Things to do in Puerto Rico
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Blue Caribe Kayaks
Blue Caribe Kayaks rents out kayaks to individuals ($10/25 for one/four hours) and offers trips through the bioluminescent bay ($30), with a swim stop included. Blue Caribe also does kayak/snorkeling trips in the day around Cayo Afuera.
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Salty Dreams
Salty Dreams offers day trips with lunch to Icacos, Lobos, Palominos and Palominitos cays in its 46ft catamaran Salty Dogs from $59 per day.
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Soleil Beach Club
Soleil Beach Club is the town’s hottest night spot, showcases live jazz, ’70s and ’80s music, salsa, blues, and weekly bomba y plena.
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Kouros
Open only on the weekends, Kouros is probably the most glamorous disco in town, and it caters to a well-heeled gay male and female crowd (although certainly anyone is welcome). If you want to put on something slinky and get hot and sweaty under a strobe light, check out Kouros.
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Abe's Snorkeling & Bio-bay Tours
Abe's Snorkeling & Bio-bay Tours, based in Esperanza, offers guided kayaking and snorkeling trips to Cayo Afuera, a few hundred meters offshore. This is a great trip for beginners and families. Its ecofriendly bio-bay tour is equally child-friendly with kayaks that can accommodate families of three or even four.
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Club Lázer
It’s been around for a while, but it’s still a big draw. Cruise-ship escapees, employees on a night off, young, old, gay and straight pack into Club Lazer for a wild night of fun. Probably the most ‘alternative’ of all San Juan discos. The music ranges from house, electronica, reggaeton (sometimes) to rap and hip-hop.
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Krash
The former Eros club may have changed its name but it’s still predominantly gay. Theme nights are the staple here and DJs shake the house nightly with the latest club sounds from LA, New York and beyond. Hot dancing is de rigueur and the toilets sport some strangely erotic Hellenic murals. There’s a $10 cover charge after midnight.
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Club Liquid
The former Asylum Club has confusingly changed its name to Liquid (there’s another Liquid bar in the Water & Beach Club Hotel). This one’s darker, sweatier and more nocturnal. Night owls, of both straight and gay varieties, end their Sunday morning dance-a-thons here. Expect an 18-to-23 crowd here, except on gay nights when it’s noticeably older.
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Kasalta’s
Wake up with a jolt at Kasalta’s, a popular early-morning breakfast haunt and the sort of authentic Puerto Rican bakery and diner that you’ll find yourself crossing town to visit. Tucked into Ocean Park’s residential enclave, the coffee here is as legendary as the sweets that fill a long glass display case and encapsulate everything from Danish pastries to iced buns. Plentiful seating, myriad newspapers and a buzzing local ambience add even more icing to the cake.
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Marmalade
With a name liable to dupe over-excited Brits who’ve been missing out on their early morning toast and marmalade fix, it is somewhat surprising to find that Marmalade doesn’t actually serve the stuff at all, except perhaps in a marinade. Promoted as SoFo’s latest culinary innovator in a street full of them, this starkly minimalist eating establishment is decked out like the Korova Milk Bar in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Step inside the trendy interior to sample house specialties such as paella bites or grilled nectarines with Parma ham.
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Rosa’s Seafood
Frustrated ferry passengers mix with loyal locals at this much vaunted seafood salon situated within anchor-dropping distance of Fajardo docks. You’ll walk through a gauntlet of rusting cars and snarling canines to get here, but enter the bright-yellow building at road’s end and the smell of fresh fish and the sound of sizzling onions will soon leave you forgetting about your ferry delays. Lobster, red snapper, and fish and chips are the more delectable in-house specialties, though Rosa’s can also knock up a good steak – all for a tidy sum, of course.
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Bonus Nuclear Power Plant
The Bonus Nuclear Power Plant, the green dome poking out from behind the palm trees behind the Punta Higüero lighthouse, once housed the first nuclear-powered electrical generating facility in the Caribbean. To purists, Rincón and nuclear energy probably go together like Nixon and Brezhnev, but paradise is full of surprises.
Back in the days when the Beach Boys led the Surfin' Safari, the Boiling Nuclear Superheater Plant (known half-sarcastically by the acronym of Bonus) was a test facility that produced a minuscule 16,000kW of electricity in order to introduce Latin America to the benefits of nuclear power and to train visiting engineers.The plant never functioned…
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Driftwood Charters
Captain Bill Casperson, who you will find at Driftwood Charters, can take you on half-day snorkeling trips, two-tank dives from a 46ft dive boat and whale-watching trips; call for prices.
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San Juan Market Small-Group Tasting Tour
2 hours (Departs San Juan, Puerto Rico)
by Viator
Get an authentic taste of San Juan as you explore one of its greatest markets – La Placita – on this walking tour off the beaten track. Your local guide will…Not LP reviewed
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UA Cinema 150
This awaits viewers in Isla Verde.
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AdvenTour
Respected eco-operator organizing adventure trips.
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Bóveda
Bóveda is an Old Town shop worth looking out for.
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West Course
Next door to the famed East Course lies the 6,975yd West Course.
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Ice-skating Arena
Ramey Base contains the only Ice-skating Arena in the Caribbean.
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Econo’s
Self-caterers will find Econo’s on Hwy 115.
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Plantation Club
The Pineapple and Sugarcane golf courses are at the Plantation Club.
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Teatro Metro
This classic, restored cinema is in Santurce, edging towards Miramar.
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Reading Cinemas
In the Hato Rey district, this is the city’s largest multiplex.
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Bell, Book & Candle
Pulls in the vacation crowd and offers a wide range of English titles.
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Copladet
An acronym for the Corporación de Planificacion y Desarollo Turistico.
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