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TAINO BAY 2023
We have been to DR a few times: Since this was a new port for us, we did have an excursion planned, but also wanted to spend some time at the port afterwards as well. So I'll show you around the port.
We headed down the dock and it really wasn't "that" bad of a walk...unlike some of the other ports that it seems like they never end.
The sun continued to rise and I was very hopeful we would have a great day.
This port was absolutely gorgeous!
This port is HUGE! There's a lot of walking involved in just the port itself. I was questioning why I had decided not to take the 3 wheeled motorcycle to the port. Whew!
We made it to the pool area. It was so nice! This is definitely a port you don't even need to leave outside of the gates to enjoy. You could just come here and enjoy a free day (unless you eat and drink there).
We found the lazy river. It's located toward the back/end of the port area, so walking the furthest away from the entrance of this port will get you there.
Here's where you will grab your tubes for the lazy river. They had plenty of them stacked and waiting on the cruisers.
The ship off in the distance. There are some great opportunities to get pictures of her sitting out there in all her beauty while you are at this port.
The lazy river also had tunnels.
A few pictures I managed to get of the Encore while there:
To head out of port, here's the way to go:
They have a surf thing-a-ma-jig here and it was $40 to use it all day.
Our moving hotel sitting out there all pretty and waiting for us.
We walked around for a bit and decided we would head to a pool first.
Along the way...
We found a place to put our things down and headed over to the pool. It was very pretty with a large ledge that had plenty of hammocks to lay in and of course that's what I did AFTER feeling how cold the water was. LOL
Then we decided we would head over to the lazy river to check it out and have some fun. We didn't care how cold the water was at this point. This lazy river looked amazing.
We grabbed our tubes and headed in.
There were different things with each and every turn.
Watch out for the spiders!!!! And all the snakes lurking above you!!!
We moved to another pool.
This pool had loungers in the water, platforms to hang out on and even a dock that went out over the area that people were dancing on. They had a live DJ playing all the hits with a guy on the microphone getting people pumped up and dancing with everyone. We had a blast...even if by the time we made it over to the dance platform the song was over and everyone scattered. We continued to dance in the water while I texted Kendra back home and had been showing her this very nice port.
We stayed here until around 1:30pm and for some reason we were already hungry again. All these activities make you hungry I tell ya.
We decided to gather our things and head back to the ship. I took a few more pictures along the way. I was fascinated by this rather large mixture of King Kong and the abominable snowman looking robot.
We came across some birds toward the exit and Sakari screeched with joy.
Then we caught the next 3 wheeled motorcycle back to the ship. #savethefeetmotion
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