COSTA RICA: Room and Board

COSTA RICA: Room and Board

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Students/Teachers will be housed with Costa Rican families in San Jose, Costa Rica.

HOUSING:
House sizes vary but each participant is guaranteed to have their own room. If you'd like to be placed in the same house as another participant, please just advise us and we can usually arrange it. Housing is always close to the university or near good transportation to the university and groups of students are kept in the same areas. All families and their residences are screened and evaluated every year by the Director of Families and the students that stayed with them. All families go through orientation yearly to ensure they are in constant understanding of their role and responsibilities.
"My madre tica treated me like a son. Any individual would be extremely lucky to have someone as wonderful as her. I cannot speak highly enough of her. She made me feel as if this was my country"-David Driscoll, Memphis, TN (see Testimonials for much more feedback)

A Housing & Medical form is used so each student can list preferences, medical conditions, and special needs. The Director of Families will make all efforts to accommodate individual needs and preferences. Just like the Families, Students agree to respect and abide by all the specific policies, rules, regulations, instructions, written or unwritten, imposed to every resident living in the premises; a signed release and agreement form will be required of all participants.

MEALS and LAUNDRY:
Families provide two meals a day: breakfast, and dinner, plus laundry service.
"...the food is amazing; she keeps the house clean; and her husband and children are wonderful"-Georgia Ennis, Whitmore Lake, MI

HOUSING ARRIVALand DEPARTURE DETAILS

Students need to arrive to the housing assigned (families, residences, apartments) on the specific day and time before classes start. If you need to arrive earlier or stay later than the designated dates, we can recommend lodging at Tairona Inn: www.taironainn.com or tairona@racsa.co.cr (mention MLSA).

Students must vacate the university residences in Madrid before 2:00 pm the day after the last day of classes or closing ceremony. Students hosted by families in Madrid and Costa Rica, and the students hosted in apartments in Florence, must depart before 7:00 pm the day after the last day of classes or the day after the closing ceremony.

As a general rule, no changes in the assigned housing are permitted, once the housing has been established, approved, and confirmed. Only in some cases and special circumstances will changes be allowed.

Once housing assignment has been approved and confirmed, and money has been paid to secure it, a penalty will be established for breaking the agreement—in addition to any other fees originated by a change. Changes would include: from family to apartment, apartment to family, from one apartment to a different one, from one residence to another, or by leaving housing assigned by the MLSA office. You can arrive at the family residence the morning of the schedule date of arrival, and you should leave before 7:00 p.m. on the scheduled date of departure. Don't plan to arrive at your family before the listed date, or stay after the listed date. (NO EXCEPTIONS).

No housing arrangements will be made for participants bringing children with them

For general questions, please go to Frequently Asked ?s tab.

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