Santo Domingo

From wiki: "The guavaberry or rumberry is a fruit tree which grows in the Caribbean. Guavaberry is used to make jams and drinks. Guavaberry liqueur, which is made from rum, is a common Christmas drink on many of the islands, particularly in Sint Maarten and the Virgin Islands. The colonists from Denmark and Holland found it could flavor rum by infusion similar to infused schnapps. In the Dominican Republic it is associated with the eastern town of San Pedro de Macoris which has a large population of Eastern Caribbean descent. Guavaberry is also used for medicinal purposes."

Juan Luis Guerra (uncle of Ms. Universe Amelia Vega) song "Guavaberry" [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HysWmGw7Og[/url] about drinking Guavaberry on the Malecon in San Pedro de Macoris.

Malecon in San Pedro de Macoris: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shhu8WeVFcw[/url].

Guavaberry Golf course in Juan Dolio: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxH1dF6NEjY[/url].

Juan Dolio is 10 minutes from San Pedro de Macoris. Santo Domingo about an hour.

[QUOTE=D Cups;1411342]I like to buy slim, busty girls some nice brassieres and bikinis from Nordstrom's Rack or one of the lingerie stores here in the USA Sometimes the top heavy girls have trouble finding their size so I bring a variety of lacy, sexy 34, 36, 38 and 40 C, D and DD cups. I love it when they try them on and pose for the camera. Nice prelude to lovemaking![/QUOTE]

Also Bikinis to have that you can lend out (a few pair), for the beach, pool or jacuzzi (at the end of the trip can give away to a favorite or keep for a future trip). A pair of shorts to wear over the bikini or sun type dress (can be purchased in the sale section of aeropsotale for around $10US).

Bikinis (with a skirt type thing for the bottom) and flip flops can be purchased, inexpensive, at Jumbo or California Dept. Store (El Conde, Zona Colonial, free rooftop parking on calle duarte for that store, show your receipt or get the parking paper stamped at the cash register).

Does anyone have a driver (taxi or other) they'd care to share for the ride from SDQ to my hotel and more? I'm arriving tomorrow (Saturday) at 6pm. Assuming the plane lands on time, I should be ready by 7pm after I'm done shopping.

Thanks

Located between the airport and the city (can be seen when heading into the city from the airport), off Las Americas Highway.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXlUnNZvLC4[/url]

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[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjw810SkM0o[/url]

From Moon Travel: "Santo Domingo is the result of many failed attempts at settlement. (Columbus) Finally, with the help of his governor, he founded Santo Domingo de Guzmán (the city's official name), an 11-block area on the western bank of the Río Ozama. And it began to thrive. At the same time, the brutalization of the Taíno natives raged on with forced labor.

Santo Domingo began to weaken, and pirates were catching wind of its vulnerability. In 1586, Sir Francis Drake, the English buccaneer, came to town and seized it for a month until he finally got the Spanish to pay him a ransom to get it back.

He wasn't the last to try to take Santo Domingo, either. William Penn of England tried, and former slave François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture of Haiti succeeded until February 27, 1844, when Juan Pablo Duarte finally won independence for the Dominican Republic after a series of rapid-succession occupations by the French (1802 and 1804), the British (1803 and 1809), the Spanish (1809), and finally the Haitians in 1822—all of which happened in the Ciudad Colonial." [url]http://www.moon.com/destinations/dominican-republic/santo-domingo/history[/url]

Looks like a nice place with at least one room in a tree house, Rancho Platón; [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRIUJQM410[/url] and [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-CgNyC4ZhU[/url]. Maybe I'll check it out next week, [url]http://www.ranchoplaton.com/[/url].

There are hotels directly on the beach in Barahona Province.

For Santo Domingo, I have not decided which hotel I will use. Hotel Alcaldeza is one of my favorite small hotels (friendly owner who speaks English, family from Santiago), secure parking, friendly workers, rate about $50US. One block from the malecon, near the Intercontinental Hotel.

Maybe one weekend night at the Hotel Plaza Naco (weekend rates are cheaper for some Santo Domingo hotels), [url]http://www.hotelplazanaco.com/[/url]. Rooms are large at this hotel, newly renovated. Free admission to the Club Athletic gym a few blocks away (I have only seen that gym from the outside) included in the room rate. Or maybe the BQ Hotel on Ave. Sarasota in the Bella Vista neighborhood, rooftop pool, rates under $100, [url]http://www.bqhoteles.com/en/bq-santo-domingo-hotel.html[/url]. I have not yet stayed at either the Hotel Plaza Naco or the BQ Hotel (El Embajador is a nice hotel, chica friendly, near the BQ Hotel).


Barcelo Santo Domingo Hotel is always good for early check-in on early morning arrivals into SDQ.

[QUOTE=Jaosousa; 1413257]Looks like a nice place with at least one room in a tree house, Rancho Platóand;

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRIUJQM410[/url]

And.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-CgNyC4ZhU[/url]

Maybe I'll check it out next week,

[url]http://www.ranchoplaton.com/[/url]

There are hotels directly on the beach in Barahona Province.

Or maybe the BQ Hotel on Ave. Sarasota in the Bella Vista neighborhood, rooftop pool, rates under $100,

[url]http://www.bqhoteles.com/en/bq-santo-domingo-hotel.html[/url]

I have not yet stayed at either the Hotel Plaza Naco or the BQ Hotel (El Embajador is a nice hotel, chica friendly, near the BQ Hotel).

