Today we had the experience of going to a bank. The only good thing was it was aircondtioned so we were happy to sit down and wait our turn, which wasn't in numerical order as far as I could see. Our number was A271. Other numbers began with other letters. There were two guards at the door, one who unlocked the door to let us in and the other whose job it was to tell us to take off our hats. Senor and senora, sombrero! Shortly after that a good looking Costa Rican came in with his hat on backwards. He wasn't told to remove it. Ours have brims all the way around so there is no way to wear it backward - if that was the way they preferred. After 30 minutes it was our turn. We couldn't use the ATM as it was out of service so we gave the teller our card. No way! Has to use our visa or Masterr Card which would have been a cash advance. Well we don't do that. However he did agree to change a 50000 and 200000 colons note into smaller ones for us. We went to another bank up the street and the ATM wouldn't work there either.
We scouted out the the very famous Manuel Antonio National Park today. The amount of restaurants, bars, and hotels on the way up the mountain was amazing! I was disappointed with the way tourism has taken over. Reminded me of Niagara Falls which looked just like a carnival atmosphere for. I've before returning you got to the Falls itself. I hope the park itself is still as natural as it can be. We will go there when Kyle comes but mush earlier than we went today! It was blistering! Beautiful beaches there as well.
Our experience with banks is the same here! Think they have different numbers for tourists! There is scotia bank here and AtM usually works but not allowed to debit money in the bank itself. ATM machines sometimes work and sometimes don't!! Have found a Mexican bank ATM that works so just use that and pay the fees. And we are scotia bank customers in Canada but that doesn't seem to matter!
ReplyDeleteToday at the grocery store had to walk past the ATM machines to get to the bano and there were armed guards there with rifles as one of the machines was broken so they were protecting them I guess!!
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