It began at the end of 2019, when all-inclusive giant Club Med opened its new Club Med Miches Playa Esmeralda. 

The launch of the resort was the first for the burgeoning tourism destination of Miches, a beach community on the southern coast of Samana Bay that the Dominican Republic believes is its next big destination. 

And now the Club Med is not alone. 

Part of a wave of resorts planned in Miches, adults-only operator Temptation has opened two new resorts in Miches: the Temptation Miches Resort and Temptation Grand Miches Resort. 

Temptation Miches has 382 suites, while the Temptation Grand Miches, the more upscale resort at the property, has 114 rooms. 

The $180 million all-inclusive resort has seven restaurants, eight bars, two pools, a gym.

The adults-only resorts, which include a clothing optional pool, is in the vein of properties like Jamaica’s Hedonism — adult-themed, rather than just adults-only. 

Or, as Temptation describes it, a “conceptual vacation experience for adults only where you can feel comfortable in your own skin while you party day and night.”

They’re the second and third Caribbean resorts for the Temptation brand, which is best known for its colorful Temptation Cancun Resort. 

The latter is best known as the only resort conceived by globally renowned designer Karim Rachid, who oversaw the reimagining of the resort in 2017, one that resulted in one of the Caribbean’s most innovative resort designs.