The Student Travel Guide

From green mountains and white-sand beaches to expansive coffee fields and active volcanoes, Costa Rica awaits. You name it, our intrepid student researchers have found it—and they’ve made sure you can afford it. Watch Tico farmers grow coffee in Heredia, ride waves with expert surfers in Playa Tamarindo, and save turtles along the Caribbean coast before kicking back with a cold guaro after a day well spent. Pack your bags, hunt down an old surfboard, lose the sweater, and pick up a copy of Let’s Go Costa Rica for a trip you’ll never forget.

Let’s Go publishes the world’s favorite student travel guides, written entirely by Harvard undergraduates. Armed with pens, notebooks, and a few changes of underwear stuffed in their backpacks, our student researchers go across continents, through time zones, and above expectations to seek out invaluable travel experiences for our readers. Let’s Go has been on the road for 50 years and counting: We’re on a mission to provide our readers with sharp, fresh coverage packed with socially responsible opportunities to go beyond tourism.

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The "Let's Go" series seeks to lend a helping hand to students who wish to see the world without breaking the bank. Updated yearly and written entirely by bargain-hunting students themselves, the majority of the information is very relevant to traveling scholars or people in similar financial situations. The covers of the guides even clearly display the words "THE STUDENT TRAVEL GUIDE" or for several other editions, "ON A BUDGET" in boldly printed ink. Although the guides are specifically designed for student travelers, the advice can be easily implemented by any traveler trying to stretch the value of a dollar.
Unfortunately only a few photos pepper the pages of these guides, most likely compromised by its smaller, more portable size. If a weakness were to be pointed out, this would be it. On a more positive note, there are a fair amount of conveniently mapped-out hotspots - so what the guide lacks in visual aestheticism, it makes up for in practicality. The compact...Read more

This book did an excellent job of providing descriptions of cities and accommodations/eating in particular. I had this book and the Lonely Planet. I've got to say that I relied on Let's Go more so than the LP. LP does an excellent job of describing places, but in terms of finding budget food and places to stay, Let's Go is where it's at. Also, I found the information about transportation to be highly accurate -- at least as accurate as transportation information can be in CR. You never know when the buses are going to show up!