Laid-back and affordable
Review Submitted: February 19, 2009
Date of Stay: February 2009
Casa Violeta was exactly as advertised: simple, comfortable, clean, relaxing. The beds & living room furniture are comfortable, the kitchen well enough equipped (if you want to bother to cook during your vacation). The best place in the house is the big wrap-around porch, where you can eat meals, enjoy cooling breezes, nap (or read a good book) in the hammocks.
How about this: Wake up to the sound of the rooster next-door and turn on the coffee machine; stroll half a block to Dulce de Esperanza bakery for a pastry, or get some fragrant, hot pan de aqua, the local bread, and bring it back to the house to toast. Tomorrow if you have the ambition, you can walk the extra block to Belly Buttons for eggs-over or French Toast. After breakfast, walk to Sun Bay beach and sit under a palm or sea-grape and watch the sun climb the sky until it's time to head to the Malecon for a burger and a cold Medalla at Duffy's. Back to Casa Violeta for a nap in the porch hammock before you hit happy hour at Bananas. Dinner at Tradewinds (I recommend the Thai pasta with shrimp...) and a night cap back at Duffy's where you can rub elbows with all the local characters. Welcome to Margaritaville. Before you leave, you really ought to exert yourself (just a little) to get out to the great beaches at the east and west ends of the island, where you'll never have to fight crowds for a great spot, and be sure to book a nighttime tour of the bioluminescent bay, which will amaze you; there's not another one in the world as bright or as accessible. If that's your idea of a great getaway, then Esperanza, Vieques is for you. If you need a golf course, casino, TV, or designer brand-name shopping, go somewhere else and leave Vieques to those of us who fondly remember the Caribbean of old.
Recommended for:
Age 55+,
Adventure Seekers,
Tourists without a Car,
Families with Young Children
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