When we recommend leaving the peninsula
For Las Terrenas we plan a pickup 6.5 hours before your flight, and 7 hours from Samaná town or Las Galeras. That is not padding. The drive alone is 4 to 4.5 hours, the ridge road out of Las Terrenas is slow behind a truck, and the road south fills up on Sunday afternoons. On top of that you still need checkout, the airline counter and security at La Romana, which bunch up around the mid-morning charter wave. Groups of six or more, and anyone on a Saturday changeover, get the upper end of the window. Send the flight number when you book and we confirm the exact pickup time back to you in writing the day before.