Hotel El Convento: San Juan, Puerto Rico

This 58-room architectural landmark in downtown San Juan opened as a Carmelite convent in 1651, and became a hotel 310 years later, soon attracting the likes of Rita Hayworth and George Hamilton. Extensive renovations in the past decade have re-established it as the classiest hotel in Puerto Rico, and from the tiled lobby and lush interior courtyard lit with the glow of wrought-iron lamps, to the sumptuous tiled bedrooms with marble baths and antique furnishings, it has lost none of the status and grandeur King Phillip IV of Spain intended when he commissioned it in 1646.

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