Borinquen

Went to breakfast this morning which has been pre-paid to find that juice, fruit, toast etc was all extra! Not happy!
So we purchased and extra plate of fruit for each of us and ordered two Typical Costa Rican breakfast, expecting it to be good. The fruit came, which we proceeded to eat and then two minutes later the plate of tipico was delivered on cold plates. The tortilla tasted like stale yesterdays, the eggs had obviously been cooked hours ago and the fried plantains were stone cold and rubbery.
What to do for the day? Well we went to the thermal spirings and hot mud baths. Lovely? Yes. But you can't sit in a hot mud bath all day. The trails were all closed due to the rain and we didn't want to go on the zip lines (again an extra at $60 pp US) Hirse riding in this rain didn't appeal (yes you're right, an extra $60 pp US) A trip to the nearby volcano ($145 pp US).
The resort is beautiful and in a beautiful setting, but obviously caters for the American market. The US couples here were raving about it. But we weren't here for lazing around on our annual 7 day vacation, so unfortunately it is not our cup of tea! Which incidently they can't make either!

Boiling spring water gushing from the earth.

Collecting the mud for the mud bath - misnomer, because you actually smear this stuff onto your body from a small receptacle, before washing it off in a cold shower, before jumping into the hot springs.

The volcanic steam room. The hut is situated over a boiling hot water pool, and captures to hot humid air inside the hut.

The pools, not heated, very lovely but not very clean. We avoided this.