Dominican Republic · LUNCH EXPERIENCES

The Top 15 Day Trips with Lunch Included in the Dominican Republic

89 tours  ·  from $45 a head

The good day trips with lunch included fill up days ahead in high season. Below are the 15 to book early, what each one includes and how they differ.

Punta Cana: Catamaran Boat to Saona Island with Buffet Lunch - The natural pool is more than a photo stop
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Punta Cana: Catamaran Boat to Saona Island with Buffet Lunch

1.Catamaran Boat to Saona Island with Buffet Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 3,822 reviews · 8 hours · from $82Our pick

This eight-hour Saona Island trip pairs a speedboat ride and a stop at a shallow natural pool with several hours on a palm-fringed beach. Expect hotel pickup, a Dominican buffet, drinks, and a lively catamaran return. Guides such as Alex, Christian, and Eduardo lead groups in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese.

“A wonderful experience. Our guide Christian was wonderful, it is clear that he has a lot of experience. It really takes a long time to get from the resorts in Punta Cana to Saona Island, but it is worth it. The food on the island is not great, but it is ok. I recommend you bring water and some food/nibbles with you.”

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Saona Island Day Trip From Punta Cana with Lunch and Open Bar - Bayahibe is the launch point, not the island
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Saona Island Day Trip From Punta Cana with Lunch and Open Bar

2.Saona Island Day Trip From Punta Cana with Lunch and Open Bar

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 2,709 reviews · from $82

Head from Punta Cana to Bayahibe for a full day on the water and Saona Island. The trip includes a shallow natural pool stop, about three hours on the island, buffet lunch, drinks, and hotel transfers. Guides may include Christian, Alex, Micky, Eduardo, or Papito, but the crew changes by departure.

“The cruise was amazing and kind, highly recommend also Republican Dominic people are great me and my family had had a good time”

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Saona Island: Beach & Natural Pool Small-Group Tour w/ Lunch - Penon Cliff and the seawater mangroves
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Saona Island: Beach & Natural Pool Small-Group Tour w/ Lunch

3.Beach & Natural Pool Small-Group Tour w/ Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 633 reviews · 450 minutes - 11 hours · from $110

Travel by speedboat from Bayahibe through Cotubanama National Park, stopping at Penon Cliff, mangroves, Catuano for snorkeling, a white-sand beach for a Dominican buffet and the natural pool. Guides speak English, Spanish and French; guides on recent trips have included Christian and José. Drinks, snacks, masks and hotel pickup are included.

“This Tour was wonderful in capital letters! Earning each, and every single one of the letters. Our guide, José, was thorough, respectful and fun. Before we even began, with the boat not moving, he gave us all the briefing for the day, imposing respect, but at the same time making the environment fun. The Snorkeling area was gorgeous and the following stops at the beaches were out of this world! Beautiful blue waters, great food, great drinks(they have a heavy pour without even asking) , and overall an amazing atmosphere, splendid experience!”

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Punta Cana: Santo Domingo Day Trip with Tickets and Lunch - Santo Domingo’s monuments, from the bus and on foot
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Punta Cana: Santo Domingo Day Trip with Tickets and Lunch

4.Santo Domingo Day Trip with Tickets and Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★3.8 · 584 reviews · 1 day · from $82

This roughly 10-hour trip pairs a long drive from Punta Cana with Los Tres Ojos, Santo Domingo’s Colonial Zone, landmark buildings, and a buffet lunch. Expect a live guide in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, plus time at a mix of cultural stops. Guides such as Victor, Miguelo, and Hector have led tours.

“The guide was awesome and very knowledgeable about everything and all the historic places.”

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Snorkel Lovers for All Ages & Premium Seafood Lunch in Punta Cana - The Natural Pool Is a Gentle First Stop
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Snorkel Lovers for All Ages & Premium Seafood Lunch in Punta Cana

5.Snorkel Lovers for All Ages & Premium Seafood Lunch in Punta Cana

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 486 reviews · from $114Top rated

Take a four-hour catamaran trip from Punta Cana with hotel pickup, snorkel gear for adults and children, and crew-led stops at a natural pool and coral nursery. A marine biologist introduces the coral-restoration work, then you can snorkel, slide into the water, or relax over a grilled lunch. Seafood, meat, surf and turf, and vegetarian meals are offered.

“Great tour and experience. The food and service was amazing and the snorkeling experience was great also. Marine biologist info was the cherry on top. Thanks”

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From Punta Cana: Saona Island & Altos de Chavon Day Trip with Lunch and Open Bar - The natural pool is a short pause, not a beach day
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From Punta Cana: Saona Island & Altos de Chavon Day Trip with Lunch and Open Bar

6.Saona Island & Altos de Chavon Day Trip with Lunch and Open Bar

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 332 reviews · from $99

From Punta Cana, visit the hilltop village of Altos de Chavon and spend about three hours on Saona Island, with a natural-pool stop, buffet lunch, and open bar. Hotel pickup is included. Boats and group sizes can vary, and the day may run longer than the roughly 10-hour estimate.

