Welcome to Puntacana Village! Located on the grounds of the Puntacana Resort & Club, the marketplace includes restaurants and shops in an open-air environment shady by a canopy of beautiful trees. The distance to the Village from Tortuga Bay is too great for our golf cart battery, so we arranged for a lift. There are a variety of restaurants in the Village from which to choose. I loved these pizza delivery vehicles! In addition to a number of small galleries and shops, there is a pharmacy and a very well-stocked grocery store with everything you need. Every other Saturday, beginning at 10:00 a.m., the Village hosts the Puntacana Village Farmers…
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We’ve checked out the suite and the beach, and now that we’ve rested up, let’s take a tour of Tortuga Bay. At this point, we’ll concentrate on the hotel and golf course grounds. We’ll leave our trip to the Indigenous Eyes Ecological Park for a later post. We’re here to relax, so there’s no reason to tax ourselves. Let’s hop in the golf cart that is included with our suite. Our first stop is the front office, all decked out for the holiday season. As we drive along, there were loads of beautiful flowers and plants along the way. Let’s take a drive down to the golf course. It looks…
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It’s time to hit the beach! When staying in an oceanfront suite at Tortuga Bay, the beach just across the lawn. Pick a lounger, and they’ll pop open the umbrella and set you up with towels and an ice bucket of bottled water. The water is refreshing, but it’s not long before our beach attendant chopped open some coconuts to offer us a little something different! Here’s a tip for drinking from a coconut – pull out your straw and pop a second hole in the coconut. The second hole relieves the pressure, making it easier to drink! Time for a walk. You can walk to the south, but you’ll…
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When our kids were young, we had no problem taking them out of school for a week or more to take a trip to the Caribbean. That changed when our oldest went off to college, and our traditional Thanksgiving vacation was not possible. Our daughter had only a few days off from classes for the Thanksgiving holiday, so we skipped our trip in 2015. It was harder than I thought to stay home after ten years of Thanksgiving trips. So we decided to look for a shorter trip, some place we could get to and from with the shortest number of connections, and a short travel time. Traveling out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin…
