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Highlights
- The limestone hummocks and mangrove channels of Los Haitises
- Caves at the waterline with Taino rock art
- Beach time on Cayo Levantado
- The lowest per-person price of all the trips
- Takes large groups, with an associated fleet
Google reviews of Alex's Boat Tours
Reviews from Google
Feliks3 months agoGreat tour of three beaches. 10 minute boat ride to the first beach. They have drinks, bring cash. You can also bring a cooler with drinks and snacks. 5 minute boat ride to the next beach, and a 5 minute walk through the jungle to the third. Food back on El Valle beach. Started at 10, got back about 2:30. Awesome beaches!See this review on Google
Melissa Nowell7 months agoAlex’s tours are SO personal and enjoyable. He took the two of is us on a full day to Ermitano where he showed us hiking trails and alternate beaches that were very quiet. He took us to El Limon waterfalls as well and showed us around small farms and sights in the El Valle area. It was such a pleasant and thorough tour of everything this small village has to offer. He arranged for a private tour to Rincon as well. His English is excellent in a small town where most locals and other tour guides speak only Spanish. He took our preferences (dietary and activity preferences) in mind and customized his days with us as best as he could. He worked with our budget and quoted very reasonable prices for tours that were either private or very small group. I hope that every place we travel to we can find someone like Alex to show us what life is really like. For now at least we know if we are going back to Samana, we’ve got our guy.See this review on Google
anna rodgers8 months agoAlex is a phenomenal tour guide!!! We highly recommend him! He is a reliable, trustworthy, respectful, and a highly professional person that my family and I can rely every time we visit the Dominican Republic. We have gone for the past 4 years and being that my husband and I have 3 children, obviously safety is our top concern. Every year we’ve gone, we feel extremely safe with Alex. He’s soft-spoken, patient, knowledgeable about the area (where to visit and where to steer clear; his top priority is his customer’s safety, not money) and an all-around amazing person. Every time we return, we make sure to use Alex for all of our endeavors.See this review on Google
Description
Los Haitises is the national park at the back of the Bay of Samaná — a field of limestone hummocks rising straight out of the water, with mangrove channels running between them and caves at the waterline holding Taíno rock art. It is the most distinctive landscape on this coast and it can only be seen from a boat. Cayo Levantado is the island in the bay, and the beach there is the stop of the day: time to swim and to eat before the return. Between the two, most of the trip is spent on the water, which is where the park is actually seen from. Food and non-alcoholic drinks are included and a verified guide goes with the group. This is the trip that takes the largest numbers — for big groups the boats are run together with associated local operators, so a large party travels on the same day rather than being split across dates. Pickup from your accommodation is included.
What's Included
What to Bring
Meeting Point
We pick you up where you are staying
Pickup from your hotel or accommodation is included. Confirm your pickup time, pickup point and the port the boat leaves from with the host by WhatsApp when you book.
Accessibility & Requirements
- From 2 to 74 years old
- Suitable for children
Open to children from 2 years old and to travellers under 75. Not suitable for anyone with a recent fracture.
Boat excursions from El Valle, the quiet bay on the north side of the peninsula — coastal trips, hidden beaches and fishing, run by a local skipper who knows the water.
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