Going Home!
The hotel I am at doesn't need you to checkout until noon. But you need to give yourself 2 hours to do all the stuff you need to get done at the airport so I woke up early, had breakfast, finished packing and called for an orange cab.
The ride back was about $26, this is a good place to get rid of a few colones, and I left about $15 dollars for the cleaning lady, though in change, but money is money!
The Airport
When you get to the airport go directly to the very right of the building. There is a large desk there where the Costa Rican government collects tax from visitors. You MUST pay this tax. It is about $26 per person and you can use dollars, colones and even credit cards - you can tell that they really want your money as pretty much this was the only place I was able to use a credit card. You will get a piece of paper that you will need to keep to move onto the next stage of this.
Next you will go to get your boarding pass. Have your passport ready because on top of getting your boarding pass you will need to get that piece of paper stating you paid the tax signed off. Then your passport will be examined by more security guards and finally you will get your boarding pass.
Once you are done you will go through security - remove shoes, place computer outside of the bag, the standard affair. The only interesting thing is that they will let you go through with bottles of water - but it won't be that interesting in a moment.
The terminal is the same as any terminal, nothing spectacular but just be aware that as soon as you board the plane security will do one last check of your baggage and that water that you were allowed to take with you initially will be kept and then you are allowed to get on the plane and head home!
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