Santo Domingo

[QUOTE=Bq Ribs]Great, I got 32 trips under the belt so I am no newbie. It would be nice if you could talk about something other than Bar360.[/QUOTE]About 25 trips. I went to Bar360 with Mr. Gogo and then a second time with a Dominican friend. The night I went with MrGogo, I had fun, I was dancing with some cute chicas. The second night was not so good, only one semi-unfriendly chica. I did meet some cute waitress in Bar360 who works in a restaurant on the next corner, nice restaurant seemed to have two floors, she gave me her number and email. What she was doing in Bar360, I don't know. I walked with her to the restaurant when she went back to work at the restaurant, maybe she was applying for a job at 360.

There are two sisters, maybe twins who live near 360. I saw them hanging out by the steps near the colmado that is adjacent to 360. Very cute chicas, but too young.

[QUOTE=Jaosousa]Whatever apartment you rent, be careful. Balcony's with sliding doors can be used by thieves to enter. Also bars on windows don't always stop thieves. Not sure if the apartments have safes. If you bring a laptop buy a cable lock, (if there is no safe or the safe is too small for your laptop). Some cheapy apartments and hotels skimp on security. As Knowledge has previously posted: "Be aware, be very aware"[/QUOTE]

I never leave anything of any real value in the room. I always have a backpack with my stuff and either lock it up in my girls house or take it with me. I grew up in the hood in Brooklyn so I am very street savy.

[QUOTE=Jaosousa]About 25 trips. I went to Bar360 with Mr. Gogo and then a second time with a Dominican friend. The night I went with MrGogo, I had fun, I was dancing with some cute chicas. The second night was not so good, only one semi-unfriendly chica. I did meet some cute waitress in Bar360 who works in a restaurant on the next corner, nice restaurant seemed to have two floors, she gave me her number and email. What she was doing in Bar360, I don't know. I walked with her to the restaurant when she went back to work at the restaurant, maybe she was applying for a job at 360.

There are two sisters, maybe twins who live near 360. I saw them hanging out by the steps near the colmado that is adjacent to 360. Very cute chicas, but too young.[/QUOTE]

The restaurant on the corner of Calle Mercedes is Grill4Ever, on of the waiters in the restaurant was the bartender @ 360. Maybe that's why she was in there. The girls that work in the restaurant are the daughters/Nieces of the owner of the restaurant. One is cuter than the next. The next time I'm down I am going out with Anni (sp?) she is a bit older than her sistes but is very friendly/pretty and has a great smile.

When Virginia, an older lady, expat from the states and hostess for the restaurant worked there. I would bring her Starbucks coffee from the states (she said she missed it, I don't know why Dominican coffee is so much better) and get some free meals out of it. But sadly, I think she was just working there as a favor as she did not make much working there.

Overall good food, a little pricey.

I am going to SD November 5-9th for the 7th time in the past 3 years. I was there a few years ago in November and the election or carnival was going on and it was hard to get around or everything was closed for 2 days for the election. There was about 3 chicas after hiring a hotel cab driver to take us to every casa and cruise the streets.

Is there anything going on in SD that week that would cause a shutdown?

Please advse.
J

[QUOTE=Score77]I am going to SD November 5-9th for the 7th time in the past 3 years. I was there a few years ago in November and the election or carnival was going on and it was hard to get around or everything was closed for 2 days for the election. There was about 3 chicas after hiring a hotel cab driver to take us to every casa and cruise the streets.

Is there anything going on in SD that week that would cause a shutdown?

Please advse.
J[/QUOTE]
Constitution Day weekend...........

Probably the worst times for shut down in the DR would be Xmas, and Easter, Election Day. I have been in the DR for the smaller holidays and it was not that bad. One good thing there was very little traffic in SD.

Play it safe and stock up on booze and Presidentes.

[QUOTE=Bq Ribs]Constitution Day weekend...........

Probably the worst times for shut down in the DR would be Xmas, and Easter, Election Day. I have been in the DR for the smaller holidays and it was not that bad. One good thing there was very little traffic in SD.

Play it safe and stock up on booze and Presidentes.[/QUOTE]

I went to Santo Domingo Xmas December 25-31, 2006 and it was one of my best travels. A lot of girls go to visit relatives on Dec. 24 but most of them came back to make some money.

On Easter everybody is with relatives or on the beach so beach towns are good choices.

Any action in SD on Sundays or it is better to go BC for that day?

[QUOTE=Aldod]Any action in SD on Sundays or it is better to go BC for that day? [/QUOTE]SD is quiet on Sundays, kind of nice, not much traffic (they close part of the Malecon on Sundays, no cars, only pedestrians). The weekends at Boca Chica are filled with Dominicans and their families. There should be chicas available every night in SDQ. Boca Chica during the day on Sunday should be crowded.

During the daytime on Sunday, you will see more chicas at Boca Chica. Personally, I prefer not to be at a crowded beach, with a bunch of yabbering kids around me. If you have never been there before (Boca Chica) on Sunday, go and check it out, there should be some normal cute dominican chicas at the beach. You can sit at a lounge chair in front of one of the restaurants and the waiter will come and take your order (you can order drinks and/or food). Bathrooms in some of those beach side restaurants, hold your breath.

Just returned from a ling Labor Day weekend in SD. Stayed on the Colonial Zone, Hotel Mercure. I hadn't been down there for 2.5 years since my last visit. El Conde has changed quite a bit with fewer drinking holes, pretty much only located at either ends of the street (Grand's and the hotel at the other end). Drink prices are not very economical either. It is said that high taxes have closed a lot of the establishments.

