Each hotel also has its own private beach area with a bar and restaurant to relax by during the day  offering sunbeds and shade too.

Playa Dorada Beach

In the middle of the Playa Dorada complex you will find a shopping plaza full to bursting with gift and souvenir, cigar and clothes shops.  There is also a cinema, children’s play area, banks and money exchange bureaus and a medical centre with 24 hour English speaking doctors on call. If you are fed up with the hotel food or are feeling a little homesick then Pizza Hut always comes in handy with a deep pan or thin crust to the rescue!  Other restaurants and bars in Playa Dorado Plaza are Hemingway Bar and Grill (usually very busy at the weekends with live music) and karioke twice weekly. They offer a large selection of imported wine and beers and an extensive food menu.  Alfresco is a seafood and sushi restaurant and also Annie’s bar tucked away in the corner of the Plaza offering a friendly service and always showing the latest football matches. Roadway is a western style grill and bar offering a full menu and cold beers.  The shopping plaza has a multitude of jewellery stores the most famous being Harrison who have designed jewellery for Madonna and Michael Jackson. Harrison have a chain of stores through out the Dominican Republic.

There is also a Western Union Money Service in the Plaza and you may also make international phone calls from there too. A small and massively expensive supermarket (so make sure you don’t forget your mosquito repellent or sun cream and have to buy it there!).

If you are looking for some night life and want to dance a little meringue or salsa then shimmy on down to Mange Disco located at the Jack Tar Hotel or Crazy Moon located  at Paradise Hotel.  These two disco’s are open to the public so remember to take some money for your drinks as they are not part of the “all inclusive” packages!