Realized this in San Juan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- I hit the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico on my latest cruise adventure and had the pleasure to meet up with my friend Tommy from the Always be Booked Cruise Podcast for some exploration. I had an epithany at the fort. Enjoy the adventure.
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Do you walk or ride when its crazy hot?
Ride for sure
I'm hoping to get a taxi to the forts walk around for a bit and then a taxi back to the ports again... Can't wait we leave July 6th on enchanted princess
Ride unless not far
Ride, not as young as we use to be. lol
Ride. I’m not acclimated. I also am against sweat.
Both forts are part of the National Parks, so don't forget your NP Pass
Love old San Juan. Always wake up early to watch the approach to the port. It is one of the prettiest entrances to a harbour anywhere, especially love cruising by the forts.
I totally agree.
I agree also.
'Consider yourself spotted' is something I'm going to have to start saying to the ships - that made me smile!
I've often wondered what San Juan would look like - thanks for showing us!
Mooring bollards are the post shaped and the T ones are a dock cleats.
Tony I said it before and I will say it again I like watching Cruise News, but I love when you take us along on your adventures!⛴
Great to see you in my neighborhood. One of my ancestors (3rd great grandfather) was held as a Political Prisoner in 1887 inside of el Morro. The fort has a lot of meaning for me and sort of inspired my love for History.
Whenever you visit again? Feel free to reach out and I will be more than happy to show you a few more historial places. Plus give you tips on some local non for profits doing some pretty cool tours conserving our history and super affordable at the $10 range per person.
I'm taking my son in August, would you mind dropping a few places an 8yr old might enjoy?
We stayed a week in the El Convento hotel about 11 yrs ago and it was one of the best vacations ever. We walked all over Old San Juan, went to Isla Verde and the Condado. Great food , great beaches. Back then there was a great casino in the Sheraton hotel that we won enough to pay for our whole trip. Awesome vacation!!
Our first cruise my hubby won enough at the casino on the ship to pay for the cruise, and for everything we did on the ship (spa drinks, etc) AND had extra to come with! It was the best!! 😂
Love El Convento!
Loving these port videos!
You can read all about people’s experience and see pictures but nothing like going along with you!
And you are entertaining!😀
Thanks Tony!
Mofongo is made with plantains and Trifongo combines mashed fried green plantains, fried sweet plantains, and boiled yuca.
I prefer Trifongo with a garlic base sauce and some type of protein like chicken, steak or shrimp
Bollard is the rounded post, cleat is the "T" or "cow horn", chock is the open hole they pass the mooring line through, and bitt are the pairs of cylinders with a flat plate on the top. 24 years in the Navy, I may never be able to forget this stuff!
In the early 1980’s yogi Berra came into the restaurant I worked at in San Francisco ,I was his waitress and he wrote on my tip “don’t say I never gave you nothing” ….I sold it to line cook for $50 the astros was playing the giants.
The totem in that plaza is made from broken fragments of ceramic vases and other types of clay pottery from the Americas,
I love Old San Juan, have been there twice, once as a cruise stop, and then spent a few days there before a cruise. We took a guided walking tour around town, been to both forts (El Moro is better), rode segways (so much fun!), took an excursion to the rain forest, did a walking dinner tour (highly recommended), had awesome food, saw a Flamenco dance show. I would not hesitate to go there again!
San Juan is our favorite cruise stop we have done walking tours , land (bus)& sea tours. I have also gone zip lining and 4 wheeler riding, and visited the forts and once just walked around old San Juan. I am looking forward to to going back again.
I don't know how you can do all that walking, uphill no less, in that heat! The hills in old San Juan are daunting and yes, you can get lost. We did, years ago! Couldnt find a street that ran down to the ship- all were parallel! Props for all your filming on those hot, hilly streets!
OMG, Tony--the church you showed at ~15:10 was quite literally across the street from the hotel where we spent a *great* pre-cruise week back in March. That area of Old San Juan is *such* a great area to visit, with lovely boutique hotels, incredible food, interesting shops, and literally walking distance to everything (including the port). Highly recommended for those looking to do a pre-/post-cruise stay...especially first-timers!
Seeing the Adventure in Old San Juan gives me all the feels. Got married on her right across the harbor in 04, and did our 5th anniversary on the same exact cruise with our almost 1 year old in tow and his sister on board mom. Our favorite place.
We've only visited SanJuan on one cruise. The Celebration. We did an excursion, but when we got back from the excursion, I realized all of the cool stuff we missed that was walking distance from the ship! Next time, I'm going to explore more locally near the ship like you did!
Two Yogisms, fitting for travelers: "You can observe a lot just by watching". and "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there".
Cruising Tip: When my wife and I walk to the El Morro Fort, we bring with us ( that we pack) two mini jugs that we fill with ice. One with water and the other with lemonade.
