First I would like to express my appreciation for the many posters in the forum. My wife and I are planning our first trip to the Dominican Republic this March and we have found a great deal of helpful information here. I do have a couple of questions though that are specific to our circumstances.
First a few details about our group. We will be visiting Santa Barbara de Samana the third week of March 06. We have two families in our group my wife and I and our 4 year old and another couple and there 2 children age 3 and 6 as well as an 18 year old friend. We all speak some spanish, enough to get by in most situations. We have plans for most of the time that we are going to be there but we wanted to take at least one day and devote it to an excursion. From reading postings from this forum and other travel books and things we have narrowed down the choices to the following.
1. A day trip to Las Galeras and then on to Playa Rincon
2. A tour of Las Haitises National Park
3. A trip to the El Limon cascades
- This trip we are a little pensive about because of the kids
4. Whale watching excursion
My question is Can anyone give me any feedback positive or negative about the above excursions considering our situation especially having the young children? How much is a fare price for the above tours? (We are not planning on having our own rental car) Any recomendations for safe honest providers of these excursions? Any excursions on Samana peninsula or nearby that I may have overlooked?
Another question What beach would you recommend that is near Samana city for families? (One that we could go to in the late afternoon for a couple of hours) Also is there somone that rents horses to ride on the beach near the city? What is a fare price?
I would appreciate any help that you can give to us. Thanks in advance.
First a few details about our group. We will be visiting Santa Barbara de Samana the third week of March 06. We have two families in our group my wife and I and our 4 year old and another couple and there 2 children age 3 and 6 as well as an 18 year old friend. We all speak some spanish, enough to get by in most situations. We have plans for most of the time that we are going to be there but we wanted to take at least one day and devote it to an excursion. From reading postings from this forum and other travel books and things we have narrowed down the choices to the following.
1. A day trip to Las Galeras and then on to Playa Rincon
2. A tour of Las Haitises National Park
3. A trip to the El Limon cascades
- This trip we are a little pensive about because of the kids
4. Whale watching excursion
My question is Can anyone give me any feedback positive or negative about the above excursions considering our situation especially having the young children? How much is a fare price for the above tours? (We are not planning on having our own rental car) Any recomendations for safe honest providers of these excursions? Any excursions on Samana peninsula or nearby that I may have overlooked?
Another question What beach would you recommend that is near Samana city for families? (One that we could go to in the late afternoon for a couple of hours) Also is there somone that rents horses to ride on the beach near the city? What is a fare price?
I would appreciate any help that you can give to us. Thanks in advance.