FantasticHotel on Vieques
by Hary from IL, USAOverall rating of accommodation: 5 Stars
Overall Service: Great
Overall Dining Experience: Not Applicable
Would you choose to stay there again?: Yes
Review of your experience: Bravo is a fantastic hotel on Vieques. My family hasvisited Vieques the past three years. This year my wife and I stayed at Bravowhile the rest of the family stayed down the road in a private villa.
The property is beautiful with its' two pools and ocean views. The service andhelp by the staff is extremely friendly, helpful and top notch. The rooms arebeautiful and very relaxing.
Chef Michael's is on the property and offers nice wines, sandwiches, deli snackfoods - all of a very high quality.
We are going to return to Bravo next year!
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$160 Opened in January by a pair of ex-Manhattanites, the Bravo brings a welcome small-scale, big-city vibe to Vieques. With a mere nine rooms and a two-bedroom villa, an oceanfront locale (floor-to-ceiling windows open straight onto the Caribbean), and edgy furnishings (egg lamps, Italian linens), the Bravo is the island's first true beachside designer hotel. Pack your laptop: the high-tech hotel has one of Vieques's only Wi-Fi "hot spots," for wireless Internet access. 1 N. SHORE RD.; 787/741-1128; March 2004
Bravo
Vieques, Puerto Rico by Fodors
The beachfront Bravo sits on the northern coast of the still-sleepy island of Vieques, seven miles off Puerto Rico. Formerly a nothing-special motel, it has reopened as a stylish compound painted in David Hockney pastels; in seven of the nine rooms and in the adjacent two-bedroom villa, you can look straight out to sea from floor-to-ceiling windows. Inside, rooms flaunt Frette linens, DVD players, Nintendo, and wireless Internet access. Bathrooms are tiny (no tubs) but are stocked with thick towels and Aveda toiletries. Although there is no proper restaurant, a Dean & Deluca–style grocery called Chef Michael's FoodSpace sells imported wines, cheeses, and other fancy foodstuffs, and a few nights a month Chef Michael himself serves dinner by the pool; at other times, guests in search of good food simply have to walk a few minutes into town.
When to go: December through May.
Which room to book: Nos. 3 through 7, which have balconies with ocean views (doubles, $160–$215).
