Holiday Resorts in Dominican Republic in general

Casa Marina Reef/Beach AI Sosua Puerto Plata Two hotels with seperate reception areas, shared facilities. We booked to go here for the first time 5 years ago it was last minute booking and a good price. After booking I researched various travel sites I begane to wounder if I had made a wise choice. SO GLAD WE DID. between the 2 hotels there are 3 swimming pools, numerouse bars one being a cash bar (nightclub). Upon checking in you have a band put on as it is AI, you will recive a card for your towels and your room key which is a crad is also used for the electric. (You open the door and then have to slot the card in a box on the wall to get electric! ...  Read the complete review

Wanting a total escape from everyday life? The Dominican Republic gives you just that. Myself and my husband went to Playa Dorada last November and had a fantastic time - the weather was great as you would expect! We stayed at the Hotel Occidental Playa Dorada which is an All Inclusive hotel. I was a little cautious about All Inclusive before this holiday but not so now! The food was absolutely fantastic, there was plenty to choose from morning, noon and night at the buffet style restuarant which had a different theme each night - Spanish buffet, Dominical Buffet, Mexican Buffet the list goes on (we were there for 14 nights and never ate the same from one ...  Read the complete review

Now that the kids are getting that little bit older (18, 16 and 14) and since I was feeling a little flush earlier this year, it was decided to go for the BIG one - an all-inclusive Carribean holiday!! We reviewed the brochures and to my intial dismay, everyone chose the most expensive one - the Dominican Republic. Where's that I thought? what is there to see or do there? Still, I had decided that whatever they want is what they get, at least this year anyway - after that most of the kids will be too old to want to go anywhere with the "old" fogies! So we booked it with JMC and eventually paid up the full amount, eagerly looking forward to the departure ...  Read the complete review