Santo Domingo

You have posted photos and good reports in the Costa Rica forums, thanks for your contributions to the board.

No shortage of chica friendly hotels in Santo Domingo, for $60 and under.

The closest hotel to the mongering scene would be Hotel Mystik. Hotel Mystik is next door to Girl's House and Satin House. Mystik is about $50-$55 per night and has wifi internet. Mystik is on Avenida Pasteur which is a busy street during the day. On one side of Hotel Mystik is an empty lot and next to the empty lot is a popular, very small fried food place. Late at night chicas from Bar 305 walk over to that fried food place to eat. Next to the fried food place is a colmado (very small grocery store) where you can buy soda, beer, chips etc.

1/2 block up the street from the Mystik is the Restaurant Villar Hernanos. You can get food to eat in or take out (they also have a bakery and they also make sandwiches). They also sell fried food, which are like finger food. I usually buy 4-5 of those small fried food pieces and they put them on a Styrofoam tray with plastic wrap and I eat them back at my room.

Across the street from Villar Hernanos Restaurant is Bar 305, which is the newest brothel in Santo Domingo, with at least 20 chicas who live on site.

1/2 block down the street from the Hotel Mystik is the Malecon (sea side street also known as Avenida George Washington), Intercontinental V Centenario Hotel and Casino is located at that corner. One block over from there is the Hotel Melia and Casino which has the Bar Coppa, where some pros hang out at night.

Some guys don't like Hotel Mystik because it is too busy. I have walked in front of the Mystik many times during the day and night and never had a problem. I have not been inside hotel Mystik. For purely mongering purposes and if you are not bashful, then Hotel Mystik is in a good location with a good price. I don't know how the rooms are.

Hotel Riazor is on ave independencia about three blocks from Hotel Mystik. Riazor is next door to a 24/7 restaurant and is located behind a large hotel/casino (jaragua hotel and casino which is owned by Marriott). Riazor is not next door to a brothel, so it is a little more discreet, price for riazor is about $60-$70.

There are several other chica friendly hotels in the area near hotel mystik that have room rates for $50 and under. Hotel Casona Dorada (no safes in all rooms), Hotel Navarro, Hotel Duque Wellington, Hotel Maison Gatreux and Hotel Venezia.

Hotel Venezia is nice, but late at night it will be a lonely walk on Independencia.

Maison Gatreux is on a side street around the corner from a large hotel and casino (Intercontinental).

If you don't mind being in a busy area where people might see you coming and gong with different chicas, then Hotel Mystik for around $50, is the closest hotel to the action.

Sosua only for 1 day? It is about a 4 hour bus ride from Santo Domingo. If you want to visit Sosua, you may want to schedule at least 2 days there.

To visit Sosua from Santo Domingo, the two bigger bus companies are Caribe Tours and Metro. One way price from Santo Domingo to Sosua is under $10 US. Metro is $1-$2 more expensive than Caribe Tours. Metro buses are usually a little newer and nicer.

The Metro bus stop in Sosua is in the El Batey section of Sosua, which is where the hotels are and the mongering. Caribe Tours bus station in Sosua is in the Charamicos section of Sosua and from that bus station to where the hotels are located is about 1 mile.

Metro has a nice bus station on Avenida Churchill (just north of ave. 27 de febrero) in Santo Domingo. The bus station is a one story white building with external parking, an air conditioned waiting room that has a small restaurant, it is located in a good neighborhood.

Caribe Tours generally has more buses traveling to Sosua from Santo Domingo. Metro and Caribe Tours have webpages with their schedules.

Taxi fare from Hotel Mystik or Hotel Riazor to the metro bus station is about 150-200 pesos.

On the metro and Caribe Tours buses in Dom Rep, they usually crank the air conditioning high, so you may want want to have a jacket or sweatshirt for the ride.

[QUOTE=Muf Diver]I understand that there is a chica crack down going on in DR. As this is my first trip to DR, would you please suggest a few guest friendly hotels in SDQ?

Jacousa suggested several places in Zona Colonial. (Thanks a million Jacousa! You are a great help to newbies like me!) However, I would like to find a small hotel with clean rooms, A/C, guest friendly, close to all the action, if there is any left! I understand that there are not a lot of action in Zona Colonial. But, I could always take a taxi during the day or early evening to Zona Colonial, and be a tourist for a couple of days.

I would like to have internet connection, either wired or wireless, in the room, but it is *not* mandatory. I intend to bring an unlocked 4 band phone from US, and buy a local chip for communications.

I read about Riazor, Jaguar, etc. My budget is $60 per day for a hotel room, if I could find it.

Also, I was planning to visit Sousa just for a night. Any suggestions for this?

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Happy mongering![/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=BoricuaOnline]3 pictures of a dominican chica with asian features I met 4 years ago at hotel Jaragua casino.[/QUOTE]Nice nipples, thanks for posting.

[QUOTE=BoricuaOnline]I have seen asians in Santo Domingo staying at Mercure (guest friendly) and in other hotels. It is not rare to see europeans and asians in Mercure since it is an european hotel.[/QUOTE]I have seen many Korean-Americans at the airport traveling to Dom Rep to golf. I always see Asian guys gambling at the Jaragua Casino.

