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Find cheap flights from Vancouver to Costa Rica from C$ 264

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San José
San José1 stopC$ 526
Liberia
Liberia2 stopsC$ 529

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September

High season

March

Cheapest flight

C$ 264
Best time to beat the crowds (17% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (16% more expensive on average)
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FAQs - booking Costa Rica flights

  • Do Canadians travelling from Vancouver to Costa Rica need a visa?

    If their stay is under 90 days, Canadian citizens visiting Costa Rica are exempted from needing a visa. However, they will need to have a valid passport with a blank page for an entry stamp as well as a return ticket with their departure date on it.

  • Which airlines can I use to book a flight with children from Vancouver to Costa Rica?

    Consider using Air Canada to fly from Vancouver to Costa Rica if you're travelling with children. This airline's cabins provide roomy seats with extra legroom, ensuring your kids are comfortable the entire ride. Additionally, the airline may provide kid-friendly entertainment for all lengthy flights.

  • Are there airlines offering direct flights from Vancouver to Costa Rica?

    Currently, there are no direct flights connecting Vancouver with Costa Rica. Vancouver International Airport (YVR) to Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR), and YVR to San José Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) are the two popular non-direct routes for travelers flying to Costa Rica from Vancouver.

  • When renting a car in Costa Rica, what child seat safety requirements should I consider?

    Please be advised that child seat safety rules must be fulfilled in Costa Rica if you intend to rent a car for flexibility in transportation from the airport to your destinations. Your children under the age of 12 have to be provided with an age-appropriate child safety seat. Infants under the age of 15 months can ride in rear-facing seats, children between the ages of 15 months and 4 years can ride in forward-facing seats, and children between the ages of 4 and 12 years can ride in either a booster or booster cushion seat.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Vancouver to Costa Rica?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Vancouver to Costa Rica.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Vancouver to Costa Rica?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Costa Rica from Vancouver is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Vancouver to Costa Rica?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Costa Rica with an airline and back to Vancouver with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Vancouver to Costa Rica?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Costa Rica from Vancouver up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to Costa Rica

  • Morning departure is around 5% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
  • If you're planning on flying from Vancouver to Costa Rica to attend the Liberia Fiestas Festival, which typically takes place in the last week of February, is aware that airline prices may go up owing to increased demand. Travelers from all over the world, including Canada, are drawn to the festival.
  • Travelers from Vancouver heading to the southern parts of Costa Rica, such as the Caribbean and central Pacific regions should consider Vancouver International Airport (YVR) as their departure airport, and the southern-based San José Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) as their destination airport.
  • There is no need for people with reduced mobility (PRMs) to be concerned about their travel from Vancouver to Costa Rica using Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR) as their destination airport and Vancouver International Airport (YVR) as their departure airport. PRMs will have free access to wheelchair services in the majority of airline lounges at both airports. PRMs can also request employees to help them during the security and baggage claim processes.
  • Vancouver International Airport (YVR) serves as the departure point for the majority of travelers from Vancouver to Costa Rica. This is down to the airport's central location in Vancouver as well as the availability of numerous transportation alternatives that makes it simpler to connect to YVR from different areas of Vancouver before boarding your Costa Rica trip.
  • If you are heading to the Northern Parts of Costa Rica, among them Liberia, from Vancouver, consider using the Northern-based Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR). LIR will give you easier access to cities such as Liberia, about 7 km away, San Jose, about 175 km, and Managua in Nicaragua, about 190 km away.
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*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

Top 5 airlines serving from Vancouver to Costa Rica

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Vancouver to Costa Rica? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
7.6
AeroMexico ConnectOverall score based on 334 reviews
7.7Comfort
7.8Boarding
7.1Entertainment
7.1Food
8.1Crew
Airline reviews
Cons: "Aeromexico has a small plane, it is extremely uncomfortable. Flight Crew are not the friendliest of all."
2.0 MediocreJaime, Apr. 2021MEX - SAL
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Cons: "Aeromexico has a small plane, it is extremely uncomfortable. Flight Crew are not the friendliest of all."
Pros: "The short lines at check in."
Cons: "The communication or overall handling of the Origin airport staff with the Mexico City staff. Was told COVID test was acceptable in DGO and was not able to fly from MEX to ORD due to “invalid PCR test”"
Cons: "Just 1 person doing check inn in Mexico city, very bad service at the checking point"
Cons: "The sandwich was a large roll with a slice of ham as a slice of non descript cheese, significantly smaller than the roll."
Cons: "Overnight flights on E90 planes are not great but it is what it is."
Cons: "E90 planes do not have WiFi or inflight entertainment so make sure to bring your own."
Cons: "The whole experience. From boarding to arrival. The flight departed late, and arrived even later to then have to still have to wait for the shuttle to take you to the main terminal. These flights make me question whether Aeromexico deserves to be the flag carrier."
Pros: "Nothing. It was terrible."
Cons: "Arrive on time (rather than 12 hours late; I’m still flying). Staff was disgustingly rude. When they missed my connection I waited in line for 2 hours to be rebooked on a much less nice airline. Will never book with you (or Aeromexico) ever again."
Pros: "Crew was friendly."
Cons: "No communication with us in why our flight was delayed. We boarded an hour and a half later and still held us in buses until they were done cleaning because no aircraft was available. Staff was friendly."
Cons: "No one ever told me I needed paperwork to board my return flight and they made me run all over the airport and miss my flight"

Newer plane with large seats. No meal, but snacks were plentiful. Inflight entertainment was good but movies were dated.

No space reserved for anyone who didn’t have underseat in front of them. Made it inconvenient to get the backs secured. No inflight entertainment in the 190. Bring your own! Food was excellent and we were surprised to get a full breakfast.

