Traveling to Costa Rica With Kids (2026): Caribbean Coast Reality Check for Families Traveling to Costa Rica With Kids (2026): Caribbean Coast Reality Check for Families We moved our family of five to Costa Rica's Caribbean coast when our kids were still in preschool and early elementary school. Here's what we learned — the stuff the polished travel blogs leave out: the good, the complicated, and the parts that will unexpectedly change how your family sees the world. Costa Rica is genuinely one of the best countries in the world for families. That's not marketing copy — it's something we discovered slowly, through hundreds of ordinary days: mornings watching howler monkeys shake the mango tree outside the window while you're trying to make breakfast, afternoons when our kids came home from school muddy, exhausted, and completely alive in a way that was hard to explain to people back home. But here's the thing nobody talks about: your experience de...