Do you think it is possible to go to the DR and have a good time simply staying in the AI hotel?
Some less able people can't get out and about, so their vacation is all about the meals in the hotel, nice weather and being entertained by the staff in the hotel. I have heard it said that they might as well be in an AI hotel anywhere in the world because you can't have a dominican experience by staying in the hotel. An AI hotel in Playa Dorada is not in my eyes, to be compared with an AI hotel in Benidorm!
Some people only want to lay about on the beach on their holiday and not do anything but sunbathe. Yes, they pay hundreds of pounds/dollars to do this when they could just save themselves money and do it in a self-catering apartment in Tenerife, but thats up to them surely.
Without going on............and on........ I am saying that some people want to get out and discover and others want to just do nothing. A vacation means one thing to one person and one thing to another.
Personally, i would recommend to anyone visiting the DR that they get out and see the real DR life. They might never go back again, they might have never been outside Europe so the DR will be something completely new to them. But to say they can't 'experience' the Dominican Republic AT ALL from within an AI hotel is a bit extreme.
Having read my comments back to myself, there might not be much else to say but...............
Some less able people can't get out and about, so their vacation is all about the meals in the hotel, nice weather and being entertained by the staff in the hotel. I have heard it said that they might as well be in an AI hotel anywhere in the world because you can't have a dominican experience by staying in the hotel. An AI hotel in Playa Dorada is not in my eyes, to be compared with an AI hotel in Benidorm!
Some people only want to lay about on the beach on their holiday and not do anything but sunbathe. Yes, they pay hundreds of pounds/dollars to do this when they could just save themselves money and do it in a self-catering apartment in Tenerife, but thats up to them surely.
Without going on............and on........ I am saying that some people want to get out and discover and others want to just do nothing. A vacation means one thing to one person and one thing to another.
Personally, i would recommend to anyone visiting the DR that they get out and see the real DR life. They might never go back again, they might have never been outside Europe so the DR will be something completely new to them. But to say they can't 'experience' the Dominican Republic AT ALL from within an AI hotel is a bit extreme.
Having read my comments back to myself, there might not be much else to say but...............