Hi,
My family and I are booked for a one week vacation in Cabarete starting next Monday. After reading various postings concerning disturbances outside Cabarete, various car related incidents, instability due to recent elections and lack of fuel for public transport (let alone possible changes in weather this weekend !) I was wondering just how safe things are there. As a globe trotting avid windsurfer I am very used to developing countries (Egypt, Cape Verde, South Africa etc) but I usually don't have my wife and young kids with me. This makes one somewhat more risk averse and I am on the verge of cancelling.
Then again things like this often sound worse than they really are, so would be interested in feedback from anybody on the ground in Cabarete (like how safe/easy is it to use a non pre booked taxi from the airport?)
Thanks in advance.
sambo
My family and I are booked for a one week vacation in Cabarete starting next Monday. After reading various postings concerning disturbances outside Cabarete, various car related incidents, instability due to recent elections and lack of fuel for public transport (let alone possible changes in weather this weekend !) I was wondering just how safe things are there. As a globe trotting avid windsurfer I am very used to developing countries (Egypt, Cape Verde, South Africa etc) but I usually don't have my wife and young kids with me. This makes one somewhat more risk averse and I am on the verge of cancelling.
Then again things like this often sound worse than they really are, so would be interested in feedback from anybody on the ground in Cabarete (like how safe/easy is it to use a non pre booked taxi from the airport?)
Thanks in advance.
sambo