About a month ago Adam and found ourselves standing in a Flight Centre office, waiting for the next available agent. After weeks of fruitless and confusing searching on the internet for a nice all-inclusive resort somewhere warm we had given up and were looking for help. Expedia, Travelocity and even the Flight Centre’s own website are great if you know what you are doing and even moreso if you have a favourite destination, but if you are a newbie, they can kind of suck. So, keeping in mind that I had promised myself to take help wherever I could get it to finish this list, we headed to a Flight Centre location to figure out where to go.

After about 45 minutes of running through pricing and options, we settled on a new resort on the Western side of the Dominican Republic, near Punta Cana. White sand beaches, gorgeous rooms, and blowing palm trees everywhere. I do feel a bit guilty my first trip out of North America will be to a resort town with absolutely no semblance of real culture, but honestly I just want a beach and all inclusive drinks. It’s been a rough semester and the one coming up should only prove to be worse. I’ll save the “real” traveling for the summer or later in life, right now I just want to sit on the beach, drink margaritas and soak up that Caribbean sun. Also! A lot of reviews (negatively) pointed out it’s where the locals choose to vacation. Why this is negative I don’t know, I’m looking forward to some local tips on how to get super drunk.

*The Office