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Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
San José
San José2 stopsR17 769
Liberia
Liberia2 stopsR31 046
San José
San José2 stopsR17 769
Liberia
Liberia2 stopsR31 046

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Recent return flight deals to Costa Rica

Mon, Dec 1 - Wed, Dec 10
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11:10 - 9:20JNB-SJO
54h 10m2 stops
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10:15 - 7:45SJO-JNB
37h 30m2 stops
R17 769
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Tue, Nov 11 - Mon, Nov 17
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12:40 - 0:15CPT-SJO
43h 35m2 stops
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2:15 - 6:35SJO-CPT
20h 20m2 stops
R20 822
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Tue, Nov 11 - Tue, Nov 18
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9:30 - 19:53CPT-SJO
42h 23m2 stops
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8:45 - 18:00SJO-CPT
25h 15m2 stops
R21 319United Airlines
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Mon, Dec 1 - Wed, Dec 10
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11:10 - 12:30JNB-SJO
33h 20m3 stops
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16:55 - 7:45SJO-JNB
30h 50m2 stops
R22 863
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Tue, Nov 11 - Tue, Nov 18
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8:05 - 17:10CPT-SJO
41h 05m1 stop
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20:35 - 21:55SJO-CPT
41h 20m1 stop
R24 123KLM
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Fri, Oct 31 - Tue, Nov 4
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8:50 - 17:50CPT-SJO
41h 00m1 stop
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20:05 - 17:20SJO-CPT
37h 15m2 stops
R25 526Air France
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Fri, Oct 31 - Tue, Nov 4
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8:50 - 17:50CPT-SJO
41h 00m1 stop
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20:05 - 17:20SJO-CPT
37h 15m2 stops
R25 579Air France
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Wed, Jul 23 - Wed, Jul 30
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19:00 - 19:37JNB-SJO
32h 37m2 stops
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5:30 - 8:35SJO-JNB
43h 05m2 stops
R31 313United Airlines
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Thu, Oct 16 - Wed, Oct 22
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18:50 - 11:48JNB-SJO
48h 58m2 stops
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19:25 - 21:35SJO-JNB
42h 10m2 stops
R32 253KLM
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Fri, Jul 18 - Thu, Jul 31
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21:15 - 20:04JNB-SJO
30h 49m2 stops
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6:18 - 9:25SJO-JNB
43h 07m2 stops
R98 038British Airways
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What is the cheapest month to fly from South Africa to Costa Rica?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from South Africa to Costa Rica, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from South Africa to Costa Rica is April, when tickets cost R13 792 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and December, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is R32 165 and R29 413 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from South Africa to Costa Rica?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights to Costa Rica, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below-average price on the flight from South Africa to Costa Rica, you should book around 2 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 7 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonSeptember
High seasonDecember
Cheapest flightR10 242
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 5% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (8% more expensive on average)
Flight from Johannesburg to San José

FAQs - booking Costa Rica flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from South Africa to Costa Rica?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from South Africa to Costa Rica.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from South Africa to Costa Rica?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from South Africa to Costa Rica is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from South Africa to Costa Rica?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly from South Africa to Costa Rica with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from South Africa to Costa Rica?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying from South Africa to Costa Rica up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest day to fly to Costa Rica?

    Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Costa Rica is Tuesday when return tickets can be as cheap as R23 768. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Saturday, when return prices are R30 371 on average.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Costa Rica?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Costa Rica is generally in the afternoon, when round-trip flights cost R1 348 on average. Morning departures are around 242% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Costa Rica is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is R5 245.

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to Costa Rica

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from South Africa to Costa Rica? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
7,8
KLMOverall score based on 1365 reviews
7,1Entertainment
7,2Food
7,8Boarding
7,7Comfort
8,4Crew
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My flight was delayed by 6 hours then I missed BOTH of my connecting flights, I then had to stay in the AIRPORT at JFK because soooooo many people also suffered from missing flights and there was no hotels available. I would like to be compensated for this experience! I had to stay in the airport for over 16 hours!

