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Cabrera · Dominican Republic · North coast

Stop renting your vacation. Own it.

#Owncation. Own your vacation.
Own it, use it, rent it, swap it.

CaribEco Owncation is a new way to vacation, created in the Dominican Republic. You don't rent a vacation, and you don't buy time. You own part of a real, furnished villa in a managed eco park, together with 11 other owners. We build it, we run it, and we take care of everything.

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Real co-ownership, with your name on the papers. No payment to join the founders list.

Own itPart of a real villa, in your name. Not time, not points.
Use it30 nights a year, on the dates you choose.
Rent itNot coming? We rent your nights for you.
Swap itChange dates, change villas, and soon change parks.
Founding Owners wanted

Help us launch something never done before in the DR.

The first CaribEco park is in Cabrera. The park is not open yet: we are preparing the land now, and the villas are built in our own plant. We are looking for 36 Founding Owners, the owners of the first 3 villas, to help us start it.

Founders get:

  • The lowest price we will ever offer. The price goes up as villas sell.
  • The first year of owner fees included.
  • First pick of villa and dates.
  • A vote on the park: amenities, theme and services.
  • Priority in every new CaribEco park.
  • Your name on the Founders Wall at the park entrance.
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How Owncation works

Step by step, from the day you buy to the day you sell.

  1. What you buy

    • One of 12 co-ownerships of a real, furnished villa in a CaribEco park.
    • Your name is on the papers. You own part of the villa itself.
    • The villa sits on a 30-year lease in our park. It is built to be moved, so it can go to another park.

  2. What it costs

    • You pay once for your co-ownership. Pay cash, or finance it over 4 years.
    • A low monthly owner fee covers security, gardens, pool, maintenance, insurance and the on-site manager. It is locked for 3 years.
    • You pay only for what you use: cleaning per stay, metered electricity, driver trips.
    • No hidden fees. Every cost is in writing before you sign.

  3. Your vacation

    • 30 nights a year, booked in the owner app, split into as many stays as you like.
    • Holidays rotate every year, so everyone gets their turn.
    • Your villa is booked on the dates you want? You get another villa the same size.
    • Your own locked owner's closet stays in the villa, so you travel light.

  4. When you're not there

    • We rent your unused nights to travelers, like Airbnb.
    • You keep 65% of the rental. We keep 35% for the service. The guest pays the cleaning fee.
    • A few rented nights a year can cover your owner fee.

  5. The service

    • Our team cleans, maintains and manages everything on site.
    • Drivers take you to the beach, to shopping and to the airport.
    • You arrive and your villa is ready.

  6. If you want out

    • Sell your co-ownership whenever you want. We help you find the buyer.
    • Or keep it and leave it to your family.

  7. The land

    • We lease the park land now, with the purchase agreed within 5 years.
    • Your villa is movable, so it is never trapped on one piece of land.
Is this a timeshare?

No. Here is the difference.

Airbnb

  • You pay every night, every year.
  • You own nothing.
  • A different place every time.

Timeshare

  • You buy time, not a home.
  • The company keeps the building.
  • Very hard to resell.

Owncation

  • You own part of a real villa.
  • Use it, rent it, swap it.
  • Sell your part whenever you want.
Why it works

New in the Dominican Republic. Proven everywhere else.

Owncation takes the best of four ideas that already work, and puts them together for the first time.

PacasoCO-OWNERSHIP

One real home owned by a small group. Founded in 2020, it became a billion-dollar company at record speed, with more than $1 billion in home sales in over 40 destinations. Its co-owners pay up to about $678,000 for one-eighth of a home.

pacaso.com
Disney Vacation ClubSWAPPING

Owners use their time at different resorts and on different dates. We bring the same flexibility to our villas and parks.

disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com
Casa Linda, SosúaMANAGED VILLAS IN THE DR

Owners' villas inside a managed resort community, rented to vacationers when the owners are away. Proven on the DR's north coast, with villas from about $219,800, or about $28,900 down and $2,176 a month for 20 years.

AirbnbSERVICE

Book a stay, arrive, everything is ready. We give you that service, at Airbnb prices or less.

