July 2025 so happy days, however on a personal level we feel it best not to leave home without full travel insurance, if only for the repatriation, baggage, cancellation and curtailment protection. Sometimes if you show your EHIC you can get treated without having to pay any insurance excess. Both over 60 and our recent quote with declared ailments was only £56 for the two of us for a fortnight, so pennies.Just a heads up that after the Brexit agreement here is some good news about EHIC. Whilst it is going to be abolished if you have a current EHIC card it will be valid until it expires.
This holds true for all EHIC cards applied for on line before Dec 31st...
EditJust a heads up that after the Brexit agreement here is some good news about EHIC. Whilst it is going to be abolished if you have a current EHIC card it will be valid until it expires.
This holds true for all EHIC cards applied for on line before Dec 31st...
Stayed in Puerto Plata, not encouraged to venture too far from the complex but it was that big with it's own shopping mall, bars etc that there was no need. Went on a couple of excursions, one to the main town, passed through parts that I wouldn't have fancied stepping off the coach but that's a bit unfair, it didn't seem lawless.was thinking of booking somewhere in the caribbean for tha back end of next year, virus permiting, was wondering if any blue moon travelers could put me right on Dominican Republic 'punta cana',,,how safe is the place etc
I know someone who was attacked with a machete when her and her husband walked along the beach in the Dominican.was thinking of booking somewhere in the caribbean for tha back end of next year, virus permiting, was wondering if any blue moon travelers could put me right on Dominican Republic 'punta cana',,,how safe is the place etc
thats reasuring mate,il get my bags packed,, on a serious note i suppose their is risk at any of these places, just reading they now have tourist police 'Politur' walking the hotel zones because thay have had bother and its resulted in people going elswhereI know someone who was attacked with a machete when her and her husband walked along the beach in the Dominican.
Didn’t stop us going but we didn’t leave the hotel complex at all.
Should have said it was 11 years ago when we went, the locals we encountered were great but this was only within the complex or tourist ventures. they were very uncomplimentary about the Haitians, reckoned they were streaming across and causing unemployment etc, maybe that has escalated in recent times. Maybe look elsewhere, nothing worse than not feeling relaxed when you're on your jollies.thats reasuring mate,il get my bags packed,, on a serious note i suppose their is risk at any of these places, just reading they now have tourist police 'Politur' walking the hotel zones because thay have had bother and its resulted in people going elswhere