Shore Excursion: Explore Waterfalls and Buggys on Dominican Republic Cruise Ship

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Puerto Plata

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Embark on an unforgettable shore excursion in the Dominican Republic, exploring breathtaking waterfalls and riding buggies. Book now for a unique and personalized tour experience!

Duration: 5 hours, 30 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Puerto Plata - Once we have picked you up at either Taino bay or Amber cove, we will head directly to damajua park::
IMPORTANT: PLEASE GO TO THE MEETING POINT ONCE YOUR CRUISE HAS DOCKED, WE WILL ONLY WAIT 40 MINUTES AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF THE CRUISE, PLEASE TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT. THANK YOU!
Damajagua Waterfalls - Activity 1: Damajagua…

What's Included

Private transportation
Bottled water
On-board WiFi
Lunch
Alcoholic Beverages after doing the Buggies activity

What's Not Included

Water shoes
Face Mouth Bandana

Additional Information

PLEASE FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH ALL THE DETAILS BEFORE RESERVING, AS IT CONTAINS ESSENTIAL INFORMATION REQUIRED PRIOR TO FINALIZING YOUR BOOKING.
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Location

Puerto Plata

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Shari_b

Aug 5, 2024

Best tour ever! - This was the best excursion I’ve ever been on. Easy to locate tour guide, great directions and communication, clean, AC shuttle van; fun and informative operator. The waterfall Jim and slide was incredible, but the buggy ride was the best. So fun. Mackenzie the photographer was so fun, helpful and kind.

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Keisha_p

Jul 19, 2024

Adventurous Thrilling Fun & Beautiful - We had a great time with this adventure. The hike takes a while but it was still beautiful nevertheless. Our tour guides and photographer were awesome as well. Our lunch was also delicious. They kept us safe and entertained the whole trip. 😀

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John_e

Jun 10, 2024

Perfect for Cruisers, never needed to worry about time. - Tour guides gave detailed instructions on how reach them as soon as you disembark. The van was new & A/C cooled Everyone on your tour is typically from your cruise so there's no concern about not making it back in time, or being left due to disembark delays. 15min Drive to buggys for 1.5hrs then 20 min drive to an intense 30 min Waterfall hike to the 7 waterfalls, which take 1.5hrs to jump/slide (REALLY FUN!). Then homemade authentic Dominican buffet made by locally owned restaurant just outside Damagugua park entrance. Then back to Taino Bay for the ship. It took about 6.5-7hrs, was well organized & operated!! Highly Recommend!!!

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Lisa_b

May 28, 2024

Don’t miss this excursion - My husband had a hard time climbing the falls. And we fell a bit behind however, two of the guides stayed with us and took us all the way up to the waterfalls. Richard and Sammy, we cannot thank you enough for everything that you did getting us up there. Jumping and sliding down the different waterfalls was amazing. It is a blast to do the waterfalls and the dune buggy in the mud was so much fun.. Hint.. wear dark t-shirt or dark bathing suit, you will be covered head to toe in mud. one of the best excursions we’ve done in a long time.

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Marcia_k

Jun 6, 2024

Wonderful experience! - The waterfalls were beautiful but we only got to see 3. The walk to get to them was a little tough in parts but the guides were very helpful. We really enjoyed the experience and we are glad we went! The buggies were a lot of fun but very messy!!!! Our clothes may never recover 😀

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Andreaharris

Apr 26, 2024

Great experience and guides. - What a day!! Our tour was myself, my husband and another couple we are close friends with. We were met outside the Amber Cove cruise port by our driver, guide and paparazzi at 8am. We learned some history of the are while we drove to the 7 Waterfalls part of excursion. I was excited but also super nervous about jumping off the first part to get into the river for waterfalls. I’m not gonna lie, I was shaking for awhile after. 😂 And each waterfall slide to come was also a bit scary, but I lived. And am glad I did it. We were done with the waterfalls by 10:30am and lunch wasn’t being served until 11:30am. We didn’t have time to wait around for the included lunch as we still had to drive to the dune buggy portion and be back to the port by 2pm. It was hot the fault of the men who were doing the tour. Viator should have known all the details of the places they were taking us to. At the least they should give us some money back for that. We didn’t eat until 3:30pm. After the waterfalls we drove to a small coffee making and hand carved items market. From there we went to Dune Buggies. We were given helmets and goggles (honestly they don’t provide much protection, muddy water was able to seep in from above) and then a brief instructions. Then off we went. It was bumpy and muddy. It had rained that morning so lots of muddy puddles. It was fun, but I wish they would have warned us to plug our nose when going through the big ones. I literally got a muddy sinus flush. It was painful. And the goggles lack of suction allowed the muddy gritty water to seep in your eyes. The experience would be soooo much better with good goggles and warnings about water up the nose. After the buggies, we washed off as best we could, looked through our pictures, negotiated a price and were served either a beer or a small rum and coke and then hit the road to the port. We were back with about 45min to spare. Our photographer was the star of our tour. Raul went with us for everything and captured the day quite well. We chatted a lot and found out we have the same birthday.

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Pam_k

Apr 26, 2024

Making Memories - Enjoyed the scenery and waterfalls. Our tour guide Alejandro was excellent. He took great photos that captured the experience. Glad a friend had told us to wear tennis shoes to the waterfalls since we had to hike up hills. Buggy ride was not worth it. We basically rode through mud puddles in worn out buggies. The beach area we drove to was very dirty. Also, there were to many people to tip throughtout the excursion. Overall waterfalls were beautiful, but would not recommend buggy ride.

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Kris_h

Sep 22, 2024

You need to tell people you pick them up outside the terminal! - We had to walk 2 miles to get to our tour guide! It was stressful we didn't know who he was and where he was at!

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Catherine_m

Jul 24, 2024

Not what we expected - This was not what we expected at all. We thought we would be riding dune, buggies and looking at waterfalls and maybe swimming in the pool below the waterfall. Never dreamed that we’d be hiking up a mountain and then becoming the waterfall ourselves! You rated this is moderate activity level and I am in good shape and it was very strenuous for me and extremely difficult for my partner. We were so exhausted we had our guide take us back to the ship and not even do the buggy excursion. You might want to put a better description of what actually is included in this excursion so people reading it are aware of the intensity of it.

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Betsy_m

Jun 18, 2024

Disappointed with the Buggies - This experience consists of two parts, one is a view of the waterfalls and the other is a buggy ride. The first part is a very nice place, but poorly planned, as the experience could be much better and I explain, They make large groups and the walk is long so instead of being able to do the walk in 20 min you end up doing it in an hour in the heat, humidity and with mosquitoes (which no one tells you to bring repellent). Also no one explains that you have to wear watershoes until you get there, to get another couple of dollars to rent shoes in bad conditions, wearing proper and comfortable shoes greatly enhances the experience. The second part is terrible and I would not recommend it to anyone, it turns out that it is a 60 min boogie rally, or at least that is the description, however when you get there, they just make you go through a pool of smelly mud, about 300 mts several times, then you go to the beach to remove the stinky mud and your experience is over. There is no dune trip along the beach or anything similar as description said.

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up to 15 guests

2 Adult