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La Cabana & Renaissance - April 27 - May 5, 2005
By Andrea


Will try to be brief.
We stayed at Lacabana 7 nights and Renaissance 1 night.
Used Priceline for our night at Renaissance.

Water Aerobic instructor at Lacabana was terrific.

We didn't venture far. We did make a drive to the Natural Bridge one day and on Tuesday Paul and Charles did the Atlantis tour.

Bought next to nothing but did a little browsing at the shops on May 4th, the day we stayed at the Renaissance.......of course I "eyed everything" in Little Switzerland. Love those enamel tea pots and the gem stone world globes. Eyed some earrings at Bijoux, but did not buy as I chose to use my $$ at the casino (big mistake).

In the San Juan airport, we did buy some Kahlua @ $10 per 750 ml.

Weather ideal.
Warm, windy, sunny humid.

Casinos were unkind. We certainly tried! Alhambra, Crystal, Seaport, Hyatt and Marriott. Aarrggghhhh.

Restaurants.............thank God our one bad meal was on a gift certificate
"Captains Table" @ Lacabana. To say it "stunk" is a compliment. It was bad!
Other restaurants that were great.
Tulip = delicious and inexpensive, service slow. MJ's = delightful
Cleos = good sandwiches very smokey room
Old Fisherman = delicious and very inexpensive. Very good fish.
Alfredos = good, inexpensive, very reliable and consistent.
Tomato Charlie = surprisingly good. Pizza yummy.
Paddock = yum! inexpensive, service seemed slow as my husband was antsy and exhausted from a day of travel.

Flights: AA on time in both directions, meals were palatable.
Just how bad can airline coffee taste?

Cheers,

Andrea

 

Andrea and Paul 05/05/05


Paul's dinner at Madam J's rack of lamb


natural bridge area


from left murray, leslie, greenie/frank, amy b., chris b., sherry, charles, and andrea and paul standing in back. (a mini bb party)


Renaissance Marina pool


Andrea and Charles


camera lens was foggy made for an interesting sunset view
 

first time in many visits that I got to sit on the side of the plane where I had a view!


Cruise ship "Infinity"


and these are the 2 reasons I rented a phone from FASTPHONES.... my baby in college @ Mass Maritime and my other baby in the kennel. are they cute or what?
 

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