Day 12- Gainesville, FL
This morning at 8: 30 a.m. our driver from Destination Costa Rica met us for our transfer to the airport for our departing flight to Orlando. Our Jet Blue flight departs around noon and check in at the International Airport is 3 hours prior to flight time.
Once you arrive at the airport, you must go over to pay the departure tax of $28.00 per person; you can pay this in US dollars cash, colones or with a Visa Credit Card. They do charge a service fee for using your Visa card.
Once you pay this, you then check in at the airline and check your luggage and then go through customs. At the gates, there are several areas to shop and eat at. They have complimentary Wi-Fi at the airport, so that was nice.
Our flight was about 15 minutes late, but it was okay because we were heading home. We arrived in Orlando at 5 p.m. and by the time we got through customs, it was 6 p.m. We were then shuttled to our car, where it cost us $102.00 to get our car from the parking lot. We thought we left the rain in Costa Rica, but we returned rainy weather in sunshine state. John drove to Cocoa where I dropped him off and wanted to see Jaylee. Because I had to work the next day, I left Cocoa at around 7:30 p.m. and got to Gainesville at 10 p.m.
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