Start from 27 curated places around Punta Cana, DO, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
La Yola Restaurant
A seafood room shaped like a wooden fishing boat, built out over the water at the Puntacana resort marina. It is the area's most decorated dinner spot, focused on the day's catch, ceviche and Caribbean flavors, with the sea directly under the deck.
Jellyfish Beach Restaurant
A two-level palm-roofed restaurant sitting directly on Bavaro Beach, with sand underfoot and the water a few steps away. The kitchen leans into fresh seafood and Caribbean dishes, and the open-air upper deck is the draw for long lunches and dinners.
Trails & outdoors
Reserva Ecologica Ojos Indigenas
The walking network inside this private reserve is the best easy nature walk in the resort zone: flat, shaded paths linking a chain of spring-fed lagoons through native dry forest. It is short and manageable for any fitness level, with swimming stops along the way.
Scape Park Hoyo Azul Trail
The forest path from the center of Scape Park down to the Hoyo Azul cenote, in the Cap Cana area. It is a mostly flat, easy fifteen-to-twenty-minute walk through tropical vegetation that ends at the blue cenote pool.
Things to do
Scape Park
A nature adventure park in Cap Cana built around the Hoyo Azul cenote, with zip lines along the cliffs, a via ferrata, cave swims and forest trails. It is the area's headline outdoor attraction and works as a full-day mix of adventure and nature for families.
Hispaniola Aquatic Adventures
A long-established catamaran operator running snorkel and party cruises along the Bavaro coast, with both lively shared sailings and adults-only semi-private boats. Tours hit reef snorkel stops and a natural sandbar, with crew, drinks and music on board.
Landmarks & sights
Hoyo Azul
A natural cenote at the foot of a limestone cliff inside Scape Park, with water so blue it looks artificial. You reach it on a short, mostly flat walk through tropical forest, and the pool is open for a cold, clear swim.
Reserva Ecologica Ojos Indigenas
A large private nature reserve at the south end of the resort zone, built around freshwater lagoons fed by underground springs, several of which you can swim in. Flat, shaded trails wind past native trees, birds and lizards, and it stays quiet even when the beaches are busy.