[QUOTE=BoricuaOnline]3 pictures of a dominican chica with asian features I met 4 years ago at hotel Jaragua casino.[/QUOTE]

Nice, Una Tipa muy bonita

[QUOTE=Muf Diver]............Also, I was planning to visit Sousa just for a night. Any suggestions for this?

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Happy mongering![/QUOTE]

Muf,

Although the DR is a small country, SDQ and Sosua are on opposite sides of the island. I just wanted to make sure you understood the geography of the landscape there. One day in Sosua may not be worth the travel for you.

My 2 cents.

P

Five hour bus ride to Sosua, five hours back, taxi to and from bus station. No vale pena. Do Sosua the next time. Not my cup of tea but yoou might want to spend the night in Boca Chica which is less than an hour away.

[quote=jaosousa]roofies = date [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord123][CodeWord123][/url] drug.

why would you want to have sex with an unconsciousness woman?

i believe the prisons are absolute hell holes in dom rep. i would have to guess that the use of "roofies" to tranquilize and basically [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord123][CodeWord123][/url] a woman is illegal in every country on this planet.[/quote]i think he wants to bring them home - the low dr prices can't be found in us etc so roofies help.

[QUOTE=Escort King]I think he wants to bring them home - the low DR prices can't be found in US etc so roofies help.[/QUOTE]My guess being a tranquilizer type drug they are more controlled in Dom Rep, like oxycontin, you can't walk into a pharmacy in Dom Rep and buy them without a prescription.

Other drugs like Viagra and Cialis you can buy without a prescription. You can also buy antibiotics without a prescription in DR.

Pain killers and other similar type drugs, it is my understanding that a pharmacy in Dom Rep will require a prescription.

[QUOTE=Jaosousa]Some guys don't like Hotel Mystik because it is too busy. I have walked in front of the Mystik many times during the day and night and never had a problem. I have not been inside hotel Mystik. For purely mongering purposes and if you are not bashful, then Hotel Mystik is in a good location with a good price. I don't know how the rooms are.
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Hey Jao, there a few pics inside Mystik rooms. I hope the girls in the pictures do not distract you in observing room details. Chicas courtesy of Sky High.

[QUOTE=BoricuaOnline]3 pictures of a dominican chica with asian features I met 4 years ago at hotel Jaragua casino.[/QUOTE]Boricua, I believe I met this girl in SDQ about 3-4 years ago as well, I think she worked at one of the houses by the casino; the service was good.

I am not sure what the purpose of this "crackdown" is, either 1. To show good face and to show the people that the policia is out there protecting and harrassing touristas. Or 2.completely financial and therefore forcing the chicas into casas and getting bribes from the casas to continue running them. They want to takeaway the freelancers because its just to hard to get bribe money from that many chicas and johns every night, too much work, too many cars to stop and chicas to chase! And, as with all things Dominican it will bite them in the ass, ultimately. Just my two cents.

[QUOTE=Gas6459]Boricua, I believe I met this girl in SDQ about 3-4 years ago as well, I think she worked at one of the houses by the casino; the service was good.

I am not sure what the purpose of this "crackdown" is, either 1. To show good face and to show the people that the policia is out there protecting and harrassing touristas. Or 2.completely financial and therefore forcing the chicas into casas and getting bribes from the casas to continue running them. They want to takeaway the freelancers because its just to hard to get bribe money from that many chicas and johns every night, too much work, too many cars to stop and chicas to chase! And, as with all things Dominican it will bite them in the ass, ultimately. Just my two cents.[/QUOTE]

Possibly just for the same reason that street prostitution is cracked down on in the US. Since the Gazcue/Colonial/HIstorical district is the epicenter of Santo Domingo's tourist area, a reputation for street prostitutes is generally detrimental to the tourism business and female visitors in particular will find it offensive or discourage their male partners from doing business in SD.

For example, do you think overseas school trips from the US would see Santo Domingo as a suitable destination? Probably not, even though it is obviously the oldest city in the New World and unique in world history.

If the girls are in the casas, then non-mongering visitors will not be aware of them unless approached by touts, and the touts are less likely to hand cards to men accompanied by women.

Just a thought, but you might be able to get more information about the internal politics of the DR by reading Listin Diario--I just don't have the time.

Actually, there is a Listin Diario editorial (link below) that seems to be discussing what I said above, namely that the Malecon area is unsightly because of trash, prostitutes, poor general security, etc.

[url]http://www.listin.com.do/puntos-de-vista/2010/10/6/161541/Paranoia-municipal[/url]

[QUOTE=BoricuaOnline]Hey Jao, there a few pics inside Mystik rooms. I hope the girls in the pictures do not distract you in observing room details. Chicas courtesy of Sky High.[/QUOTE]No complaints with those photos, attractive chicas. The one chica you must have been joking with her when you took the photo, she has a cute smile. Nice pics, thanks for posting.

The Malecon at rush hour is bumper to bumper traffic. Many vehicles including large trucks spew nasty smoke and fumes from their exhausts. I would not want to take a walk on the malecon during rush hour and have to breathe that pollution.

