Hotels in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico has what most families want for a holiday. Clean. Sun, sea and beaches etc.... What's not to like. Well if you want art and culture, perhaps Puerto Rico isn't the best place! There is one very annoying thing. The pests that keep bugging you selling time share in Anfi. Really irritating. Also, all the restaurants seem to have someone outside trying to get you to go into their place to eat. Again that annoying and does them no favours as I am hard wired to walk past even if I quite fancied eating in their place. There is a brilliant Italian restaurant (called MIA I think) in the small commercial centre at the marina. Run by Italians with proper Italian food. Really nice people. They are moving up to the large commercial centre so I hope that the more intimate ambience in their current place isn't ruined as up there which a bit tacky in my opinion. We went on a boat trip with Funny Day Boat where we saw absolutely nothing! To be fair it was a bit choppy and they did offer a second trip free of charge, so fair play to them. Watch out though, as the guy at the booth right at the entrance to the port tried to charge us 35 Euros for the trip, but the person beside the boat charged us 25 Euros. Both appeared to have the same logos etc..... Lastly a tip maybe. For a change, we decided to try the local bus (91) from the airport to Puerto Rico. It is a doddle and at 10.50 Euros saved us a fortune and was a lot quicker (about 40 mins) than many of the transfer buses as it avoids going around all the hotels dropping people off. It's also a fraction of the cost of a taxi. Same bus goes to Puerto De Mogan, where we often go which costs 60 Euros in a taxi.

We walked into Puerto rico several times during our stay,It was ok,But we found the high pressure tactics of the people outside of every restaurant was a bit of a pain.We had a look on tripadvisor and selected several places to eat in Amadores,We liked the look of Monaco restaurant and never went anywhere else during our stay,To say the chef could cook was an understatement,The meat dishes were out of this world,Our first meal was ribs in barbecue sauce so much meat and so tender,I had a fillet steak later in the week and it was cooked to perfection,Also all the waiters were fantastic very friendly and helpful.It was very easy to get around Puerto rico and Amadores beach,There was always taxis available or you could walk but that hill up to the serenity apartments,My wife and I pride ourselves on being quite fit for our age{57&55}but it nearly beat us ,But saying that it was only 3 or 4 euros in a taxi from the beach

sol y paz is the highest apartment complex in puerto rico but only consists of 2 floors rooms 1-20 on one side of the central pool and 21-40 on the opposite side the privately run pool/snack bar is at the far end next to the pool.right opposite is the europa centre which has everthing you really need 2 new supermarkets bars,cafes, night time entertainment,the taxi rank is also just outside if you want to go anywhere usually around 3.50€ to the town centre.people also need to realise that they can also go into other hotels around and enjoy their facilities especially the colina mar just round the bend on the right they have 2 heated swimming pools and 2 bars/snack bars .

the beach is great. in winter time December the Sun set at 6.15 go have a beer or a coffee in the Bahia Blanca restaurant on the pier. watch the sunset over the ocean. have to say we visited many times over the year's and there are the same people there now as we met thirty years ago. on the negative side. food is poor everywhere.it's like they never changed. we took a trip to las palmas. lovely city. excellent food. tossed salads .pastas steaks. can someone from the time warped restaurants in Puerto Rico go to las palmas and see properly cooked and prepared food. apart from the restaurants all still locked into 1984 its a great holiday.

Mogan, Anfi, Ammadores beach, puerto rico has excellent eating places loved the chinese buffets lovely meal at The Planet, also the supermarkets are very good and reasonable so also did a bit of self catering We found it very easy to get around Puerto Rico the ferries are fantastic plus the public transport is always on time and also very reasonable. Would not avoid anything the next time, maybe try to avoid coming home! The sun is always shining and the views from the Europa centre are amazing.

Yet another only tourists city built from scratch. But a nice beach (Playa de Amadores - not the Puerto Rico) in comparison to other locations around. Nice water playground for kids but the beach was a bit crowded. No authentic food restaurants could be found. All cities are well connected with public buses so no problem to get to a different place like Playa del Mogan (nice place - more authentic) and Maspalomas dunes. Travelling by car should be a joy as well. If you look for a place to take a rest and enjoy tranquility you won't find it there - too much noise generated by too many live shows around.