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Advantages: Beautiful scenery, very friendly people and whales Disadvantages: Not really a beach island.
We've been twice, both times were via Cruise Ships, and late in the year. These were not big, fancy ships, just average Joe UK ones.
Dominica is a beautiful, lush, green, uncommercialised island that the locals should be very proud of. The locals themselves are very friendly and polite.
On our first visit we braved the enslaught of taxi drivers that rush to greet Cruise passengers. You just say where you want to visit and they tell you their price. We got together a small minivan (approx 10 passengers) to go to the Falls.
Our taxi driver was a young man who rented the vehicle. He took us up the very windy roads, stopping frequently to either point out things like pineapples growing by the roadside or local houses to explain their way of life or at a roadside shack so we could buy a cool drink. He spoke to us all the time ...
Advantages: sunny, near the beach, friendly, lots to do, good service everywhere Disadvantages: outside of resorts is often classed as unsafe
Me and my family had an amzing time in the Dominican Republic, the weather was outsyanding everyday and we had a fantastic villa apartment for the two weeks we were there which had its own pool and a maid that came and served us breakfast everyday, it was fantastic, made us feel like royalty! Our resort had several lovely public pools and was right along the beach meaning that we could walk there whenever we liked in only a couple of minutes. The people were all really friendly and service was excellent. We used our timeshare with RCI to swap weeks that we usually have in Tenerife for this holiday. We got a villa for 8 and since there was only 4 of us we could take our friends which just made the holiday even more fantastic, I would definitely reccoment Dominica for sun, sea and suntans! ...
So not to confuse you, this isn't the Dominican Republic.
It is located between the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Eastern Caribbean. It's a volcanic island. It's 26 million years old.
The carribbean name for Dominica is Waitikubuli.
The most visited attraction in Dominica is it's waterfalls, and the most popular is the twin waterfalls at Trafalgur. It's very beautiful. You can go into the lake that it falls into and stand under the waterfall. Because of the tropical weather, the water isn't that cold.
Also, the world's famous lake, The Boiling Lake can be found in Dominica. To get to the lake, you have to walk a 7 mile trail. It takes roughly 3 hours to walk each way, but it's well worth it. A word of warning, be prepared to get very dirty and wet, as it's very muddy. You of course can't go into the lake ...
