Long Stay Parking

Five-day trips from Cóbano? Official long stay here is a gray area.

Long Stay Parking at Cóbano Airport (ACO) lists at $15.00 per day or $90.00 per week, but most guides still flag multi-day parking at the strip as a bad bet. One airport overview even warns that “long-term guarded parking may not be available,” so treating this like a big-city long-stay garage for 5–6 days straight is out of step with how locals use ACO.

The field sits roughly 0.5 miles from Cóbano town, and typical advice is to leave your car with a hotel or private lot there or in Montezuma/Santa Teresa, then grab a short taxi ride to Terminal 1. That 0.5 mi distance keeps the cab fare small, while your car sits someplace that actually sells multi-night parking as a real service instead of a side effect of a rural airstrip.

On paper, Long Stay Parking includes a shuttle that takes about 10 minutes to reach Terminal 1, with pickups every 15 minutes. If you’re flying one of the local carriers with tight check-in cutoffs, treat that 10-minute ride like a minimum, not a guarantee, and add another 15 minutes for the next shuttle cycle plus a small buffer for check-in and bag drop.

Regulars planning a week in San José or beyond usually leave the car in town at weekly rates similar to that $90.00 figure, then spend a few extra dollars on a taxi to ACO instead of trusting unattended parking for 5–6 days at the strip. Practical play: call your Cóbano or Santa Teresa hotel ahead of time and ask about paid guest parking, then book the room and the parking as one package before you lock in your flight.