Peruvian cooking on Plaza Portofino at the Marina, drawn across three traditions: Criollo, Nikkei and Chifa. Ceviche and tiradito are what it is known for. Dinner only, with outdoor seating on the plaza.

Plaza Portofino, Marina Casa de Campo

Daily 17:00-23:00

The resort's first restaurant, on Plaza Chavón in the cobbled streets of Altos de Chavón, originally decorated by Oscar de la Renta. Seasonal Italian cooking with fresh pasta made by hand on site each day. Dinner only, with live music some evenings. A collared shirt and long trousers are required.

Plaza Chavón, Altos de Chavón

Daily 18:00-23:00

The resort's beachfront table, on the sand at Playa Minitas. Mediterranean and Latin cooking built on Caribbean seafood, with a beach club, loungers and an infinity pool alongside. Lunch is casual, though not in swimwear. Dinner is resort casual and collared shirts are expected. Guests arrive by golf cart and walk the boardwalk in.

Playa Minitas, Casa de Campo

Restaurant 12:00-22:00 · Beach Club 10:00-00:00

The hotel's principal dining room and its late bar, named for the sugar cane that has shaped La Romana since the early 1900s. French-influenced cooking on Dominican produce. The bar runs from early morning to 1:00, with live local music, hand-rolled cigars and a Dominican rum list.

Casa de Campo hotel, by the lobby

Breakfast 07:00-10:00 · Lunch 12:00-16:00 · Dinner 18:00-23:00 · Bar 06:00-01:00

Independent since 2007, in Altos de Chavón, with fire-roasted pizza, street tacos and a full cocktail room looking over the Chavón River. Later than most, and the easiest answer for a casual evening. Taco Tuesdays are its own institution.

Altos de Chavón

Daily from 09:00 until late

Set in the Lighthouse at the Marina, with a raised glass-walled pool facing the dining room, a terrace onto Plaza Portofino and a bar inside the lighthouse itself. Mediterranean and international cooking. This is the Marina's later, livelier room, with music and DJs. Sunday opens at 11:00 for brunch.

The Lighthouse, Marina Casa de Campo

Mon-Fri 17:00-23:00 · Sat 12:00-23:00 · Sun 11:00-23:00

An uninhabited island a mile and a half off La Romana, protected as a Natural Monument and about twenty minutes by boat from the Marina. White sand and shallow turquoise water above; below, the Catalina Wall drops from around 5 metres past 40, with eagle rays, moray eels and southern stingray. Shallow enough at the top for snorkellers. The boat leaves at 10:00 and returns from the island at 13:45. Four guests minimum, and reservations are required.

Departs Marina Casa de Campo

Departs 10:00, returns 13:45

The resort's own beach, calm and deliberately low in density. Loungers, snorkelling, kayaks and paddle boats, an open-air massage pavilion, and the beach club, the Coco Mar bar and two food trucks along the sand. The piña colada arrives in a fresh pineapple.

Playa Minitas, Casa de Campo

Daylight hours

The fishing village that serves as the departure point for Saona and Catalina, about twenty minutes from the resort. Playa Dominicus holds Blue Flag certification. Two established dive centres work from here, and the St George wreck, a 73-metre cargo ship sunk in 1990, lies within reach.

Bayahibe, La Altagracia

A replica sixteenth-century Mediterranean village designed by the Dominican architect José Antonio Caro and the Italian designer Roberto Coppa, built by local artisans. Its 5,000-seat amphitheatre was inaugurated by Frank Sinatra in 1982; Sting, Elton John and Bocelli have since played it. Also here: the Regional Archaeological Museum, St Stanislaus Church, the art gallery, and the design school affiliated with Parsons in New York. Access is limited to resort guests, residents and their guests, which is much of its charm. Twenty to twenty-five minutes by golf cart.

