🇬🇪 Georgia or 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Which one, honestly
Georgia leads on value for money, food and cities. Costa Rica leads on the sea.
A normal day costs about $60 in Georgia and $130 in Costa Rica.
Side by side
- 🇬🇪 Georgia🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- May, Jun, Sep, OctBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Dec
- $60A normal day$130
- 2h 20m from IstanbulClosest hub2h 55m from Mexico City
- Not the drawBeaches and seaVery good
- Very goodCities and cultureNot the draw
- ExceptionalFoodGood
- ExceptionalNature and hikingExceptional
- ExceptionalValue for moneyNot the draw
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- Shared minibuses and cheap drivers, the roads are the slow partGetting aroundA hire car with clearance, the distances are short but the roads are slow
- The mountain roads from November to April, when the passes closeWhen to avoidSeptember and October on the Caribbean side, the wettest weeks of the year
Pick by what you want
🇬🇪 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.
🇨🇷 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.
Full Georgia guide →Full Costa Rica 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.