The ferry to the Bacardi distillery is a good trip.
Give me a ride when it's crazy hot. I remember mowing our yard in Pensacla. 10 minutes mowing, a half hour to cool off. It took 2 hours but only about 30 to actually mow.
FYI hand sanitizer does not prevent norovirus, washing hands is the recommended way to avoid it.
Good advice
I agree! I studied microbiology. Soap and water before touching your face/mouth. Hand sanitizer is still better than nothing though! I use it between shopping stops.
I was thinking the same thing.
Washy washy😅
I do both. Handwashing is great but leaving sanitizer on your hands is protective from other people's germs. I can't count how many people in the buffet skip both.
Went to Puerto Rico about 5 years ago and the best and cheapest port we went to. A very helpful man told us we could walk a block to the trolley and catch a free ride to the fort. It was great and went right to the entrance. We walked back so we could check out the buildings. I bought a fruit pop from a vendor that my husband said may make me sick but it was fine and very refreshing treat. This video makes me want to return soon.
Absolutely loved Old San Juan. We got off and walked everywhere. The Forts were amazing. Old Town streets and buildings were beautiful.
Hey, that was great a little two for one video with Tommy & Tony!!
The word is mooring. Here's what Wikipedia says, "A mooring is any permanent structure to which a seaborne vessel (such as a boat, ship, or amphibious aircraft) may be secured."
Pier is okay too, that’s the more common term most everyone uses
the hardware that the mooring lines are lashed to are called dock cleats.
I would say a mooring is floating. I would call it a mooring "cleat"
Cleats or bits
@@joelmorris1053saved me posting that 🙂
We were the first Virgin cruise ship to visit PR. Got to see the governor coming on board for the plaque ceremony.Such a great day
What a trip to memory lane. Born and raised in San Juan and have walked those streets many times. The small park with the tall structure you thought was Terra Cota is called the 5th Centenary Park. Next time I go to Puerto Rico, I'll have to visit old San Juan. Was there 2 years ago for my 50th high school reunion, but did not go into old San Juan. The ferry you saw, is a ferry to the other side of the bay to the town of Catano. As a kid, I went to the YMCA camp in old San Juan, and we sneaked out a few times to take the ferry.
Thank you for showing they tieing the ship up to dock.
Brother, your breathing is so much less labored since your surgery! That was no easy walk, so well done. Happy for you that you're healthier. Keep on cruising!
I loved all of this . Watching the Carnival Celebration dock was the view I never knew that I needed. You and Tommy’s tour was enjoyable and informative. Great camaraderie .👏👏
Two trips to San Juan ago I was sick aboard the Horizon. I got off, stumbled over to Walgreens, and bought out the cough and cold section there. I then went back to the ship. Hearing you mention Walgreens in San Juan and being walkable reminded me of the one and only time I've been sick on a cruise.
I love Old San Juan. I been to the island four times, via flying and spent some time exploring it. My husband grew up on the island so it is nice to have someone who can show me around. January 2023 we went to the San Sebastian Festival in Old San Juan, it was packed but amazing fun. Not sure when we will go back go the Island, just know we will. A few hours off a cruise is just not enough time to see and experience such a beautiful place. Thanks for sharing your time there, I enjoyed seeing your time in Old San Juan.
Am really enjoying the day to day cruise format, thanks for taking us along! Yes, leave enough time for the fort next trip! 😊
Really enjoyed tagging along with you and Tommy bumping around Old San Juan! I had the good fortune to have a company-paid layover at El Convento for a week years ago. I was able to fly my wife down and she joined me for a great immersion in the San Juan experience! Thanks for sharing!
Love exploring old San Juan ! There's so much to see. Thanks for taking us along. I also found it interesting to watch the Celebration dock! We just sailed on her last week to Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao.
Wow, I was impressed that you walked all of the way to the best fort and back in all of that heat. I wouldn't want to do that walk. I enjoyed going to that fort and also to some of the squares nearby on my excursion after my cruise back in February, 2022 but we used a tour bus. I got the best disembark excursion on that trip, he asked our schedule for flights and then took us to a great lunch stop which was not a required part of our excursion. Good plan to enjoy your walking tour and not wishing you hadn't walked that far in the heat and rain. Of course your excursion day wouldn't have been as much fun if you hadn't been with your friend - good planning there too.
It's not a mistake not to go inside the fort because now you are motivated to come back. It's an incredible site, you have to come back to see it.
Really enjoyed this video Tony! Loved that you walked instead of the taxi. Kudos to you climbing that hill 👏❤ Such great sights along the way!
Love Puerto Rico. We stay in Isla Verde and Condado. Quick nonstop flight from CT. People are awesome. Non-smoking island, which they should advertise more.
Hope you two are having tons of caruuuuzing fun❤
RIDE!!!!!!!