2,0 Mediocrejoseph, Jun 2025JFK - AMS
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My flight was delayed by 6 hours then I missed BOTH of my connecting flights, I then had to stay in the AIRPORT at JFK because soooooo many people also suffered from missing flights and there was no hotels available. I would like to be compensated for this experience! I had to stay in the airport for over 16 hours!

Klm start boarding while somw air issue in the plan

The service was great. However the lounge only gets passing grade

I appreciate that KLM was proactive in informing me of the 2 hour delay which enabled me to replan my travel. It was a bit stressful not knowing whether my connection from Montreal to Ottawa was happening. But the ground and air crew did a good job at comforting and assuring me.

Cabin crew professional, polite and friendly, boarding was seemless, but come on KLM surely you can do better than a pack of cheesy biscuits as an inflight snack

Cabin crew were excellent, very proffesional, polite and friendly, in flight snack was underwhelming, a packet of cheese biscuits, im sure KLM could run to a sandwich!

This portion of the flight was through Indigo. A local carrier. So all economy seating. No real service some refreshments for purchase standard economy stuff.

You should not have to pay for WiFi in business class

Transfer at Amsterdam airport is very convenient and the airport is easy to navigate. Boarding was also quick and easy. Cabin crew were excellent and the meals were good, although lacking in options.

This fight left ahead of time which meant it arrived early which was great. Staff were very professional, but as with all these Short hop Flights the food was a disappointing snack There was no entertainment on this flight, but I did not expect any

It was an OK flight with below mediocre service by their flight attendants

Wasted a lot of time trying to find the CDG lounge - it was not next to the connecting flight gate like the Air France staff said.

My experience was good overall, the quality of the food really decreased! There used to be a choice between meat and fish now it’s between chicken and pasta! In the choices of entertainment meditation has been added which is very good. Soft chair workout to improve blood circulation and avoid phlebitis should be added.

The only reason the overall rating wasn't "excellent" was due to problems in claiming luggage. The bags are delivered to the main area (Cinta 35) for domestic passengers, but to a DIFFERENT ROOM for international arrivees. After waiting 30 minutes, someone (who didn't appear to be from Air France or the airport) told us to go to another area. There we found our bags, which appeared to have been awaiting us for a while. We had to go through a bag check before leaving the airport. If we had been alerted to this possibility, or better yet, been to go directly to Cinta 34, we could have eliminated quite a bit of waiting.

Much better than the major US Carriers especially in Biz Class.

I wish that the meal included a vegetable or even a salad instead of couscous! Why serve chicken with rice AND couscous? Service was good overall though a bit lacking in friendliness. Usually on air france I've been offered a glass of champagne before dinner, wine with dinner, and a digestif after dinner. We were only offered wine this time!

It was not Air France but Air Europa. But confusion over our checked luggage. Whether it was checked all the way to Tenerife or not. It was not. Had to line up again in Departures. At least our Sky Priority was honoured. Flight was fine.

My wife and I had a row to ourselves after moving seats. There were no TVs and you had to buy food. So we did nothing but had a quick nap. Flight was fine.

The male attended that served are section was a snob. He did not answer my call light when my wine spilled all over the floor. I did not push it again or drew his attention to it. He just ignored the call light when he came to give us our meal, serving the people behind us first. I did not push it again or drew his attention to it to see his reaction. It was so obvious that he was ignoring us. We were in premium economy!

The plane was old Only 3 bathrooms available for economy The entertainment was old and the selection was poor

My flight was delayed a very short period of time but they did not hold my connecting flight to San Diego, also through United. So they closed the doors before we got off our plane. They would only have to help the door open for another five to ten minutes. So I missed a court deadline for a manditory mediation settlement conference for my client. I had to get an associate to be there in person and be on the phone with him relaying what he needs to do the entire time. The court was very upset with me and so was my client. United cannot be trusted.

Everything is good except the dinner and breakfast. The sandwich is very delicious. Toilet is clean, I only use one of them. Flight attendants are very nice. 👍👍

I love United was disappointed we had a two hour delay, however the Pilot did say safety first.

Food and flight attendents with positive dispositions and friendly behavior, more professional attitudes

Michael, our FA was very attentive, even finding me a chocolate brownie from economy class when the dessert selections were all dairy based. ( intolerant, not allergic so don’t usually need to order dairy free)

We were Polaris passengers and found the service poor. The food was ok but the flight attendants were not attentive and rushed the service.