Barcelo Santo Domingo Hotel is always good for early check-in on early morning arrivals into SDQ.[/QUOTE]Hotel BQ has private jacuzzis in some rooms.

[QUOTE=BoricuaOnline;1413287]Hotel BQ has private jacuzzis in some rooms.[/QUOTE]Maybe a bottle of Lindemans's Merlot for the luggage ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pbc_vloYRk[/url]), [url]http://www.lindemans.com/[/url]. Hershey's Miniatures in the freezer, frozen when put into the luggage. Small bags of Sun Chips (about 35 cents a bag). I may drive directly to Barahona the day I arrive.

So last week I made reservation for my D. R. Trip for early May. I purchased the flight + hotel package through Orbitz. Plane tickets were very reasonable, and the hotel even more so. I reserved 4 nights at Barceló Capella in Juan Dolio, which I stayed before (and easier to "disguise" the true mongering purpose of my trip: Hey, I'm just taking an all-inclusive beach vacation!)

With the $70 off package discount, per night rate for the hotel comes out to barely over $50, for an all-inclusive! The only regret is, I cannot book single passenger flight ticket and simultaneously book the hotel room for double occupancy. So I may have to pay more locally to add-on if I were to bring a female in. I do have cupid chicas lined up, but given their fickle nature (to show up or not show up) , this may actually be better.

[QUOTE=Parkinsons; 1413560]So last week I made reservation for my D. R. Trip for early May. I purchased the flight + hotel package through Orbitz. Plane tickets were very reasonable, and the hotel even more so. I reserved 4 nights at Barceló Capella in Juan Dolio, which I stayed before (and easier to "disguise" the true mongering purpose of my trip: Hey, I'm just taking an all-inclusive beach vacation!)

With the $70 off package discount, per night rate for the hotel comes out to barely over $50, for an all-inclusive! The only regret is, I cannot book single passenger flight ticket and simultaneously book the hotel room for double occupancy. So I may have to pay more locally to add-on if I were to bring a female in. I do have cupid chicas lined up, but given their fickle nature (to show up or not show up) , this may actually be better.[/QUOTE][url]Http://caribeparaisojuandolio.com/prices.html[/url] has two buildings on the beach near restaurants and bars, prices from $35US. 5 minutes from the Capella. I shared a room with a wingman years ago at the Capella and I brought in an amiga who wasn't on the reservation, the Capella requested $50US to allow her to sleep over night (and eat and drink).

Caribe Paraiso is 5 minutes from the Capella.

Melia is becoming the Sheraton. Seems IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) has renamed the Intercontinental V Centenario the Crowne Plaza, [url]http://www.ihg.com/hotels/us/en/santo-domingo/sdqha/hoteldetail.[/url]

Meet me at the V (pronounced keen-tay) Centenario. Friendly Colombian bartender works at the bar in the lobby.

[QUOTE=Parkinsons; 1413560]So last week I made reservation for my D. R. Trip for early May. I purchased the flight + hotel package through Orbitz. Plane tickets were very reasonable, and the hotel even more so. I reserved 4 nights at Barceló Capella in Juan Dolio, which I stayed before (and easier to "disguise" the true mongering purpose of my trip: Hey, I'm just taking an all-inclusive beach vacation!)

With the $70 off package discount, per night rate for the hotel comes out to barely over $50, for an all-inclusive! The only regret is, I cannot book single passenger flight ticket and simultaneously book the hotel room for double occupancy. So I may have to pay more locally to add-on if I were to bring a female in. I do have cupid chicas lined up, but given their fickle nature (to show up or not show up) , this may actually be better.[/QUOTE][url]Http://www.retailmenot.com/view/orbitz.com[/url] good site with coupon and promo codes for lots of businesses.

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[QUOTE=Jaosousa; 1413867]Melia is becoming the Sheraton. Seems IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) has renamed the Intercontinental V Centenario the Crowne Plaza,

[url]http://www.ihg.com/hotels/us/en/santo-domingo/sdqha/hoteldetail.[/url]

Meet me at the V (pronounced keen-tay) Centenario. Friendly Colombian bartender works at the bar in the lobby.[/QUOTE]Is this hotel chica friendly? I like that it has a gym.

[QUOTE=Brother P;1413904]Is this hotel chica friendly? I like that it has a gym.[/QUOTE]Crowne Plaza, former V Centenario, is not multiple chica friendly. [url]http://www.ihg.com/hotels/us/en/santo-domingo/sdqha/hoteldetail[/url], book a double or triple occupancy room and you might be able to enter with up to two female guests. Some guys on this site have done that. There is no guarantee they will get in.

Hotel Plaza Naco gives free entrance to the Body Shop Athletic Club, which looks like a nice gym with a pool, machines, classes, heavy bag for boxing etc (I have not used that gym yet); [url]http://www.clubbodyshop.com/app/new/bsnaco.aspx[/url].

Crowne Plaza is on the Malecon, one block over from the Sheraton and two blocks over from the Marriott Jaragua. Ten minute walk to zona colonial.

Photos from the pool deck of the Crowne Plaza (former V Centenario).

[QUOTE=Jaosousa;1410075]Pechurinas from the pechugas (Breast man), LOL.[/QUOTE]My #1 chica sent me this once.