What's new: all four in one, in movable villas in a managed eco park, at a price most families can reach.

Every new idea needed believers

The best vacation ideas started with people who said yes first.

None of these were finished when the first people signed up. They became real because founders believed in them early.

1991Disney Vacation Club

Sold before the first resort opened.

Disney put memberships on sale in September 1991 from a preview center, before its first vacation club resort opened that December. It sold about $50 million in the first year, and grew into more than a dozen resorts.

Read the true story
2002Exclusive Resorts

Two brothers and a new idea: a members' vacation club.

It started in 2002. By its tenth year it had more than 350 homes and about 3,500 members.

Read the true story
2008Airbnb

Three friends, air mattresses and cereal boxes.

In 2007 two roommates rented air mattresses on their living-room floor during a sold-out conference in San Francisco. To keep going, the founders sold presidential-candidate cereal boxes and raised $30,000. By March 2009 they had 10,000 users, and today it is a household name.

Read the true story
2016Tesla Model 3

325,000 people reserved a car they could not get yet.

In one week, people put down a refundable deposit of about $1,000 for a car that would not be delivered until the end of 2017. Those early believers paid for the factory.

Read the true story
2020Pacaso

It started with one house split into eight.

One of its first homes was in Napa, California, divided among eight co-owners. Today it has done more than $1 billion in sales.

Read the true story

Owncation is our turn. A new way to vacation, never done in the Dominican Republic. We are looking for the first 36 founders to say yes and help us make it happen.

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The first park

CaribEco Park Cabrera. 15 villas in a private garden.

Every villa has its own deck and plunge pool. In the middle: the pool, a palapa bar and a gazebo. Cars stay at the entrance, so inside it is only gardens, walkways and golf carts.

Site plan of CaribEco Park Cabrera: 15 villas around a central pool, palapa bar and gazebo, parking at the entrance, along the paved road

Site plan from our design model. Final layout may vary.

Aerial view of the villas among palms near the coast
The park among the palms (rendering)
Villa deck with a private plunge pool at sunset
Your deck and plunge pool (rendering)
Open living room and kitchen with island seating
Furnished and ready (rendering)
The park at night with lit villas and palms
The park at night (rendering)
15villas, one level
5,657 m2of fenced land, one gate
0cars inside the park
The place

Cabrera. The green, quiet side of the Caribbean.

Cabrera sits on the Dominican Republic's north coast, between Río San Juan and Samaná. Green hills, rivers, lagoons and quiet beaches, far from the crowds of the big resorts. Our park is in the country, minutes from the sea, and our drivers take you to the beach whenever you want.

See the land

This is the land for our first park: green, flat, shaded by big trees and coconut palms, with the paved road and power line along the front.

Filmed on the lot. Drone video coming soon.

From the street, and on paper

The paved road along the park lot, with the fence and power line
The paved road along our lot, with power on the street
Survey plan of the park lot along Camino Payita a Baoba del Piñar
The surveyed lot, 5,657 m2
  • Baoba del Piñal, Payita, Cabrera, María Trinidad Sánchez.
  • 5,657 m2 of titled land, registered at the Nagua Title Registry.
  • 106 m of frontage on the paved road from Payita to Baoba del Piñal, lined with coconut palms.
  • Power line on the street.

How close is the beach?

6–7 minby car to the beach
~3 kmto Baoba Beach and Playa Arroyo Salado
2 kmto the town of Payita
~13 kmto Cabrera town
~1 hourto Samaná El Catey International Airport
GPS19.51408, -69.92313
Satellite view: the CaribEco Park lot is 3.3 km in a straight line from the Atlantic beach, 6 to 7 minutes by car, with photos of the nearest beach and Playa Arroyo Salado
Open the lot on the map
Who we are

A Dominican villa maker, now in hospitality.

We design, build and run every villa ourselves. Our company has spent more than 38 years building for hospitality and entertainment: casinos, hotels, resorts, villas and offices across the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. Since 2011 we have built steel homes in the Dominican Republic, in our own plant.

Hospitality is service, and service is what we know. That is why we don't just sell villas. We run the park, so your vacation works every time.

