This is good news for our USA visitors, as the US$ will remain strong!  You are best to change your money at a CR bank when you arrive (not the airport).  Certainly, most all restaurants and activities will still accept your dollars; though if you can pay in colones you’ll enjoy a huge benefit.

Economists from Acobo Financial Group, anticipate that the exchange rate will remain near 565 colones per day by the end of 2016. Among the main factors are a lower dollar surplus and the increase in the demand for foreign exchange to meet the requirements of the non-bank public sector and the private sector (credits and imports). The…

Source: Economists: “exchange rate will remain near 565 colones per day by the end of 2016″