I decided to take my family to Puerto Rico so they can get to know the island and see where I was born and grew up. I found flights from Orlando to Aguadilla, a much smaller airport than San Juan, so we will avoid the stress of San Juan traffic on our arrival. Unfortunately, although the ticket price was reasonable, Frontier charges outrageous bag fees ($140 per bag). Buyer beware. Live and learn.
Handy maps of the island
https://www.google.com/maps/@18.2024857,-66.5744961,10z?entry=ttu
A great sources on things to in PR
Since Aguadilla is on the west coast, we will be closer to Mayaguez, where I grew up.Aguadilla was the perfect choice since it’s small, only one bag carrousel, and no line at the rental car desk. We were upgraded to a Jeep Wrangler, which is perfect for some of the roads we’ll be driving.
We’re staying at the Bella Surf Inn on Jobos beach in Isabella, which turned out to be only 13 minutes from the airport. We had a 2 king bed suite with a balcony overlooking the water.
View from Bella surf inn
I had looked up restaurants and found Sonido Del Mar, a seafood restaurant that we could walk to on the beach in 3 min. Saturday night was busy so we had to wait to get a table on the water but we enjoyed mojitos on the beach. The food was well worth the wait. We ordered a seafood sampler platter as an appetizer. It had fish, calamari, coconut shrimp as well as tostones and the corn fritters I remember as corollos.
It was so huge that none of us could finish the fresh fish meals we ordered, snapper and grouper with mofongo, a local speciality of mashed plantains. There was an unbelievably wonderful steady wind off the water as we watched surfers. After dinner, we went back to the hotel and relaxed on deck chairs overlooking the water. A perfect first day.
On our first full day, we chose to explore Crash Boat beach in Aguadilla because the snorkeling is supposed to be quite good. Unfortunately, it was too rough to swim and the water was churned up so we chose not to snorkle. It was Easter Sunday and the beach was mobbed. 
We decided to explore some of Rincon’s beaches, stopping first at Sandy Beach, where the waves were crashing ashore and it was way too rough to swim. We enjoyed walking the beach and finding a tiny coffee/smoothie shop.
Driving through the mountains on tiny roads barely wide enough for two cars was fascinating. Loved the colorful houses and vistas over the ocean.
Next we drove to Tres Palmas Marine Reserve (Ft 413 at KM 1.7), where we walked maybe a mile down a gorgeous beach to Steps Beach (named for concrete steps deposited in the middle of the beach).
I noticed our bag being taken by the wave
Again the waves were high outside the rocks but at the boat ramp marina, the bay was calm enough to swim. The water temperature was heavenly. There was a restaurant right on the beach where we enjoyed pina coladas while waiting quite a while for fish tacos because the restaurant was mobbed for Easter.
