Transportation at airport
[QUOTE=Boriman;1622068]I haven't been to Boca Chica in a while. I need some help, guys. Outside of the taxi drivers waiting to pick up customers at SDQ and overcharging them to take them to their hotels is there any other alternative? Has anyone tried A2 B transfers? How about bus service? If there is a bus do they mind me bringing bags onboard?[/QUOTE]There is almost no way of avoiding the inflated taxies at the SD airport. It is only one company controlled by dept of turism. They prevent buses from doing business there. Your other options is to have a friend pick you up or make afriend in plane who is getting pick up or Renting a car and ask them to drive you to Boca Chica.
Taxi Transportation at SD airport and other places
[QUOTE=Boriman;1623924]A friend told me once that there is one universal in the world and that is "taxi drivers. " No matter where you go in the world, when you land at any commercial airport, you will always encounter at least one taxi driver (and most of the times more than one) who will try to overcharge you twice as much to take you from the airport to your hotel!
Whenever I go to the DR I try best to avoid the 'taxi mafia. ' I've used A2 B Transfers in the past ([URL]http://www.a2btransfers.com[/URL]) and they have been quite reliable (to my surprise). I have not been to Boca Chica in quite a while. I was googling for transportation from SDQ to Boca Chica only to realize all these other companies have popped up, offering airport service. Some are ridiculously overpriced. Also, I cannot tell which are thee reliable ones.
Whenever I travel my first concern is making it through customs in the other country. Second, is trying to get a taxi without feeling that they are trying to mug me. Thank you Cerebro for your kindness. What you said is what I am trying to avoid but you are right. There is no way of getting around it. I will take my chances with A2 B Transfers and hope that they still supply the same quality service as in the past. The problem with A2 Bs website, like some of the other websites that supply this service, is that there is no certificate of authenticity, or verified by a company like Verisign. I've checked some of the most recent reviews on A2 B and they do not seem too good. I guess if A2 B does not work out I am stuck dealing with the taxi mafia. Again, thank you Cerebro.[/QUOTE]Boriman,
I just want to mention that I tried to avoid the taxi drivers in SD airport but I did not succeed. I was there in August 2014. Since I don't travel with luggage just a small back pack it is easy for me to navigate in an out of airports. Whenever and wherever I travel in the world, I always check first if there are public buses that go from the airport to the city centers instead of paying for taxis. Most major cities in the world have public buses that go in and out of the airport and take you to the city centers. There is something different in the SD airport because the department of tourism DR has total control of the taxi or owned them and they prevent bus companies, guaguas, and other public taxi to go to the airport to pick up passengers. You may find one public taxi dropping off a passenger at the airport but they don't let them stay there long because the other taxis from Dept of turism will harass them out. I tried walking out of the airport with my small back pack and even tried to get a motoconcho outside but was advised by most local people not to do so because it was not safe to do this specially a tourist. I tried walking around the airport to see if I found a local taxi dropping passengers at the airport and I did find one but the taxi guy I found wanted to screw me with the price once he noticed I was not a local guy. Even thought I am Dominican born and speak Spanish, he tried to give me the Gringo treatment asking me the same price as the airport taxi. I decided to go back inside the airport and take the taxi from the department of tourist at least they were safer. They charge 1000 pesos or 25 dollars fix rate from SD airport to Boca Chica. It is a rip off because it is about a 6 miles ride to Boca Chica. They charge about 1500 pesos from the SD airport to the SD City (about 40 Kilometers). The taxis at the airport are pretty safe thought. Once you are situated in boca chica, santo Domingo, or any big city, you can avoid the taxis and take the guagua buses and also what they called carritos. Carritos are shared taxis that take more people than they supposed to. For example, a Toyota Corola Carrto taxi could put often 5 people in the back seat and 3 in the front. If you don't mind being in a car packed like a sardine and groping / rubbing or being groped by other people I would recommend this for in city traveling (traveling like this is part of the culture so you may end up with a hot mamy on your lap or a fat guy either way people just laugh in the car when this happens) and also city to city traveling. Super cheap and very safe (unless you hanging on the guagua door or the carrito decides to drive at 100 miles an hour as they often