First Flight to P.R.

[TurboS7]

San Juan my favorite place on a Friday night. Tons to do on the island, you have to visit El Yunque the forest, great. Dancing on Friday night anywhere is the best. Metropol is closed. Drive the island and find the "green eyed pirate girls" long dark hair with emerald green eyes. Wonderful family they all live up in the mountains on the east side of the island. Enjoy, great place. And the girls speak English too, especially in San Juan.

 

[SkySpray]

I spent about 9 months down there in 2000 as a captain for American Eagle. The Metropol is definitely an excellent place to eat...although I think someone mentioned it was closed. If you make it into Old San Juan, check out a place called "El Jibarito" on Calle Del Sol (N.E. part of the old town). It's a great local family-run restaurant.. very cheap, and some of the best food I've ever had. There's TONS of places like that throughout San Juan and Puerto Rico, you just have to know where to look.
Other than that, the beaches in San Juan pretty much stink. The water in Isla Verde is murky, beaches covered with nasty seaweed, and no waves. The people are not very friendly, and you can feel an anti-American sentiment just about everywhere you go. It's a nice place to visit.... for a very, very short time.

 

[ilinipilot]

BEST MEAL

One of the best meals I have ever (!!!!) eaten was in San Juan, more specifically Old San Juan. It was called the Parrot Cafe and I had a tuna steak with a sweet rum sauce and garlic mashed potatoes, it was outstanding.

Also a really cool place to people watch is the lobby of the Wyndham El San Juan Hotel and Casino. It has a huge chandelier and on the weekends everyone gets all dressed up to the nines and drinks in the lobby or plays in the casino.
Those are my 2 MUST visits for San Juan

If anyone else has ever eaten at the Parrot Cafe, i think they will agree

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[GIVJoc]

Things to do in San Juan,

Go to Old San Juan check out Castillo de San Cristobal (SP?) also plenty of museums, monuments and beautiful old buildings to explore. Ride the trolley up to that old huge Spanish fortress; I believe it is the largest in the Caribbean.

Plenty of shopping and several nice art galleries if you into that kind of stuff, copiousness amounts of nice music, open outdoors cafes and restaurants and a couple of casinos scattered here and there.

When we went there we stayed at the Ritz-Carlton San Juan, a bit pricey for my own pocket but man was it nice!

Agreed with all, check out the El Yunque forest and what trip would be complete without a stop at the Bacardi Rum Distillery.

Enjoy the trip and watch your pockets and your back.

GIV

 

[Guardflyr29]

Happy Land

You'll need to find someone to take you there, but about an hour west of S.J. is a waterfall that cascades into a swimming hole in the middle of the forest, very deep and the water is cool. There's a sick rope swing, you can choose how high you start from. I went as high as you could go. I was pulling some serious Gz at the bottom, could barly hang on. It got me a good 30ft free fall. The second time I couldn't hang on and cartwheeled across the water toward the rocks on the opposite side! The English translation of the name of this place is "Happy Land". Not known by tourists. Also, The Landing restaurant on the west coast is very nice, gringo friendly since most of the folks working there are American. Ladies night at Happy Belly's in Jobos Beach, again west of SJ. The only thing that kept me from going home with two Senoritas were my wedding vows, and some relatively sober pals!

 

[Chunk]

The mention of BK in a Puerto Rico thread makes me laugh....

Once counted the BK's between SJ and Roosy Roads....18!

 

[Chickenhawk]

Wyndham casino = lose yer money
Conquistador casino = win some money

Worth the trip down the coast. Many beauties at the Conquistador.

 

[Timebuilder]

The Metropol is open, (recommended by the FBO) and I had the "festival cubana", a teriffic plate of cuban food, including "yucca", which was delicious.

The hotel is close to the airport, so I can hear 767's take off late into the night.

We went to the caves at Camuy, and over to Arecibo for the radio telescope. Not a bad place, would not want to live here.

My VIP has to get back to washington, so this should be interesting this evening. We may take them as far as Richmond and put them in an SUV, since the ops guy at Dulles says that the blowing snow is a big problem.

Thanks for the tips.

 

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

My VIP has to get back to washington, so this should be interesting this evening. We may take them as far as Richmond and put them in an SUV, since the ops guy at Dulles says that the blowing snow is a big problem.

You're in for a trip, buddy...I think RVRs are in the teens now here (MD, NOVA and WV)...oh, and maybe about 3 feet of snow (not the clumpy kind, but the puffy, impossible to plow kind)


Wecome back

 

[Timebuilder]

Understood.

I'm hoping that the personal assistant calls back and says that "so-and-so has decided to remain here until Tuesday."

Of course, that will send our dispactcher into coniptions, since she wants US and the PLANE back ASAP!

I hate snow.