Thread: Field of Dreams (FOD) Anybody?
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02-21-19 00:03 #213
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by Bliadun [View Original Post]
Still, let's give the new owners a chance to turn it round. Getting rid of Pedro's family and hangers-on is a great start.
Anyone know how we can change the thread title to Oasis Adult Resort?
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02-20-19 21:59 #212
Posts: 319Great news about new owners.
I wonder if they have a bikini contest.
Originally Posted by Manizales911 [View Original Post]
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02-20-19 19:26 #211
Posts: 2467Originally Posted by CharlesPooter [View Original Post]
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02-20-19 16:30 #210
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by CharlesPooter [View Original Post]
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02-20-19 14:32 #209
Posts: 2390Oasis Adult Resort
A year gone by and no-one has reported from Oasis. I went there a couple of months ago and was told they did not have a single resident guest.
Two friends dropped in yesterday and reported that the pool was drained and the bar area partially dug up because of drainage problems. With all their changes and various problems over the years I do not remember drainage being an issue, and it has not been particularly rainy lately. They had a refurbish a year ago so maybe they inadvertently changed something to cause this new problem.
When will they ever get that place right?
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02-09-18 21:27 #208
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by Bliadun [View Original Post]
But I also suggested the new Oasis website might need to be a little more "suggestive" to attract male customers. It is a delicate balancing act but not impossible.
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02-09-18 19:46 #207
Posts: 319I wonder how many others manage to do it for years.
Playboy vacation and some others have no problems.
Originally Posted by HuskerDude [View Original Post]
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02-08-18 22:57 #206
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by HuskerDude [View Original Post]
One minor interesting point is that they did mention that you could bring in your own "female companion", which is something Blackbeards do not encourage, although they certainly do not forbid it. When Dominican Billy founded and ran Field of Dreams for a few years there were no house chicas on site and he banned working girls from hanging there to solicit clients. (Apart from the occasional one who crept in under the guise of friend of his esposa, Wanda). This was mainly Billy being careful not to offend the Playa Dorada management, but he also wanted to avoid the hassle of having full-time working girls onsite with possible problems of drugs, fights, theft, their chulos, etc, etc.
That model suited me, and many other of his regulars, as we always preferred to find our own chicas "free-range". He would have been successful had his alcoholism, and resultant outbursts of foul temper, his inability to speak adequate Spanish, and his unfortunate choice of helpmate, not caused a continuous leakage of his loyal clientele. I wonder, if Oasis runs into trouble as a brothel (which is in effect what it is), it could survive on that model instead?
I live in Puerto Plata and there is no chica-friendly hotel for gringos I can recommend in the city. Just all-inclusives (not chica friendly) or Dominican-standard commercial hotels (which are adequate for ST but not where anyone would choose to spend their holiday). The camaraderie among the regulars at Billy's Field of Dreams was great. Mostly mature, sensible guys who understood the scene and how to carry themselves in public.
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02-08-18 05:33 #205
Posts: 384Thanks for the update Charles Pooter. I didn't think Tim would last long at Oasis. Tim was just used a an advisor, not a manager like I had thought. Also talked to Nico at BB, & I knew he would not return to FOD / Oasis, been there done that, much more stable job at BB for him. They can't put anything on the website about sex, as they don't at BB either. They would get busted immediately if they did. Hopefully they will find success, as I said we will see. They are putting in the effort that we have not seen before to upgrade the place.
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02-08-18 00:12 #204
Posts: 2390Capt Tim ceases to advise Field of Dreams (now Oasis Adult Resort)
As reported, Tim Bryant, who has held various supervisory positions at Blackbeards throughout most of the last decade, was invited to advise Pedro, the owner of Field of Dreams and submit proposals for a rethink of their policy and practices to make the place more popular and profitable.
Tim has just told me that, after two months of effort, he has now abandoned the attempt, as Pedro was not willing to adopt most of Tim's proposals and has indeed already embarked on his own plan for revamping the place.
The name has been changed to Oasis Adult Resort and there seems to be an attempt to appeal to upmarket clientele rather than try to compete on price. You can judge this for yourself from their new website, which apparently owes little to the one Tim was working on as part on an integrated new business plan and corporate image.
www.oasisadultresort.com
The new website lists the room prices, which are rather expensive once 18% ITBIS tax has been added to the prices shown. It says nothing, as yet, about bar and restaurant prices and gives no hard information about the chicas on offer and their pricing structure, though hopefully that can be ascertained by communicating with the resort.
