Tampa, Florida to San Jose, Costa Rica from $300

⚠️ Copa Airlines Basic fare: no checked bag.

🌍 About San Jose, Costa Rica

San Jose is the capital of Silicon Valley, but the reason to eat here is Vietnamese: the city has the largest Vietnamese population of any outside Vietnam, around 150,000 people. Go to Little Saigon on Story Road for pho — Pho Hoa and the banh mi chain Lee's Sandwiches both started in this neighborhood. The other thing worth your time is the Winchester Mystery House, where gun-fortune widow Sarah Winchester kept builders working nonstop for 38 years, producing staircases that dead-end at the ceiling and doors that open onto blank walls. The weather is dry and sunny most of the year, so timing your trip is about fares, not climate — the only real rain falls December to February, which is also the quietest stretch.