For this vacation, and following the advice of more experienced travelers to this island nation, we stayer at an Iberostar Resort, for comfort, availability and safety. It was a relaxing and mostly joyous vacation, even though the love of my life got what we thought was a painful, but thankfully short-lived spat of food poisoning (think salads). (I know, saying it was relaxing was easy for me to say.) It was fun, though I doubt that we'd ever return. Why? Because as we moved on to other islands over the years, we decided that we really valued being able to venture out to explore and live in proximity to people who called the places we visited home.