It so happens I have these directions saved on my hard drive. Here they are:
Directions for getting to Camp David for folks coming from Santo Domingo.
1. One of the first check points is the Army fort, Fernando Valerio. This is on your right, just past the pyrimidal construction of the new hotel, also on your right.
2. Your next check points are a series of stoplights, starting at the fort, then three lights for residential areas and finally a fourth light right by a Shell station on your left. You want to get to the center or the right hand side of the road.
3. About 200 yards after that fourth light, you bear right, and continue for about 400 yards, looking to bear off to the right following the sign to Puerto Plata. There is a large multiplex cinema on your right, called Hollywood 7. And there is a traffic light 100 yards further on. This is Ave. Estrella Sadhal?. Stay to the left lane of the Avenue, you are going North. You take the Avenue, using the elevated road, past McDonalds and the Nacional supermarket on your right, to the next light, where you use the right lane.
4. You turn right. This is in front of HACH? a large Ferreter?a. This is the Luperon Tourist Highway.. You follow this road past a Texaco station on your right, a Shell station also on the right , and then there is another Texaco station, Again, on your right. .Pay attention, we are going to do something very Dominican. You enter the Texaco station but you go thru the station (unless you want to buy gas), and out the back side, turning left. This is a little road that will take you to the entrance to Camp David, about 400 yards on your left.
5. After you turn left off the little road onto the entrance road, you follow your nose to the top of the mountain…can’t go anywhere else…
6. if you get lost or confused, please call me:
a. Cell: 809 640 3200
b. Office 809 583 0749
c. Another office if all else fails 226 5754
Cordially,
Hillbilly
a.k.a. Luis
Note: Just before that last Texaco station there is an intersection, quite obvious by all the motoconchos standing around. You "can" turn right there and follow that road around to the back side of the Texaco station--and on to Camp David as indicated above--however, I thought that it would be more fun to do the Dominican thing and cut through the gas station