We'll admit that there was relatively little planning - and therefore next to no expectations - for our five-year anniversary trip to the Dominican Republic. We had just returned from a three-week ...

A rustic hideaway featuring surf instruction and a spacious yoga studio, Surf Break is in the Encuentro Beach area, five miles west of Cabarete. Seventeen units, two pools, health-food restaurant, ...

FROM shore, David flashed a thumbs up: the signal for me to go ahead. I pulled down on the control bar attached to the harness on my waist, and the 20-foot-wide kite emblazoned with a dragon arced ...

On a wet, dreary night in March last year I got a phone call from my parents. They were having dinner on the beach in Cabarete, a small Caribbean beach village on the northern shore of the Dominican ...

CHTA lays out plan to support short-term rentalsThe Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association proposed a framework that offers tools for registration, tax collection and safety... The elusive Skipper: ...

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The Dominican Republic is not just about merengue music and package holidays. It's a big island (more than twice the size of Wales, and second only to Cuba in the Caribbean) so there's plenty of room ...

Cabarete, Puerto Plata.- The Cabarete Butterfly Effect concluded its 18th edition with a record 190 participants from seven ...