Wednesday 1. of July 1-07-09 23:23
Hotel with many reservations for the July
The Hotel Paraiso del Cocodrilo reports with many reservations for July. Mainly families from Europe and Costa Ricans ask to reserve rooms and suites at the hotel. For years it was difficult to get guests in the off-season here in Costa Rica outside of Samara. This reservations are positively evaluate in the midst of economic crisis. Also the offered tours of the hotel enjoy a great demand.

Saturday 27. of June 27-06-09 16:47
Many crocodiles in the mangroves
Currently, we observe that many crocodiles resident in the mangroves. This morning an about 2 meters Cayman cracks one of our geese. Only through the courageous intervention of a worker the goose survived.
The crocodiles (about 90% are Caymans) are very shy against people and only in shallow waters, however, small animals, are quite popular prey for these animals. During our 17 years stay, we have seen no case in which animals have attacked humans. Small children should be careful when swimming in the lakes.

Friday 19. of June 19-06-09 23:24
Fuel prices rise again
Here the topical fuel prices:
Diesel: 400 ¢
Super-fuel: 452 ¢
Fuel plus: 472 ¢
Our advice, buy fuel now, because more cheap it becomes no more.

Friday 12. of June 12-06-09 17:51
Sport: South Africa 2010 World Cup qualification
On 10 June Trinidad won against Mexico 2:1. Honduras won against El Salvador 1:0.
After the victory against the USA (3:1) Costa Rica won against Trinidad with 3:2. A great victory for Costa Rica. The door to the World Cup in South Africa 2010 is opened. Mexico lost despite their new coach Javier Aguirre (Atletico Madrid) in El Salvador 1:2. Table leader after the half of the Classification is Costa Rica with 12 points, the second the U.S. with 10 points, than with 7 Honduras, Mexico 6 and El Salvador with 5, Trinidad and Tobago only have 2 points.

Monday 1. of June 1-06-09 16:26
Activities of the MOP in the territory of Samara
Currently, renewed MOPT (Ministry of Labor and Transport)the road between Barco Qebrado and Samara as well as the road from the gas station Samara after Nosara. Under a 2-year conservation program for roads in Guanacaste they are filling the roads with lastres or sometimes with gravel.

Saturday 30. of May 30-05-09 16:55
Cheap flights from Europe to Costa Rica
Currently, the airline Condor offers such prices as:
Frankfurt- San Jose 10.06.2009-25.06.2009 total of 448 € per adult
Frankfurt- San Jose 21.06.2009-09.07.2009 total of 548 € per adult
More information: www.condor.com
At the moment the exchange rate is very cheap. Dollar rate 1.41 to 1 Euro.

Tuesday 26. of May 26-05-09 16:21
Music session in the Costa Rica Hotel
Upcoming weekend is again a music session in the Hotel Paraiso del Cocodrilo at Playa Buena Vista, Samara. The doctor Freddy Soto from Samara has been announced with some friends, including Martin from the finca Taranta will come with his guitar. Those interested are invited to bring their instruments. Spectators are welcome. Fun is the reason.
Information: 2 656 8056/55

Sunday 17. of May 17-05-09 16:34
Hotel organizes individually their Costa Rica vacation
The Hotel Paraiso del Cocodrilo organizes your vacation in Costa Rica and gives you a wide range of tours. Now there are also Costa Rica travel package with private transfer from the airport of San José to the Costa Rica hotel and staying in the Costa Rica hotel Paraiso del Cocodrilo in comfortable rooms with bath / shower. Of course with a sumptuous breakfast in the hotel restaurant and with 3 guided excursions (dolphins, crocodiles, turtles) also with barbecue.
One Week from US$ 290.
New: Two day trips to Nicaragua after Rivas, Nicaragua and Granada on the old colonial city with its many beautiful buildings, sightseeing by horse-drawn carriage, and boat tour through the beautiful Las Isletas.

Saturday 2. of May 2-05-09 00:47
Mel Gibson with a new girlfriend
The rainbow press reported that the 39-year-old Oksana Grigorieva, the Russian singer with a recording contract with Gibson's Icon production company, the new girlfriend of Mel Gibson is.
After the divorce between Mel Gibson and his wife, Robyn, moved the 53-year-old actor returned to Costa Rica. According to American law, Robyn gets the half of Mel Gibson's, about 900 million U.S. dollars.
A year ago we saw Britney Spear with Oksana Grigorieva in Costa Rica on the beach of Barrigona.
So we want our stars, with scandals and in the heart of the life.