Could they make the Malecon more pedestrian friendly? Maybe. Some people may envision something similar to what you see on the westside of Manhattan, where there are bicycle paths and paths for people to jog and rollerblade along the Hudson River.

Santo Domingo is hot during the day, so even if the Malecon was spruced up, I don't know if people would walk along the Malecon during the daytime heat.

[QUOTE=Frannie]Possibly just for the same reason that street prostitution is cracked down on in the US. Since the Gazcue/Colonial/HIstorical district is the epicenter of Santo Domingo's tourist area, a reputation for street prostitutes is generally detrimental to the tourism business and female visitors in particular will find it offensive or discourage their male partners from doing business in SD.

For example, do you think overseas school trips from the US would see Santo Domingo as a suitable destination? Probably not, even though it is obviously the oldest city in the New World and unique in world history.

If the girls are in the casas, then non-mongering visitors will not be aware of them unless approached by touts, and the touts are less likely to hand cards to men accompanied by women.

Just a thought, but you might be able to get more information about the internal politics of the DR by reading Listin Diario--I just don't have the time.

Actually, there is a Listin Diario editorial (link below) that seems to be discussing what I said above, namely that the Malecon area is unsightly because of trash, prostitutes, poor general security, etc.

[url]http://www.listin.com.do/puntos-de-vista/2010/10/6/161541/Paranoia-municipal[/url][/QUOTE]

If anyone could recommend an apartment in SDQ for November, please PM me. I am thinking about a 2 to 3 week trip, so not really down with paying $60 a day for hotels.

I spent 6 days in the DR at the beggining of this month. I decided to stay with a dominican gf, so mongering was out of the question. I did drive a few times thru Av Indepedencia at night and there were no groups of SW in site. I did manage to spot a couple of them walking alone, seemed they need to stay on the move instead of standing on the corners.

Spent my last 2 nights at the Riazor and it sucked. The AC was weak and the bed squeaked so loud, maybe Boricua Online spent one of his trips screwing on that bed. At one point in the middle of the action the support bar under the mattress fell on the ground. Tried to change rooms but dominican people always find excuses to twist the obvious. I should've gone to the Jaguar. I also used Venezia, but they kept charging me for a chica fee, so that place is done for me.

Someone out of Mexico stole money from my account after having using my card in the DR. I only paid Nacional car rental, Riazor, and made a few ATM transactions with that card. The same thing happened after my July trip, but since only $40 were removed, I decided to ignore it, thinking that could've been someone affiliated with the hotel I had used in Samana. I will never use my card overseas again. This same crap happened in Colombia 2 years ago, so from now on I will only bring cash to my trips.

At least 10 times I had to cancel credit cards and get new cards after traveling to dom rep. 5 or 6 times, small charges were being made in mexico. A few times the people tried to buy airline tickets, which I thought was strange since you have to give your real name when you buy airplane tickets. About 4 months ago a group of Dominicans were arrested for selling credit card info, that was then used to clone credit cards.

My last trip I had no problems with my credit card. I always use my credit card to rent a car at Alamo. Alamo and National are partner companies in Dom Rep.

The fraudulent charges were always removed from my credit card account.

I did a search two months ago and found apartments for rent in SDQ, furnished and not expensive and not requiring a long term commitment. I will look for those links and post them here.

I should be in SDQ in the beginning of November, I will definitely drive up to Santiago for 2 nights. I may stay in an apartment in zona colonial
(santo domingo), Bq Ribs gave the outside of the place a passing grade.

Orbitz has a coupon: DEALPRO10, takes 10% off the price of hotels, 1 night or more.

Maison Gatreux is not bad for $45 per night. I was never charged an extra chica fee when I stayed there, it is a small hotel with good security and good A/C.

Anyone in SDQ or Santiago, beginning part of November let me know, for a few shots of tequila.

[QUOTE=Panman]If anyone could recommend an apartment in SDQ for November, please PM me. I am thinking about a 2 to 3 week trip, so not really down with paying $60 a day for hotels.

I spent 6 days in the DR at the beggining of this month. I decided to stay with a dominican gf, so mongering was out of the question. I did drive a few times thru Av Indepedencia at night and there were no groups of SW in site. I did manage to spot a couple of them walking alone, seemed they need to stay on the move instead of standing on the corners.

Spent my last 2 nights at the Riazor and it sucked. The AC was weak and the bed squeaked so loud, maybe Boricua Online spent one of his trips screwing on that bed. At one point in the middle of the action the support bar under the mattress fell on the ground. Tried to change rooms but dominican people always find excuses to twist the obvious. I should've gone to the Jaguar. I also used Venezia, but they kept charging me for a chica fee, so that place is done for me.

Someone out of Mexico stole money from my account after having using my card in the DR. I only paid Nacional car rental, Riazor, and made a few ATM transactions with that card. The same thing happened after my July trip, but since only $40 were removed, I decided to ignore it, thinking that could've been someone affiliated with the hotel I had used in Samana. I will never use my card overseas again. This same crap happened in Colombia 2 years ago, so from now on I will only bring cash to my trips.[/QUOTE]