Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands: The Caribbean's Easiest Luxury Escape
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If you're planning a trip that really matters, the kind you don't want to get wrong, you're in the right place.
You don't have to have a passport. Uh you do have to have Real ID, of course, to fly anywhere inside the United States now, but you don't have to have a passport.
I have no interest in going to any of these places on a ship with 5 or 6,000 other people, but there are options.
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