We started our b2b cruise on the Jewel of the Seas in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Flying in from Europe via MCO we boarded the ship for a caribbean cruise before heading back Transatlantic to Europe, ending in Amsterdam.
Was a lovely voyage!
I have stayed at the El Convento. It is a great hotel. There is a tree in the courtyard and at dusk, bats come flying around.
Visited San Juan in 2006 as a regular vacation, not a cruise stop. Had a great time and saw many of the sites including the old fort. Thank you for doing the vlog on your stop there. I'm in south Florida, so the heat is not a problem for me. Walking is great exercise.
Love San Juan, glad you filmed it! I've been listening to Tommy's podcast for years so I'm so excited you met up with him & I could finally see what he looks like lol. You should have gone into the fort it's pretty neat & there is a shaded place that has nice wind going through it to cool off & they have a store you can buy water. To bad you couldn't try Barrachina's. When we went the line was long for the drink but we went to the left of that line & went tinto the restaurant & sat & had a drink. I've never seen it that busy though.
I am an amateur astronomer and have done enrichment presentations for a number of cruise lines. Last time I was in San Juan I hired a car to take me to Arecibo Observatory (an hour or so from town). Very glad I got to see it before the antenna structure failed and it was shut down.
Loved your tour of San Juan! Brought back some great memories! Will have to find that sandwich place next time we go! Thanks Tony!
Tommys cool! I adore Puerto Rico. Thanks Tony!! Lovely lovely tour! 😊❤❤❤
Glad you loved it! I am from PR and love old San Juan. ❤️
Great video, Tony! I took a cruise out of San Juan several years ago. I really liked wandering around the old, historical part of the city. We visited El Moro and thought it was a really cool fort! The view of the harbor was very impressive from way up on those battlements!
Very cool. Another place to put on the bucket list. Yes, I will be taking a cab or tour. I would never be able to do all that walking. Especially if time is limited and it's hot. Thanks for taking us along on these great port adventures. ❤
We love walking around the streets every time we are there in Old San Juan. We went into that Fort once. For us it was not worth the time. We love to walk around the base of the city all next to the water line. And we enjoy seeing all of the feral cats. San Juan is fantastic and one of our favourite ports.
i was in San Juan in April. So much history. The roads are paved with ballast from ships. They are a beautiful blue.
This looks so cool! 😎 What a fun day. I love these videos when you are on a cruise Tony. (Well, I love all your videos of course, but these ones are extra enjoyable because I get to feel almost like I am on a cruise too! ☺️)
Love exploring old San Juan and all the history there is down there. We have been to both the forts and have enjoyed them both. By the way, there's a quicker way back to the ships. There's a path that goes down in front of the fort along the ocean and it takes you all the way along the seashore and back along to the cruise ships on the other side of the city. It is a beautiful walk with breathtaking views, and one of the only ways to see the historic red door.
As much fun the cruise is the port visits are important. I enjoy these port videos. They made me want to visit places I hadn't considered
We liked San Juan. It was the least touristy place in the Caribbean that we ever visited. We even went shopping at a Target where prices were at least reasonable.
Mooring lines (hawsers) are secured to bollards for large ships and rings or cleats for smaller ones.
My wife goes to the Marshalls
Target?? Target does not has any store in PR.
@@mariacortes4827 Maybe Marshalls. A chain from the mainland that's not Walmart.
Hi Tony, i was recently in PR with MSC Seascape as a solo cruiser and really enjoyed the walk in Old San Juan. It was hot but I enjoyed amazing views of historical structures and Forts. My highlight was dining at Casa Luna and having the shrimp mofongo which delicious. Thanks to your video I now know how to reach the second Fort El Morro😊
Old San Juan was great, I was there several years ago or more before our cruise. Had a blast on that cruise, enjoy the rest of your cruise
Tony you were spot on today. San Jaun forts are cool & the walk is a great way to see it. Next time visit them they have things like the gunner post that stick out of the fort over the ocean . Very exhilarating. Great job
That was really cool to watch the Celebration tie up! Good call on getting a cab. That's a tough walk up to the forts.
Tony, loved the video!! You are a great port guide, Puerto Rico is a great port! Travel safe and enjoy your cruise!
You walked and saw a lot of the same things we saw on our trip to San Juan. Thanks for the memories.
My first cruise was in 1988 on Carnival, based in San Juan. We did the pre-cruise hotel package and went to El Morro, the Pablo Casals house, and the other historic fort. It was wonderful. I recognize some of the places you were at, Tony, but a lot has changed - and many more crowds. My favorite part, though, was watching American soap operas dubbed in Spanish in our hotel room! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Wish we’d run into that awesome sandwich !
El Morro is definitely worth visiting. We were there late last year and enjoyed walking to and exploring both forts and in old San Juan. It was really cool seeing the iguanas sunning themselves on El Morro several stories high. We've been there previously and found it to be an enjoyable port stop.
