Today is Tuesday, February 09th, 2010

Intro

Plan self-guided trips around the Dominican Republic for $75 per person per day or less for lodging, meals and 24/7 cell phone support

The Dominican Republic is opening up for adventure travel and ecotourism. Explore this amazing Caribbean island on your own terms in 4, 7 or 14 days (or more)
Small hotel and lodge operators have formed a network of comfortable “base camps” providing lodging, trip planning assistance and cell phone communication while you are on the road
Plan an “unpackaged” vacation in the Dominican Republic - move from region to region with complete freedom and with just enough help to avoid the hassles
On-site service eliminates the need to plan every detail of your trip from home

Don’t try to plan too much from home, we’ll help you plan when you get here. Just organize your flight, get a few ideas of things you want to do, and come….
Enter Dominican Republic via Puerto Plata International Airport (POP)
Check in at Tubagua Plantation Village (Base Camp One) 20 mins from airport
After getting familiarized, fine-tune your trip plans with the invaluable input we can provide during the first one or two days staying at Base Camp One
Take off and travel the country by bus or car—or not—you might just decide to take it easy and stay at Base Camp One.
Spend your last night back at Base Camp One, just 20 minutes or less from the airport
Equipped with a cell phone that we provide you, you are always connected as you travel around
No mark-ups or hidden costs: you pay only for what you use. If you decide to travel outside our network, we simply give you back the corresponding funds, in cash

How the hell can anyone expect to micro-plan all the details of a trip while sitting in front of their computer thousands of miles away from destination—and hope to get it right?
Why are the best-sounding bars in the travel-guide always closed or ancient history by the time you get there? You are likely working with outdated information, at least some of it anyway— and you’re definitely missing out on the up-to-the-minute stuff such as carnivals, festivals, new attractions… the latest bars… hey, it’s the Caribbean—who gets their it together in time for the travel-guide publisher’s deadline?
You’re the kind of person who wants to travel on your own terms, but you don’t mind having back-up when you need it, which is why we provide 24/7 cell phone contact
There’s not a lot of really good road signs in the Dominican Republic and this makes even the best maps pretty useless… unless it says things like “turn right at the blue building” - but then by the time you get there the blue building has been painted green… which is why we give you a cell phone, so you can call in and stay connected, in English, all the time.