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If I ruled the world, I would issue a decree wine tours napa valley commanding every hotel to install minibars stocked with $2 bottles of beer. But since that's never going to happen, you might have to go to Nicaragua to experience such an enlightened minibar alcohol policy.
I'm a frugal traveler a cheapskate, if you will. And so I rarely almost never, in fact use the hotel minibar wine tours napa valley (unlike David Samuels of The Atlantic, who recently wrote a long and bizarre piece about how hotel minibars provide him with companionship). But last week while staying at the Hotel Plaza Colon in Granada, Nicaragua, I made liberal wine tours napa valley use of a hotel minibar for the first time in my life. The Plaza Colon is probably the most luxurious hotel in Granada and it's one of the finest places to stay in the country, but I was shocked and delighted to discover that ice-cold wine tours napa valley bottles wine tours napa valley of beer cost just $2 in my room's minibar. Bottled water cost $1, and a small bottle of rum was just $6 (or $8 if you wanted higher quality stuff).
You know you're in a delightfully cheap country when a luxury wine tours napa valley hotel prices beer in the minibar at $2 and, sure enough, Nicaragua doesn't disappoint on the value scale. Tim Leffel, author of " The World's Cheapest Destinations " considers Nicaragua to be one of the world's cheapest countries and after a recent visit there, I have to agree.
Two dollars is actually a pretty high price for a beer in Nicaragua, where most places charge $1 for a 12-ounce bottle of local beer. The Hotel Plaza Colon is an outstanding hotel and room rates there hover around $100 a night. Basic hostel beds go for $3-8 and in many parts of the country you can find a decent hotel room with A/C for $30 or less. If you are very, very frugal, you can travel for about $15 a day in Nicaragua.
If you patronize a restaurant that caters mostly to locals, like Asados Juanita in San Juan del Sur, you can eat a big dinner of freshly grilled meats, plantains, rice, beans and salad for about $4 (see video above). At the other end of the spectrum, you can eat at a touristy place like Abuelos , which is right on the gorgeous Laguna de Apoyo, for roughly $8-10 each. At Abuelos, you can gorge yourself on freshly grilled meats and then take a dip in the lake to cool off (see video below).
Car rental isn't particularly wine tours napa valley cheap, but even in the most touristy areas of the country you can hire a driver to take you around for $50-60 for a full day, depending on how far away you want to go. A ride on a local chicken bus will cost about 60-80 cents an hour and more comfortable minibuses aren't much more. A short ride in a taxi in Granada wine tours napa valley and other cities can cost as little as 50 cents each because the drivers stop to pick up other passengers. The one hour, twenty minute ferry ride to Ometepe island costs less than $2. A good one hour massage will set you back about $15-$25.
Entrance fees to tourist attractions, like the volcano parks and other natural wonders, rarely exceed $5. We paid just $3 to get into the Ojo de Agua , a gorgeous natural spring on Ometepe, and thought we had died and gone to heaven (see video).
After a budget busting week in pricey Costa Rica, we were thrilled to arrive in much more affordable Nicaragua. I don't think it's the cheapest country in the world, but it's definitely the cheapest country that is close to the U.S.
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