Guides
Beaches and day trips from the Colonial Zone
The closest blue water, the cave lakes twenty minutes away, and how to do each trip without renting a car.
Eating and drinking within 500 meters
More than 60 restaurants sit within a short walk of the house. How to eat like the neighborhood does — from la bandera at noon to plaza tables at night.
Getting to Santo Domingo and getting around
From SDQ airport to the Colonial Zone door, and how to move around the city — on foot, by app, and the one thing the house advises against.
The Zona Colonial, block by block
A resident's-eye guide to the oldest European district in the Americas — the landmarks worth your time, the streets worth getting lost in, and how the neighborhood actually feels.