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Hey, I’m going to put a spring break trip with a bunch of my friends. I was going over a lot of my options, and I started to become really interested in Puerto Rico as a destination. Most everyone seems set on Mexico, but I’m not so sure about how that would compare to going to Puerto Rico. When I went to Mexico spring break of my senior year, I generally wasn’t that impressed. It was an all-expenses paid trip that was fairly expensive around $1300, plus the annoyance of having to get a passport and visa.
The reasons I feel it might be better is:

1. Since P.R. uses dollars I won’t have to worry about exchange rates and the such, so I think instead of doing the all expenses paid crap (which forces you to eat the hotels crappy food and only drink at their bar) we could eat where we want and drink wherever we feel like it. (one thing in Mexico was everybody wished they could just get a 6 pack or handle of liquor for the hotel room instead of constantly going back to the bar).

2. No visas and what not.

3. they use U.S. dollars,

Has anyone ever gone to Puerto Rico for College spring break? Was it a lot of fun? Do you feel like there is plenty of college students and generally has clubs and such that are comparable to someplace like cancun or puerto vallatra? What hotel did you stay at and would you recommend it?

thanks for your help.