TravelScript Guides Puerto Rico

Follow this TravelScript for a self-guided shore excursion to a secluded beach close in proximity, but worlds away, from the touristy cruise port and other cruise passengers. Just east of the Hotel Zones of San Juan is the Piñones State Forest, with the longest stretch of continuous beach in Puerto Rico. With insight in to the history of the area and an entertaining logistics-based itinerary as your guide, you’ll spend 3 to 4 hours in a true Caribbean beach paradise.


This TravelScript presents everything you need to know about spending the day off the beaten path in Puerto Rico, including detailed logistics for:


• Pickup up and return of your Rental Car

• Getting to the Grocery Store for Snacks / Drinks / Lunch

• Specific Directions (with Interactive Maps, and Narrated Video)

• Timing 


This TravelScript was created exclusively for iBooks and its powerful multi-touch, interactive format, and includes: 


• ‘Along The Way’ popovers with local insights and history

• Interactive Maps

• Embedded Online Maps

• Narrated Movie Outlining the Route

• Highlighting, Bookmarking & Notes


Who Wants This Guide?


This guide is for passengers on Cruise Ships arriving at the port in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during morning hours, with at least 8 hours available for a secluded beach shore excursion.

Your ship should be arriving between 7am and 8am.

Depending on your cruise, you’ll be back on board by 3:00pm for 3:30pm departure, or 3:30pm for 4pm departure. 

This TravelScript fits perfectly with Carnival Cruise ships:

 • Conquest

 • Glory

 • Liberty

 • Freedom


It also works perfectly for Royal Caribbean and other cruise ships that use San Juan as their evening departure city.


About Author and Creator, Nate Kennedy and TravelScript Guides:


As an Expedition and Outdoor Photographer and gringo from the Midwest, Nate Kennedy has followed his still unexplainable love for the Spanish language and culture, his camera, and his Land Rover from Minnesota to Mexico, from coast to coast across the US, and on to Puerto Rico. 

Over the last 5 years he’s experienced a unique and comfortably local life in Puerto Rico with his camera in hand and local adventuring, passionate friends and employers as guides. There aren’t many corners of the island that he hasn’t explored with Boricua (native Puerto Rican) eyes. 

He helped create Caribbean Rovers Expeditions, a Luxury Land Rover based Expedition Style Touring Company, guiding clients from across the world through the enchanting places and stories that Puerto Rico has to offer.

After years of friends and family asking how to see this island paradise as travelers, not just as resort tourists, he’s writing down specific logistics-based itineraries for you to follow.


Being a part of this island and getting to know its people, it’s history, its difficulties and glories, has added a richness to my life that most Midwestern boys can’t dream of experiencing.

My goal with these TravelScript Guides is to share that connection with you - as a traveler - so that you, too, can experience this island as I have, putting you face to face with the generosity and steadfastness of the Puerto Rican heart. - Nate Kennedy


TravelScript. I Write the Script, You Do the Traveling.