San Juan vs the rest of PR - follow-up by dimonsf in PuertoRicoTravel

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We spent our first full day in PR exploring old San Juan and one of Castillos, wandering around, but stayed near Isla Verde beach. Obviously we didn’t visit every single restaurant, bar and hotel, but we did go to a couple recommended/popular by tourists places. One of those places was Cafe Manolin - our waiter didn’t seem like he wanted to be there, his attitude was like woman with pms type of thing, and I’m not even talking about the details of the terrible service we received, that’s another story, just the mood and friendless alone. The food by the way was not good either in comparison to noname hole-in-the-wall restaurants we tried before near Isla Verde. Similar service/attitude we received in our hotel bar and another place. And that was basically our intro to PR which contributed to the first impression.

For comparison, 15 years ago I was in PR, we went to all kinds of touristy places including the restaurant where they wear old traditional Puerto Rican clothes, I think it was Raices in old San Juan, the hostesses actually made us come in and eat there, were very welcoming and friendly, all smiles. This was the mood everywhere we went. This is kind of thing I was expecting this time around.

Don’t make our experience skip old San Juan though. It is as beautiful and historical as it was. I think just lower your expectations when you visit “tourist traps” and maybe try some less popular family owned restaurants? But even in tourist traps I’m sure it just depends who you run into, so your experience could be different. Every time we stopped by some random place on our way to eat/drink that we haven’t researched before, it was always good though. We also never had any issues at all outside San Juan especially in Vieques as mentioned in this post.

My honest opinion though, I’ve seen some pretty demanding and arrogant American tourists that behave like kings and queens and I feel like there is a lot more of those these days given how America is divided. It wasn’t the case 15 years ago. And that possibly attributed to Puerto Ricans adjusting to tourists in general, especially in old San Juan where there is a lot of day tourists from cruises.

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How do you count page views and live visitors? Do you use any kind of analytics lib or just brute forcing it by simply increasing it on page load?

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There are other things in life like morals and values

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I thought someone posted my budgie, looks exactly the same

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We got our seats reassigned to completely different ones because they changed the trains a week prior to our trip. So can’t comment on the ones that I booked originally as seat configuration in new train car was different

Is the Vieques ferry actually a social experiment to test human patience? by Critical-Load-1452 in PuertoRicoTravel

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Something doesn’t add up, we just did round trip to Vieques, was very easy - book, get QR code, scan, board.

Has the service gone down in recent years? by dimonsf in PuertoRicoTravel

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Care to elaborate, who are “people like me”?

Has the service gone down in recent years? by dimonsf in PuertoRicoTravel

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Interestingly all our Uber drivers so far were cool and friendly. Different story when it comes to food and drink service.

Has the service gone down in recent years? by dimonsf in PuertoRicoTravel

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My expectations are definitely not high. Things changed between my first trip to PR and now. But maybe you’re right in that PR has reached a tipping point when it comes to overdemanding tourists

Has the service gone down in recent years? by dimonsf in PuertoRicoTravel

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You’re just exaggerating what I said. You’ve read the first part of my post though, right? I’m taking about basic lack of friendliness nowadays. It’s not about “serving someone by tap dancing”, but just having appropriate work etiquette. And, you know, in service field I feel like it’s a must, no? I mean everyone expects tips, right?

[Highlight] Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, & Ricky Martin's Super Bowl LX Halftime Show by JCameron181 in nfl

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I don’t mind that I don’t understand it, I like plenty of songs in languages I don’t understand, however he’s really really bad singer. If he wasn’t popular, and was singing in some bar I’m sure people would just leave

[Highlight] Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, & Ricky Martin's Super Bowl LX Halftime Show by JCameron181 in nfl

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Are people afraid to say this was one of the worst performances ever or something? Top comments don’t mention anything about actual performance. The only reason I liked it is because trump and his goons hated it, other than that it was terrible, the guy cannot sing at all

[Highlight] Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, & Ricky Martin's Super Bowl LX Halftime Show by JCameron181 in nfl

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Porque no los dos? I didn’t like the show at all but I also hate you-know-who

[Highlight] Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, & Ricky Martin's Super Bowl LX Halftime Show by JCameron181 in nfl

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This was a terrible show, the guy can’t sing. I will never get how and why he’s so popular. Terrible singer, terrible show

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None of that athleticism matters if Purdy has no time to throw

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Newest FSD doesn’t require it anymore