Chicago to San Juan, Puerto Rico from $216

Bag Type	Dimensions / Weight	Included
👜 Personal Item	Small bag / laptop	✅ Yes
🎒 Cabin Bag	18 lb	✅ Yes
🧳 Checked Bag	Not included — buy separately	❌ No

🌍 About San Juan, Puerto Rico

I have what I need. Here's the card: San Juan packs nearly all its draw into Old San Juan, a small grid of 16th-century streets paved with adoquines — blue-gray cobblestones cast from iron-furnace slag that Spanish ships carried over as ballast. At its tip sits El Morro, a six-level fort whose cannons guarded the harbor for 400 years; the grassy approach is where locals fly kites on Sunday afternoons. Eat mofongo: green plantains fried, mashed with garlic and pork crackling, packed into a bowl and filled with shrimp or stewed conch — order it relleno, not as a side. December through April brings dry, warm days but the highest prices and crowds. The cheap fares land in September and October, the heart of hurricane season, so book those with travel insurance and a flexible eye on the forecast.