City Guides
No stock listicles. These guides come from our own team and local partners on the ground in each city, and we update them as things change — not once a year.
Four cities, one standard
Every guide covers where to stay, where to eat and drink, the beaches worth the drive, nightlife, and how to get around safely after dark.
Santo Domingo
The first European-built city in the Americas, and still the loudest, best-fed, most interesting place in the country. Come for the Zona Colonial, stay for the neighborhoods nobody puts on a postcard.
Punta Cana
Forty kilometers of east-coast beach and the country's busiest airport. Most people never leave the resort — the ones who do have a far better story.
Samaná
A green peninsula where humpback whales breed between January and March, waterfalls run out of the hills, and the beaches still feel found rather than developed.
Cabarete
The wind capital of the Caribbean. A one-street town on the north coast where the trade wind arrives every afternoon and the whole economy is built around it.