PUNTA CANA · DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The water really is that colour.
Saona Island catamarans, dune buggies through the sugarcane, snorkel reefs and the day trips most resort guests never make. Every excursion, read before you book.
If you only book one
Start with the day everyone flies in for.
Punta Cana runs on one big excursion day. This is the one most travellers come back raving about.
The classics
Punta Cana's Most Popular Tours
Saona Island, catamaran cruises, dune buggies and the snorkel reefs. The trips the east coast is built around.
By place
Pick a stretch of coast.
Saona for the postcard sand. Bayahibe for the reefs. Santo Domingo for the history. Samaná for the whales. Macao for the surf and the buggies.
By experience
Or pick how you want the day to feel.
Catamaran if you want the open bar and the colour. Buggy if you want the dust and the cenote. Snorkelling, sailing, horseback and ziplines for everything in between.
The signature day
If you came for Saona.
The natural pool with the starfish, the long sandbar, the palm-backed beach. If we had to pick three boats out to Saona, these are the ones we'd book.
On the water
The catamaran days.
Sails up, music on, a snorkel stop and an open bar on the way back. Our three favourites for a day spent mostly in the water.
Dust and adrenaline
The buggy run inland.
Mud, sugarcane back-roads, a cave swim and a Dominican coffee stop. Three buggy and ATV runs we'd send a first-timer on.
Before the holiday starts
Land at PUJ, sorted in minutes.
Almost everyone flies into Punta Cana International. The transfer to your resort is the first thing to book and the easiest to get wrong — here are the ones travellers rate.
Beyond the all-inclusive
Worth leaving the resort for.
The buffet will still be there tonight. These are the day trips that show you the country you actually flew to.
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