Terrible. First of all we were delayed 4 3/4 hours departing Honolulu. As we had to leave our condo and the rental car had to be returned we had to go to the airport. Even though we had a business class boarding pass to Washington, since we did not have business class to Montreal we could not access the lounge without paying a $59 fee each. This does not make sense to us. Since we could not meet our original connection United booked us to Montreal via New York LaGuardia on Air Canada. In Washington a further delay got us into LaGuardia too late to make our connection to Montreal so we were booked on another Air Canada flight 3 hours later. We were originally scheduled to arrive in Montreal at 10:40 and arrived at 19:55. A totally exhausting day, United did not offer a meal voucher or any type of compensation. Air Canada did give us a digital meal voucher. The food in United business class is poor among all meals offered. The pods look nice but are not that confortable. Overall would not fly on United again.

Overall, it was a good experience. Boarding was good and there was plenty of overhead bin space for everyone’s carryons (even when we boarded toward the end). Only improvement would be to offer trash service more regularly.

Nothing wrong with the flight itself. But due to 2+ hrs waiting in immigration and the additional security checkup in O’hare, I nearly missed the flight.

Flight was great albeit the long line before the int’l immigration given the timing of the year.

Excellent once on board. Security staff at Johannesburg rude and aggressive.

I barely made the flight. We had to take a bus to the plane and the plane smelled awfully of body odor. When the flight attendant walked by she smelled of body odor. It was incredibly uncomfortable.

I arrived late in Frankfurt and I had to catch my flight to Vienna and I was running late because when I was landing the flight to Vienna was boarding. I had to go through immigration and then I had to wait in a long line to take a bus to a terminal where my flight to Vienna was taking off. However, I truly didn't think I would make it. I was literally running through the whole airport and when I stopped to ask at one of the Austrian Airlines gates they were rude because they didn't have the time to support me.

Very nice. Crew was excellent and our seats had great legroom which we paid extra for so I highly recommend this option when flying internationally.

Amazing! The food was great! Best airline meal ever. The crew was so nice and pleasant.

The jollof rice and fried plantain. Communication could have been better.

Flight crew was among the best I’ve ever seen

The hot towels before the second meal was an unexpected surprise. The crew was attentive and personable, and that’s a lot on a nine hour flight. And the hot pretzels were a kind of “auf wiedersehn “ to Germany.

Courtesy of waitress. Could improve on time management and check-in

Terrible. Had to go through customs and pick up our luggage. Then they said we couldn't make our connecting flight to MKE when we had 35min before takeoff. There were no other flights out on any airline so we would've had to spend the night at ORD. We were able to get a ride to MKE at our expense instead. Ridiculous that they would not allow us to try to make the flight, which we would have. Assuming rechecking the luggage was the problem. They should not have listed this as a viable connecting flight if there was no chance in making it. There was 4 people in our party.

Checking in process could use streamlining when it comes to all info required.not bad tho

The first class seats were unusable, mine at the end of the flight, my husband's in the middle of the flight, and the one next to me was unusable either, they had to move the person to another seat.

The food could have been better. And the chicken sandwich was not nice at all.

Our original booking with Kayak -our first experience -was exactly what we wanted and worked well. Updates were friendly and reassuring as were the contacts with UnderPricer so a big win-win. We learned a lot on your reliability and will definitely put you on our organisational list for the future.

Cancelled flight minutes before boarding. Rescheduled flight was two days later

I have noticed that the airlines, including this flight, pretend there is going to be turbulence, announce such, and say they can’t do beverage service. There is no turbulence and the seat belt light goes off 10 minutes before they ask for tray tables up and seat belts back on. They are just trying to spend less money and it’s quite transparent

Flight delayed in terms of boarding and Kayak was great in updating but the team on the groping at British Airways were really poor

the boarding was a disaster, the departure was late, we missed the connection flight and we were told they don't care, after a few trips between support and personnel on the ground

It was just ok. Half the bathrooms were broke on the flight.

Less than average, low level of shared required information needed during the transfer from airport to another, also the used team during boarding In Indianapolis station is Not Professional

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