Sosua Reports

[QUOTE=Anthwhenhe;1232452]I am new to the scene and am dying to go to the DR to meet some of those beautiful honeys. Just wondering if it is possible to do this with very little knowledge of Spanish.[/QUOTE]Spanish would make a trip to the DR easier and more enjoyable but certainly not necessary. I have visited Sosua 5 times and speak zero Spanish. I quickly learned how to play and enjoy the game. If you want an absolutely stress free and safe trip try Black Beards. Read the trip reports. They contain lots of useful information.

[QUOTE=SavePros321;1232462]I hear'ya AlwaysHorny2.[/QUOTE]Pajama party pics, Shots Bar, Plaza Uris, Santo Domingo. Photos from bufeo. Com.

[QUOTE=Hillbilly69; 1232485]I have said it before that early Spirit or Jet Blue flight into STI find someone who is heading North that is on same plane as you, plenty of time waiting for a tourist card, in Immigration or at final check point or wait a few hours in their chairs just outside the car rental counter at the Exit, then take cab to bus station if you think it is worth your time or take a cab to a Cabana for few hours to catch some sleep. I found several people going to Sosua each flight coming into Santiago, maybe even start asking people at your last layover while the plane is boarding.

If you have to take a cab I wouldn't pay them more than eighty bucks, just ask around someone will take you to Sosua for that.[/QUOTE]Santiago Pasion night club is open until 4 or 5 am. Its not that far from the airport. 10 to 15$ max taxi. There are cabanas right next to it, where you can rent one for several hours. I don't know how cabanas operate but I guess you leave your bags there, then continue the taxi to pasion, its closeby but at that hour you wouldn't want to walk. You should find better deals in pasion at that hour, have fun with a chica, get some sleep and then you can take the bus to Sosua. The taxi from cabana to bus station should be much cheaper. 150 to 200 pesos.

[QUOTE=Anthwhenhe;1232452]I am new to the scene and am dying to go to the DR to meet some of those beautiful honeys. Just wondering if it is possible to do this with very little knowledge of Spanish.[/QUOTE]No problem at all. Most first-time visitors have little or no Spanish. Some guys have been coming for ten years and are still that way.

Very safe and fairly-priced places to start are Blackbeards and Field of Dreams. Or for a bit more variety, stay in Sosúa and hook up with more experienced guys to show you the ropes. Rocky's Bar is a good place to meet mongers.

Of course you can visit other places without Spanish but you might find yourself paying more than Spanish speakers one way or another or missing a few tricks.

If you can learn a few basic words and phrases (especially numerals for prices!) it will enhance your trip but it is not essential.

[QUOTE=Kman1;1232251]At a regular night club at SD or Santiago[/QUOTE]Hawaiian ladies night, Level Bar, Santiago. Santiago, depending the route and time of day, can be a little over an hour from Sosua.

[QUOTE=Anthwhenhe;1232452]I am new to the scene and am dying to go to the DR to meet some of those beautiful honeys. Just wondering if it is possible to do this with very little knowledge of Spanish.[/QUOTE]Yes, amigo (Spanish for friend) you can meet honeys without speaking Spanish. But it would be a good idea to have a laptop or iPhone with Google Translate, so that you can communicate with them a bit. And even if you only have a couple of weeks lead-in time, you can learn some basic Spanish phrases like greetings and please and thank you before you come. There are lots of people LIVING in Sosua who hardly speak a word of Spanish OR English, and they are surviving perfectly well with their German, Russian, or Canadian French.

Sí, amigo (español para un amigo) se puede conocer las mieles sin hablar español. Pero sería una buena idea tener un laptop o iPhone con Google Translate, para que pueda comunicarse con ellas un poco. Y si sólo tiene un par de semanas de tiempo para prepararse, usted puede aprender algunas frases beásicas como español saludos why por favor why gracias antes de venir. Hay un montóand de personas que viven en Sosua, que casi no hablan una palabra de español o Inglés, why que estáand sobreviviendo muy bien con sus conocimientos de alemáand, ruso o francés canadiense.

