Puerto Rico: Condado Beach & La Placita

Crazy that I haven’t mentioned it on the blog until just now but Sean and I reached a major milestone in our marriage and celebrated ten years of marriage last month! I can’t believe it has already been ten years. Sometimes it feels like we just got married but then when I think of all that we’ve accomplished together I know that it takes years to get to that point. I love our marriage, I love my husband, I love the life that we’ve built together. I love that we’re still having fun and loving the heck out of each other too. He makes life so much better and I am grateful that he is mine and that I am his.

Alrighty, moving on. To celebrate, Sean and I traveled to Puerto Rico for 6 days so you know that means I have a lot of Puerto Rico posts coming up which I hope that you’ll enjoy. We took a five month break from traveling just so that we could spend more time at home, so you can say that we had quite the travel itch and could not wait to explore Puerto Rico!

We started our trip by driving to Philadelphia where we would catch our flight. We’ve been traveling for quite some time now so we finally get some perks and enjoyed free lunch and drinks at the Amex Centurion Lounge prior to boarding our flight.

For the first half of our trip we stayed in an apartment in Ashford Imperial through Airbnb in Condado Beach. It was in a great location and we also had the most amazing view from the apartment and wished we had booked our entire stay here.

Here are some pictures of the apartment we stayed in while we were in Condado Beach.











Views from the apartment.

We arrived in Puerto Rico rather late but the apartment welcomed us with the greatest night time view. We were starving so we had a quick dinner at Tijuana's Bar and Grill for some tacos which were so flavorful!

We woke up to the most gorgeous sunrise and I couldn’t help but to snap some pictures. I think I should mention here that the majority of my pictures from this trip were taken with my phone because the humidity would cause my lens to fog up immediately. A bit of a bummer at first but I must admit that my phone took some great images!

We were up rather early the following morning so we decided to head to the gym prior to getting our day started. We actually went to the gym twice while we were in Puerto Rico which was a first for us while on vacation! We are members of Planet Fitness and since there was a location so close to our Airbnb we thought, why not?

After the gym, we had breakfast in the apartment, got ready for the day and then explored for a little bit before heading to Condado Beach to relax and read our books. There was a woman with an ices cart that we of course had to have and best part, they'll put rum in it if you ask!

After the beach we went to the apartment’s pool and relaxed some more. It was certainly a very relaxing day which we loved.

After that we went back to the apartment to get ready for the evening as we were going to La Placita which is extremely popular in Puerto Rico. Cinthia, who is from Puerto Rico, said that this is her most favorite thing to do in the evening. I got the below excerpt that way you can have a better understanding of what La Placita is all about:

“LaPlacita de Santurce is a must stop for anyone visiting Puerto Rico. It was founded more than 100 years ago asa two-tiered market square, full of shops to buy fruit, vegetables, meat, medical offices and much more. Now, in the day it functions like a market place with some open restaurants and in the night from 6:00 in the afternoon the Famous "Placita de Santurce" comes to life. There are recognized restaurants and local kiosk that sell fried foods like empanadillas, alcapurrias and bacalaitos. From Thursday to Sunday the atmosphere increases in the Placita. Here you can dance salsa or merengue with live music, listen to jazz, rock band, sing karaoke or have a good time in the night clubs. History, food and nightlife all in one place”.

The most amazing mofongo.



Told ya!

It is seriously such an incredible time and I highly recommend to anyone visiting! As noted above, there are tons of restaurants so you can get all you want to eat and drink. We had dinner at Don Tito Restaurant and Music Hall where I fell in love with passion fruit mojito and had the best mofongo dish of my life. After dinner we walked the streets and joined in all the dancing because how could you not. There's a feeling you get when you see everyone around you dancing to live music on the streets! It's basically free entertainment and we loved it!

Unfortunately, we had to leave before 11pm as Sean booked us for an early catamaran the following morning! More to come!