My girlfriend and I spent 2 weeks at the Casa Marina Beach hotel in July 2006. The hotel is located on the northern part of Dominican Republic in a town called Sosua. This was around about a 20 minute drive from the airport in Puerto Plata.
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Advantages: Great complex, very friendly staff, various activities, private beach Disadvantages: Market stalls 3 evenings a week, lack of drinks menus
...spent 2 weeks at the Casa Marina Beach hotel in July 2006. The hotel is located on the northern part of Dominican Republic in a town called Sosua. This was around about a 20 minute drive from the airport in Puerto Plata.
We arrived after out long, delayed flight arriving at around 8pm, so getting to the hotel in double quick time was a relief. The reception staff (who we got to know very well, explanation later) were very friendly, efficient and ... ...hotel had a sister hotel Casa Marina Reef, which was next door and that we would be able to use all of there facilities. We imagined that it would be a little walk over, but to our surprise it wasn't any distance at all! The whole complex includes both hotels, making it one big hotel really. I have no idea why they still have them seperate? There was probably around about 900 rooms all together, serperated into 3 parts as we started to look at it. ...
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