Hi Guys
Can anyone confirm if transportes papagayo operate bus service on this route or any other bus company that goes direct from samana area to POP airport area. Caribe Tours dont seem to do it now it seems.
Any thoughts
Cheers
D
Hi D,
Transporte Papagayo operates Samana Puerto Plata route, leaving Samana at
2:00p.m.(from the market) arriving POP around 6:00p.m. will stop on the highway
in front of the road to POP airport, but not at the airport terminal.(Unions
things). So, you have to carry your luggage on the road to POP airport for 500+
meters, till the terminal.
The bus, 52 passengers, is maroon in color, but the owner likes to call the
color "Vino Rojo" and his got "Papagayo" written on the
windshield.
The owner it's a very nice guy and his name is Rufino Salvador, if you got a
larger party(=good tips), he even will pick you up from Las Terrenas, his cell
1.809.749.6415(Spanish only). Sometime, when his bus broke down he will run the
same route with a smaller light blue color bus with no marking at all. Better
call to be sure you getting on the right bus, and don't end up in Santiago, God
forbid. LOL
Sure, they are other buses doing the same route, but I heard some odd story,
even locals refuse to take the "other" bus for various reasons,
"The Chicken Bus" means anything to you?
God luck,
WebDev
P.S. Transporte Papagayo leave POP to Samana at 6:45a.m. from the Hospital front
in POP and passing through Sosua around 7:00a.m. arriving is Samana around
10:30a.m. and BTW is no advance ticket purchase or "ticket wicket".
Pay to the driver in CASH, pesos Dominicanos, no checks Visa or Mr. Card.
WebDev