As the US pinches pennies, it is being felt around the world, however in some areas, tourism is actually increasing! Nicaragua is one of those places, probably because the costs associated with a trip to Nicaragua are less 
than that of other Central America or Caribbean Island prices. What hurt Nicaragua in the past is now making it one of the more attractive vacation spots.
Take Playa Roca Beach Hotel in Las Penitas, Leon in Northern Nicaragua for example. They have seen a 42% increase in visitors over last year! That is incredible when overall the world is in recession. At Playa Roca you can still get a room on the beach with a view of the ocean for a family of 4 for under $100 a day, including food and drinks! Check out www.playaroca.com for more information.
When you couldn’t afford to go to Hawaii, you planned a trip to Costa Rica. Now that Costa Rica seems a little bit out of reach, why not try Nicaragua? (It isn’t Honduras – no worries of a military coup here!) Things are stable, the people are happy, and are just waiting to be able to show you what Nicaragua is all about.
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Playa Roca Beach Hotel and Playa Roca Learning and Language Center is now serviced by a new road from Leon (only 20 miles away)to Playa Roca. It is also just a 15 minute beach walk to the fabulous wildlife preserve of Isla de Juan Venado. So not only surfing in great waves or learning Spanish, you see crocodiles, herons and sea turtles (tortugas). Hard to beat for the buck, even if it were double or more it is super inexpensive. We also could go skiing down the volcano’s near by.
It is hard to drum up tourism in a country living in the shadows of a tourism
giant like Costa Rica, but it is also a lot of fun. Nicaragua has so much to offer. One of my fave less popular places is Chinandega and Playa Amarillo in Tola for surfing.