Santo Domingo City - Full Day Tour

The city is a mess, dirty buildings and destroyed, people want to put their hand in your bag and swindle every one they can. The place is depressing and although it's safe, it's pretty dirty, the traffic is terrible, only the locals can drive there, without traffic signs. Do not use local taxis as they fall apart, they charge you very dearly. Use platforms and watch out for walking with cel in your hand. The tourist places are relatively well looked after and in everyone you have to pay, everyone goes for their tip and it is an expensive place as they charge you differentiated fee for talking differently from them!. Note: on prices it is more expensive than Costa Rica even in fast food restaurants, saving something is not an option!

Please, please, please don't waste your money booking with this company! We were not taken to the Three Eyes National Park to see the cenotes and were not told until we asked at lunch and were just told no, we don't go there today! That was one of the main things we wanted to see and were gutted we didn't get the opportunity. We also were not taken to the see palace or taken to walk down 'The Ladies' Street, all of which are advertised on the itinerary. We basically did a 6 hour round trip from the Bavaro area to spend over 1 hour at lunch and 1.5 hours in the city on a walking tour to see the 1st church of America the lighthouse museum and numerous souvenir shops that the tour guide obviously had deals with. We had two young children with us who are very used to travel, adventure holidays and sightseeing who were just expected to wait around outside souvenir shops (not what we went to do!) and got extremely bored, hot and fed up. An absolute waste of a day we could have spent doing something else, a waste of money and a very sad waste of an opportunity to see a beautiful city and its surroundings!

Nos recogieron a las 7:20, a la hora estipulada, sin información ninguna nos llevaron a un sitio a esperar con más gente y coger el bus correcto. Estuvimos esperando hasta las 8:30 para luego cambiarnos de transporte en medio de la carretera justo enfrente de donde estaba nuestro hotel. Cero organización. El tour por Santo Domingo escueto, para lo que más tiempo tuvimos es para comprar. El guía nos orientó donde deberíamos de comprar los souvenirs(tiendas de sus amigos). Nos contaron que era el sitio “más competitivo” para comprar el café y resultó tener el mismo precio que en el aeropuerto. Poca explicación, la mayoría con audio guía. El buffet de comida muy básico ( poco para elegir). La vuelta también poco organizada, al parecer el chofer nos tendría que dejar en un punto para que nos devolvieran a nuestros hoteles pero al llegar tarde, le tocó a él ir a llevar a cada uno.