(Courtesy Google Translator with corrections by me.)

[url]http://translate.google.com/[/url]

With this program you can actually speak a phrase in English, and it will translate it into Spanish and then play it back aloud in Spanish. Sometimes it gets it wrong, but the key to this is to keep your English inputs simple and grammatical.

[QUOTE=Dick Hertz;1232479]I am planning a trip to Sosua next month but I could save two hundred dollars if I fly into Santiago. My problem is my flight get in and leave very early in the morning so I wanted to take a taxi but I cannot get a price. I heard that a oneway fare was $80, then $100 and now 35 dollars. I know about the two bus lines but because of the early flight times I would need a taxi. In the past I would just flight to POP with one connection total time under nine hours but now it is not that easy. Now two connection with a minimum time of over fifthteen hour to POP or an eight hour flight to STI and with the cab or bus ride will still be faster. Thanks for the help.[/QUOTE]

Here's the deal. You save $200 but you incur the additional huge inconvenience of flying in and out at ungodly hours, and the additional expense of extra taxis, overnight stays in Santiago, and so on. You fly to POP, you are in your hotel room 45 minutes after landing, and on the day of departure, you have your room, bathroom, hotel pool, etc. Until a few minutes before you leave for the airport which is 10 minutes away.

It isn't worth it. However, if you really need to cut $200 off your total trip expenses, there are a couple of possibilities:

1. Check the price for each day of the week on American Airlines and see if you can change your flights to cheaper days of the week. For example Wednesday is much cheaper than Thursday, and it is cheaper to fly out on a Sunday (I think).

2. Consider cutting your trip one day shorter to save $200.

Either of these is better than going through all that hassle of late night / early morning travel. However, with an 8-hour direct flight to Santiago or 15 hours to POP, you sounds like you may be coming from Europe, so would have to take into account time differences etc. and what I am saying may not apply.

[QUOTE=Frannie; 1232659]It isn't worth it. However, if you really need to cut $200 off your total trip expenses, there are a couple of possibilities:

1. Check the price for each day of the week on American Airlines and see if you can change your flights to cheaper days of the week. For example Wednesday is much cheaper than Thursday, and it is cheaper to fly out on a Sunday (I think).[/QUOTE]It's actually cheaper to fly out on Monday (or Tuesday). I have always flown out on Sundays and when I am playing around with the travel dates on Travelocity or Orbitz I find that the Monday departure dates bring down your fare some. I've also noticed that this applies to other destinations as well (CR, MDE, SDQ, etc.).


[QUOTE=Frannie;1232659]Here's the deal. You save $200 but you incur the additional huge inconvenience of flying in and out at ungodly hours, and the additional expense of extra taxis, overnight stays in Santiago, and so on. You fly to POP, you are in your hotel room 45 minutes after landing, and on the day of departure, you have your room, bathroom, hotel pool, etc. Until a few minutes before you leave for the airport which is 10 minutes away.
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Absolutely agree 110%. The other advantage of being only 10 minutes away from the airport is on departure day you still have plenty of time to squeeze in a chica or two before checking out, and still have enough time for the free breakfast as well. Both New Garden and Terra Linda have always let me do late check-outs without any extra charge.

American charged 900+ round trip Dec. 6 return Dec. 24 2011 a lot higher than normal. I just booked Delta leaving Va. At 6am to JFK to SDQ arriving SDQ 130pm and returning STI 130pm to JFK to Va. Arriving 830pm. This flight has pretty decent times and we will get a cab to metro station then to the north coast. Round trip price including the fees and taxes was 372. 00 cheapest rate I have seen in a couple of years. Today the same trip is available for 411. 00 so it is still cheap. I am counting the days. 75 to go.

