getaway place on north coast?

Cabarete has more tourists than LT. Las Galeras is probably what you're looking for. A lot of nearby beaches with minimal tourists. Not too much panhandeling/scams, (almost) no hookers. Also consider Rio San Juan, which has a couple of nice beaches and a minimum of BS.

Hope this helps.

Caberete has only 1 real AI. Great beach and most things you will need to live . There are torists, but it is much more laid back then some other places. Rio San Jaun is very quiet, but if you need things you have to travel. It all depends on what you are looking for. Good luck.

Punta Rucia and maybe Montecristi, El Viejo's pics here:
http://www.dr1.com/forums/trip-reports/78320-punta-rucia.html

If Cabarete fits the description of 'sleepy' I must be an insomniac .

(This is coming from a Dominican who grew up there, btw so my suggestions may be different). How about plain ol Puerto Plata? The town, I mean. It's a small town with just regular Dominican folks for the most part.

You can go to the beach all along the malecon (with Long Beach all the way at the end of the strip) and theres rarely a tourist in site. Its clean and there are no prosti's or panhandlers bugging you, either. There are little huts along there where you can buy drinks and snacks.

Theres Puerto Plata Beach Resort and Apart-Hotel Lomar right along the malecon and a few others in town, like KMA Hotel, that are decent and fairly priced. And La Sirena is on the same road, which is our version of Walmart. You can find anything you need for pretty cheap.

You can explore the town and check out how the regular folks live and everyones friendly and very open to visitors. Its pretty safe for the most part---just use your common sense.

The locals hang out on the malecon and some Playa Dorada Complex nightclubs or Lighthouse out in Cofresi on the weekends.

Plus you can easily and quickly drive to any of the touristy spots from there if you should feel the need to.

As always I recommend my beloved Rio San Juan. Has 4 in town beaches with locals enjoying, about 20 overnight tourists per night (max), dance hall, disco, restaurants (tourist and dominican), friendly people getting on with their lives independent of tourism and normal shops incl plenty of fish shops.

There's a place just west of Rio San Juan, mentioned some in these forums called Coco Cabanas Beach Club. The turn is just east of La Yagua, beach is called Playa Magante. There are a half dozen cabanas on the beach. No AC, just the sound of the ocean to put you to sleep. I recommend it highly!

Las Galeras, i was just there sept 2009, there are many beaches near by, my favourites were La Playita and Fronton. If you want to eat at a restaurant in las Galeras, go to Plaza Lusitania ( the bartender cant even make a strawberry daiquiri but the pizza is alright) across this place is also the Gri Gri they have decent food and the drinks are good too. if you ever go to la Playita, there are 2 retaurants, i only tried the one closest to the shore, it is owned by a local elder woman, DO NOT try her food, she is a bad cook, and has low basic hygiene standars. there is a pizza place about 15min walk from las galeras town, they supposed to have steak BBQ thing every friday night, i dont recommend this place either, believe me you're better off cooking your own meal. OTHER THAN THAT, THE BEACHES ARE BEAUTIFUL AND ALMOST DESERTED.

Apparently Boca Chica is supposed to be a good getaway place.

Just tell your family where your going though.

BlackRainbow

blackrainbow said:

Apparently Boca Chica is supposed to be a good getaway place.

Just tell your family where your going though.

BlackRainbow

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