“Great trip to la Isla Saona. The ride on the Catalan was the most memorable experience. The tour guides were great and it was worth an all day excursion.”

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Punta Cana: Saona Island Tour with Lunch and Drinks - Saona Island: Sand, Palms and Free Time
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Punta Cana: Saona Island Tour with Lunch and Drinks

7.Saona Island Tour with Lunch and Drinks

★★★★★★★★★★4.3 · 274 reviews · 8 - 10 hours · from $75

Travel from Punta Cana to Saona Island by boat, with a stop at a shallow natural pool and about two hours and 45 minutes on the island. Round-trip transport, a buffet lunch, drinks and a lively catamaran ride back are included. Crews have included guides such as Danny Boy and Black Sexy Banana, though names vary.

“Great all day trip from hotel to Eden and back. Really wonderful clean blue sea, a lot of drinks and grilled meat in Saona island. Only millions of other turists.”

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Full Access To Bavaro Adventure Park - With Buggys & Lunch - Getting to the park from Punta Cana
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Full Access To Bavaro Adventure Park – With Buggys & Lunch

8.Full Access To Bavaro Adventure Park – With Buggys & Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 271 reviews · from $169

At Bavaro Adventure Park, your roughly seven-hour pass combines buggy driving, a six-circuit zipline ending in a splash pool, horseback riding, and a swim at the Splash of Emotions cenote. Shared hotel transfers, safety gear, instruction, bilingual staff, and a Dominican lunch are included. Bring closed shoes, swimwear, a towel, and a change of clothes.

“This thing was an absolute blast. Five stars all the way. As someone who is afraid of heights, I was able to ride the zipline with no issues. At its tallest, it's about a 3 stories house. It's fast enough to know that you are riding a zipline but slow enough to feel very comfortable without trying. I recommend it to anyone, especially first timers.”

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Full-Day Cruise to Saona Island - Natural Pool and Lunch - Playa Palmilla is a wade, not a snorkeling stop
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Full-Day Cruise to Saona Island – Natural Pool and Lunch

9.Full-Day Cruise to Saona Island – Natural Pool and Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 260 reviews · from $71

Travel from Punta Cana to Saona Island by speedboat, pause in the shallow waters of Playa Palmilla, then return by catamaran. The shared, roughly 10.5-hour trip includes a grilled buffet, national rum, and a guide. Expect hotel pickups, group waits, and a public beach; guide Manuel is named in the tour information.

“Its was amazing had lots of fun the tour guys were 10/10 would deff recommend to anyone looking to party and have fun!”

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Taino Bay & amber cove 7 Damajagua Waterfall Lunch Excursion - Lunch, chocolate and local flavors
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Taino Bay & amber cove 7 Damajagua Waterfall Lunch Excursion

10.Taino Bay & amber cove 7 Damajagua Waterfall Lunch Excursion

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 231 reviews · from $54

From Taino Bay or Amber Cove, ride with a shared group to Damajagua’s seven-waterfall route. Expect an uphill jungle hike, guided swims, slides and jumps, safety gear, bottled water and a Dominican buffet. A brief Imbert stop may include organic chocolate; guides on this tour have included Antony, Rosario and Lilo.

“We had a fantastic experience!! The jumping off the cliffs & the slides were great. Guides were also very nice and the photos were reasonably priced. Our photographer Daleen did a great job. Only downside were the long lines.”

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Horseback riding and ATV or Buggy with Party Boat with Lunch - Choosing an ATV or buggy
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Horseback riding and ATV or Buggy with Party Boat with Lunch

11.Horseback riding and ATV or Buggy with Party Boat with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 225 reviews · from $125

Start with a 15-minute guided horseback ride, then drive your own ATV or buggy to an organic farm, a 25-foot water cave, and Macao Beach. After a local lunch, the day continues with snorkeling, music, drinks, and a natural pool aboard a party boat. Vladimir is one of the guides associated with the tour.

“Vladimir was a great tour guide. He stayed with us during the duration of the excursion. It started with them picking us up from our hotel right on time, then taking us to the ATVs. Definitely bring clothing that you don't mind throwing away bRead more”

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Punta Cana Half-Day Cultural Safari with Lunch and Drinks - A Dominican home, coffee and cocoa
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Punta Cana Half-Day Cultural Safari with Lunch and Drinks

12.Punta Cana Half-Day Cultural Safari with Lunch and Drinks

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 215 reviews · from $74

Leave Punta Cana’s resort zone for Higüey, its basilica and local market, a Dominican home where you taste coffee and cocoa, a ranch lunch, horseback riding and Macao Beach. Pickup is offered, and the group is capped at 30. Guides vary; Robinson, Sandi and Franklin are among the names praised for their friendly, lively explanations.

