About Us Part II
For those of you who have followed the creation and evolution of Kaps Place and its owners -- we are submitting an update on our lives so you are fully informed of the current family and hotel situation.
Kaps Place now stands for Knowledge, Accommodation, and Personalized Service. Because we have added new people to our hotel to better serve you, we have substituted the original "Karla Arias" part of the acronym with "Knowledge & Accommodation".
Since I married my best friend on Dec. 27th, 2008, our family includes a great man, Jorge, a new baby, Calek, and our older children, Iskander and Kalena, who respectively turned 11 and 7 on June 29th and July 3rd of 2009. I have included some photos of the wedding which was a great 3 in 1 combo (our wedding, Jorge's Birthday, and Calek's Baptism!).
Jorge is an electrical engineer and works for ICE - our phone and internet company. Calek goes to day care from 7 a.m. to 12 noon and is not yet "speaking in any language!" Iskander is in fifth grade and Kalena is in first grade - both go to a Catholic elementary school. As hobbies, Iskander enjoys reading, juggling, and tennis. Kalena practices Samkya dance, cheerleading, and gymnastics. Both children are bilingual, wonderful students who contribute to the hotel and its demands on a day to day basis. Iskander has been able to work the hotel's reception all by himself for about two years now.
The hotel which now has 23 rooms and is made up of 4 housing units. Three of them next to each other: the main house, the chalet and the hostel, and an annex, just around the block. Our family lives in a house in the neighborhood, so we are available around the clock to assist guests with their needs.
We have a large multi-purpose area which has been used for conferences, meetings, parties, dance, yoga, and day care activities. Guests can also use a trampoline in the yard and a foosball machine in the smoking area outside for entertainment.
Most of our rooms are away from the street-- the only rooms which are affected by street noise are annex 1and hostels 1,3 & 4. The rest, because of our layout, are completely sheltered from street noise. On our site we describe the pros & cons of each rooms -- and rooms such as mh2, which has no window to the exterior, does have a skylight with two windows (one on each side) with panels for ventilation. We are only detailing this because some guests who don't see traditional windows think the rooms have no ventilation.
In addition to free luggage storage, breakfast, coffee, tea, internet access & wi-fi, we now offer free calls to more than 70 countries.
With 11+ years in the business of serving tourists, we can only say "it just keeps getting better." We are committed to helping and satisfying guests and only need to know your requests so we can fulfill them. Come visit us and reacquaint yourself with our -- and soon, your -- new family in Costa Rica!
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