San José Coffee Crawl
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Country: Costa Rica
Country: Costa Rica
Duration: 02:30 hours
Description
Discover San José through coffee and storytelling. Walk the historic city, visit 3 specialty coffee shops, and learn how it shaped Costa Rica’s culture, politics, and everyday life, one cup at a time.
Discover San José like never before—through its coffee and its stories. On this walking experience, you’ll visit 3 specialty coffee shops that showcase Costa Rica’s rich coffee culture, while exploring the streets, plazas, and landmarks that shaped the nation’s history.
With 11 curated stops, the crawl blends the sensory pleasures of coffee with the deeper narrative of how this humble bean transformed Costa Rica. From fueling political decisions in the 19th century to financing theaters, universities, and public works, coffee built the foundations of our political and social reality.
At each café, you’ll enjoy a different perspective of specialty coffee—whether it’s a unique brewing method, a tasting of local micro-lots, or conversations with passionate baristas. Between shops, you’ll wander through San José’s historic center, stopping at key landmarks that reveal how coffee exports forged our identity and connected Costa Rica to the wider world.
By the end, you’ll have tasted the city in its purest form: through its coffee, its streets, and its stories.
Duration: 2.5 hours
Stops: 11 (including 3 coffee shops and 7 historic landmarks)
Experience: Guided tasting + city history tour
Discover San José like never before—through its coffee and its stories. On this walking experience, you’ll visit 3 specialty coffee shops that showcase Costa Rica’s rich coffee culture, while exploring the streets, plazas, and landmarks that shaped the nation’s history.
With 11 curated stops, the crawl blends the sensory pleasures of coffee with the deeper narrative of how this humble bean transformed Costa Rica. From fueling political decisions in the 19th century to financing theaters, universities, and public works, coffee built the foundations of our political and social reality.
At each café, you’ll enjoy a different perspective of specialty coffee—whether it’s a unique brewing method, a tasting of local micro-lots, or conversations with passionate baristas. Between shops, you’ll wander through San José’s historic center, stopping at key landmarks that reveal how coffee exports forged our identity and connected Costa Rica to the wider world.
By the end, you’ll have tasted the city in its purest form: through its coffee, its streets, and its stories.
Duration: 2.5 hours
Stops: 11 (including 3 coffee shops and 7 historic landmarks)
Experience: Guided tasting + city history tour
Highlights
- Coffee tastings guided by local expert, not scripted tours.
- History told through streets, cafés, and real urban stories.
- Small-group walk focused on flavor, culture, and place.
- Specialty coffee as a lens to understand Costa Rica.
- A city tour you taste, not just see.
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Marginal Gift Shop is a shop inside Academia Santa Gráfica, it looks like a house, but it has signs outside
INCLUDED
- Selected coffee drinks
NOT INCLUDED
- Pastry
- Food
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.