Wednesday 25. of March 25-03-09 16:46
Special offers in Costa Rica
One of the good sides in the current economic situation is that promotions are everywhere. Reductions in the purchase of household appliances, computers, furniture, car rental and other things of 20, sometimes even 40% are not uncommon.
The hotel prices in the United States fell by 12%, in Europe by 10%.
In Costa Rica there are the hotel prices in Promotions, and after Easter, it is probably even cheaper.
The Costa Rica Hotel Paraiso del Cocodrilo is popular despite economic crisis.
The new tour offerings for our guests and offer the complete enjoys strong demand.

Sunday 15. of March 15-03-09 18:52
Guanacaste and Costa Rica expect even less visitors.
240,000 tourists visit Guanacaste and doubled the expectations. The season has officially begun on 01 December. But at that time by the effects of the recession in the U.S.. decreased the number of U.S. tourist arrivals to 8% in the last six months. Airport Daniel Oduber, Liberia, to approximately 60 flights per week. Now in February, a total of 82,000 visitors came less.

Monday 23. of February 23-02-09 17:31
Cultural Day at the Salon Comunal de Samara in Esterones
The Asociación Intercambio Cultura Alegria organized with the artistes of the cultural association Guana red on February 28 in the Salon Comunal de Samara in Esterones a Cultural Day with music dance and theater.

Friday 22. of August 22-08-08 16:23
Was Bruce Willis on visit to Mel Gibson?
Nobody has seen him outside of the farm of Mel Gibson. But it seems that the famous American actor visited his colleague on the beach of Playa Barrigona. The press hadn´t overheard
it this time. In contrast to the last visit of Britney Spears, when the whole beach was crowded by paparazzis.

Saturday 16. of August 16-08-08 00:56
Humpback whales in the Bay of Buena Vista
After a large pair of Humpback whales feels like home in the vicinity of Osa at a bay and don’t want to leave this, it developed a rear whale tourism there. At the Bay of Buena Vista near Samara, there are also whales since approximately 10 days, which the local fishermen can acknowledge, too.

