Customer Reviews

The Rough Guide to Puerto Rico 1 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

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We have been to Puerto Rico before but will be going this time with our grandchildren. I have used a previous Rough Guide to PR and found it extremely useful. Last year, we found the Rough Guide to the
Dominican Republic to be an excellent guide which we could use while we were traveling as well as when we were planning our trip. We have already used our Puerto Rico guide to find places to stay different from those we stayed at last time. I have checked and found that descriptions of places we visited last time were accurate and believe that this new guide will be equally as accurate for our upcoming trip. I anticipate considerable use of the guide while we are in Puerto Rico. My only complaint is that the Rough Guides tend sometimes to be a bit too optimistic. However, I have never found this optimism to make me think that I wish we had not done something. In fairness, I have found the Rough Guides to more accurately approximate our responses to visits than a number of other guides.

I love the entire Rough Guide series and it is always the first book I order when I'm planning a trip. Rough Guides always seem to have more information than all the others--there always seem to be more restaurant and hotel listings and the descriptions about various places are more detailed. And the authors are frank and honest. If the author thinks a town is ugly--he'll say so, right in the text without trying to "be nice."

Good info to prepare for your trip, wish there was more info regarding those hidden cafes like Anthony Bourdains goes to.....ended up spending a lot of money on eating for lack of info on those hidden places. Helped us decide where to go during our stay.

I was just on the island in February of 2009. The book was pretty much right on real time.

I wouldn't buy this guide again. I really had to work to pull all the useful information out rather than it being all laid out for me.

I was very disappointed. While in Condado, I was particularly interested in finding a local cuisine restaurant. My aunt and I walked many many blocks to a restaurant they highly recommended and it was closed. Ordinarily this would not be a problem, but my aunt had a torn achilles(?) tendon and it was hard for her to walk. Also, other restaurants recommended were also closed. So, I would recommend using a another tour book that has current info rather than this one.
I did book a hotel from this book's recommendation and it was fine. We stayed at El Canario and it was fine except the day/evening boss at the desk was a bit of a curmudgeon - not helpful, seemed as if we were imposing on him if we asked a question.