[QUOTE=Kman1;1232539]Santiago Pasion night club is open until 4 or 5 am. Its not that far from the airport. 10 to 15$ max taxi. There are cabanas right next to it, where you can rent one for several hours. I don't know how cabanas operate but I guess you leave your bags there, then continue the taxi to pasion, its closeby but at that hour you wouldn't want to walk. You should find better deals in pasion at that hour, have fun with a chica, get some sleep and then you can take the bus to Sosua. The taxi from cabana to bus station should be much cheaper. 150 to 200 pesos.[/QUOTE]Zeus Cabaña is on the same side road as Pasion and by car is less than 2 minutes from Pasion.

To enter and exit a cabaña (leaving your valuables in the room) with the intention of re-entering the same room later in the night, you would have to speak with a worker at the cabana (I am not sure whether they do that). Each room of the cabaña has a parking spot with a garage door. The way you know a room is available, is when a garage door is open. The only way into the room is through the space where you would park the car. Once you have entered the parking space for the room, you touch a button on the wall and the garage door closes and then you enter the room through a door (which you can lock from the inside). At a cabaña you are never given a room key. When you have finished your business in the cabaña room, you open the garage door and eventually exit the cabana complex. The workers outside see you exit and they enter the room to clean it (usually when they are cleaning it, they will put a traffic cone blocking the entrance of the parking space or they will close the garage door half way).

Probably you could speak with a worker at the cabaña and tell him you are coming back to the room, but your luggage will be in the room where the cabaña workers have access to it, as well as anyone else who might be able to sneak into the room (unless the cabaña workers have a way to close the garage door and lock it from the outside until you return). If you do all of that, you had better remember which room your stuff is in.

If you had a trustworthy taxi driver who picked you up at the santiago airport, you could leave your luggage in the taxi, stop at pasion after exiting the airport, have the taxi driver sit in his car with your luggage in it, while you enter Pasion to choose a hoochie and then drive to a cabaña with the hoochie mama. Cabaña rentals are usually 4 hours (you can stay for as long as you want, if you want 8 hours, just tell the worker). Zeus Cabaña which is close to Pasion nightclub, the one time I used it, years ago, was nothing special, I paid about 480 pesos (about $12US) for the room for a 4 hour rental. In that same area on the main road heading into the center of santiago are at least 5 cabañas. Bora Bora is probably the nicest. If the Hoochie wants to leave before you are ready to exit, you can pick up the phone in the room and ask the worker at the cabana to call a taxi for the woman. Same can be done when you are ready to exit. You can order food and drinks (including breakfast) at many cabañas. All transactions and deliveries of towels, soap, extra sheets, food, condoms, drinks, and payment of the bill is done through a small door in a wall in the room, the person on the other side of that small door doesn't see you.

[QUOTE=Tsunami911;1232719]American charged 900+ round trip Dec. 6 return Dec. 24 2011 a lot higher than normal. I just booked Delta leaving Va. At 6am to JFK to SDQ arriving SDQ 130pm and returning STI 130pm to JFK to Va. Arriving 830pm. This flight has pretty decent times and we will get a cab to metro station then to the north coast. Round trip price including the fees and taxes was 372. 00 cheapest rate I have seen in a couple of years. Today the same trip is available for 411. 00 so it is still cheap. I am counting the days. 75 to go.[/QUOTE]You are comparing apples to oranges if you are comparing a trip around Christmas to a trip that is 75 days from now. If you wanted to go 75 days from now you could have gone from JFK to Puerto Plata (POP) for $477. And you would land on the north coast 15 minutes from Sosua, hence getting laid within an hour of landing instead of getting on a bus.

Getting into POP from any other place in the US but NYC, are often times cost-prohibitive. I just refuse to pay $900 for an economy RT ticket.

And the logistics of STI are daunting: AA arrives at 8m, Spirit at 3 am. Getting to Sosua by bus is out-of-the-question, and I will not even ride a taxi to Sosua a nighttime. Just too dangerous which ever of the three routes they go.

And then there is credit card churning. Which is what I do. Rather than pay $800+ on AA to POP for an economy class ticket, I'll fly in and out for $130 in taxes in business class. Five days after my return, I 'll be bound for Germany on US Airways for $135 RT. .

