Historical Tour of Santo Domingo and 3 eyes Caves with Lunch

Colonial Tour

Tour was fantastic. Very informative and was a pleasure to be around. Francisco also had a great sense of humor during the tour that made us feel very welcome.

3 eye cave tour

He treated us with kindness because we were late to the meeting place and he never even mentioned it . Made he called us “family”and he treated us as family. He was so informative about all the history and culture. A++++

Tour

3 eyes caves was lovely!! But the guide wanted to do everyting so fast so that could have been better.

Depressing.... So depressing !!!

We visited a nice Punta Canta resort and decided to take the day trip to Santo Domingo for the day. My goodness, it was SO depressing. The ride from Punta Cana to Santo Domingo we took the back highway which we got to see a lot of the natives and the extreme poor living conditions, lots of small run down shacks where people have to live and then we saw many groups of men standing on the side of the roads waiting for trucks to arrive to choose them for work/labor. Then on the highway poor people have to drive these very small scouters for transportation, with usually 2 people on a small scouter on the dangerous highway, no helmets and a run down scouter. Also when driving we saw piles and piles of garbage/trash just sitting on the side of the road, I found out from the travel guide that it is just what they do with their garbage.??? Once we arrived in Santo Domingo... oh my god!!! The stray dogs, everywhere!!! It was SO sad, unhealthy, dirtly groups of dogs just running the streets. And there was a "river' as we can into Santo Domingo and the smell is awful! Absolutely disgusting - but people were sighing in this river! We could not believe it. The smell of the river was so bad that we had to hold our breathe when we crossed over the bridge. And the city was so dusty and directly. This was not a good trip, I felt so bad for the people living here . Not all parts of Santo Domingo was like this, there was 'some' nice areas, but overall it seems as though the poverty there is overwhelming.

We only had one full day...

We only had one full day in town. It was a great way to see the city. Francisco was a great guide. Very knowledgeable. My advice, bring a small towel for after the caves as it’s hot and sweaty and a bottle of water. The Amber stores were typical gift shop. Had we known we were going to two we would have waited. But overall very happy.

Great Morning in Santo Domingo

The Tres Ojos Cave is hard to beat. The staff were polite and punctual. For the half day tour, the museum portion is very rushed, and they will take you to a specific but not unique gift shop to buy souvenirs if you want. The included lunch was a delicious buffet. Overall a very good experience.

First timers in the DR

It was a fantastic tour! Our family enjoyed all the stops and the lunch! Our guide, Daniel, was so knowledgeable and he made it extremely entertaining. He took so many photos of us and we so appreciated them all. Our driver, Willie, was also very nice! We accidentally saw our family friends and he did a brief stop for us to say hello and take a group photo. That was an unexpected treat! Overall, we highly recommend this tour!!

Victor was an excellent...

Victor was an excellent guide who spoke beautiful English bit also gave us an opportunity to practice our (rather poor) Spanish. Loved the walking tour of Zona Colonial.

Worth your time

The history you learned is pretty neat, and our guide was amazing. and the local shops are not very pushy.

Fun morning with lots of photos. Mixed historical accuracy.

The tour was okay... Our tour guide was bubbling with friendly excitement and was very keen to take amazing pictures of us in lots of different places. He was a fun person and became our personal paparazzi for the morning. The tour also started with a private car driving us between the different locations which was incredibly helpful as they clearly had a well rehearsed and efficient route of places to drop off and pick up so we didn't have to stand around. However... It felt like the guide had tried to memorise a script for the different places, but didn't have a great understanding of the historical facts around the script. He also had fairly mixed English. That combination meant that he either didn't understand our questions (despite several attempts to re-word them) or he answered with information which we fact-checked later and discovered was not true. We also found it funny that he admitted the souvenir shop he took us to was owned by his wife. The buffet lunch at the end of the tour was tasty and the restaurant staff friendly. If you want a fun morning with a private driver and a photographer for your Instagram, then this is probably a good fit. If you want a well-informed historical tour so you can learn a bit more deeply about the country, maybe not (or at least fact check what you're told later on).

Average experience

The tour was ok. A little scary at first to be honest because it was just me and my friend in the tour and the driver picked us up without the tour guide. The tour guide met us in the 3 eyed cave and the driver didn't speak any English and his driving wasn't good. We had lunch at a local restaurant and the lunch wasn't that great either.

A tour that everyone should take

Great tour and got more than expected. Learned about the culture and had so much fun with the group we had. Our tour guide Leon is awesome; great personality and fun!!

A really nice tour

The tour guide was very informative and the tour had many historical destinations included. Be prepared to walk quite a bit of stairs at the caves wear sensible shoes. The day we went it ended up being a private tour so there was no rush.

Pésima experiencia

Pésima experiencia. En primer lugar, se atrasaron con la hora de recogida. El bus tenía los vidrios sucios (malo para las fotos) y el chofer iba quedándose dormido (peligrosísimo). El tour era básicamente ir de shopping de souvenirs. Más de la mitad del tiempo lo gastamos en eso. No cumplían con los horarios en cada lugar que visitábamos, atrasando todo. A la vuelta, demoraron más de una hora extra en irnos a dejar, por mala organización. No recomiendo para nada esta agencia ni tour.

Hmouais…

Les bons points : la caverne des trois yeux était superbe, et le repas correct. Là où je suis moins convaincu, c’est l’organisation : on nous annonce une prise en charge à 9h, et une heure avant on nous demande d’être prêt plus tôt, ce qui n’était pas possible du coup, d’autant plus que le chauffeur est arrivé en retard -.- En plus, il était convenu que le tour était en langue allemande, et on nous a servi un guide pas exceptionnel qui ne parlait qu’anglais, et encore, pas tellement bien… -.-

Excelente

Caminando por la zona colonial y visitando la cueva de Los tres ojos..excelente... Muy Buena experiences y El guia excelente..

Mala experiencia

El transporte que utilizaron para transportarnos fue terrible, no una camioneta como hubiéramos esperado. El auto que paso por nosotros al Hotel llegó 15 minutos tardes, fue aun mini auto, sucio y con un fuerte golpe en el costado del lado izquierdo que no permitía abrir la puerta trasera de ese lado. El guía con muy buena actitud y conocimientos, como se podrán imaginar durante todo el trayecto caluroso, el auto no tenia aire acondicionado. El tour ofrece varios lugares para visitar incluyendo entrada al Faro de Colon, lo cual no sucedió, solo lo pudimos ver por fuera. Durante el tour no nos llevaron al Museo del Ámbar. El restaurante donde nos llevaron a comer, aunque es bonito, los alimentos que nos ofrecieron fueron muy decepcionantes.

Muy educativo y recomendable

Hice un paseo un paseo local de Instituto donde estudio y nos dieron una percepcion de su tour muy educativo y entere de historia que nunca en la escuela dominicana informa

El guia miguel hizo un excelente tour

Estuve en enero por santo domingo, contrate el servicio con ellos fueron muy amable y atento en todo el recorrido. Lo que más me gustó que se tomaron su tiempo para darnos el tour y no fue todo muy rápido y nos respondió todas nuestras inquietudes acerca de la historia dominicana en cada museo visitado