Spending your vacation doing nothing—what a novel idea! I always wondered, why with so many people all inclusive resorts of the Caribbean beat adventure travel, eco tourism, and backpacking/hitchhiking trips every time. After all those crazy runs through Rome, Paris, and Madrid; museum crawls in Vienna and Barcelona; palace-hopping in Saint Petersburg, Stockholm and Copenhagen; canal-roaming in Amsterdam and Suzhou, and group stepping in Beijing and the Mexican selva, I was almost ashamed to admit it to fellow travel writers that I allowed myself to be dragged by a small group of friends into this guilty pleasure of a blissful leisure in the DR. Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus is an exceedingly accommodating resort in La Romana, with the most comfortable beach, relaxed atmosphere, and a vaguely irritating feeling of confinement with all those campus-only activities, enclosed swimming area, and irremovable plastic bracelets that signal to the staff that your belonging to the pack of incessant consumers of 24/7 food and drink. Clean rooms, attentive service, and proficient bartenders were only surpassed by the eternal sunshine, all-day warm water, and swaying palm trees under a gentle breeze. Spending hours swimming in calm, bottle-glass colored gentle waves turned out to be exactly what the doctor ordered, supplemented by an occasional glass of limy caipirinha, and every night, right before the sunset, a pink flamingo flew overhead returning from his day job at the neighboring resort where he posed for tourists and ate from their hands. Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus is located at Playa Bayahibe, Higuey, Republica Dominicana. Tel: 1 809-688-3600. www.iberostar.com
Photography by Yuri Krasov, except: Flamingo posing for tourists—by Marina Smolina.
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