do) during the day or before dark. I don't recommend this for night traveling. Imagine, you can take a guagua from Boca Chica to the city center in Santo Domingo (25 miles ride) for about a dollar or 1.50 or 70 Dominican pesos (super cheap). A regular taxi will charge you 20 dollars or more. Also, you can use caribe tours and El metro (nice big air condition buses) to travel longer distances from Santo Domingo to Puerto Plata, Sosua, Santiago, Samana, Punta Cana etc. As an example, A 3 hour trip 130 miles from Santo Domingo to Puerto Plata is about 320 pesos or just 8 dollars. The big buses Caribe tour and Metro are very comfortable, not packed like the guaguas, safe and have reliable schedules. They are use by the middle class and upper class mostly. A taxi will charge you over 100 dollars for that kind of travel. By the way, I stay at the Garant Hotel and is Chica friendly. The hotel is okay pretty basic, price is decent less than 50 dollars, it is clean with fans. It has security 24/7 and the staff is helpful. You have to pay extra for air conditioner. They serve breakfast and lunch but you have to pay. You can also get a chica for breakfast I mean after breakfast. All you need to do is eat breakfast at the entrance of the Hotel which faces the street and some chicas pass by during the day or are watching the tourist at the Hotel and they will come to you if you make eye contact or if you ask them to come. They don't give you trouble to bring the chica in, but they have to register their name and show their cedula. I did that during the day and after I ate breakfast and a petite skinny chica 5 feet tall 100 pounds (a 6 or 7 depending on taste) came by while I was eating and asked me if I wanted a massage. I said no problem and for 1000 pesos (25 dollars) she agreed to do (massage, blow and fuck). It was really good GF type and cheap and I loved carrying the chica so light like in the porn movies. I gave her extra 10 dollars or total was 1400 persos or 35 dollars. I only stayed there for 3 nights because I did not like boca chica that much so I decided to take a Caribe tours bus to Sosua and stayed there instead and also Caberete. Almost all local people and service people at the Hotels know how to take the guaguas, carritos, and Caribe tours and metros so just ask them and most would tell you how the transportation works.
Good luck and have fun.
Fun afternoon in Boca Chica
Left LAX Sunday night on a red eye after being in Tijuana from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning and being completely drained by my Mexican girlfriend. Got no sleep on the plane from LAX to Newark and then on to Santo Domingo. Arrived in Boca Chica at 2 in the afternoon in a daze after being on two flights in a sardine can with an infant howling behind me for four hours on the last flight. Checked into Garant Suites, changed some money, stocked up the refrigerator, put on my bathing attire and hit the streets. Headed down to the beach and noticed a tall thin Dominican swimming off shore. I waited on the beach till she came to the shore and said good afternoon to her. She said the same and just walked by me. Oh well, I decided to take a walk on the pier and about five minutes later she comes over the pier and walks right by me. I ask her what's up and she said she was going swimming some more. We chatted and she invited me to go swimming with her. I waded out with her and after talking with her a while she did not seem like a working girl so I said that I was going to be going back to my hotel and figured I had nothing to lose so I invited her over. To my surprise she said yes. I told her I had dinner plans but would be available for two and a half hours. To avoid any surprises in the room I told her that I would give her 1,000 Pesos and she said okay. I made no mention of what my expectations were in the room.
We got to the room and I told her I was going to take a shower. She inquired if we would be showering together. I said hop in with me and while we where soaping one another up, she got on her hands and knees and started blowing me. We hit the cama and I gave her a massage and then went down on her. We where like animals and she was sucking her fingers and playing with herself. When she got off she exploded! After I got off we showered again together and talked about a sleep over for the next night while in the shower. While showering she started going down on me again and we landed back on the cama in a frenzy. A very intense repeat of what had happened just 30 minutes earlier. I didn't think I would finish with no time to recharge, a long weekend south of the border in Tijuana, and being sleep deprived but did.
This woman's face was nothing to write home about but had a nice lean body and was a horn-dog, just what I like! The best part of the experience was that I had no expectations what so ever and am still in awe as to what a turn on the whole experience was with her. I gave her 1,300 Pesos, a beer, a coke, and some oreo cookies and she was a happy camper when she left. Hopefully I'll see her again tomorrow.