Trip planner

Your road trip made to measure: choose your days, your airports and what you like. We pick the towns that fit best and put them in the route with the fewest hours behind the wheel.

Arrange something yourself

A few days with family or friends, a train ride, local transport: a part of the trip you arrange yourself. No hotel and no tours of ours; without the car, no kilometres and no hire those days. Enter what it costs and it counts in the total.

On the road with Google Maps or Waze

Your trip from airport to airport, with the hotels you chose (or else the towns).

No account needed: find it again under My trips.
Take it on the road Your trip day by day on your phone, also without signal.
Download for Google My Maps (KML) In My Maps: create a map, Import, and choose the file. It works in Google Earth too.
The route in Google Maps

Drive there with Waze one destination at a time

What it costs, roughly

For 2 travelling together: the flights, the rental car, a room for every two at every stop, and the tours you tick in the plan above.

Day	Night in	°C	Km	Driving	Hotel	Tours	Car hire	Day
1	Alajuela	–	10	10 min	€110	–	€70	€180
2	Alajuela	–	–	–	€110	–	€70	€180
3	Jacó	–	90	1 h 40 min	€110	–	€70	€180
4	Jacó	–	–	–	€110	–	€70	€180
5	Manuel Antonio	–	70	1 h 40 min	€160	–	€70	€230
6	Manuel Antonio	–	–	–	€160	–	€70	€230
7	Uvita	–	70	1 h 30 min	€130	–	€70	€200
8	Uvita	–	–	–	€130	–	€70	€200
9	Dominical	–	20	20 min	€120	–	€70	€190
10	Dominical	–	–	–	€120	–	€70	€190
11	Orosí	–	130	4 h 10 min	€90	–	€70	€160
12	Orosí	–	–	–	€90	–	€70	€160
13	San José	–	40	1 h	€100	–	€70	€170
14	Flight home from SJO	–	20	20 min	–	–	€70	€70
On the road					€1,540	–	€910	€2,450
Flights, 2 return					€1,800
Total					€4,250
A person					€2,130

Estimates in euros, to plan with: a return flight from Amsterdam, a mid-size car with insurance, a room for two at each stop, and the tours' usual prices. Fuel and meals are not included. The hotels' real prices are a click away at every stop. Check the flights: not every airport has a direct flight from Amsterdam all year. Prices as of 2026-10.

Add your own budget a day: food, fuel, parking, …

Fill in an amount for every day, or change a single day in the table. Empty is nothing: only what you fill in goes into the total.

Day	Night in	Food and drink	Fuel	Parking	Entrance fees	Souvenirs	Other	Day
Every day		Set in the form above
1	Alajuela							€0
2	Alajuela							€0
3	Jacó							€0
4	Jacó							€0
5	Manuel Antonio							€0
6	Manuel Antonio							€0
7	Uvita							€0
8	Uvita							€0
9	Dominical							€0
10	Dominical							€0
11	Orosí							€0
12	Orosí							€0
13	San José							€0
14	Flight home from SJO							€0
Your budget		€0	€0	€0	€0	€0	€0	€0

Our suggestions are estimates a day, greyed in the empty fields: food and souvenirs a person, the rest for everyone, and fuel by the kilometres you drive that day. Change them to what suits you. Prices as of 2026-10.

Your trip as a booklet

The route map, every day with its drive and what to see, the excursions, the costs, a packing list and room for notes: print it yourself, or have it printed and sent as a book.

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With 3 mm bleed and crop marks, the fonts embedded, the map in vectors. The whole booklet · The pages inside · The cover (add &spine= and the spine's width in mm from your printer)

Trip planner

Your 14-day road trip from San José

Direct flights from AMS

Flight out: AMS → SJO

Flight home: SJO → AMS

Your flights for this trip

Your rental car for this trip

1 Alajuela, Alajuela

2 Jacó, Puntarenas

3 Manuel Antonio, Puntarenas

4 Uvita, Puntarenas

5 Dominical, Puntarenas

6 Orosí, Cartago

7 San José, San José

Home again

Arrange something yourself

On the road with Google Maps or Waze

Drive there with Waze one destination at a time

What it costs, roughly

Your trip as a booklet