🇨🇷 Costa Rica or 🇬🇪 Georgia
Which one, honestly
Costa Rica leads on the sea. Georgia leads on value for money, food and cities.
A normal day costs about $130 in Costa Rica and $60 in Georgia.
Side by side
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica🇬🇪 Georgia
- Jan, Feb, Mar, DecBest monthsMay, Jun, Sep, Oct
- $130A normal day$60
- 2h 55m from Mexico CityClosest hub2h 20m from Istanbul
- Very goodBeaches and seaNot the draw
- Not the drawCities and cultureVery good
- GoodFoodExceptional
- ExceptionalNature and hikingExceptional
- Not the drawValue for moneyExceptional
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- A hire car with clearance, the distances are short but the roads are slowGetting aroundShared minibuses and cheap drivers, the roads are the slow part
- September and October on the Caribbean side, the wettest weeks of the yearWhen to avoidThe mountain roads from November to April, when the passes close
Pick by what you want
🇨🇷 Choose Costa Rica if
you want wildlife above everything else, cloud forest and two oceans in one small country, and you accept it costs more than its neighbours.
🇬🇪 Choose Georgia if
you want the Caucasus, eight thousand years of wine and food nobody has heard of yet, on the smallest budget in Europe.
Full Costa Rica guide →Full Georgia guide →
And what the world thinks
Dead even. The next vote breaks the tie.
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Written and checked by hand. Nothing here about visas or entry rules: those change often and depend on your passport, so check an official source.