Rainforestphototours Reviews 

Not a good experience overall. It was a private tour, pretty expensive, but he awas not interested, always on his phone, never giving advice on how to shoot better etc. Total waste of time. Never again would I consider hiring him or his outfit. Came up with many lame excuses to extract more money that what was agreed but I was afraid to say no because I might be stranded in Costa Rica withouth good options for the short term.Should have listened to all the other reviewers

In short our experience with Jeffrey Munoz and Distinctive Expeditions, now called Rainforest Photo Tours was very unfortunate. Jeffrey co led a tour for us in 2018 which went reasonably well. We paid him to book and pay the lodges, arrange and pay for the transportation and for his guiding fees upfront. We scheduled another tour for 2019, but 5 days before the tour he cancelled on us and our 7 customers. Fortunately we were able to rebook the trip with a similar itinerary with the help of another Costa Rican photographer and our group had a nice trip. But it created a lot of stress on me and our tour leader. Now it's been over 4 months and he still hasn't refunded our tour funds, nor has he indicated that he will. Like the review above, he basically ignores any inquiry about this. Do not trust this person or company with your Costa Rican tour, there are plenty of good operators out there.

I am updating this as of October 2020, now 18 months after our tour was supposed to occur. Jeffrey Munoz never refunded any of the more than $19,000 we prepaid for this tour that he cancelled on us. We also ended up finding other photographers who had booked trips with him which he cancelled and did not refund their funds. You can see from the other reviews here also that it was not an isolated incident. So beware of working with him or scheduling a trip with him or his company.