El Conquistador Hotel

USAPEEC 1998 Annual Meeting, El Conquistador Hotel, Puerto Rico

... to the hotel, we were stripped down to t-shirts and dripping sweat.  It's summertime in the Southern hemisphere! El Conquistador Hotel is nice and in a good location, within easy walking distance interesting parks, monuments and shopping areas in ...

... speak to them, they warm up and are just as friendly as other chapins I encountered.  After walking town checking out the hotel options and losing 10 pounds in sweat, I settled upon Hotel Garifuna (Q70 for no-frills, but clean private room), which ...

... (1.4 mi); turn right toward interstate PR-3 (112 ft); take the 1st left onto interstate PR 3 (11.4 mi); turn left at Ave El Conquistador (0.9 mi); turn right to stay on Ave El Conquistador (1.4 mi); turn left at Carr Cabezas/Pr 987 (0.8 mi); slight right ...

...  ásperamente en 1066, en una célebre batalla que han cantado los poetas y que llenó de gloria a Guillermo el Conquistador. Llueve suavemente cuando entras al museo vikingo tratando de memorizar esos datos y recordando una lejana película ...

We spent the first 6 nights at El Conquistador (Las Casitas), and the last night at the Marriot Stellaris San Juan. Our room at Las Casitas was nice. It was just a hotel room - no kitchenette etc - but we knew that going in. We paid $250 per night for ...

... offer. Adam, Francis, Guillermo, Ming (a girl doing her undergraduate in Computer Science) and I then went to a Peruvian buffet at El Conquistador Buffet Restaurant where in spite of not having much of an appetite (or so I had professed) I tried so many ...

... of this old, renaissance-style city.  Walked through some churches and museums, including the cathedral of Lima (which houses El Conquistador Francisco Pizarro’s remains) and the government palace, to see the changing of the guard at ...

... day 75 tonight)... definitely summer!  We laid low tonight after a nap... went to see a movie actually (The Changeling- El Sustituto) because we didn't feel like moving too much... the Spanish subtitles were really helpful actually... fun to read ...

... went Canopying or as we know it Zip-lining!! So we did some shopping and looking around for a bit, before we raced back to the hotel to meet our tour guide. I have to say Zip-lining is probably the craziest thing I've done so far! it was so much fun! ...

... thinking about.  So, the next morning after sleeping in until about 9:30am (late for me) and a little breakfast in my hotel, I stepped outside for a visit to the Mezquita.  I know my pictures don't do it justice, but that place is ...

... we were sitting out on a balcony. The views out over the square and the rest of the city were gorgeous. I went back to the hotel to recuperate some more after dinner, while some of the others in the group went to find a bar. It didn't take long until ...

... , alles öde und die Strasse endlos. Man musste schon acht geben, dass man die Kurven alle 10 - 20 Meilen nicht verpasste. :-) Das Hotel hier in Tucson ist eine wunderschöne Anlage. Man kann kaum glauben, dass man nur ein paar Meilen von einer Grossstadt ...

....for exactly three days and two nights.  Or until Deanna's Hilton points ran out.  Out hotel had its own private island.  Top that, mofos. Unfortunately, perhaps the best part of our stay in Fajardo is not pictured.  We took a ...

... and religion), is celebrated. After all, the Spanish killed and forced conversion on the indigenous. Seeing a statue celebrating a Spanish conquistador and his valiant horse, to me, is like seeing a statue of Hitler in downtown Jerusalem. But with ...

... grid pattern are lined by colonial buildings, many with the extensive wooden balconies unique to Lima. The city was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, naming it Ciudad de los Reyes as the location was decided at ...

... for later. I followed the tourist walk down to Hospital de Jesus and the Templo de Jesus next door. Hernan Cortez the Conquistador founded the hospital in 1525 to atone for his sins (presumably this means destroying a whole civilisation) and it was the ...

... , liberator of Peru, who stayed in the original, colonial building, Casa de los Cuatro Bustos, given to the brother of Conquistador Francisco Pizzaro) and walk along a narrow street between the walls of the 16th century, colonial mansion (given to the ...