I did hit a few girl bars; Girl House, Sky House and Lapsus, to name a few.
Prices all right on in earlier posts, usually $80 for 2-hour take out. There is a little dumpy bar behind the Jaruaga Casino that has so-so talent for RD $1500 on-site. Also, while street walkers aren't my bag the Independencia area and Mallecon by the BP station were packed with working girls, many fine looking.

The biggest rip is the cab drivers and prices to get from one area to another. RD $200 - $300 in those piece o shit cabs is a joke. $40 from the airport to Colonial Zone, non-negotiable.

[QUOTE=Nixonbd]Just returned from a ling Labor Day weekend in SD. Stayed on the Colonial Zone, Hotel Mercure.[/QUOTE]Hope you had a nice trip. I read Hotel Mercure started charging a $20 USD chica fee a little over a year ago. Is that true?

[QUOTE=Nixonbd]..........El Conde has changed quite a bit with fewer drinking holes..........[/QUOTE]El Conde has changed a little although it never really was or is a place to go drinking. One thing SD really does not have is a good drinking hole. I have never found a Classicos, Merengue Bar, or even a Dominios Bar in SD like there are in Sosua. I really don't think there will ever be one as puta chasing is low key in SD compared to So Sewer the puta capital of the DR.

[QUOTE=Nixonbd]...There is a little dumpy bar behind the Jaruaga Casino that has so-so talent for RD $1500 on-site.......[/QUOTE]Would that be Aurora? A pinkish color outdoor bar with a few chicas. Aurora is really a hit or miss, most times it is a miss. I never knew they did on-site as I always prefer take out. Aurora is RD1800 take out.

[QUOTE=Nixonbd]....Also, while street walkers aren't my bag the Independencia area and Mallecon by the BP station were packed with working girls, many fine looking.....[/QUOTE]I used to think the same way. Recently I found out you can really find some gems in that crowd of street walkers. The main thing you need to spend some time interviewing the chica first. I don't speak Spanish but with limited Spanish and watching the chica's response you will find a winner.


[QUOTE=Nixonbd]..........The biggest rip is the cab drivers and prices to get from one area to another. RD $200 - $300 in those piece o shit cabs is a joke. $40 from the airport to Colonial Zone, non-negotiable.[/QUOTE]
They must have seen "gringo" written on your forehead. RD150 is the taxi price to anywhere in centro SD during the day and some cabies will up it to RD200 at night.

It is a fixed $40 rate at the airport. There are a few ways to get cheaper transpo to SD but not sure if it is worth the hassle. You can also have a cabbie waiting for you at the same price or rent a car for one day. A car can be picked up at the airport and dropped off in centro SD the next day for $40US +/-.

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[QUOTE=Nixonbd]The biggest rip is the cab drivers and prices to get from one area to another. RD $200 - $300 in those piece o shit cabs is a joke. $40 from the airport to Colonial Zone, non-negotiable.[/QUOTE]

Fixed price is $40, I usually say "thanks, I am going to call somebody". They always go down to $35. I have a guy that pick me up for $25. This is the rate most taxi companies outside airport will charge you. There are some taxi guy numbers posted here before that can give you a good price.

[QUOTE=Bq Ribs]Hope you had a nice trip. I read Hotel Mercure started charging a $20 USD chica fee a little over a year ago. Is that true?

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They were charging $17 over a year ago when I stayed there. I complained after my first chica arrived and the lobby guy pointed to the wall behind him showing the new visit fee which was $8 and told him that they were going to lose business from single travelers. Five chicas visited me that time, I was charged only one time. I prefer to stay near malecon area.

Anyone know of a place with live music? I went to a restaurant, Conoco, the last time I was down and they had a great floor show. Live music, great dancing, combined with canned music. Pretty good entertainment and the food wasn't bad.

Looking for a place where I can listen to some good music and chill with Novia numero dos.

[QUOTE=Cagep1967]Anyone know of a place with live music? I went to a restaurant, Conoco, the last time I was down and they had a great floor show. Live music, great dancing, combined with canned music. Pretty good entertainment and the food wasn't bad.

Looking for a place where I can listen to some good music and chill with Novia numero dos.[/QUOTE]
You can try Jaragua Hotel/Casino. They have live entertainment nightly. Usually local talent.

Is this the restaurant?
[url]http://elconuco.com.do/loquepasa/[/url]

El Conuco
Casímiro de Mora No. 152
Gazcue, Santo Domingo

[QUOTE=Cagep1967]Anyone know of a place with live music? I went to a restaurant, Conoco, the last time I was down and they had a great floor show. Live music, great dancing, combined with canned music. Pretty good entertainment and the food wasn't bad.

Looking for a place where I can listen to some good music and chill with Novia numero dos.[/QUOTE]Hard Rock Cafe has live music more so on the weekends. The Jaragua Casino corner bar usually has a live band every night. Some people will get up and dance. Monte Cristo Cafe may have live music some nights: [url]http://www.montecristocafe.com.do/[/url].

While doing the tour for street chicas at night, I'll drive down the Malecon and make the right at that gas station after the Hilton (BP gas station?) and then up to Ave. Independencia where I'll make another right onto Ave. Independencia. About two blocks from that gas station, there is a plaza on the left hand side of Ave. Independencia. On the second floor of that Plaza there is a club/discoteca that sometimes has live music. I am not sure of the name of it and never went into it, maybe Platinum. When they are open there are usually a good number of cars parked outside. I parked outside to go in one night and guys in the street where telling me some woman was singing there and that there was a cover charge, not sure if I understood them correctly but I thought they said the cover charge was something like mil pesos. I'll pay a cover charge to hear live music but not mil pesos in some discoteca (maybe I misunderstood them about the price).