Friday, March 09, 2007
03/2007: The Dominican Republic - booking in February
February is peak season for North Americans visiting the island – particularly around Valentines Day. I’ve just returned from Bavaro and Punta Cana where all of the hotels I visited (which was pretty much all of them) were overbooked. I witnessed a number of disgruntled guests complaining at various receptions that they hadn’t got the room, view or facilities they had paid for. The answer was always the same – we can’t move you as we are overbooked. Several hotels were also offloading guests onto neighbouring properties.
In addition, February can be very wet on the south and east coast – I was just there (in February) and it rained the entire 6 days, with the odd sunny punctuation. And when I lived on the island in Santo Domingo, I remember a couple of carnival processions (held the last weekend in February) that were washed out by torrential rain.
February is peak season for North Americans visiting the island – particularly around Valentines Day. I’ve just returned from Bavaro and Punta Cana where all of the hotels I visited (which was pretty much all of them) were overbooked. I witnessed a number of disgruntled guests complaining at various receptions that they hadn’t got the room, view or facilities they had paid for. The answer was always the same – we can’t move you as we are overbooked. Several hotels were also offloading guests onto neighbouring properties.
In addition, February can be very wet on the south and east coast – I was just there (in February) and it rained the entire 6 days, with the odd sunny punctuation. And when I lived on the island in Santo Domingo, I remember a couple of carnival processions (held the last weekend in February) that were washed out by torrential rain.
# posted by hotelreviewer @ 12:41 pm 
