It will now take less than two hours to go from Santo Domingo to Las Terrenas. The builders of the Boulevard Turistico del Atlantico (BTA) in Samana are ready for the 25 October opening of the new panoramic toll road connecting El Catey airport on the west side of the peninsula with the beaches of Coson, Playa Bonita and Las Terrenas. The panoramic road cuts driving time down to 20 minutes from the Autopista del Nordeste, the highway that links Las Americas Expressway in Santo Domingo with Samana. This means that visitors traveling to Samana hotels now have the option of arriving at Las Americas International.
The new road means that drivers heading for Las Terrenas no longer have to take the winding road that crosses the peninsula from Sanchez.