Send Flowers to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

San Felipe de Puerto Plata faces the Atlantic with a mountain at its back. A cable car climbs Pico Isabel de Torres to a botanical garden in the clouds, while at sea level the Fortaleza San Felipe guards the harbour and the Malecón runs for kilometres along the shore. In between lies a centre of painted wooden houses with Victorian gingerbread trim, a reminder of the years when this was the main port in the north of the Dominican Republic.

Flowers travel to several kinds of address here. There are family homes in the centre and in residential sectors such as Torre Alta and Bayardo, hotels and condominiums in the Playa Dorada complex just east of town, and villas in Costambar and Cofresí to the west, where many North American and European retirees spend the winter. Cruise ships dock at Amber Cove and Taino Bay, but florists deliver to land addresses only.

To send flowers to Puerto Plata the same day, order before 11:00 am local time from Monday to Saturday. Later orders arrive the next day, and there are no Sunday deliveries. The north coast gets its heaviest rain from November to January. Amber, mined in the nearby hills, is the city's signature, and warm yellow and orange flowers suit it well.

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