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A 10-day sojourn might not work so well if you want to enjoy the area while you're there, but if you can manage a long-term getaway (tropical or not), I highly recommend it.
You have to pay a $500 application fee and cover the cost of your own airfare? I stayed at a pretty nice place for $10 a night in Costa Rica, so $500 covers 50 days during which one can code or swim and ends up owning outright whatever they write. Have to be crazy to take this deal, it makes no sense.
I have serious doubts that you found a nice place for $10 a night. I went there for 12 days in Jan '09 and I found that the prices were ok, but they definitely weren't third-world. It's developed now and you pay accordingly. It also seemed to me that $500 was for the stay (not an application fee), which is a good deal for 10 days for the house in the pictures.
I also stayed at a place on the beach in Montezuma, have you been there? That place was $1.50 a night. I wouldn't call it nice, but many of the people going there aren't looking for fancy digs at night.
> a good deal for 10 days for the house in the pictures
20 people x $500 is $10,000 for 10 days (9 nights?), or $1000 a day for the place. That's pretty expensive for CR, I can't say I've even heard of any place that charges that much. Of course there is the housekeeping and meals as well.
Does this place have 20 private bedrooms or is there room sharing for the $500.
Do you want to concentrate on your startup or take a beach vacation? Join me in downtown Detroit if you really want to work on your startup. I guarantee you won't be tempted to leave the building for ten days and will get lots of work done.
I've been working with Chelsea on launching Startup Abroad - http://startupabroad.org - this September, which is also about bringing founders together in an awesome place abroad.
Do you want to concentrate on your startup or take a beach vacation? Join me in downtown Detroit if you really want to work on your startup. I guarantee you won't be tempted to leave the building for ten days and will get lots of work done.