How to take the ferry from Puntarenas to Paquera to get to the Nicoya Peninsula beaches and towns like Montezuma and Santa Teresa.
*UPDATE: You can now purchase tickets on the QuickPay CR site here: www.quickpaycr.com/ They only sell a certain number of tickets on the website, and then the rest are sold at the ticket booth in Puntarenas. We recommend to buy tickets online beforehand if you are traveling December through April, especially the Christmas, New Years and Easter holidays. If you do not purchase tickets online or the online tickets are sold out, we recommend to arrive at least 1.5 hours before to buy tickets in person.*
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TRANSCRIPT:
Today we're taking the ferry from Puntarenas to Paquera and we're actually at the ticket office in Puntarenas so this is at the end of the road, the main road that goes through Puntarenas and it's called Paseo de los Turistas.
So you'll drive all the way past the lighthouse and then you will see the ferry on your left hand side and right across is the ticket office, you can't miss it, it's a big blue sign over here so we're going to go buy our tickets first and you should do it at least an hour before, especially if you have a car because you have to wait, you have to drive onto the waiting area and it's first come first serve, it gets very busy during high season. So we're going to go buy our tickets for the 2 pm ferry so we'll show you guys the schedule and we'll show you the process of how to get on the ferry with your car and there's also a walkway if you don't have a car and you're just riding the ferry as a passenger.
This is the schedule for the ferry, this is the Puntarenas one we're going to take and we're going to take the 2 pm ferry and this is the other side, the Paquera to Puntarenas. Here are the rates so you have per person and you have per car, motorcycle, bike, etc.
We just bought our tickets for the ferry and they look like this, we have a car, this one is for the car and this price actually has the driver included and this one is for me who is the passenger. So one adult is 810 colones, a car with a driver is, oh they actually put 11, 400 for the car and 810 for the driver on here so you need to hold onto these when you get onto the ferry and throughout the whole ferry ride because they might ask you for it so now we're going to go onto the car and they'll announce when they start loading the cars on so we're going to go over there and get ready to drive on the ferry.
So we're inside the ferry, you can see they have seats inside, there's AC, TV's, they have a snack area behind me, a bar, water, a bathroom as well, it's about an hour ferry ride. It's very nice and you can sit outside and on top to enjoy the view and enjoy the ferry ride.
We have made it to Paquera, as you can see the ferry was really easy to take, it was a very nice ride. This is a good way to go from San Jose over if you want to go to Montezuma or Santa Teresa, Tambor, all those areas.
So if you guys want to learn more about taking the ferry, I'm going to put more information and pictures in the post so click on the links below and I hope you found this video useful.