San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU): Approximate driving time is 5 minutes and distance is 2 miles.

The Ritz-Carlton provides transport from the airport via sedan, limousine, or luxury coach (surcharge). Taxis are readily available and cost $8 (subject to change) each way. Rental cars are available online.

Additional amenities in all guestrooms include radios with CD players, minibars, personal safes, and video-game consoles. Both dial-up and high-speed Internet access are available for a surcharge. Housekeeping is offered twice daily and evening turndown is provided.

The Caribbean Grill - Caribbean specialties are served at this elegantly casual restaurant with all-day dining both indoors or alfresco, overlooking the pool and gardens.

The Ocean Bar & Grill - Sited between the freeform pool and the beach, this outdoor restaurant offers dining at tables and a bar under a gazebo as well as pool- and beachside. Waiters take orders for sandwiches, entrées, and frothy cocktails from guests in chaise lounges when they raise their lounger flags. Lunch and dinner daily.

The Sushi Bar - Executives for Toyota are often seen at the resort's intimate sushi restaurant, which serves a variety of maki sushi rolls, salads and soups, and combination meals. Dinner only.

The Bar - Open only at night, this clubby cigar lounge has a long marble bar flanked by thick columns, a pool table, and leaded-glass doors, all wrapped in a rich interior of woods and leather. The Bar offers 30 brands of cigars and a walk-in humidor. A light tapas menu is offered.

The Lobby Lounge - Hosting a Continental breakfast by day and live music by night, the lobby lounge has potted pants and two-story windows facing the courtyard. Seating is at marble-topped tables with wrought-iron legs and rattan chairs. Guests can order from a coffee bar in the mornings and enjoy afternoon tea later in the day.

The Casino Lounge - Facing a huge video screen (consisting of many standard-sized TV monitors), this lounge inside the casino offers drinks, food, and live entertainment (salsa and merengue) on weekend nights.

Amenity highlights: A European-style spa offers beauty treatments adjacent to clay tennis courts and a freeform pool with lion-shaped fountains. Gates by the poolside bar open to Isla Verde Beach, where guests can rent umbrellas and cabanas. At night, the soft tropical air carries the sounds of the lively casino, Latin-tinged jazz in the lobby lounge, and the enchanting call of the coqui, a native frog, in the resort's lush courtyard.

Insider tip: The resort offers many dining choices, and guests may also venture across the street to Metropole, a casual and inexpensive restaurant favored by locals and tourists for its large portions of authentic Cuban cuisine.

The expansive spa offers body wraps, massage, and additional beauty treatments as well as sauna and steam rooms. Guests can swim in the ocean (the water is calm and warm) or the hotel's freeform pool, complete with fountains; food-and-drink service is available in both areas. Water sports are available on the beach and off-site, and the hotel offers daily excursions to the Camuy Caves and El Yunque rainforest. The resort's extensive meeting facilities (including a huge ballroom) are located on the opposite side of the building from guestrooms, so that vacationing guests are away from convention activities.

The Ritz-Carlton has relationships with several nearby golf courses; guests may ask the concierge for details. The recreational activities listed below are available either on-site or near the hotel; fees may apply.