Sosua Reports

[Jaosousa]

Excellent info that's exactly the message I got, thanks I'll try again tomorrow, much appreciated

Nowrath

Efecutivo or something like that on that Banco Popular ATM machines is to get cash, for checking account it is something like Corriente. Different DR banks will use different Spanish words on their ATM machines to describe checking or savings accounts.

[Nowrath]

About a year ago or more, the ATMs in and around Santo Domingo would not give me money when I chose English as the language. To get money from the machines I had to chose Spanish, as the language the machine would use. Using the ATMs with Spanish as the chosen language, the machines dispensed cash. With English chosen on Banco Popular machines I would receive an unauthorized usage message.

Excellent info that's exactly the message I got, thanks I'll try again tomorrow, much appreciated

Nowrath

[Jaosousa]

Gents.

For some reason the ATM banco POPULAR in Sousa is not working for me, clear it with my bank in USA before I left and got a ATM in Caberette to work for me at a gasoline store, any other working ATM in the Sousa area I can go to?

Thanks for any help.

Nowrath

About a year ago or more, the ATMs in and around Santo Domingo would not give me money when I chose English as the language. To get money from the machines I had to chose Spanish, as the language the machine would use. Using the ATMs with Spanish as the chosen language, the machines dispensed cash. With English chosen on Banco Popular machines I would receive an unauthorized usage message.

[Llttf]

Gents.

For some reason the ATM banco POPULAR in Sousa is not working for me, clear it with my bank in USA before I left and got a ATM in Caberette to work for me at a gasoline store, any other working ATM in the Sousa area I can go to?

Thanks for any help.

Nowrath

Try using the spanish option on the screen, for some reason that seems to work for me on that particular machine

[Patrk39]

I am looking for a reliable cab that can take me from Santiago to Sosua. If any members have a phone number please PM me.

Why take a taxi when you can take a bus for about 6 bucks?

[Conrad Hess]

I am looking for a reliable cab that can take me from Santiago to Sosua. If any members have a phone number please PM me.

[Charles Pooter]

Like I wrote, best bet is to use your card inside the bank. Safer, and you can ask for small bills. Change is hard to find in the DR.

Failing that, use ATMs outside banks. That way, if the machine "eats" your card or there is some other malfunction (much more common in the DR than in the "First World") you have some hope of getting help. God help you if it goes wrong in an ATM at a mercado or filling station because it will always be "someone else's" problem.

[BogieMaker]

Ok thanks for all the help, I must be blind and walking right by them, I see alot of Cambio's but I'll look harder for the ATM's also try the savings instead of checking account

Thanks for the info

Look for signs that say Cajero or Cajero Automatica. Most of the ones I saw were green.

Glad to see the tip on selecting savings at banco Popular since I have never got my card to work at that bank. Scotia works best for me. I have good luck at the ATM in the wall of Surf Liquors and there is guard in the daytime.

[Jaosousa]

Ok thanks for all the help, I must be blind and walking right by them, I see alot of Cambio's but I'll look harder for the ATM's also try the savings instead of checking account

Thanks for the info

All the ATM machines I used on my last trip in February. 2011 charged me $5US per transaction, then Chase Bank hit me for another $5US per international transaction fee, cost to use ATM machines for me on that last trip in and around Santo Domingo was $10US per transaction. Banco Leon ATM machines would give a max of 2000 pesos per transaction.

[Nowrath]

Their are plenty of ATM's all over Sosua. Ban Reserva, on Pedro Clisante does not charge the 112 peso atm fee but I was only able to get 4000 at a time. The 2 other banks at that intersection charge the fee but allow you to withdraw 10000 peso, which is cheaper for me because my bank charges me a tranaction fee too so fewer tranactions are cheaper.

And if the Banco Popular you are having trouble with is the one next to Bailey's, I had trouble there too. The English instructions are not translated properly. If you are trying to withdraw from a checking account, you must select savings or it will not work. I did this, selected savings even though the money is in a checking account, and got 10, 000 pesos. I pd the 112 peso atm fee and $3 from my bank, but the money came out of my checking account as it should have. Hope that helps.

Ok thanks for all the help, I must be blind and walking right by them, I see alot of Cambio's but I'll look harder for the ATM's also try the savings instead of checking account

Thanks for the info

[Charles Pooter]

If you are trying to withdraw from a checking account, you must select savings or it will not work. I did this, selected savings even though the money is in a checking account, and got 10, 000 pesos. I pd the 112 peso atm fee and $3 from my bank, but the money came out of my checking account as it should have. Hope that helps.

Quite right. And this problem is found with several other banks' ATMs as well. I have a checking account (only) with BHD but have to press "savings account" when using their ATMs.

Always worth a try if the ATM is not working for you, whatever the bank.

Your other option is to use your card inside the bank at the teller counter. I usually do this because I can then ask for small bills and coins (say 1000 in 100s, 1000 in 50s and 500 in coins). Safer too, but you will need your passport.

[Ug Man]

Gents.

For some reason the ATM banco POPULAR in Sousa is not working for me, clear it with my bank in USA before I left and got a ATM in Caberette to work for me at a gasoline store, any other working ATM in the Sousa area I can go to?

Thanks for any help.

Nowrath

Their are plenty of ATM's all over Sosua. Ban Reserva, on Pedro Clisante does not charge the 112 peso atm fee but I was only able to get 4000 at a time. The 2 other banks at that intersection charge the fee but allow you to withdraw 10000 peso, which is cheaper for me because my bank charges me a tranaction fee too so fewer tranactions are cheaper.

And if the Banco Popular you are having trouble with is the one next to Bailey's, I had trouble there too. The English instructions are not translated properly. If you are trying to withdraw from a checking account, you must select savings or it will not work. I did this, selected savings even though the money is in a checking account, and got 10, 000 pesos. I pd the 112 peso atm fee and $3 from my bank, but the money came out of my checking account as it should have. Hope that helps.

[Sidney]

Gents.

For some reason the ATM banco POPULAR in Sousa is not working for me, clear it with my bank in USA before I left and got a ATM in Caberette to work for me at a gasoline store, any other working ATM in the Sousa area I can go to?

Thanks for any help.

Nowrath

Progresso, near Super Liquors and Scotia, a little farther down P. C.

[Nowrath]

Gents.

For some reason the ATM banco POPULAR in Sousa is not working for me, clear it with my bank in USA before I left and got a ATM in Caberette to work for me at a gasoline store, any other working ATM in the Sousa area I can go to?

Thanks for any help.

Nowrath

[SavePros321]

you make one intetesting point i over looked from previous trips. the lack of noise in the hotel in the morning. back in the day you would hear every 30 minutes or so the click clack of a chica walking the hall as she leaves, damn right i ran to the window to peek out like a pervert. you would also see a line as chicas waited for their cedulas. my trip in march you could actually hear the birds churping in the morning.

damn man, you're going to make me break out the external hard drive, lol. those were the days!