Would voluntarily do to MIA in August?
Booking this close to Labor Day has its challenges. Beggars can't be choosers.
I can think of other destinations that don't require schlepping food and are a lot less humid... Hmmm, what might I be thinking of?
Yes, yes, LAX is definitely less humid, but it's also twice as far, and for a trip where I want to maximize ground time, use my CP, have good kosher restaurants and nice hotels, MIA fits the bill.
Humidity doesn't matter when you're in the pool
Should have gone with SJU. Although admittedly, if Vieques and Culebra are not possible, Mia isn't necessarily worse than staying in San Juan. But maybe you shouldn't limit yourself to points options, try Airbnb on Vieques or Culebra - Mia doesn't hold a candle to them.
Frankly, I almost did.
But when you combine the longer flights, the more expensive hotels, the $300 round trip SJU-VQS transfer per person (or an extremely annoying ferry transfer which takes a while in and of itself), the lack of kosher restaurants, MIA becomes a bit more compelling for a short trip like this. And there wasn't anyway I was gonna stay in SJU.
Not to mention the fact that I didn't officially have a way back from SJU, so I was going to have to do JFK-SJU on AA, then SJU-MIA on AA on Sunday night, 9/6, spend the night in MIA, then fly back FLL-ISP, but then, because I didn't leave ISP I wouldn't have my car, so I'd have to take an hour Uber, which wouldn't have been cheap.
So, all in all, it was just too much on the con-side vs MIA.