"Ecuador fools travellers into thinking they are in Costa Rica as part of elaborate stunt"
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...-incident.html
In all seriousness, I am sure you can get a great (rainforest) experience in many Caribbean, Central-, or South-American countries. And those experiences will be very similar to each other. Then does it really matter where you go?
I have been pondering this myself. Why go to Costa Rica if I can get a similar experience (I think) in Puerto Rico or Mexico? The latter two are much easier and cheaper to get to than Costa Rica...