Yes, you definitely have to go into the fort to get the full experience. So many different lookout points and rooms to explore inside. We were there about a month ago and spent a few hours exploring the fort.
Thank You For Going Into The amazing Church! I Love Old Church's In Other Countries They Have The Best Art!!❤
Old San Juan is beautiful. We cruised out of there to the ABCs so flew in a day early to explore the city. Lots of great restaurants and bars and history everywhere.
I think San Juan is one of our favs too. We love Old San Juan. One year we cruised out of San Juan so we went a few days early. We did a food tour in Old San Juan one day and it was GREAT!!!
We love visiting El Morro in San Juan. Have been all around the city. Next time you should check out pigeon square. It's a neat little square where there are holes in the wall for the pigeons! We have cruised out of San Juan several times, so know the city well! You should go into the fort next time. So much interesting history and cool facts!
Love San Juan! They have a great beach club there - almost like a resort for the day. Includes beach, amazing pool, and food /drink. Highly recommend
I think it is grogeous there..i have been once way way way back and I really love those forts..everything is nicer and more fixed up at ports and everything...thank you for showing us a little bit more...what a neat place. IMHO...you did just right,,not too much and not too little in the heat and saw different angles of both forts...climbed up to one..and saw sea views..a little more of this and a little iess of that different each time..i just did the forts,,they were cool and i go in and just got more vists..mind you,,,this is 30 years ago and i do not know what they may have added but you saw then from outside well. I look forward to just roaming around that cool old town area. Thank you!!
Norwegian corn beef hash is my go to for breakfast with an omlette
I often get cbh on cruises (usually Royal)
El Moro Fort is fantastic. I believe the lawn leading to the Fort was once a golf course. Enjoyed El Moro and Bacardi tour.
Great to see you around my hometown of SJ Tony! Hope you enjoyed!
We were in San Juan on Friday from the Norwegian Sky. It was definitely hot but the forts were fantastic! Our favorite port!
Mooring is the dock structure. The lines are attached to the cleat I work at the LA port
Both forts are terrific. The other one, iirc, has an area where a shell exploded in the Spanish American war and the fragments of the shell are visible sticking out of the wall. Now, you have to think about this, but those shells were essentially "modern" shells and these historic walls held. Pretty amazing actually.
Nothing wrong with seeing all of you (well, I will qualify that...all of you with shirt and shorts on). You're a cutie pie. Thank you for your videos that always give us new information, even on places we've been.
Great memories of San Juan Tony! We walked around the wall and then came back through town shopped and had pina coladas at Barrachina, Good times!❤
You did it right Tony. Fun to watch.
The Mooring Line go over a bollard. The small rope attached to the mooring line is called a heaving line. The mooring lines are tightened by a windlass inside the ship.
Thanks!
Great video of Old San Juan.The last church you saw on the video near the fort is San Jose, the second oldest church in the western hemisphere, built in 1532.
The ferries take one across the bay to Catano and the Bacardi distillery.
Brought back some memories of San Juan. Saw the Fort and the Convent Hotel. Love San Juan also the Bacardi Distillery.
We love San Juan. Definitely next time go into the fort, very cool inside.
What a bummer walking all that way and not going in to see the fort. But there’s always next time every ship stops at Puerto Rico thanks for sharing and tell Jenny I said hi.❤🎉🛳️💖⚓️
We cruised the NCL Pearl to Alaska in 2015 and at all doors into the food areas, a person sprayed your hands with sanitizer. "Washy, washy!"
Good job Tony! Way to get your steps in. Love your videos ❤🎉
I really enjoyed San Juan last time I was there. We went inside both forts and they were really cool. Just imagining you were those soldiers is crazy.
Absolutely LOVE San Juan
Thanks for the line tieup video! Very cool to see.
El Morro protected San Juan from th ocean, San Cristóbal protected San Juan from land! Thanks for taking us back home! The building you first see from El Morro was part of my school pf medicine days!
That was fascinating seeing the lines pulling the ship while docking. A cruise is still a fantasy for me, but it is on my bucket list.
Always do the forts!! Love Old San Juan. Great video Tony. Next time do the forts, it’s amazing.
Did that walk up that hill in March. We then did the stree where you saw the cemetery, then our walk back down was along the path along the waterfront. Came out right about where you had your lunch. Love Old San Juan!
Longing for my next cruise!!! I wish my job was cruising and sharing it. There's a great store in San Juan called Eclectica. It's just across the street from the park you were walking in. I think maybe Jenny would like it. They have gorgeous things from all over the world. Then if you walk past the Fort, there is the best view of the coastline.
Never been to San Juan thank you and your wife for allowing me to journey with you vicariously.
I agree, San Juan is a great port. When we were there, we went to the other fort and pro tip…if you show a military ID, you get free entry into the fort. People forget to use military discounts when available.