We have taken a similar trip out of San Diego and sailed to Miami. One thing I would pass on is that if you arrive in Costa Rica on Sunday do not take a van our your own with a group. The Van's are not allowed to run on Sunday's as the Gov't tries to protect Taxi's. We did not know that and 8 of us hired a van off the ship. On the way back it was stopped in a road block, the license plates taken off by the police and only because we had a spanish speaking person on the van were we able to convince the police to let it take us to the ship. Other than that slight divergence we had a very good cruise.