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Useful Dominican Republic Travel Information from http://Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com If this eBooklet was helpful please consider making a small donation 1 Useful Dominican Republic Travel Information from http://Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com Dominican Bus and Coach Services - Guide 1. Introduction: Thank you for requesting our Dominican Bus and Coach Services timetables and information guide. If you find it helpful, please consider 'clicking' the little link in the footer of any page (whilst you are connected to the Internet – of course!) to make a small donation, which will assist in the upkeep, maintenance and development of Visiting the Dominican Republican website as a useful resource for future visitors. Thanks so much – if you do choose to so this. We really do appreciate it. Here we have put together some of the resources that you might eventually find if you trail around the Internet for a few hours ;) Hopefully it will save you some time and give you an idea of how frequently public transport runs between major towns via a main bus/coach service provider. In the Dominican Republic – Caribe Tours and Metrobus are probably the largest, and longest established coach service and lease companies. They mainly run services from Santo Domingo to, from and out of the major inland cities and across to and along the popular North coast resorts. TerraBus is also a well known name and is the main service provider to the South-East Dominican resorts of Punta Cana and Bavaro. There are also some smaller companies that run 'proper' bus/coach services using larger, air- conditioned fleets. The DR is also well known for its many minor local services – or guaguas – which tend to be rather less modern and can provide an 'up close and personal' experience with the locals in terms of often being well-filled with passengers. As you will read at Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com website – in the Dominican transport options pages – besides large numbers of official 'beige' taxis, there are numerous unofficial rides (typically aging japanese saloons) known as 'publicos' and – not for the faint hearted – even motoconchos, the notorious moped 'taxi' services! For those who want to travel further than a few block, though, the major Dominican bus and coach services are of a high standard and well worth using as an economical way to get about – where official taxi prices can be punitive for all but the economically blessed. Remember that the buses and coaches are extremely busy at peak work-travel times as many Dominican make the daily commute from inland town top the thriving hubs of Santo Domingo and Santiago, to work. Here are some details about the major companies and timetable information: If this eBooklet was helpful please consider making a small donation 2 Useful Dominican Republic Travel Information from http://Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com 2. Caribe Tours Caribe Tours is one of the largest and longest established coach and bus service operators in the DR serving the towns listed below. Essentially Caribe Tours serves between Santo Domingo (the Capital) and the North Coast as far as Samana peninsula with various key towns in the interior of the Island also either en route or served directly. Of interest to some adventurous travellers is the fact that Caribe Tours provides a daily service to the Haitian capital, Port au Prince. It should be noted that Haiti is not necessarily a simple 'extra' vacation visit that any tourist might wish to make. Sadly, Haiti is marred by regular political an internal unrest. This means that unless vital for a specific reason a visit should always be carefully considered in light of any current international tourism advice as provide by your country of residences authorities. Currently there are also concerns due to the threat of swine flu that have also affected some travel warnings. For example: Travel warnings- official Government websites: US: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_917.html Canada: http://www.voyage.gc.ca/countries_pays/report_rapport-eng.asp?id=117000 UK: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travelling-and-living-overseas/travel-advice-by-country/north-central- america/haiti NOTE: Travel to Haiti – see also section at the end of this booklet Here are the times of departure from Santo Domingo listed by Caribe Tours at the time of publishing this guide (Summer 2009): 2.1 Caribe Tours Timetable 2009 Departure times to various destinations throughout the day: Azua 6:15 6:30 9:45 10:15 13:45 14:00 17:15 17:30 Barahona 6:15 9:45 13:45 17:15 Cabrera 7:30 9:00 13:00 14:00 15:30 Castañuelas 8:30 14:30 If this eBooklet was helpful please consider making a small donation 3 Useful Dominican Republic Travel Information from http://Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com Castillo 7:00 7:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:30 16:00 Copey 6:30 7:15 8:00 8:30 9:30 12:30 13:00 14:00 14:30 15:45 Cruce de Esperanza 6:45 7:45 9:00 13:30 15:00 Cruce de Guayacanes 6:30 7:15 8:00 8:30 9:30 12:30 13:00 14:00 14:30 15:45 Cruce de Imbert 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 Cruce del Abanico 7:00 7:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:30 16:00 Dajabon 6:30 8:00 9:30 13:00 14:00 15:45 Gaspar Hernández 7:30 14:00 Guayubín 7:15 12:30 Jarabacoa 7:00 10:00 13:30 16:30 La Vega 6:00 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:15 7:45 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:45 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:45 1800 19:00 20:00 If this eBooklet was helpful please consider making a small donation 4 Useful Dominican Republic Travel Information from http://Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com Las Matas de Santa Cruz 7:15 8:30 12:30 14:30 Loma de Cabrera 6:45 7:45 13:30 Manzanillo 7:15 8:30 12:30 14:30 Monte Cristi 6:30 8:00 9:30 13:00 14:00 15:45 Nagua 7:00 7:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 Partido 6:45 7:45 13:30 Pimentel 7:00 7:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 Puerto Plata 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 Río San Juan 7:30 9:00 13:00 14:00 15:30 Salcedo 7:00 10:30 14:00 17:45 Samaná 7:00 8:30 10:00 13:30 14:30 16:00 San Fco. De Macorís 7:00 7:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:30 If this eBooklet was helpful please consider making a small donation 5 Useful Dominican Republic Travel Information from http://Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 San Juan de La Maguana 6:30 10:15 14:00 17:30 Sanchez 7:00 8:30 10:00 13:30 14:30 16:00 Santiago 6:00 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:15 7:45 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 11:00 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:45 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 Santiago Rodriguez 6:45 7:45 9:00 13:30 15:00 Sosua 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 Tenares 7:00 10:30 14:00 17:45 Valverde Mao 6:45 7:45 9:00 13:30 15:00 Villa Tapia 7:00 10:30 14:00 17:45 Villa de los Amalcigos 6:45 7:45 13:30 Villa Vasquez 6:30 8:00 8:30 9:30 13:00 14:00 14:30 15:45 and finally... Sto.Dgo / Haiti (Port au Prince) 11:00 (Journey 6 to 8 hours depending on customs and other circumstances) If this eBooklet was helpful please consider making a small donation 6 Useful Dominican Republic Travel Information from http://Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com For the record - Caribe Tours own website is a rather disappointing frames based site that makes it difficult to reference pages here – and it also seem to be periodically unobtainable. However, on a good day, you should be able to get to look at the site here: Caribe Tours Website (Naturally will only work when connected to the internet via the computer you are reading this ebooklet on!) If this eBooklet was helpful please consider making a small donation 7 Useful Dominican Republic Travel Information from http://Visiting-the-Dominican-Republic.com 3. Autobuses Metro – MetroBus Timetable 2009 Metrobus also provides a regular service that covers the North coast towns and the major inland destinations of Santiago de los Caballeros (the DR's second city) and San Francisco de Macoris – a major agricultural town center.