38+years building for hospitality
84casino projects
2011first steel home in the DR
Villas built indoors in our plant
Built indoors in our plant
A finished villa craned onto its foundation
It arrives finished and is craned into place
A finished villa with pool and terrace
A finished villa, ready for guests
Warm wood interior, finished and furnished
Finished and furnished
Visit our plantInstagram @caribecopark
Local, from start to finish

Your vacation keeps a Dominican town working.

Every Owncation villa is built and run by Dominican people. The welders and builders in our plant, the crews who set the villas, and the cleaners, gardeners, guards and drivers in the park are hired from Cabrera and nearby towns.

When you own here, your money stays here. You treat yourself, and you help a local economy grow.

WeldersBuildersInstallersHousekeepingGardenersPool careSecurityDriversConcierge
The villas and what you pay

Three villas. Every cost, up front.

Every villa is one level, fully furnished, with a covered terrace, a private deck and an 8 x 10 ft plunge pool. Prices are for one co-ownership (1 of 12), in US dollars, with the DR sales tax (ITBIS) included.

VillaSizeFounders (villas 1–3)Villas 4–9Villas 10–15Owner fee / month
Villita1 bed, 1 bath
528 sq ft (49 m2) + 240 sq ft deck and pool		$9,000$11,500$12,500$89
Casita2 bed, 2 bath
720 sq ft (67 m2) + 288 sq ft deck and pool		$12,400$14,900$15,900$111
Casita Large3 bed, 2 bath
864 sq ft (80 m2) + 288 sq ft deck and pool		$16,900$19,400$20,400$133
Floor plans of the Villita (1 bed), Casita (2 bed) and Casita Large (3 bed), each with living room facing the deck and plunge pool, kitchen island, washer and dryer, and locked co-owner storage

Every villa: king bed in the master with a sliding door to the pool deck, kitchen island that seats four, living room facing the pool, stacked washer and dryer, linen closet, and locked co-owner storage. Furnishings shown are a guide.

Founders: first year of owner fees included. Owner fee locked for 3 years. Paid per use: cleaning about $40 / $50 / $60 per stay by villa size, electricity by meter, driver trips. Not included: food, personal purchases, trips outside the area, loan interest. Financing is through your own lender; CaribEco is not a lender. Final prices and terms are confirmed in the purchase agreement.

Questions

What people ask us.

Is this a timeshare?

No. A timeshare sells you time in a building the company keeps. With Owncation you own part of a real villa, with your name on the papers, and you can rent it or sell it.

Are there any hidden fees?

No. You pay your co-ownership once, a low monthly owner fee locked for 3 years, and services only when you use them (cleaning, electricity, driver). Every cost is in writing before you sign. Founders get the first year of owner fees included.

Why not just use Airbnb?

On Airbnb you pay every night, every year, and you own nothing. With Owncation, if you finance over 4 years, your yearly cost is about what Airbnb costs. After that it is paid off, and you still own your part.

Is the park open?

Not yet. The land is being prepared and the villas are built in our plant. Founders reserve first and choose first. We will show you every step with photos and video.

What if I want June and someone else has it?

You book your own 30 nights in the owner app, on the dates you choose. If your villa is taken, you get another villa the same size. Holidays rotate every year.

Who owns the land?

We lease the park land now, with the purchase agreed within 5 years. Your villa sits on a 30-year lease and is built to be moved.

How do I sell?

Tell us and we help you find a buyer, or sell it yourself. You can also leave it to your family.

Do I pay anything now?

No. Joining the founders list is free. When reservations open, the list chooses first, in the order people joined.

Grow with us

Partner with us on the next CaribEco Owncation Parks.

Cabrera is the first park. We are looking for founders for Park 1, and for partners and investors for future CaribEco Owncation Parks across the Dominican Republic.

Landowners and developers with land near the beach are welcome too.

Partner with us. Write to us.

WhatsApp +1 (829) 343-3614 · jesusperezborges@gmail.com

Founders list

Save your founder place.

No payment now. We'll contact you first when reservations open, in the order you joined.

We also build houses

Factory-built steel houses, delivered across the Caribbean.

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