Bus to town from La Romana?

Well, we sail in two days and just got an email from Seavis that the a Wonders of Nature tour we wanted was cancelled due to not enough people signing up. :eek: I read on this board about the bus that goes in to town. With the baseball statues, I think this would be something my husband would like.

Does anyone have details as to where to catch this bus, etc. in relation to the port? Since we sail on Saturday, prompt replies would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Sorry may be too late for you to read this before your cruise but thought I'd still post for future cruisers. We were in DR 08/20/14. I had researched but as others mentioned very limited info for this port. Majority go to Saona Island or Bayahibe beach but we wanted to do something different since our other stops were at the beach and the Dune buddy tour had sold out.

When you get off the ship you walk up and there's a representative explaining the bus to downtown marketplace and Alto de Chavon or directing you where to walk to take taxi or ship tour bus. There's a stand where you can purchase your tickets in the building where there's also a duty free shop, bathrooms and some chairs to rest. Cost to take bus to Alta de Chavon $7.00/person and $5.00/person to downtown marketplace (prices are roundtrip). The buses are designated to each route. We went to Downtown first, so once we were done we had to take the bus back to port and then hop on the bus that would take us to Alto de Chavon. The price covers one roundtrip to the place. You can stay as long as you want the buses come every 30min & 1hour. You will be given two different colored tickets (one for downtown and other to Alto de Chavon) and you will hand the ticket when you hop on the bus back to the port.

At the marketplace(downtown) it's basically a plaza where there are tons of vendors selling their local items from jewelery, paintings, wooden sculptures, t-shirts, souvenir items. There are so many of them the baseball statues were somewhat hidden between them however we did find them and walked around the plaza seeing various players/managers in baseball. All the statues are a mix of players/managers and they are not all Dominican. One of the vendors explained the reasoning is to give tribute to those that had an influence in Latin baseball community. Some of the statues you will see: Tommy Lasorda, Edgar Martinez, Dennis Martinez and Roberto Clemente. For us going to downtown was a quick stop we mainly went to look at the baseball statues. You will find taxi there offering their tour services. We then took the bus back to port and hoped on a different bus to Alto de Chavon.

Sorry may be too late for you to read this before your cruise but thought I'd still post for future cruisers. We were in DR 08/20/14. I had researched but as others mentioned very limited info for this port. Majority go to Saona Island or Bayahibe beach but we wanted to do something different since our other stops were at the beach and the Dune buddy tour had sold out.

 

When you get off the ship you walk up and there's a representative explaining the bus to downtown marketplace and Alto de Chavon or directing you where to walk to take taxi or ship tour bus. There's a stand where you can purchase your tickets in the building where there's also a duty free shop, bathrooms and some chairs to rest. Cost to take bus to Alta de Chavon $7.00/person and $5.00/person to downtown marketplace (prices are roundtrip). The buses are designated to each route. We went to Downtown first, so once we were done we had to take the bus back to port and then hop on the bus that would take us to Alto de Chavon. The price covers one roundtrip to the place. You can stay as long as you want the buses come every 30min & 1hour. You will be given two different colored tickets (one for downtown and other to Alto de Chavon) and you will hand the ticket when you hop on the bus back to the port.

 

At the marketplace(downtown) it's basically a plaza where there are tons of vendors selling their local items from jewelery, paintings, wooden sculptures, t-shirts, souvenir items. There are so many of them the baseball statues were somewhat hidden between them however we did find them and walked around the plaza seeing various players/managers in baseball. All the statues are a mix of players/managers and they are not all Dominican. One of the vendors explained the reasoning is to give tribute to those that had an influence in Latin baseball community. Some of the statues you will see: Tommy Lasorda, Edgar Martinez, Dennis Martinez and Roberto Clemente. For us going to downtown was a quick stop we mainly went to look at the baseball statues. You will find taxi there offering their tour services. We then took the bus back to port and hoped on a different bus to Alto de Chavon.

Great information - :) How was Alto de Chavon? What was there to see? Did they have tours you could take as soon as you get off the ship? We will be going there in a couple of weeks and this will be our first time. Thanks

Great information - :) How was Alto de Chavon? What was there to see? Did they have tours you could take as soon as you get off the ship? We will be going there in a couple of weeks and this will be our first time. Thanks

We walked around you have views of the Chavon River, small Church you can't go in but you are able to see through the entrance, some small stores from jewelery to cacao items. We walked into a restaurant wasn't serving yet but they let us walk around which had nice views. On TA you can see various pictures that people have posted of what you see there. When you get off the shuttle that takes you to Altos de Chavon there are taxis there offering their service to take you to the beach or on a tour.

This port seems to be more of a port you either have a tour set up with the ship or one already with outside vendor. There is taxi stand as well as a stand to purchase a ticket for shuttle to downtown or Altos de Chavon but where the ship docks its like on private property. There's a duty free shop and inside that building you will find someone providing information in regards to direction on where you are interested to go. You won't find various vendors walking around offering tours. Right outside this gated area there are about 3-4 baseball fields that kids are practicing in and a single road to drive out to the main street.