San Jose Costa rico to beach?

Question

In march im going to San Jose Costa Rica with my family for a month. Because we are going to be there for so long I wanted to know about how long it would be to drive to the beach, maybe in Jaco (im just writing the beach name i saw closest to it on the map.)

Answer 1

Jaco is the closest at about 2 hours.  It has big waves and lots of bars and clubs.  

Manuel Antonio is 3.5 hours or so, it has some of the prettiest, especially the ones inside the national park.

Its over 3 hours to the nearest Caribbean city, Limon, which isn't very nice.  I think its 4.5 hours or so to Cahuita which does have a nice beach.

All these places have very cheap bus service to them as well.

Answer 2

To the Pacific about 2 hours, to the carribean a bit more. Can be done as a day trip.