One relatively small section of the market where Field of Dreams held all the aces was guys from Playa Dorada slipping away from their partners or families for "quickies". It was hoping to profit from this catchment area that inspired the late Dominican Billy to build Field of Dreams in the first place, only to find that, having built it, they did not come (not in sufficient numbers to make the place profitable, anyway). One of the deterrents was the opposition of the Playa Dorada owners association, to whom Dominican Billy had to be very diplomatic (hardly his strong suit!) Maybe Pedro has the same issue in mind as there is no indication on his new website that rooms will be available for ST sex.
Tim told me that his frustrations included:
-- failure to convince Pedro to let go certain family members who had a history of offending or neglecting customers.
-- non-competitive pricing policy.
-- extreme reluctance of Pedro's chosen web designer to co-operate with Tim.
-- failure of Pedro to read and discuss with him the regular daily reports which Tim wrote (I presume these included customer feedback).
-- failure to secure the return of Nico as manager.
As already reported by Husker Dude, Pedro has already embarked on an extensive physical refurbishment of the place, which can only be a good thing. My own, admittedly very infrequent, drop-ins (and mostly during off-peak hours) have given me the impression that the chicas on offer are well up to scratch (lookswise). At least as attractive as those on offer at Blackbeards, though how they perform and behave in the rooms I have no idea.
But none of the physical attractions of the place will suffice if they do not get the customer service aspects right. Only time will answer that one, but the way the website has been released before it has been carefully proof-read is not a good omen.
I wish them luck but at those prices none of my friends will be going there. There is a niche market for the "money no object" monger (as some recent posts on this board show) but whether that market is large enough to support Oasis remains to be seen.
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02-02-18 15:58 #203
Posts: 2390Originally Posted by HuskerDude [View Original Post]
I was there mid-Thursday afternoon a week ago (so really off-peak hours). There were eight chicas available of whom six were attractive. (No haitianas, boooooo!)
I am not sure what market they are aiming at. They do not need to tart the place up for visitors from Playa Dorada as that is a captive market with no other serious options.
Refurbishments are only worthwhile for overnight guests and they were badly needed as the place was getting run-down. But where will they get those overnight guests from? It would be a much more economic option for guys like Vannum (see the recent posts under Oxygen Retreat), but clients like that are few and far between. If things run smoothly, they will gradually build a following among such more affluent mongers, but can they stick it out for the two / three years that will take?
$50 for ST is not wildly unreasonable. The old Passions flourished with those sort of prices. But another $40 for ST room use is a killer (except for sneakaways from Playa Dorada). No-one is going to visit from Sosua at those prices.
Are we going to change this thread title to Oasis, or give it a few months to see if the new name lasts? If it were new management, I would suggest start a new thread, but as it is the same guy I am not totally confident the leopard will change his spots.
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02-02-18 03:10 #202
Posts: 384Stopped by a couple times last week. The resort FOD has a new name Oasis. The new website is www.oasisadultresort.com. Pedro remains the boss at Oasis. His kids Richie & Madeline still work there but not in management positions, just workers and do not touch any $ as they were responsible for almost of the stuff prior. (ripoffs) Jenny was taking the $ while I was there. It was just brief stops for me & I did not partake any chicas. It is $90 US or equivalent for chica & room ST. If you stay there chicas are $50 US or equiv. ST. Tim from BB is there, but working in the background on the website & menu. He lives on site in the dungeon room. Anita, the english lady is back working reservations and communications. They have repainted most everything and restained the woodwork everywhere. So it does appear to be nicer. Minifridges for each room were on order & are probably in now. They have new tables and chairs provided by Presidente. They will hopefully replace stuff like mattresses, pillows, etc in the near future. It appears they are working hard and Pedro is doing most of the work from what I hear. They have paved the driveway with new asphalt too. The chicas on site were pretty good compared to the past. Only a couple cows and lots of new faces, spinners too. They did have a bikini contest around 5 PM on Wednesday. Things maybe looking up. We shall see.
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01-03-18 04:53 #201
Posts: 2You guys are great, I appreciate all of the feedback. Thank you for answering my questions. Husker Dude, your golf story may have opened up some daytime opportunities for me. Yanqui, I don't speak Spanish so thanks for the quick Spanish for putas lesson. Sammon while your plan would bring better chicas at a better price I think being in the DR for the first time with my wife close by is probably a bit adventurous for my liking.
Charles I would very much like to meet up with you and buy you as many of those expensive coca colas as you'the like.
I will PM you.
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01-01-18 19:40 #200
Posts: 1110Originally Posted by JetMet [View Original Post]
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01-01-18 19:39 #199
Posts: 3281Originally Posted by JetMet [View Original Post]
If you want to go out every night book a separate room in Sosua hotels. BBBJ is quite common. If you compensate enough girls will stay as long as you want them. This is a business deal. Like anything some are real friendly and will do anything.
Do use protection because you definitely do not want to infect your wife.