San Juan Travel Blogs

Every vacation must come to an end. We were off to the airport at 10:30am and got there very quickly. Enid saw us off. Check in went quick. I set off the security alarm with either my sun glasses or my necklace, took them off and was cleared. lol Then we turned the wrong way after the security chec…

We departed Vieques early Wednesday afternoon and returned back to San Juan.  I had called our next resort to arrange for a pick-up at the airport and learned the charge would be $60 per person round trip (damn taxi union), so we opted to rent a car.  Our resort, the Wyndham Rio Mar, w…

Before even thinking about dinner - we were still full from lunch - we had to take care about our home situation. We got accommodation by Jess' so go to the hotel in order to leave our bags and take a break before keeping on enjoying Puerto Rico.  In our way we stopped in the clinic to get som…

Having fun around Puerto Rico

Enroute from San Juan back to Orlando we passed over the chain of Bahama Islands.  Looking out the window seat was I so surprised to see aqua water and islands emerging into view!  Each island seemed more beautiful than the next and the water was so clear that I could see the land for…

After two and a half days sail from New York, we reached our first destination, Puerto Rico. At 2:00 p.m. the northern coast of Puerto Rico coud be sighted on the horizon directly ahead. Carnival Miracle was headed straight in. A crowd formed on deck as the San Juan skyline became more di…

We spent yesterday in eastern Puerto Rico. Our guide Joe took us up into the rainforest of El Yunque, where we walked along a beautiful track following a tropical stream over the rapids and waterfalls. Afterwards we spent the afternoon on the beach at Playa Luquillo, our last chance to soak up Cari…

Castillo de San Cristobal sits on a limestone cliff 150 feet above the sea. There are five separate units spread over more than 27 acres. All units are connect by moats and tunnels, however, each unit was self-sufficient in case a portion of the fortress should fall to the enemy. The first&nbs…

One of my best friends from university, Rachel, came to visit me in Fort Lauderdale for her spring break this year. Seeing as though I am always looking to go somewhere myself, I ended up finding fairly inexpensive flights to San Juan and convinced her to go with me for 2 days! Everyone t…

This is the RAINforest on the island. It was fun but it didnt only rained- it was the rain that hits you so hard and it's so cold that I wasn't that happy! at least it was raining in San Juan and we couldnt have done anything else. Again, I was not impressed since I have seen all of these type of …

There are no direct flights to St Thomas from Connecticut, so we had to spend about an hour in Puerto Rico, enough time for us to have lunch at the Domino's Pizza in the San Juan Airport.  The pizza was expensive, but good!   We spent our layover calling and texting friends to alert …

 I am going to start my big vacation adventure. I wanted to go to Machu Pichu and my wife wanted a cruise. She like cruises, so we are going to go to Peru and visit Lima, Cusco and Machu Pichu, and then take our sixth cruise. We will embark on Callao, stop in Guayaquil and Manta Ecuador, cross…

San Juan and Culebra Island, Puerto Rico

3 days in Puerto Rico and a day at St. Thomas

In San juan there is park that we call paseo lineal.  It is used by people that want to exercise, and usually it takes my wife and me an hour to walk it both ways.  A friend of mine does it in 40 minutes, I guess i do not walk to fast...Any way it goes thru the lagoon/mangroves and you ca…