Guesthouse - Villa Isla — Hotel in La Romana

Frank is a great host in Villa la Isla, he found an unique combination between wine tasting and guest house. He turned the villa into a little museum with hundreds of books and magazines and thousands of wine labels. Frank was in the nineties a very good somelier in Belgium and for years the best one in the Benelux. Wine is his passion and he can talk for hours about it. In his guesthouse he offers his guests a selection of international wines at a very low cost, I believe it started at $12 a bottle wich is insane. It was a very pleasant experience to enjoy wine in a Caribbean atmosphere. For me it was a perfect concept and unique in the...

No ac. Very hot. Building not to code. Kitchen not prepared for guest. Very noisy dogs barking all nignt neighbors olaying loud music at all hours. No commodities close by. Worse experience I have ever had. Owner a bit of a lunatic empty wine bottles all over the walls. This area is very bad gun fires . Extrimist religion blaring at night. The roads are the worde I have seen in the dr. You are stuck in a non functional hell. No refunds with an honest reason. This place is to avoid at sll cost. There was a large fire behind the building during my stay police did not...

We stayed at this lovely villa in La Romana. The last little bit getting there is interesting- even our taxi driver stopped to ask directions as the road turned into a rocky gravel road the last 1/4km. But what a beautiful hidden gem. Would stay there again in heartbeat. The host Frank was super friendly. We ate breakfast made locally at the villa - yummy! And ordered in for local food via Frank as well. |The view from upper patio is stunning - looking out over the ocean towards...