That is a tough question, as you could fly any number of patterns to arrive.

PCMike

Very hard to say. Once we sat on the right side when facing the front and we had incredible views of the Atlantic coast of DR, from Puerto Plata, Samana and all the way down til we started our landing pattern. Another time we sat on the left when facing the front and we saw these incredible views of islands in the ocean which til this day I have not tried to find out where these places were.

In French we have an expression which should be in the English language, can't think what it could be now, but basically, "the one who chooses, chooses worse. "

Which side to sit on, ???. I can say if you have a seat by the wing your view is partialy obstructed.

I agree that it depends, but I've gotten over that and now I always select a window seat on the right when facing front (on the planes I tend to fly on, it's seat "F") for the arrival and the opposite for the departure (seat "A").

When in seat "F", you have lots of options for what you can see, usually more than seat "A" though on any one flight "A" could luck out and get a better view on that day. Most of my flights head to the DR out of Toronto, so not all that far from Detroit. We head to the ocean and then south. I have passed over Cape Hatteras but we don't usually stay over land any further south than that. …webshots.com/photo/2225531330064234328umvqiS

Once at the DR, I've passed to the east of the coast and seen the Dominican beachy coastline on my approach (…webshots.com/photo/2043488680064234328hRnGTh), on another flight we cut across Samana (a half dozen pics of that area at http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2167696830064234328ZqJkkL) before heading inland when we flew over Higuey. It was very cool to be able to see the basilica from the air (…webshots.com/photo/2758932830064234328Patqad) before heading to the coast (…webshots.com/photo/2554717660064234328vdXNpY)

I've flown over the islands north of the DR as well and look forward to it, but for my recent trip we were avoiding a weather system in that area and went out of our way further to the east having us land 15 minutes late and missing a lot of good views. If made to choose, I'd rather a smooth flight so I was okay with the decision!

Though you can see something out the left, I've never seen anything better than that which I've seen while sitting on the right.

Kaki

Thanks Kaki, that's exactly the type of information I was looking for! I appreciate you taking the time to post links to the actual views you've had from the plane.