[QUOTE=Manizales911;1232794]You are comparing apples to oranges if you are comparing a trip around Christmas to a trip that is 75 days from now. If you wanted to go 75 days from now you could have gone from JFK to Puerto Plata (POP) for $477. And you would land on the north coast 15 minutes from Sosua, hence getting laid within an hour of landing instead of getting on a bus.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Jaosousa; 1232737]Zeus Cabaña is on the same side road as Pasion and by car is less than 2 minutes from Pasion.

To enter and exit a cabaña (leaving your valuables in the room) with the intention of re-entering the same room later in the night, you would have to speak with a worker at the cabana (I am not sure whether they do that). Each room of the cabaña has a parking spot with a garage door. The way you know a room is available, is when a garage door is open. The only way into the room is through the space where you would park the car. Once you have entered the parking space for the room, you touch a button on the wall and the garage door closes and then you enter the room through a door (which you can lock from the inside). At a cabaña you are never given a room key. When you have finished your business in the cabaña room, you open the garage door and eventually exit the cabana complex. The workers outside see you exit and they enter the room to clean it (usually when they are cleaning it, they will put a traffic cone blocking the entrance of the parking space or they will close the garage door half way).

Probably you could speak with a worker at the cabaña and tell him you are coming back to the room, but your luggage will be in the room where the cabaña workers have access to it, as well as anyone else who might be able to sneak into the room (unless the cabaña workers have a way to close the garage door and lock it from the outside until you return). If you do all of that, you had better remember which room your stuff is in.

If you had a trustworthy taxi driver who picked you up at the santiago airport, you could leave your luggage in the taxi, stop at pasion after exiting the airport, have the taxi driver sit in his car with your luggage in it, while you enter Pasion to choose a hoochie and then drive to a cabaña with the hoochie mama. Cabaña rentals are usually 4 hours (you can stay for as long as you want, if you want 8 hours, just tell the worker). Zeus Cabaña which is close to Pasion nightclub, the one time I used it, years ago, was nothing special, I paid about 480 pesos (about $12US) for the room for a 4 hour rental. In that same area on the main road heading into the center of santiago are at least 5 cabañas. Bora Bora is probably the nicest. If the Hoochie wants to leave before you are ready to exit, you can pick up the phone in the room and ask the worker at the cabana to call a taxi for the woman. Same can be done when you are ready to exit. You can order food and drinks (including breakfast) at many cabañas. All transactions and deliveries of towels, soap, extra sheets, food, condoms, drinks, and payment of the bill is done through a small door in a wall in the room, the person on the other side of that small door doesn't see you.[/QUOTE]Very good info on cabanas for those who are not familiar. $12 for 4 to 8 hrs is a steal. Well, in that case you can leave the bags in the taxi trunk while at Pasion, you can also inform the security guys outside Pasion and point out the taxi and driver to be more safe. But you definitely want to pre negotiate with the taxi driver incl. Wait time to avoid surprises. Pasion can offer many choices and picking one / negotiating can take a while. Having a Pasion chica onsite (ST only) is slightly cheaper but the habitations are not great and the chica will hurry you. Take her to the cabana with you for better experience. Negotiate multi hour deal or TLN (anyhere between 2k to 4k). You'll be asked to pay to the guy at the restaurant / bar outside. He speaks English and they have 'money back guarantee'. You can ask him about it with the chica, a good reassurance.

[QUOTE=Jaosousa;1232593]Hawaiian ladies night, Level Bar, Santiago. Santiago, depending the route and time of day, can be a little over an hour from Sosua.[/QUOTE]Oooo la la. Good eye candy. Anything here for the avg monger? With limited or no spanish skills?

[QUOTE=Jaosousa;1232593]Hawaiian ladies night, Level Bar, Santiago. Santiago, depending the route and time of day, can be a little over an hour from Sosua.[/QUOTE]Wow bro! Happy New Year! . Such disparity of the quality of the "regular" chicas from the north and the south with the North sometimes make me feel like I want to never come back and the South looking like I would never want to leave, je je je. My friend I hope all of your kind offers still stand when I finally make it to the south! .