By air or by cab ? and more...

If you go by bus you can see 4 hours of the country. Very comfortable, and they play a movie on the way and it's cheap. Maybe 5 or $6 US dollars.

Here is the website for Caribe tours

http://www.caribetours.com.do/ They leave Los Charamicos stop in POP and then they stop twice in Santiago then straight to Santo Domingo.
Ken will be on here tomorrow he'll know the updated price. It was only 160 pesos in Nov. but it has gone up a bit. If you stop in Santiago there's a new museum called Centro Leon you may want to see.

In Santo Domingo the Zona Colonial is interesting. Our member Jan lives there and maybe she can suggest someplaces. Many other here are from SD too

Good luck

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holacanada said:

Thank you so much again.
The next step of my research is to translate in english the caribe tour website !
:devious: I understand the timetable a little but for this is a lots of informations and cities and I would like to know what are the travel directions and I can'see how many stops ?en route?, how much time from POP to Santo-Domingo (they write ha?ti in parenthesis ????).

Welcome to all of your future replies: community !!!!!!!!!!

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yep I'm having the same problem. I had to translate the site and it still doesn't tell me everything I need to know.

So if anyone out there can provide a list of travel times between destinations (esp. from SD to other destinations) that would be really helpful

Ken where are you? I'll PM him in case he missed this one.

But from Los Charamicos to Santiago it's about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. They stop in Puerto plata for a few mins and half an hour at the first stop in Santiago and only a few mins at the second stop. Then about 2 hours to SD. That's all I know.

Hi Anna et al,

The OP is staying at the Coral Marien in Puerto Plata. He/she should NOT go to Los Charamicos but should take a taxi to the Metro or Caribe terminal in Puerto Plata and leave from there.

Buses leave, if I recall properly, about every hour or two from early morning until the early evening and the same for the return. If he/she is not prepared to leave Santo Domingo by 5 - 7 p.m. then an overnight would be required with a return the next day.

Unless I missed something.

Gregg

You're right Gregg. I was basing my timing from there because that is where I started.

Caribe Tours has a bus leaving Sosua for Santo Domingo ever 20 minutes past the hour from 5:20 am until around 6 in the evening. The bus goes to Puerto Plata and leaves there on the hour. It arrives in Santiago about 2 hours after leaving Puerto Plata and in Santo Domingo about 2 hours after that.

If you are at Coral Marien ouitside Puerto Plata, then take a cab to the Caribe Tours bus terminal in Puerto Plata. Caribe Tours buses always leave on schedule.

From Puerto Plata, the first departure for Santo Domingo is a 6 am. For your return the same day, the last buses from Santo Domingo for Puerto Plata leaves at 7 pm.

People do go up and back the same day, but don't miss that 7pm bus or you will have to higher a cab or get a hotel room for the night.