Where to begin.... my boyfriend and I just got home last Thursday from spending 2 months in the Dominican. I must say I had the best time of my life... very sad to be back in cooooold Ontario. We started off in Puerto Plata for a week all inclusive at Puerto Plata Village. The resort was alright... food was crappy. We spent most of the week looking for an apartment... we fell in love with Sosua and Cabarete but decided on Cabarete.
After our week in POP we stayed for a month at SansSouci Plaza... nice but a little pricey. (having the beach as a backyard a very big bonus I must say) Made some friends with the beach dogs, 2 in particular who followed us everywhere! We spent our time mostly lazing around... rented a car a couple of times and drove down most of the North Coast. We went beach hunting one day and stopped at Playa Diamante, Caleton and Grande. We drove up the mountain in Samana looking for waterfalls but decided on staying at Playa Bonita for a while instead because of the time. It was gorgeous. Our friend Ariel didn't tell us that he gets car sick going up mountains though... so that wasn't a pretty sight! We fell in love with Playa Caleton, it is so gorgeous! The water is like swimming in a pool it's so clear! So we rented a scooter the next week and went back. It took almost twice as long to get there than it did by car but was lots of fun anyway. We visited Play Encuentro (surf beach) the next morning before taking the scooter back... wish we had gone there with more time cuz surfing looked like fun.
For our second last week we stayed at La Punta (our apartment at SansSouci was right above Onno's and Bambu so it was a liiiiittle loud at night! kinda hard to sleep!) so the change in noise level was very nice... a little too quiet though, we felt like we were disturbing the peace even by having a swim in the middle of the day! Very nice apartments though.
We stayed at SansSouci Park for our last week... which was interesting. Lots of huge (and I mean HUGE) cockroaches living with us... and geckos too. But at least by now we were used to them.
In all it was a great time. Something we will talk about for the rest of our lives... hopefully we'll be back soon, I miss all of our friends already! Anyone who knows Jackson, Alex and Catherine from Bambu, please say hi from Shawn and Adam! I must say I fell in love with the Dominican... great people, great culture, gorgeous beaches! It couldn't have been any better!
Oh, and for those who have a digital camera, FORMAT means erase memory card, which anyone who owns one should know... but apparently some must find out the hard way... like me, 3 and a half weeks into our trip! Just thought I'd warn you!
After our week in POP we stayed for a month at SansSouci Plaza... nice but a little pricey. (having the beach as a backyard a very big bonus I must say) Made some friends with the beach dogs, 2 in particular who followed us everywhere! We spent our time mostly lazing around... rented a car a couple of times and drove down most of the North Coast. We went beach hunting one day and stopped at Playa Diamante, Caleton and Grande. We drove up the mountain in Samana looking for waterfalls but decided on staying at Playa Bonita for a while instead because of the time. It was gorgeous. Our friend Ariel didn't tell us that he gets car sick going up mountains though... so that wasn't a pretty sight! We fell in love with Playa Caleton, it is so gorgeous! The water is like swimming in a pool it's so clear! So we rented a scooter the next week and went back. It took almost twice as long to get there than it did by car but was lots of fun anyway. We visited Play Encuentro (surf beach) the next morning before taking the scooter back... wish we had gone there with more time cuz surfing looked like fun.
For our second last week we stayed at La Punta (our apartment at SansSouci was right above Onno's and Bambu so it was a liiiiittle loud at night! kinda hard to sleep!) so the change in noise level was very nice... a little too quiet though, we felt like we were disturbing the peace even by having a swim in the middle of the day! Very nice apartments though.
We stayed at SansSouci Park for our last week... which was interesting. Lots of huge (and I mean HUGE) cockroaches living with us... and geckos too. But at least by now we were used to them.
In all it was a great time. Something we will talk about for the rest of our lives... hopefully we'll be back soon, I miss all of our friends already! Anyone who knows Jackson, Alex and Catherine from Bambu, please say hi from Shawn and Adam! I must say I fell in love with the Dominican... great people, great culture, gorgeous beaches! It couldn't have been any better!
Oh, and for those who have a digital camera, FORMAT means erase memory card, which anyone who owns one should know... but apparently some must find out the hard way... like me, 3 and a half weeks into our trip! Just thought I'd warn you!
