Insights on Travel from Costa Rica Expeditions’ Founder Michael Kaye and his Expert Friends.

Archive for March, 2010

How to be a Great Traveler

I have been surprised, flattered, heartened, and, frankly, a little embarrassed by call the compliments from past guests in the comments to the posts in this blog.
I love reading positive feedback from our guests. I love even more passing on the compliments to the people who make it happen.
But then I get nervous that we [...]

Traveling with Children

We are in full family travel mode here at Costa Rica Expeditions. For the past few weeks many of our guests have been children traveling on Spring break, and we are starting to plan trips for families with children during summer vacation.
So I thought this would be a good time to pass on my take [...]

Tipping is Not a City in China

The first time I saw the words in the title of this post was on a whitewater  rafting company shuttle bus probably in 1970.They were on a big sign above the windshield where all the passengers could not help but see it.At the time I imagine I thought it was funny.  Forty years later I [...]

Tips and Quests.

We get a great many requests to arrange tours and activities from people who have already booked a week at the beach.
Responding to these has been a challenge because the amount of work involved to learn enough about the guests to give them personalized advice is more than we can charge them for if all [...]