San Juan to Ceiba Ferry: Cheapest and Easiest Way
Browse more guides: United States travel | Americas destinations The first time I tried this trip, I showed up at Old San Juan looking for the boat to Vieques. There's no such boat. The taxi driver laughed at me with patient sympathy. The ferry to Vieques and Culebra - locally called the Spanish Virgin Islands , leaves from Ceiba, 30 miles east of San Juan on the opposite coast. I've done this run with a rental car, in a Uber that cost almost as much as my flight to San Juan, and in a beat-up shared van called a público that I almost missed because I was eating a mallorca pastry across the street. Each has trade-offs, and the ferry runs on what locals call "island time" - meaning sometimes it doesn't run at all. This is the breakdown of how to do the San Juan to Ceiba leg, the Ceiba to Vieques or Culebra ferry, what it actually costs in real US dollars, and why I would not do it as a day trip. Why There Is No Direct Ferry From San Juan Geography plus econom...