San Juan is the most beautiful capital of Puerto Rico, beckoning tourists with its snow-white beaches, numerous hotels, restaurants, trade centers, historical buildings and museums every year. The comfort that is proposed to you by a big quantity of high-class hotels every year, provides the deep sea of emotions and holiday sense among the narrow streets of a hospitable city.
The hotels of the city are classified by the stars quantity, available services, price and feeding type. Traditionally, the better part of hotels uses all inclusive system. The most prominent hotels of the city are mostly situated in business districts, not far from the city airport. As far as San Juan is considered to be a big administrative center, conferences and business meetings are popular to be held here. The hotels are furnished with conference-halls, and secretary to guarantee a high class. There are also many restaurants, bars, swimming-pools, play grounds for making your trip comfortable.
Speaking about budget hotels, they are also available. The differential feature of Puerto Rico landscape is lack of hostels. The hostels were gradually replaced by the cheap hotels, where the price for room can be 25-50USD. The brightest example of cheap hotels is guesthouse. They are analogous to European B&B establishments.
Casa del Caribe
The hotel Casa Caribe Bed and Breakfast is placed close to Condado and Diamond Palace of San Juan. The hotel lies among the variety of shops and shopping centers, where you can do exciting shopping, walking through the historical city sights.
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The hotel offers more than comfortable living conditions to their guests: cozy rooms, done in beige, double bed, individual conditioner, overhead fun, bathroom, ironing, TV. The rooms are cleaned every day. The special key rooms for nonsmoking are available. Planning your trip, it is better to book a room beforehand. The average price is 78USD and more.
Coral by the Sea
The hotel complex Coral by the Sea is situated close to San Juan and Carolina, disposing of 68 cozy rooms, equipped with air conditioners and heating system. The hotel also offers using business center services, restaurant, day-and-night reception, private parking.
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The hotel lies in a short walk from Puerto Rico sunny beaches, and a couple of minutes driving from the city airport. There are many historical city sights near here. If you want to settle to one of these cozy rooms, it is recommended to book a room beforehand. The standard room costs about 68USD.
Backpackers
The sleeping place Island Time Backpackers was built in San Juan. It is 5 km far from San Felipe del Morro. The hostel is famous of its cheap prices, free Wi-Fi, separate bathrooms for each room, collective kitchen. This is not the end. Rental bicycle services, beautiful garden, terrace, laundry, every day rooms cleaning and excursion agency are in your full disposal. There is mini-market on the hostel territory. If you like historical places, the Modern Art Museum is near at hand.
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The Palace Hostel
The modern hostel The Palace comfortably lies in the very center of San Juan, 15 minutes walking from the best and most prestigious city beaches. The visitors are usually offered to use Wi-Fi, rental bicycle services, language room, garden, comfortable terrace, community kitchen, and lounge room with TV. There is also a laundry service and a big supermarket 7 minutes walking from the hostel place. Going a little further you can visit numerous restaurants.
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The rooms are furnished with air conditioner, tile flooring; toilet, shower room and patio are for public usage. There is a nice cinema not far from the hotel. If you like long footing, you can get to the Art Museum by foot; the beautiful Central Park is 10 minutes walking. To get to the city airport you should rent car or catch taxi.
Base Hostel
The hostel Base Old San Juan is comfortably situated, just not far from the popular historical city monument – San Felipe del Morro fort, San Juan Cathedral, Ponce de Leon Statue. Look at the window – there is a beautiful city view. The hotel guests are offered to use common bathrooms, roomy kitchen and cozy terrace. It is prohibited to smoke on the territory.
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Hotel San Jorge
The hotel lies in the cultural and art area of San Juan. The visitors are offered to make use of a separate bathroom, day-and-night reception, air conditioner, free Wi-Fi, TV. Traditionally, you are kindly offered to use free coffee in the hotel room service. The restaurant and sport-bar propose to taste traditional local cuisine. The streets, compassing the hotel are full of theatres and museums. One of the well-known local beaches is situated 15 minutes walking from the hotel.
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Coqui del Mar
The guest house Coqui del Mar disposes the big amount of studio-suits and apartments, well-furnished and stylish, including free parking, Wi-Fi, TV, modern kitchen, and terrace. The rooms are bright and clean. There are many restaurants not far from the hotel. You can try mostly international cuisine here. If you want, you may visit bar or lounge.
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Having a car, it is not a problem to get to the Old Part of the city, with its night clubs, museums and interesting shops. It takes about 10 minutes to get there by car. By the way, rental car services are popular to use among tourists. It is cheap and convenient.
It is really hard to strike low-priced hotels in Puerto Rico. There is nothing cheaper than 50USD. As a general rule, low-priced hotels are mostly concentrated in suburbs, in the center of island. The better part of hotels in Puerto Rico position themselves as chic and very chic sleeping places. The usual price for them is about 120USD. You meet them on every step: San Juan, Rincon resort, Isla Verde Island. Do not worry about suburbs; you can easily hire a car just in the airport to reach you destination.
Puerto Rico is a city, where you have a chance to meet, so-called paradores – the kind of hotel that are situated in the territory of the ancient villas – historical monuments. Your trip is going to be interesting and informative then!