No everybody brings the proper equipment to enjoy the plane entertainment. Then I was not able to enjoy it.

Cons: "left Houston more than 2 hours later, arrive in Mexico over 2 am"
Pros: "Fee alcohol on flight! Crew was also very nice and welcoming."
Cons: "Everything seemed fine."
Cons: "El problema es que nunca pude cambiar mi vuelo y con ustedes fue imposible comunicarse para que me auxiliaran. Muy mal por ustedes no por la línea."
Pros: "Ticketing agent very unhelpful blamed Kayak for misinformation and cancellation of flight refused refund very rude ..told me to never book from private business"
Cons: "Never use aermexico again or kayak"
Cons: "The baggage fee was excessive probably because Kayak had a discounted rate. Next time I will just book with Aero Mexico, it´s the same cost anyway."
Pros: "Nothing"
Cons: "Everything, I will never going to use this software anymore."
Cons: "Way too much people... We're in a pandemic and the plane was Full. Unacceptable."

Airport monitors did not give the gate for our flight returning Detroit to Vancouver Juice served from glass storage containers are a far more healthy alternative for people. And would also minimize the need for recycling plastic or aluminum containers

Boarding, staff and flight great. A bit disappointed with no in flight online entertainment but I'll live. Landing was a bit of a jolt (more than usual) but hey everything else was smooth. LoL

I’ve been delayed for two days and I’m still stuck in Honolulu tired spending money

1.5 hours late departing YVR for a 14-minute flight. Packed waiting area. Full plane. Families with tired, screaming kids. 40-minute wait for baggage at YYJ. For a Dash-8. Obviously there was some kind of breakdown but there was no communication from anyone. Most of this was not WestJet's fault but it was an unpleasant night overall. I fell asleep in a chair waiting for the luggage carousel to start.

flight changed by airline. then could not check imto mew flight because kiwi had messed up the reservation. still waiting to depart…

Good. Really crowded and busy. Going to Winnipeg plane was crowded and seats very narrow Now I remember why I dislike flying 😈

Having a lot of delayed flights on West Jet, however things always work out. So no complaints.

Three hours on the tarmac before a four hour flight. I was hungry given the long wait, yet still had to pay for food service

I had planned to watch the Westjet entertainment for the entire flight however, because the seat mounted outlets in our row did not work.

Not a bad flight but our priority tagged luggage was the very last to come down the carousel.

It was good! Appreciated that it was very on schedule so it made the connecting flight less stressful

Two flights,both poor. No entertainment. Cramped and uncomfortable seats, little space, the rest was OK. Staff were acceptable good.

The crew was doing their best on an old plane needing updating. Chairs that creaked and wouldn’t stay in position. My tray table was unusable as was on-board entertainment due the audio needing usb earphones (that were not provided). Prior to boarding in Toronto and despite being scheduled for a wheelchair and assistance, we were dropped off by clubcar without a wheelchair which I found myself by a gate. Due to no boarding gate assigned at that time we waited and when it was, it subsequently was moved from 64 to 95. No help could be found so I pushed my husband’s chair to that furthest gate in the airport at the highest speed possible for a 73 year old. And by that I mean I ran. It was a very stressful experience.

Wifi wasn't working on one of the UA flights after boarding.

Leg room was lacking. Legs crammed into seat in front.

T hey did a great job. Flight was on time .

the plane was old. the wifi didn’t work. the entertainment was boring and dated. the charging ports were impossible to find. i was mostly ignored by flight attendants that had no problem speaking to the man beside me. i got two drinks the entire time i was on the plane.

Crew was not very helpful. They forgot to serve me coffee and had to wait for a long time.It looked as if they were not very happy with what they were doing.

The flight I was connecting with waited for me even though my 1st flight was late. I really appreciated that.

The seat is too hard and my back and bottom are having servers pain

The experience was generally above average. The only downside was the absence of WiFi during my flight from Vancouver to San Francisco.

on demand entertainment in seat back awesome Check in Kiosk too demanding with endless demand for more information information then says go to counter. Counter agent unfriendly. Do it yourself check in luggage procedure not intuitive, upset employees frustrated the whole procedure.

Terrible experience! All flights delayed, staff had no idea of what they were doing, and at the end luggage lost for 2 days!

It was a domestic flight so the food was not included. But we had not even a little snack and by the end of the flight they were coming around serving water.

Headphones for the movies have too much bass and can't be adjusted. Almost impossible to hear. Great movie selections but can't really watch them because you can't hear them. Also the system is very slow.

I liked that I paid for the bulkhead. That was the only saving grace those seats suck. Why do they pack you in so tight pack you so tight

The flight attendant bumped into me repeatedly time and time again, throughout the entire flight, preventing me from getting any rest. He seemed unaware of his actions and I was very close to saying something, but I didn't because I don't believe he would have understood or altered his behaviour. It was very irritating

There was no entertainment at our seats. The flight was comfortable and we had leg room. The snack we had was really good.

Economy seats were surprisingly comfortable, and snacks not too bad. Checked luggage arrived at destination without problems. It was annoying to wait until last to board as lowest-tier seats but understand it’s difficult to gauge when loading a full plane At least checked carryon luggage seemed to come off first. Annoying to have to use app to order food/drink when wifi availability didn’t allow time for it. Advance communication would have helped Food on menu seemed highly processed and unpalatable, overpriced and over packaged. So maybe a good thing to have missed chance to order

Glad that the plane was not full so my 6' 2" husband didn't have anyone in front of him. We were able to sit in a row with a space between us so he could stretch his legs.

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