Very bad experience. In search of natural discovery with a so-called “wild and protected” peninsula, the excursion to Saona Island and the “natural” Saona swimming pool was a masquerade. Leaving at 9.20 am, we had to wait 1.5 hours on a catamaran at the port of Bayahibe for another boat to bring an orde of tourists to the catamaran, which itself was already overcrowded. Once launched, loud music louder than in a nightclub, rum galore in the morning at will. The girls who make the animation insist on coming to dance, sell tourist trinkets insistently on the boat. Beach and swimming pool overcrowded with revelers, nothing natural. In addition, plastic everywhere in its so-called "protected" places. TO FLEE

Hire Nestor as a photographer because the one w this tour (girl) didn’t even tell ppl about pictures. I did mine w him

Both the piscina natural and the beach of Saona are completely overcrowded. In itself, the beach and the water are beautiful, if there weren't 3,000 tourists. Pure mass processing. Lunch was bad, had diarrhea for days. The party on the catamaran takes some getting used to. The animation team dances insistently, forces you to dance, takes photo shoots and puts a hat on you. For the animation you have to pay 10USD per person additionally, whether you like it or not. The photos cost 10USD each. Pure rip off. The Dominicans did not have to pay the 10USD. But what else can you expect as a tourist in the Dominican Republic.