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O:live Boutique Hotel
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An adults-only, 15-room boutique hotel in Condado, San Juan, where Mediterranean-inspired interiors and a rooftop plunge pool over the Condado Lagoon make a romantic city base.
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Award Winner 2014
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Need To Know
- 15 suites over four floors, adults-only, each with a private terrace or veranda and several with outdoor showers or plunge tubs.
- On Aguadilla Street in Condado, San Juan, by the Condado Lagoon and about a 15-minute drive from Luis Muñoz Marín airport.
- A rooftop with a plunge pool and bar-lounge over the lagoon, plus the hotel's French and Italian restaurants.
- Walkable to Condado Beach, shops and nightlife, with Old San Juan around ten minutes away.
- Our Favourite Rooms: a Gran Cru Honeymoon suite for the outdoor tub and terrace, or a Partial Lagoon View suite for the water glimpse.
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The rooftop. Wrought iron and century-old restored hardwood frame a plunge pool and bar with a long view over the windswept Condado Lagoon.
- The interiors. Four floors themed by Provence, Spain, Italy and Morocco, dressed in antiques and reclaimed wood from the owners' Mediterranean travels.
- The terraces. Most suites open onto a private veranda, and several add an outdoor shower or plunge tub for the romantic, adults-only mood.
- The dining. A French restaurant and an Italian steakhouse downstairs, with Mediterranean-Caribbean plates on the rooftop, all without leaving the hotel.
- The location. Walkable Condado at the door, the lagoon across the street and Old San Juan ten minutes away, so the whole city is within reach.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Address: Aguadilla St. #55, Condado, 00907, Puerto Rico
Travel Info
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport is about a 15-minute drive, with transfers on request. The hotel sits in walkable Condado, so beaches, shops and restaurants are on foot; Old San Juan is roughly ten minutes by car.
Nearby Places
15 minute drive from Luis MuÒoz MarÌn International Airport
9km
Last Updated: 2026-06-29
Expert Review
Origins
O:live is the work of two Puerto Rican hoteliers, Loisse Herger and Fernando Dávila, who built it out of a long love of the Mediterranean and years of travel through southern Europe. Opening in 2012 on a quiet side street in Condado, by the lagoon, it was conceived as a piece of the Mediterranean transplanted to the Caribbean: a small, romantic, design-led hotel rather than another beach resort.
The idea runs through the building. Though a new build, it is dressed to feel old, its four floors themed around Provence, Spain, Italy and Morocco and filled with antiques, reclaimed wood and pieces collected on the owners' travels. The effect, as one guide put it, is of a hotel that takes its cue from the Amalfi Coast: fresh and modern in its finishes, but steeped in borrowed Mediterranean atmosphere. Fifteen rooms, adults-only, and a rooftop over the lagoon complete a property built around intimacy and design rather than scale.
Top Secret
Time sunset on the rooftop: the plunge pool and bar look west over the Condado Lagoon, and it is the best seat in the hotel for the golden hour before dinner downstairs.
The Review
Condado is San Juan's smart seaside quarter, a strip of beach, lagoon, shops and nightlife between the airport and the old city. O:live sits a little off its main run, on a quiet side street by the Condado Lagoon, and trades the beachfront-tower formula for something rarer in the Caribbean: a small, adults-only, design-led hotel that looks to the Mediterranean rather than the sea outside.
The concept could be gimmicky and is not. The owners, a Puerto Rican couple, built the place out of their travels through southern Europe, and the fifteen rooms and four floors are themed around Provence, Spain, Italy and Morocco, dressed with antiques and reclaimed wood. It is a new build made to feel old, and it works: the finishes are fresh and the technology current, but the atmosphere is one of borrowed Mediterranean age. Rooms are romantic by design, many with private terraces, several with outdoor showers or plunge tubs, and the whole property is adults-only, which keeps the mood calm.
The rooftop is the signature. Wrought iron and century-old restored hardwood frame a plunge pool and a bar-lounge with a long view over the lagoon, and it has become a destination in its own right, with a French restaurant, Bardot, and the Mediterranean-leaning C'est La Vie under a serious chef, plus an Italian steakhouse downstairs. For a fifteen-room hotel, the food and drink punch well above the scale.
It is a city hotel, not a beach one, and worth understanding as such: the lagoon and Condado Beach are a short walk rather than at the door, and the appeal is design, romance and location rather than sand. But for couples who want a stylish, intimate, walkable base in San Juan, with Old San Juan ten minutes away and a rooftop made for sunset, O:live is among the most distinctive places to stay in the city.
