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8 restaurants no reservations needed, short ride from airport, great beach area, beautiful sunset, special area for teens, explorers club for children, good snorkel area close to beach, calm water,...
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the air polution.
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Great Beach for a family vacation
Seavis Tours...ecological jungle tour
alycat Says: We booked the Jungle Eco tour at the last minute, just a day before, and they were very accommodating to include us in their group of 20. Although it is suggested that you book them in advance, may be 3 or 4 days before the trip. Seavis tours, which is a family run tour...
Cigar Factory Tour - Tabacalera de Garcia
juancpena Says: Over 4,000 workers making some of the world's most highly regarded Dominican cigars! Definitely one of the best experiences and most entertaining two hours I've spent on a tour. The staff is very friendly and helpful when picking from dozens of different cigars.Only a cab...
myriam_c Says: From the resort it's only a short walk to the village of Bayahibe. This is also the place from where the catamarans to Saona Island leave.
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1 Review and 327 Opinions Located at the Dominican south coast, on approx. 28 square kms, surrounded by sumptuous vegetation...
Trigo de Oro: A Café and bakery
mabu Says: When you get near the place you can already smell the fresh pastry wich is made there. Behind the walls surrounding the café you will find an lovely spot to sit down, have a coffee and some of the wonderfull fresh bakery products.You order your drinks at the table and go in...
Restaurante Yssamar: Try the local restaurants
Joan58 Says: This is a little open air restaurant on the beach at Bayahibe. Just a small house that looks like a bar with a few tables under a thatched roof with sand as floor. I like very much these typical little unpretentious resaturants where you can try local dishes. We have a very...
At the Gran Dominicus you can spend pleasant evenings. After dinner you'll go to the bar where you'll can try to dance the merengue waiting for the show organized by the staff members. Later you'll can go to the open air discoteque on the beach just behind the Pasta e Pizza restaurant. While you are dancing the cooks take pizzas out of the oven...Here you can sit up all night.
Updated Feb 28, 2003
Address: Venta Club Gran Dominicus
mabu Says: The fastest and cheapest, but not the safest way to get around la romana are moto conchos.Moto conchos are motorbikes driving around wich will take you with them. You pay them depending on the distance, for local rides something between RD$ 10.- and 20.- don't allway accept...
mabu Says: Sorry to all railway fans, the dominican railway isn't used for passenger transport...The railway transports the sugarcane from the fields around La Romana to the sugar (and rum) factory. The trains are loaded very high, and are very long, and so an interesting sight, even...
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This is a big tourist shop where you can find many local crafts, wood carvings, paintings, typical percussion instruments, CD of Dominican music, amber and larimar jewels and also (unfortunately) dried starfhishes and monstrous embalmed spiders, the mygales...I hate the spiders!!
What to buy: Here I bought the larimar and a painting in the typical Haitian style. (please, wait for the pic!)
Updated Mar 2, 2003
Address: Carretera Romana - La Romana
CndnSugarPlum Says: I don't know about this experience for guys, but if you're a gal, and you hear a 'hissing' noise and look around to see Dominican guys looking at you, it's just what they do. Chalk it up to the equivalent of whistling at a girl as she walks by.
Local custom...in a holiday village
Joan58 Says: There are many ways of life in a holiday village. There is always something to do on the beach at day, if you want. You can learn the merengue, play beachvolleyball, do morning exercises, watergym during the day and aerobics in the late afternoon. The entertainers are very...
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I do not recommend driving yourself in the DR. It is dangerous and it will be likely you are gonna get into an accident unless you are used to driving in similar situations. 2 lanes can turn into 3, or 4. Passing on corners is not uncommon. The first time I went to the Dominican, I thought I'd never see my homeland again, serious! Our bus transfer driver thank goodness knew what he was doing, even if others did not. We almost smoked this guy on a scooter, and even he pulled over and put his hand over his heart, took some deep breaths, and then continued on in and out of traffic. Be cautious at the very least!
Written Dec 8, 2007
Paying for resort photos- don't get caught!
CndnSugarPlum Says: While vacationing in the DR, a resort member would come around and take professional looking pictures of you alone, or with a parrot of lizard. It didn't cost anything to take them, the guy just takes them, and then you go to the booth later to see if you like them, and then...
Joan58 Says: Going to visit La Romana, surely your starting point will be the Parque Duarte. Surely here you'll be accosted by people who'll want to show you round. At least it happened to us. This guy wanted at all costs to be our guide in a town where there is nothing such important to...
Joan58 Says: Going round the suburbs at La Romana far from the traffic and the crowded streets, you'll pass through little dirt streets and you'll see these small houses with them little kitchen garden and children who are playing all around.
Joan58 Says: After I was over my first impression and overcame my fear, I had a good time going round the market, wandering around the stalls and bargaining over the price.Here the sellers are not so persistent as in a tourist market. I bought a bandana of Dominican Republic.
Joan58 Says: If you don't like to have a good sweat with tiring sports, you can just play bowl or ping-pong on the beach...sports for retiring age?!!
Joan58 Says: At the Gran Dominicus you can choose many sport activities. There is a little gym for weighlifting, an archery's court and tennis courts. You can also play beachvolleyball or canoe.
Joan58 Says: Actually in La Romana there aren't tourist attractions. You can visit it if you want to live the armosphere of a typical Dominican town. Go to visit the Parque Duarte, the heart of the city. It's a nice park where you can sit down under the trees for a moment's rest (until...
myriam_c Says: Search AND find the most beautiful seashells !
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La Romana, Cigars and a huge sugar factory
During my stay at Bayahibe (see my Bayahibe page for more) I made a day's trip to La Romana. My friend who lives in Bayahibe acted as a local guide. We had quite some fun that day... So read on...
La Romana is a little town on the south-eastern coast of Dominican Republic, 114 kilometers east Santo Domingo. Its development began in 1917 when a big sugar refinery was built. Today the sugar trade...
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Romana is a truly great place to visit. Its famous for its vast crops of sugar cane, but its beaches are incredible too A great place to stop by is by Casa de Campo, where a great golf course, and...
In March 1998 we stayed at the south coast in Bayahibe which we liked better than Puerto Plata on the northcoast.
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