Puerto Rico Hotel Review - Where to stay & more

• If you can afford the cost, for $398/day (Bungalow) low season to $2964/day high season (Beach Front Family Villa with Privacy), you can stay at the first all inclusive hotel in Puerto Rico, sits on a long peninsula near the El Yunque Rainforest, seen in the skyline in the photo. All the amenities needed for a relaxing vacation, including Golf, Casino, some water sports (but no Jet Skis), secluded but rocky beach (protect your feet), incredible swimming pool and spacious rooms and cabanas. There are restaurants within the complex and nearby. Be prepared to add on a few pounds, with the all you can eat and drink package.
  Paradisus Resort
  
• Near the El Yunque Rainforest, Rio Mar Villas boast of a secluded beach, Casino in the Westin Rio Mar Resort, Swimming Pool, fully equipped and spacious 2 and 3 bedroom villas anywhere from 1 weekend, weeks or month at a time. Many restaurants and 2 Casinos nearby.
  The Westin Rio Mar Resort and Casino is on the same site. It is a great hotel, has very nice pools, incredible beach, good restaurants, nice people and I will continue to go there, even if I live a few minutes away, next to the Paradisus Resort.
  Rio Mar Villas and Westin Rio Mar Resort
  
• In an exclusive area of Condado in the San Juan Metro district, you will find the Radisson Ambassador Hotel and Casino, very near the PR Marriott Resort and Casino. There is a swimming pool on the roof, and its only a few hundred yards to the beach. The accommodations have been recently renovated and the hotel boasts a popular casino. Rates are moderate and rather stable all year round, the rooms and suites, are quite comfortable and local calls are free of charge. For business travelers with access to the Ambassador Club, located in the penthouse roof, there is a business center, free wireless internet to connect with your laptop throughout the facilities, continental breakfast in the morning, appetizers in the evening and an Honor Bar, open all day. There are a 2 restaurants within the hotel and many others, nearby.
  Photographed by Tito Rosario
• In the historic center of Old San Juan, and across the street from the San Juan Cathedral, you can stay at the El Convento Hotel. Many years ago, it was the convent of a religious sect of cloistered nuns. The TV Series of The Flying Nun, starring Sally Fields, was based on this historic convent in Old San Juan. With its strong winds and the peculiar large headdress these nuns wore. It was surprising that they did not actually fly. However, the historic views of the show were actually filmed in Mexico, because it was closer to Hollywood.
  El Convento, is near, and walking distance, from all the facinating attractions of Old San Juan, and fantastic shopping.
  
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  La Fortaleza, The Governor's Palace
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  la Garita del Diablo, legend says that a soldier and his lover used to meet here.
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  A typical street of Old San Juan
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  Novelty and souvenir store specializing in Caribbean trinkets and gift items.
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  Quinto Centenario Plaza,
  October 1992, was the central attraction, during the celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.
  At the center of the plaza, stands a totem sculpture by Jaime Suárez titled, Telluric Totem. Towering 40 feet high and made of black granite with ceramic details, the totem symbolizes the roots of American History.
  Photographed by Tito Rosario
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  On the night of April 30, 1797, while the British Fleet, led by Sir Ralph Ambercrombie, were besieging the city of San Juan and preparing an invasion, the people of San Juan, carried out a religious procession (Rogativa), praying for deliverance. Believing the multitude was really a powerful armada, the British Fleet retreated.
  La Rogativa - Bronze Sculpture by Lindsay Daen
  Photographed by Tito Rosario
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  Puerta de San Juan - The historic gate to the city of San Juan.
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  The Capilla del Cristo, built after a horse racer, in an event carried out, through the city streets, fell off the high wall,but miraculously survived what should have been a fatal fall.
  Photographed by Tito Rosario