in 18 days, i'll be in condado, san juan at the hotel's tiki bar sipping a pina colada!
September 18th 2006 Puerto Rico - the birth of the Pina Colada...when actress Joan Crawford tasted the pina colada at what was then the Beachcombers Bar at the Caribe Hilton, she claimed it was "better than slapping Bette Davis in the face". This famous drink is the creation of bartender Ramon "Monchito" Marrero, now long gone, who was hired by the Hilton in 1954. He spent 3 months mixing, tasting, and discarding h
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The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production t... ... read more 
