Puerto Rico Vacations
Featured Hotel: El Conquistador Resort
Amenity highlights: Palomino Island is the resort's private island, an 8-minute catamaran ride from the marina. It includes white sand beaches, horseback riding, hiking trails, a restaurant, bar, and gift/beachwear shop. Coqui Water Park terraces down the hillside below The Grand Hotel, offering waterslides; an infinity edge pool; a lazy river; an activity pool; a 25-meter lap pool; sundecks and lounge chairs; a secluded spa tub; private cabanas; and a bar and grill.
El Conquistador Resort & Golden Door Spa offers 984 guestrooms and suites in five distinct villages. The Grand Hotel sits atop a 300-foot-high cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
La Marina Village, connected to The Grand Hotel by two self-serve trams operating like elevators, lies at the cliff's bottom next to the resort's private marina, with ready access to the catamarans shuttling guests to Palomino, the resort's private island, and to the resort's beaches.
Las Olas Village, a crescent building accessible by one of the trams, is terraced into the cliffside 100 feet above La Marina Village. Las Casitas Village is arrayed on a hillside below The Grand Hotel and inland from the ocean.
Spacious guestrooms and suites are 600-square-feet on average and feature, iHome media players, DVD players and video-games, high-speed Internet access (surcharge), and three telephones (one cordless). Most accommodations have furnished balconies and ocean views.
