Hotel Tilawa, Costa Rica.[WHERE:] A hotel with a skatepark A skatepark is a purpose-built recreational environment for skateboarders, bmxers and aggressive skaters to ride and develop their sport and technique. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, quarter pipes, handrails, trick boxes, vert ramps, pyramids, banked ramps, full pipes, stairs, at the largest lake in Costa Rica Costa Rica (kŏs`tə rē`kə), officially Republic of Costa Rica, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,016,000), 19,575 sq mi (50,700 sq km), Central America. . Three hours from San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. and in the shadow of the active Arenal volcano The Arenal Volcano, in Spanish Volcán Arenal, is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica (10.5N, 84.7W), around 90 km north-west of San José, in the province of Alajuela. . [WHAT:] An almost-Oregon-quality concrete skatepark featuring a six-foot square bowl, a small street course and a quadruple-bowl that ends in a sweet nine-foot deep end capped with hand-molded pool coping. [GOOD:] The hotel's nice, cheap, and they've got their own beer. You can windsurf or kitesurf on the lake and there are monkeys in the trees. [BAD:] You're a grown man skating in Costa Rica--quit complaining all the time. [BONUS:] Street course has a volcano replica that can be made to spit actual fire. Did I mention the monkeys? More info: www.hotel-tilawa.com |
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