It's a bird, it's a plane -- it's the Oyster drone!

At Oyster.com, we're committed to showing you the full picture of a resort, so what you see on our site is what you get when you arrive; no sneaky photo cropping here.

In order to give you complete access to every nook and cranny of a property, we go all out; our team of expert photographers takes tons of photos and panoramas -- and now, we have a new team member: the Oyster drone. Particularly with massive beach resorts, it's important to be able to get the full perspective on the size and scope of a property, from a bird's eye view.

So the Oyster drone made a trip down to the Dominican Republic with some of our hotel investigators so we could share entire albums full of aerial photos of the resorts you're most interested in visiting. Click through our slideshow to see 12 stunning D.R. resorts from the sky.