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We live on an island, in the middle of the Caribbean islands in fact… which by definition means we and everybody else living here is separated from the rest of the world by water, and in our particular case rather a lot of it!
What about travels around the Caribbean islands by sea then? It turns out that the only regular fare-paying route from this island of Hispaniola is to the neighboring island of Puerto Rico - officially a United States territory with Commonwealth status in the midst of these Caribbean islands
It was a Boca Chica Playa Vista good customer who recently checked out this travel
option and alerted us to the possibility. He explained that he boarded the ship just up the road at the Sans Souci terminal in Santo Domingo
ready for the 8 pm departure… and exactly12 hours later docked in the Puerto
Rican port of Mayaguez.
He spoke very highly of the trip. The one way fare, including room, in his case
was US$85. Afterwards he paid a US$20 bus fare to arrive at the Puerto Rican
capital of San Juan. The restaurant provided an all-you-can-eat buffet at a very
reasonable US$12.50 and drinks prices, in our friend’s opinion also, being
moderate. On the boat there is a small casino area, but it was the four hour
show of comedy, dancing and music he was particularly impressed with. For further information the web site address of the ferry company
is: www.ferriesdelcaribe.com.
There is a sea-going alternative to this pleasant cruiser-like trip, where a passport
isn't even a requirement… but, the method, security, money involved and
guarantees are of quite a different order. Here it is known as vacation rentals traveling by
‘yola’ (a small wooden boat) and it is necessary to know a man who knows a man
operating these slow moving vessels of questionable quality in the dark of night
usually from unspecified locations in the east of the country. The intended
destination is said to be some remote playa vista beach on that same island of Puerto Rico
often close to Mayaguez actually and we have heard the fee is something in the
much steeper region of 10,000 pesos, if you know the man who knows a
man very well of course. Unfortunately the lack of guarantees includes never knowing if
you will ever arrive, and even more decidedly… sheer physical survival. So… we at Playa Vista would naturally recommend the
former trip
if you’re in the lucky position of owning something as luxurious as a passport!
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Assuming you have the right passport you can of course buy a plane ticket and
fly just about anywhere in the world from the Las Americas International Airport
tucked conveniently in behind the “MegaPort” on the Caucedo peninsula a kind of
a stone’s throw from
Playa Vista, but there is somewhat of a touchy passport
issue related to the whole travel subject for most of the people who are DomRep
nationals. A little research reveals that if you were to possess just a
Dominican passport then the number of countries in the world that will accept
applications for a none-too-easy to achieve visa are in a very
exclusive and quite fancy list, namely: Argentine, Chile, South Korea, Ecuador,
Iceland, Israel, Japan, Peru, Lichtenstein and Uruguay!
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.Our exotic Latin island is of course glad of these few connections but
surely needs to work at spreading it’s net of international ‘friends’ further…
now doesn’t it
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