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Summary: By Far the Best Travel Book on the Dominican Republic
Review: If you're going to the Dominican Republic you've got to use this book. I brought four different books with me on my trip to the Dominican Republic and this was the one that I found was by far the most accurate. It had great, honest coverage of the all-inclusive hotels, comprehensive coverage of all the major tourism areas, like Santo Domingo's colonial district, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Cabarete etc. But what was most helpful were the terrific recommendations for sights to see that weren't in any other guidebook. My husband and I were able to explore Taino caves that have depictions of Christopher Columbus' three ships. These caves were in the middle of a wilderness national park and no other guide book even knew that they existed. Also by far the best restaurant and bar recommendations. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Leave the tour guides behind
Review: If you're going to the DR and are going anywhere other than the resorts, you won't regret your time spent reading this book. If you are going to the resorts, you won't be experiencing the DR anyway so don't worry about it.
Here's what you get:
1- lots of detail
2- no ads or cheap plugs
3- first hand account
Enjoy !!
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Summary: Leave the tour guides behind
Review: My husband and I used this book and the Lonely Planet guide on our 3 week trip to the DR. We traveled extremely cheap, taking the public transportation (mostly riding in the back of pickup trucks) all over the island. We found that the Rough Guide had more inexpensive hotels listed than the Lonely Planet. I think that Lonely Planet is so popular that once a hotel is published in an LP guide, demand goes up and prices do too. We also looked for the "Christopher Columbus" Taino cave drawings listed in the book, but even the locals couldn't find them! (We did get to visit 3 or 4 cool caves on our quest though, and while we were disappointed about not seeing the drawings we did enjoy using a palm frond torch to explore a bat-filled cave.)While this book is not one for pictures, check out the LP at the library to decide what sites to visit and take this one with you for information on what hotels to stay at.
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Summary: If you want to travel cheap, use this guide
Review: My husband and I used this book and the Lonely Planet guide on our 3 week trip to the DR. We traveled extremely cheap, taking the public transportation (mostly riding in the back of pickup trucks) all over the island. We found that the Rough Guide had more inexpensive hotels listed than the Lonely Planet. I think that Lonely Planet is so popular that once a hotel is published in an LP guide, demand goes up and prices do too. We also looked for the "Christopher Columbus" Taino cave drawings listed in the book, but even the locals couldn't find them! (We did get to visit 3 or 4 cool caves on our quest though, and while we were disappointed about not seeing the drawings we did enjoy using a palm frond torch to explore a bat-filled cave.) While this book is not one for pictures, check out the LP at the library to decide what sites to visit and take this one with you for information on what hotels to stay at.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This book is great for getting an overview of the Dominican Republic....the cities, the culture, the people and all the things you need to plan a trip there. A+++ Book!
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Summary: Good book, but lack of DR Reality
Review: We visited the DR and we don't know how they wrote 80% live in poverty (for our surprise, this is not an affordable city, and a lot of people lives very well, with a lot of luxury). People are very friendly (Maybe the best we have ever seen in the world)...we can name the DR as "The Americas Door",for the ignorant surprise, in Dominican Republic was founded the "First University of the "New World", the "First Cathedral of the new World". Unfortunatelly, if you are travelling to a resort and don't have contact with the high cultural people of the city, you will never know how pretty, rich, cultural and classy the Dominican Republic is. We will appreciate to read a book by a real prestigious Dominican, as most of the people based their books in speculations and outdated infornation data. The delinquency in Santo Domingo is extremely low compared to other big countries in the world. Always remember that no lives in paradise and you will fell in love with the Dominican Republic.
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