Puerto Rico 2003 - The Hotel

I got to the hotel eventually. Here are some pictures from the El Convento - built originally as a convent associated with the cathedral next door (long time ago) - its courtyard was reincarnated as a parking lot early in this century, then it was made into a hotel. It has been operating in its current capacity since the mid 1990's.
Here are pictures of my room's window (and views from that window). It featured two full sized "shutters" that were pretty common in houses all over Old San Juan. These shutters could shut out the weather, or let the sunshine in. Most of the houses don't have air conditioning, so you'd see a lot of shutters open. The hotel did have A/C, so they were mainly decorative - behind it was a glass window that had to remain closed when the A/C was on. Here are also several shots from the window.
These pictures were taken later, but I include them here since they are relating to the hotel. Here are some scenes right outside the hotel, plus the courtyard where I lunched a couple times.
The hotel courtyard from the third floor:
One of the stairwells on the way down to the courtyard - it was cool because a breeze would always greet you as you headed down the stairs.
Across the street from the hotel was a little parking lot. They packed the cars in there, so you had to use valet parking. Here's my favorite valet parking my rental car.
Some of our concierges at the hotel.
Breakfast
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