Punta Cana Airport to La Romana and Bayahíbe

The short answer: distance and drive time

| Route | Drive time | Distance | |---|---|---| | Punta Cana Airport (PUJ) → Bayahíbe | about 45 min | 62 km | | Punta Cana Airport (PUJ) → Casa de Campo | about 1 hr | 79 km | | Punta Cana Airport (PUJ) → La Romana city | about 1 hr 10 min | 91 km | | Punta Cana Airport (PUJ) → La Romana airport (LRM) | about 1 hr | 75 km | | La Romana airport (LRM) → Bayahíbe | about 15 min | 15 km | | La Romana airport (LRM) → Casa de Campo | about 20 min | 12 km | | Santo Domingo (SDQ) → Bayahíbe | about 1 hr 20 min | 110 km | | Santo Domingo (SDQ) → Casa de Campo | about 1 hr 20 min | 104 km |

One figure in that table surprises almost everybody: Bayahíbe is faster from Punta Cana than Casa de Campo is, even though Casa de Campo sits closer to La Romana. The Autopista del Coral reaches the Bayahíbe turnoff more directly, while Casa de Campo requires carrying on further west and then back in toward the coast.

What the drive is like

Easy. The Autopista del Coral is a modern toll highway — well surfaced, properly marked, two lanes each way for most of its length, and genuinely fast.

Tolls are included in the price of a private transfer, so there is nothing to pay on the road and no need to carry pesos for the booths.

The one thing to know is that there is very little between the two ends. Once you are on the highway there are few places worth stopping, so use the facilities at the airport before you leave rather than assuming something will appear in twenty minutes. With small children, that single piece of planning makes the whole difference.

Which airport should you fly into?

It depends far more on flight schedules from your own city than on the map.

La Romana International (LRM) is dramatically closer — about 15 minutes to Bayahíbe and 20 to Casa de Campo. It is also a small airport with thin international service, heavily weighted toward seasonal charter and cruise traffic. If a convenient flight exists, it is the best arrival in the country for this corridor.

Punta Cana (PUJ) has by far the most international routes and the most frequency. You pay for that with an hour on the highway, which is a reasonable trade when the alternative is a connection or an awkward departure time.

Las Américas, Santo Domingo (SDQ) is a third option at about an hour and twenty minutes, and often the cheapest from Latin American cities.

Compare real schedules from your own airport before assuming the nearest one is the practical one. The closest airport on a map is frequently the wrong answer.

Book a transfer

Getting to the Bayahíbe hotels and to Casa de Campo

These are three different places that hotel listings routinely blur into one, and booking the wrong transfer for the right hotel is a common and avoidable mistake.

Bayahíbe is a working fishing village with a visible local centre, small restaurants and boats on the sand. Dominicus, immediately adjacent, holds most of the area's resort inventory. Together they make a compact, Caribbean-side alternative to the big east-coast corridor, with the shortest boat departures to Saona and Catalina.

Casa de Campo is not a town. It is a large gated resort community near La Romana with its own marina, golf courses and internal destinations, and access is controlled.

La Romana city is a working coastal city with an airport and a cruise port, and is not interchangeable with either of the above.

Listings sometimes describe all three as "La Romana". Confirm the exact property before booking transport.

Cruise arrivals and departures

La Romana has a cruise port, and passengers move in both directions: ship to hotel or airport at the end of a cruise, and hotel or airport to ship at the start.

Pickups meet at the designated port collection point rather than at the gangway, which is standard across cruise terminals.

The rule that matters for a departure is simple: build in buffer. A missed ship costs more than every transfer that passenger will ever book, and the ship does not wait. We would rather quote a departure that feels early than one that feels efficient.

This corridor is also about to get considerably busier. On 15 September 2026 the Dominican ports authority set out a plan to expand from the current terminals to nine cruise terminals by the end of 2028, including a new eco-designed terminal at Manzanillo as the seventh, with the first ship expected in January 2028 and around 1,500 construction jobs created so far.

Groups, golf bags and child seats

Casa de Campo is a golf destination, and golf bags are the most common reason a booked vehicle turns out to be too small on the day.

Declare them when you book, not at the curb. A set of clubs occupies roughly the same space as a large suitcase, and four golfers with four bags need a materially bigger vehicle than four people with hand luggage.

Child seats are requested at booking and fitted before the vehicle arrives. The same applies to groups travelling on separate flights into the same hotel — tell us at booking and the arrivals can be coordinated rather than duplicated.

Prices and what changes them

Private transfers on this route are priced per vehicle, not per person. The shared alternative is priced per seat and stops at several resorts before yours.

That difference is structural rather than promotional: from two passengers upward, a flat vehicle price and a per-seat price stop being comparable, and by four passengers they are not in the same conversation.

Three things move the quote: vehicle size, driven by passengers plus luggage plus golf bags; time of day, since very early and very late arrivals cost more to staff; and whether it is a round trip, which is almost always better value than two separate one-way bookings — and, in a corridor with no meaningful ride-hail coverage, considerably less stressful on the way home.