best places to travel!!

hey everyone,
i just recently went on a trip to the Dominican Republic, and i enjoyed
it very much. i would like to take another trip to the caribbean next
year but i am unsure of where to go! if anyone has any ideas or
comments on places they have been or experiences they have had that
would be wonderful!!
thanks!
hope to hear from you!!

I'd recommend Jamaica for a number of reasons. First, it's relatively large
for a Caribbean island, some 135 miles long and 50 miles wide. Second, it
has the tallest mountains in the Caribbean... these factors mean you can
enjoy a lush, rainforest type environment on the extreme east end to an arid
environment on the west end. The mountains are amazing, with wild flowers
that are stunning. Regardless of popular opinion, the people are great,
particularly when you get out of Mobay, Ocho Rios or Kingston.
Additionally, there are historic villas like Fire Fly in Port Maria (where
Noel Coward lived, and possessing the most beautiful view I've ever seen in
the Caribbean), great waterfalls, orchid plantations and splendid beaches
( a 7 mile long white sand beach in Negril). One of the best things to do is
go to a local farmer's market on Market Day... a real feast for the senses.
The food and drink are great, with varied and interesting cuisine. And,
relatively speaking, everything is cheap, Jamaica is perhaps the most
inexpensive place we've stayed in the tropics (excepting possibly the DR).

We've been to the island about 12 times and we find new and exciting things
every time.

Where ever you go, I'd strongly advise against an all inclusive. Once
you've paid for everything it's sometimes difficult to leave the resort and
experience the real country (which is much different than the little enclave
you experience in the resort)... and after all, isn't that why you travel to
a different culture? For the same reasons, I'm not a cruise fan. I've seen
to many places, from Tobago to Jamaica to Cozumel to Curacao, to Cabo where
the boat people flock ashore, are mobbed by vendors and herded to the local
attractions and then trucked back to the boat... all without really getting
into the local scene.

"ashes" <abisset@flemingc.on.ca> wrote in message
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> hey everyone,
> i just recently went on a trip to the Dominican Republic, and i enjoyed
> it very much. i would like to take another trip to the caribbean next
> year but i am unsure of where to go! if anyone has any ideas or
> comments on places they have been or experiences they have had that
> would be wonderful!!
> thanks!
> hope to hear from you!!
>

Yes please...
I also would be interested in reading about your trip to the Dominican
Republic.
Where you stayed and what area you enjoyed the most.
I just saw an advertisement for DR ....Perto Plata area. This it to the
North I believe on the Atlantic side. Is it better to stay in the Southern
regions (Caribbean side)??
Any info posted would be helpful.
Thanks,
Dwayne



"ashes" <abisset@flemingc.on.ca> wrote in message
news:1107565172.277383.311110@c13g2000cwb.******** o********...
> hey everyone,
> i just recently went on a trip to the Dominican Republic, and i enjoyed
> it very much. i would like to take another trip to the caribbean next
> year but i am unsure of where to go! if anyone has any ideas or
> comments on places they have been or experiences they have had that
> would be wonderful!!
> thanks!
> hope to hear from you!!
>

my vacation,
i went to the DR in october and i enjoyed the whole trip!!! we stayed
that the Bahia Principe in Punta Cana. The resort was awesome when we
were there however i hear that they have been having problems since
they opened up another section to it with the food and such. when i
was there it was fine. and since there was the malaria outbreak, which
i believe has been cleared up but i am not positive.

i spent a lot of my time there on the beach and goin to the market on
the resort and going to the towns, which was really cool but i also
went to manati park to swim with the dolphins, which was an awesome
experience!! the park itself was nothing special but swimming with the
dolphins was something that i always wanted to do!!

we also went on the bavaro runners tour which was neat we got to go to
a ranch and ride horses kinda and got a tour of a locals house who
produces lots of things that are sold to tourists.

that's all that i can think of right now that we did however i know
that there was more i will have to look at my photos and post
again...oh yes on thing that we did cuz it was a school trip was we did
some hotel inspections and visited 3 different hotels in punta cana and
compared them all one that i really liked was ocean bavaro!!!
Dwayne wrote:
> Yes please...
> I also would be interested in reading about your trip to the
Dominican
> Republic.
> Where you stayed and what area you enjoyed the most.
> I just saw an advertisement for DR ....Perto Plata area. This it to
the
> North I believe on the Atlantic side. Is it better to stay in the
Southern
> regions (Caribbean side)??
> Any info posted would be helpful.
> Thanks,
> Dwayne
>
>
>
> "ashes" <abisset@flemingc.on.ca> wrote in message
> news:1107565172.277383.311110@c13g2000cwb.******** o********...
> > hey everyone,
> > i just recently went on a trip to the Dominican Republic, and i
enjoyed
> > it very much. i would like to take another trip to the caribbean
next
> > year but i am unsure of where to go! if anyone has any ideas or
> > comments on places they have been or experiences they have had that
> > would be wonderful!!
> > thanks!
> > hope to hear from you!!
> >