...wow, you really do need a holiday.
(If you can get one from yourself, all the better).
...oh, and you're wise to give Costa Rica a miss. You really wouldn't like it. (Costa Del Sol is nice this time of year though. Cheap too. Enjoy).

There is racism in Costa Rica too...
Josephinos dont like the Afro caribe
Ticos dont like the Nicas
and the Gringos are wearing out their welcome....unless you have money....

BOOMER1 sinks to a new low.
Gets called a freak and an idiot by a rhubarb stalk that has to ask whether he should take a cheaper flight with free hotel, or a more expensive flight without.
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WRONG!
or as you so eloquently put it Well DUH !!!!
holds out olive branch
C'mon Boomer1, I acknowledged your helpful comment at #3, before you took off on your little tirade at #13.
As a Brit (clear from the OP) I took gentle umbrage at being bracketed with those comments. Maybe playing the racist card was a tad harsh, but when you choose to put your prejudices on publc display you walk a very fine line in my view.
holds out another olive branch
Scoot, if you actually read the whole thread you'd see what I mean. Decisions in life (even about cheap package holidays) are rarely about either/or - just as internet discourse in not a zero-sum game. This is something the hard-of-thinking sometimes have trouble grasping, I find. Well, you know what they say about quarreling on the internet...
Still it's always fun to visit a travel branch and to encounter the 'soi-disant' silverbacks of the local jungle who feel
compelled to step into the light and brachyate.
Granted, you both have a sense of humour so you have clearly graduated from a different Charm School from SideshowGoodtimeBob who no doubt would call me a 'bundle o' sticks' and rip out my guts with a hunting knife.
In fact, I reckon if I ever actually make it to CR we could probably share a couple of bottles of good rum before
skipping hand-in-hand through the sunlit uplands.
Of course, I could be wrong.
Cada loco en su tema.....