“This was a great excursion! Robinson was a wonderful tour guide and I would recommend this to others. It’s a great way to get out of a resort and see the real life and towns/villages and a peek into Dominican culture. A few things to be aware of though: it’s not really half a day—it was more like a full day (mine was 7am-3:30pm). Additionally there is a lot of sitting in a van (air conditioned, but still quite warm), so if that’s not your thing beware!”

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Punta Cana Private Cruise Up To 10 Snorkeling & Seafood lunch - From Cabeza de Toro reef to shallow pools
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Punta Cana Private Cruise Up To 10 Snorkeling & Seafood lunch

13.Punta Cana Private Cruise Up To 10 Snorkeling & Seafood lunch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 169 reviews

Take a four-hour private catamaran trip from Punta Cana for up to 10 people, with snorkeling at Cabeza de Toro reef, a beach stop, shallow natural pools, and seafood grilled aboard a floating kitchen. Your group can play its own music and request a celebration touch. Crew members have included Don Julio, Wilkins, and Josiah.

“My friends and I visited Punta Cana for vacation and had an absolutely wonderful time with our guides Josias and Anjelo. We enjoyed the beautiful coral reef and saw amazing fish and we took some amazing photos as well!! They brought us to a beach to have Coco Loco and explore before we hit a floating bar and had so much fun dancing and swimming off the slide. It was genuinely some of the most fun we had on our trip. This is a must!”

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Saona Island Full-Day Tour with Lunch from Punta Cana - Sailing out on the catamaran
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Saona Island Full-Day Tour with Lunch from Punta Cana

14.Saona Island Full-Day Tour with Lunch from Punta Cana

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 144 reviews · from $93

Leave Punta Cana by hotel transfer for a full day on the water and at Saona Island. The trip pairs a catamaran ride with a speedboat return, a natural-pool stop, beach time, and a buffet lunch with an open bar. Guides such as Victor Obama and Otto have been praised for their clear explanations and lively manner.

“We had an awesome time on the island swimming and just enjoying the sun with our family. The kids had a blast on both boat rides.”

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Puerto Plata: City Highlights Tour with Mount Isabel & Lunch - San Felipe Fortress and the Seaside
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Puerto Plata: City Highlights Tour with Mount Isabel & Lunch

15.City Highlights Tour with Mount Isabel & Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 129 reviews · 6 hours · from $89

Spend about six hours seeing Puerto Plata’s main sights, from Mount Isabel de Torres and its botanical garden to the colonial center and San Felipe Fortress. Your guide speaks English, French, German, Polish, or Spanish. Lunch, rum and chocolate tastings, attraction entries, and pickup from Puerto Plata, Sosúa, or Cabarete are included.

“Great highlights-style tour around Puerto Plata. I could have spent all day at Loma Isabel De Torres (top of the cable-car), but it would be easy (and affordable) to simply return on your own for another day if wanted. IIRC, the lift cost was $US 10 (which was included in the tour). Our guide was knowledgeable and friendly as he showed us the sights and provided some historical and factual information.”

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Just added: Lunch Experiences

★ 5.0Adventure in the 7 Waterfalls + Typical Lunch and TransportationFrom $6015 reviews
★ 4.0María and Miguel stop – Half day tour to El Limón waterfall with lunch includedFrom $604 reviews
★ 3.5Los Haitises & Cayo Levantado (Lunch included, from Samana in Catamaran or Boat)From $6822 reviews
★ 4.0Full-Day Cruise of Isla Saona from Santo Domingo with LunchFrom $9929 reviews
★ 4.5Samana + Cayo Levantado + Horseback Riding from Punta Cana with LunchFrom $11518 reviews
★ 3.0El Limón waterfalls Tour (horse riding & swimming) with lunchFrom $6310 reviews
★ 5.0Zipline with Waterfalls and Lunch, Amber Cove and Taino BayFrom $1105 reviews
★ 5.0City Tour with Beach and Lunch IncludedFrom $6022 reviews
★ 4.5Damajagua Waterfalls Excursion with Lunch BuffetFrom $7910 reviews
★ 3.8Catamaran Excursion with Lunch and DrinksFrom $6045 reviews
★ 3.5Saona Island Day Trip + Lunch + Open Bar from Punta CanaFrom $8811 reviews
★ 4.2Catamaran Boat with Open Bar, Lunch and More..From $1109 reviews
★ 4.3Saona Island all day with lunch and open bar departing from Punta CanaFrom $807 reviews
★ 3.4Saona Island VIP | Private Beach, Open Bar & LunchFrom $1106 reviews
★ 5.0Saona Island Day Trip with Lunch & DrinksFrom $803 reviews

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