To needed development investments will optimize the port's cruise docking infrastructure. The decision followed RCCL's announcements about homeporting Freedom of the Seas in San Juan (starting May 2018). In early April 2017 was announced the RCG-Royal Caribbean Group's partnership with Puerto Rico Ports Authority (government-owned corporation) for improving the Port's cruise pier 'Pan American Wharf 2'. The most popular are El Escambron and Isla Verde. They are free of charge (no entry fees) but charge for parking, as well as lockers and showers.

However, public beaches (served by lifeguards and with facilities) are called here balnearios.

Among the most popular Caribbean island port destinations often combined with Puerto Rico are Windward Islands ( St Lucia, Dominica, St Vincent, Barbados, Tobago, Grenada), Leeward Islands ( St Maarten, Guadeloupe, St Kitts) and Dutch Antilles ( Curacao, Bonaire, Aruba).Īll Puerto Rico beaches are open to the public. San Juan is also homeport to several major cruise companies operating roundtrips out of Puerto Rico. San Juan cruise port schedule has booked ships operating mainly on Eastern and Southern Caribbean itineraries leaving roundtrip from Florida USA ports. Originally the island was named San Juan and the port - Ciudad de Puerto Rico. San Juan is the second-oldest capital (after Santo Domingo Dominicana) that the Europeans/Spaniards established in the Caribbean. San Juan is Puerto Rico's principal/main port (locode PRSJU), as well as the largest city (population around 350,000) and the country's capital.

San juan puerto rico cruise port map