Travel Guide: San Juan, Puerto Rico for 5 Days

3 WORDS TO DESCRIBE SAN JUAN: FRIENDSHIP, COVID, ESCAPE

ESTIMATED COSTS: $1,300

ITINERARY:

  • San Juan - 5 days

WHERE TO STAY:

  • Areas near the beach

    • Condado

      • AC Marriott Hotel San Juan Condado

    • Isla Verde

WHAT TO VISIT:

  • Old San Juan

  • El Yunque National Forest

  • Museo of Arte Puerto Rico

  • Casa Bacardi

  • Mall of San Juan

beaches:

  • Condado Beach

  • Isla Verde Beach

  • Campamento Pinones

  • Local Beaches No One Knows About…my fren aka friend is from there :)

    • Playa Sucia, Cabo Rojo, PR

    • Mar Chiquita Beach

    • Playa Los Tubos, Manati PR

  • Lucia (known as where the black people are at…we ain’t see any when we went)

WHERE TO EAT:

  • Casita Miramar

  • El Jibarito

  • Punto de Vista Rooftop Restaurant

  • Pannes (great Mufungo!)

  • Kabanas (great brunch spot with bottomless)

  • Musa (bottomless brunch)

  • El Arepon (Venezuelan)

  • Serafina

  • La Factoria (Ranked One of the World’s Best Bar)

WHERE TO PARTY:

  • El Treehouse

  • Patricks (hookah/R&B music)

OTHER TIPS/TRICKS:

  • Hotels

    • Only permitted 20% occupancy during COVID

    • Request to get your room cleaned daily

    • Masks required to walk the hotel, temperature taken when you walk in along with a squirt of hand sanitizer

  • Transportation - Uber

    • Curfew is 10PM, if you are out past 10PM you cannot catch an uber. You will need to set the end location to the airport, then switch it to your final destination once you’re in the uber

  • Travel Declaration Form - fill out before with your <72 hour COIVD test results before you land in Puerto Rico

Mariah Scott