Altos de Chavón, Casa de Campo

Museum Tue-Sun 09:00-17:00 · Art Gallery Mon-Sat 10:00-21:00

Among the most complete stables in the Caribbean, directed by the Argentine polo professional Fernando Arata. English and Western instruction, jumping for experienced riders, and private guided trail rides across two working cattle ranches, past water buffalo, duck lagoons and cane fields. Three tournament polo fields and a working polo school, with matches from early November to the end of April.

Casa de Campo Resort

08:30-11:30 and 14:00-18:00

245 acres and more than 200 stations for trap, skeet and sporting clays, including a 110-foot tower among the largest in the world, plus a Five Stand and a ten-station archery course. Guns and ear protection are provided. For experienced shots there are driven pheasant, partridge and duck days, and a wild bird reserve outside the resort where the driven shoots take place. Minimum age twelve for lessons.

Casa de Campo Resort

The largest of the offshore islands, inside Cotubanamá National Park, reached by boat from the Bayahibe pier about twenty minutes from the resort. The usual run takes in the coast, then the Palmilla natural pool, a shallow open-sea sandbank known for its starfish, then a beach stay. We arrange this privately. The shared catamarans carry eighty to a hundred people and are a different day entirely.

Departs Bayahibe pier

Full day

Ninety thousand square metres at the mouth of the Chavón River, laid out as a Mediterranean village by Gianfranco Fini and Piero Giacosa. Concrete docks with wooden catwalks, water and power at each mooring, dockside refuelling and a 300-ton travel lift. For fishing, blue marlin is the headline, with wahoo, sailfish and kingfish alongside, and deep water minutes from the dock. Charters are arranged through us rather than sold as a package.

Marina Casa de Campo, La Romana

The largest handmade cigar factory in the world, in La Romana, where Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta and H. Upmann are rolled by more than 5,000 hands. The tour runs 45 minutes. Over eighteens only, with a dress code, and arrival by 09:30.

La Romana

Arrive by 09:30

Pete Dye's 1971 course, cut from coastline and coral rock, with seven holes on the ocean. Ranked seventh in GOLF Magazine's Top 100. It reopened in December 2025 after a full restoration led by Jerry Pate Design. Play is limited to resort guests, villa owners, residents and their accompanying friends. Caddies are used, each player needs their own clubs, and collared shirts are required.

Casa de Campo Resort

By tee time

Twenty-seven Pete Dye holes along the cliffs above Altos de Chavón, the original eighteen plus the Lakes nine added in 2011. Seven cliff-side holes fall roughly 300 feet to the Chavón River, with the gorge, the Marina and the mountains in view. Same access rules as Teeth of the Dog.

Above Altos de Chavón, Casa de Campo

By tee time

Over 2,000 square metres across twelve treatment rooms, and the only spa in the Dominican Republic to hold a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star rating three years running. The hydrothermal circuit takes in sauna, steam, vitality pool, cold plunge, thermal loungers, a Kneipp walk and an outdoor pool. Treatment lines include EviDenS de Beauté, AYUNA and the Dominican-grown Moringaïa. Arrive ninety minutes early to use the circuit. Adults only.

Casa de Campo Resort

Spa 09:00-19:00 · Thermal Experience 08:00-19:00

Founded in Altos de Chavón in 1979 by William and Rosemary Everett, with the workshop in the Chavón store where the pieces are still made by hand. Dominican amber and larimar, alongside coins recovered from seventeenth-century Spanish galleons, pearls and coral, set in 18k gold and silver. A second shop trades at Plaza Portofino.

Altos de Chavón, and Plaza Portofino

Daily 08:30-18:30

Three working workshops line the village: ceramics, a weaving studio turning native cotton into cloth, rugs and tapestries, and a silkscreen studio. All are open to visitors, and the work is sold at Artisan Chavón, where resort guests may charge purchases to the villa. Tienda Batey nearby sells fine linens made by women from the local sugar plantations.

Altos de Chavón

Daily 09:00-19:00