Thursday 7. of August 7-08-08 22:08
Internet for our guests
From now on the guests of the hotel Paraíso del Cocodrilo could use the internet service with a quick high-speed-connection.
There is also the possibility for our guests to bring their own notebooks and iPods with them and log in into the Internet immediately, also internet Radio.
This service of the hotel is, of course, free of charge.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Begins the season of turtles
According to the helper of the turtle project ASVÖ (Association de Voluntaries for the Service in the Areas Protected) at Buena Vista beach near Samara meet increasingly turtles, and for July is a larger number expected. The successful project has started on 1 September 2005.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Guest at the hotel: Dr. Carsten Mueller
Costa Rica is a paradise for Life science. So we visited Dr. Carsten Mueller, of the University of Rostock, the Institute of Biology, with the field of special education and zoology. He examined on the beaches Barrigona Buena Vista and structural organization, functional morphology and reproductive behavior of hermit crabs.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Small recyclable office in Torito.
The small recycling center in Torito, Samara takes now materials such as plastic, glass and metal waste. Even electrical appliances are accepted. Contaminated material will not be accepted.
The school also collects the garbage to use the money to school.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Luis Eduardo Gutierrez is again mayor the Nicoya.
Lorenzo Vargas Rosales, came back from his post for health problems and after public criticism of his work, for a term which he on 8 February 2007 antrat. After the closure of garbage dumps on February 21, from the Ministry of Health prepares all the garbage problem very worried.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Britney Spears visit Mel Gibson.
Helicopters came on Friday morning about the hotel Paraiso del Cocodrilo and flew to the next beach Barrigona to Farm of Mel Gibson. He had Britney Spears and accompanying family members invited here on his Farm for holiday. Previously, the two lived, and Gibson in Spears in Malibu, California and were neighbors and used common hobbies.
The Paparazzis from North America and Costa Rica raced through the streets and at Barrigona beach, where normally only a few tourists lost is now hectic. Today, on May 18, is with the end of the week is the big rush over. And in the coming days to visit the Poplady probably continue.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Airport in Liberia with less tourists.
240,000 tourists visit Guanacaste and doubled the expectations. The season has officially begun on 01 December. But at that time by the effects of the recession in the U.S.. decreased the number of U.S. tourist arrivals to 8% in the last six months. Airport Daniel Oduber, Liberia, to approximately 60 flights per week. Now in February, a total of 82,000 visitors came less.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Change of the mobile phone and telephone numbers
The change came into effect from midnight 20th March 2008 and covers 3.3 million telephone numbers in Costa Rica (1.5 million fixed-line phones and 1.8 million mobile).
The telephone numbers are now 8-digits in any landline phone must first create a 2-code, and the mobile phone is an 8 must be placed chooses. The change has no effect on the numbers 911, 113, 800 or 900th these remain unchanged.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Super concert with Malpais in Samara
On Sunday 02 March was held in beautiful weather on the football field in Samara a concert with the well-known group Malpais. Around 1500 people enjoyed the music and celebrated the day. Organiser was the cultural center Alegria. Moreover booths offered food, beverages, clothing and small art.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Dangers for tourists
Contrary to a widespread notion it are not the snakes and crocodiles in Costa Rica that are a great danger for tourists, but rather the marine currents. Are the seasides vacationers too careless or wanton in the waves, accidents can easily occur. If however, the swimmer recognizes the currents and takes those into account, a safe swimming pleasure is guaranteed any time.
Even a year ago, the newly introduced tourist police are having an impact. The crimes against tourists in the province of Guanacaste went down by 34% from 2006 to 2007. The troupe will be further growing this year to continue to further reduce thefts. The beach in the Samara region, including Playa Buena Vista and Barrigona is considered safe. Nevertheless, valuables should not be left visible.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Turtle day with culture
30 de Noviembre-2 de December 2007 in the Alegria Playa Samara on Buena Vista.
Art auction to raise money for the turtle project at the Buena Vista beach to collect.
Music, dance and program for children.
Mehr Information bei Anette Nierhoff Tel: 00506 - 656 8191 + 899 8986.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Celebrities discover Guanacaste
After Costa Rica belonged to the favorite places of fames like Elisabeth Taylor last century, Mel Gibson, US actor and director, has recently bought a 163 hectares large property in our neighborhood. The purchase price is supposed to be 25.8 million dollars, how the newspapers of 27th May report. He wants to use the property privately and for some of his next movies. He also plans to establish a nature protection zone on the beach Barrigona and on the neighbour beach Buena Vista. Pretty welcome.
Mel Gibson also met Costa Rica’s president Oscar Arias Sanchez on Monday, 9 July to talk about making a donation for the Indians in Costa Rica. He intends to support the countries foremost organizations financially to help the native population of Central America.
Also Michael Owen has recently become an owner of a property in Nosara. Even Paris Hilton is supposed to share in an estate in the Four Seasons hotel on golfo de Papagayo and a few weeks ago the prince of Saudiarabien Al-Waleed bin Talal decided to build six other hotels in Costa Rica.
According to the German magazine Bunte Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi now want to invest in a 580 millions expensive hotel project that is supervised by the American multimillionaire Steve Case.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Stars in the hotel:
Not Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie,and their three children, who celebrated New Years Eve in the exclusive Four Seasons Resort in Guanacaste, according to American medium reports, but Hollywood film producer Klaus Menzel with girlfriend Sandra Haewsky visited us again on Eastern and enjoyed the beautiful beaches.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Dr. Jutta Herring Winckler,
lawyer and notary and 1. Chairman of the Richard Wagner federation Minden, tries to bring the opera Lohengrin, composed by Richard Wagner to the Teatro Nacional in San José by 2009.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
The 3-rd meeting for a Refugio in Buena Vista
took place on 10th August in the bar Coyote. Inhabitants of Buena Vista, the environment protection ministry MINAE and the ASVO (Asociación de Voluntarios para el servicio en read areas protegidas) were present. Unfortunately, the representatives of the Municipalidad did not appear again. The biologist Evelin Umaña Ramirez of the ASVO gave a lecture about the results of the Estudio de la Avifauna which included the number of the animals and plants and the results of the ground analysis that was done in 2006 by her. All things considered, the area around the Playa Buena Vista seems to be suitably to become a nature protection area.
The appointment for the next meeting will be announced on time.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
Artist's union and Alegria apply for cultural support
The artist's union Guanacaste met in the cultural centre Alegria, some feet away from the hotel Paraiso del Cocodrilo, on the beach Buena Vista and has applied for financial support of the cultural stock which the Ministry of Culture has made available to promote other cultural and art activities like cultural festivals, music arrangements, ect.

Thursday 1. of January 1-01-70 01:00
New Refugio supposed to originate
In 2006 the government (at that time under Abel Pacheco de la Espriella) gave more power to the ministry of the environment MINAE (Ministerio del ambience y Energía) and the SINAC, responsible for the national protective area system. Since than they try to counteract the trend of the building development on the beaches in Costa Rica. Jaco and Tamarindo are prime examples for bulding development on the Pacific side. This is the reason why more and more nature protection zones are developed which are supposed to limit the constructions. The indigenous people try to establish a nature protection zone together with MINAE and the Municipalidad on the beach Buena Vista in Sámara, on which a turtle protective project of the ASVO is already based. Conversations have also taken place about the refugio on Playa Barrigona.