I bought a couple of nights on sky auction.com at the Gran Hotel in central San Jose specifically for the end of my trip. It’s a vintage 1930’s building with a few updates, like wifi in the room, but not air conditioning. My room had a small window that opened only so far onto an indoor sort of courtyard so most of the time it was almost as hot as an oven in my room. Just across the hall was the John F Kennedy suite with a poster of famous people who have stayed in the room.<\/p>\n
The hotel also had a fitness room and a recreation area with a couple of pool tables. Like a good number of things in Costa Rica, there is more form than function. I couldn’t get the treadmill to work at and the stationary bike squeezed the entire time I rode it. The first time I hit a pool ball into the side pocket, it fell directly to the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I bought a couple of nights on sky auction.com at the Gran Hotel in central San Jose specifically for the end of my trip. It’s a vintage 1930’s building with a few updates, like wifi in the room, but not air conditioning. My room had a small window that opened only so far onto an indoor sort of courtyard so<\/p>\n