{"id":2085,"date":"2022-06-19T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2022-06-19T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:25:17","slug":"palmas-del-mar-paradise-or-gringolandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/palmas-del-mar-paradise-or-gringolandia\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmas Del Mar: Paradise or Gringolandia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we started looking for a home in Puerto Rico, realtor after realtor recommended that we buy in Palmas del Mar, a massive oceanfront resort development on the southeast coast. The largest planned resort development in the Caribbean, Palmas del Mar bills itself as \u201cPuerto Rico\u2019s #1 vacation destination.\u201d But is it? Not for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palmas Del Mar: a Huge Planned Resort in Puerto Rico\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JNDpLBsHkrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The many rings of gated security work for some people, but for us they made us feel disconnected from real Puerto Rico. We visited the beach and were underwhelmed, and access to it is extremely limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palmas del Mar started as a vacation spot and evolved to include residential opportunities, and features a golf course, tennis club, athletic club, equestrian area, a forest (Bosque Pterocarpus), marina, school (Palmas Academy), shopping area, hotels, restaurants and more. The residents ride around in golf carts, and their association has regular social events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what\u2019s it like? Take a tour and see if it\u2019s your cup of tea. We decided it\u2019s not ours. Lisa calls it Gringolandia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palmasdelmar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Info<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palmasdelmar.com\/v2\/brochure\/#p=4\" target=\"_blank\">Palmas Promotional Brochure<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/v19e7xWeP91rVBCT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Map<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photo Attributions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Alina Santiago, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0<\/a>&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons &#8211; Palmas Marina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alina Santiago, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0<\/a>&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons &#8211; Palmas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alina Santiago, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0<\/a>&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons &#8211; Golf course<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0<\/a>&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons &#8211; Houses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Col Nesty Delgado, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0<\/a>&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons &#8211; Palmanova plaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we started looking for a home in Puerto Rico, realtor after realtor recommended that we buy in Palmas del Mar, a massive oceanfront resort development on the southeast coast. The largest planned resort development in the Caribbean, Palmas del Mar bills itself as \u201cPuerto Rico\u2019s #1 vacation destination.\u201d But is it? Not for us. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/palmas-del-mar-paradise-or-gringolandia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palmas Del Mar: Paradise or Gringolandia?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,268,211],"tags":[30,450,434,27,448,420,436,266,449,28,9,12,261,262],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lisa-blogger","category-puerto-rico","category-videos","tag-adventure","tag-development","tag-humacao","tag-messysuitcase","tag-oceanfront","tag-oceanlabbrewingcompany","tag-palmasdelmar","tag-puertorico","tag-resort","tag-retire","tag-retirement","tag-travel","tag-travelblog","tag-travelblogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}