Hi Kurt!

Thanks so much for reaching out! And, please thank your friend for us for their positive recommendation! 🙂 I’m happy to answer your questions.

To start, you’re absolutely correct–the membership level you purchase depends on the number of tours you want to experience. When counting experiences, please only count experiences for which we can provide a discount. (You can search our discount database here to learn which discounts we have.) For example, if you want to do a white-water rafting tour, a zip-lining tour, and a scuba diving tour during your trip, but our discount database only has discounts in stock for the white-water rafting tour and the zip-lining tour that you want, not the scuba diving tour, the number of tour discounts that you’d like to access would be counted as two, not three.

Once you decide how many tour discounts you’d like to access and you purchase the corresponding membership level via PayPal, you can place an order for those discounts through our website. You do that by visiting the tour’s listing page on our website (so, the white-water rafting tour page or the zip-lining tour page, for example) and adding the discount to your “cart”. You get to choose which exact tours you experience, the tour dates and tour times (when applicable) for those activities, the number of people who want to do the tour, etc. You’re essentially booking the tour directly through the tour operator, but as a result of being a Pura Vida! eh? member, the cost you’ll pay the tour operators for their tours will be less (i.e., our discounted rates).

Pura vida! 🙂