• Step outside Hotel El Convento and walk to any one of a dozen fabulous restaurants and bars nearby. For example, enjoy creative Puerto Rican and international cuisine at Barrachina, pleasing guests for over 50 years. Star bartender Don Ramón Portas Mingot invented the world's first piña colada here in 1963.

• Stroll to the iconic La Bombonera, providing pastries, breads, and Spanish and Puerto Rican dishes for lunch to Old San Juan for over a hundred years. Enjoy their coffee, prepared in an antique Royal coffee machine, with a Puerto Rican sweet roll called a mallorca.

• Enjoy wines, cheeses, and hors d'ouevres at the daily Manager's Reception at Hotel El Convento's La Veranda Terrace, and enjoy the view of the Plaza de las Monjas and San Juan Bautista Cathedral as well.