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Las Terrenas
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Samaná Peninsula
Dominican Republic
Tel: 809 307 1827
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Dominican Republic
Tel: 809 307 1827
From the readers of Condé Nast Traveler:
The family-owned, top property in the Americas re-creates an eighteenth-century plantation house, earning it a perfect design score. The estate's "very scenic location" is 15 hillside acres looking onto the Atlantic. Done in earth tones, the perfect-scoring "delectable rooms are beautifully appointed" with four-poster beds, antiques, private terraces, and mahogany soaking tubs. The seafood menu at the Beach Restaurant changes weekly, showcasing dishes like shrimp with passion fruit reduction. Since "service is wondrous all the time," it also scores perfectly.
(6 rooms)
—2011 Gold List
(6 rooms)
—2011 Gold List
Overall Score: 98.6
- Design: 100.0
- Food: 96.6
- Location: 96.6
- Rooms: 100.0
- Service: 100.0
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Also appeared in the Gold List in 2010
Amenities: Pool
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This secluded plantation-style guesthouse with gingerbread trim is set 1,000 feet above sea level—and above the sprawling resorts that line the beaches below—on the Samaná Peninsula, with acres of terraced lawns that unfurl to Atlantic views. The property's centerpiece is an open-air brick patio encircled by a simple kitchen, a compact dining room, a formal library, and a British-colonial billiard room. Upstairs, six airy suites are outfitted with Frette linens and French doors with louvered shutters that open onto a wraparound veranda (three also have four-poster beds). Diverse artworks and furnishings fill the property—Congolese masks, Mogul paintings, Louis XV chairs—and breakfasts and dinners make the most of produce from the on-site organic garden (lunch is served at the hotel's beach restaurant). All is not perfect (showers can be lukewarm, and the rates are dizzying considering the limited facilities), but the Peninsula House has a familial yet mature ambience that is uncommon in hotels these days. The relaxed staff mingle with guests, and the place abounds with places to read a book or just listen to the rustling palm fronds.—2009 Hot ListView the entire Hot List of the travel world's most noteworthy debuts in 2009 ›
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write a review › | see all user reviews ›The Peninsula house over-delivered on every aspect of our stay. The accomodations were spectacular and the hospitality even better. This is a place not to be... more
by jmksbk | Posted on: June 14, 2010 at 9:46PM
Es un lugar maravilloso, con una vista espectacular, cada rincón tiene un aroma especial, el servicio es excelente, al igual que la cocina, la cena a la luz de las... more
by rosarioherrero | Posted on: June 14, 2010 at 4:27PM
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