cheap and cheerless and watch out for the dominican predators
Location: Cabarete, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, North America
Title: Cheap and Cheerless , Watch out for the men...
ID#: 4412589
My name is Sammy I'm 24 and my friend Lisa is 20 we both went out to the
dominican republic for a relaxing holiday before we both get married and I got
nothing what I was expecting. An Amazing plush island with white sands, blue
seas and lovely people who looked out for my every need and a relaxing holiday.
What I got was a cheap hotel, with a poor selection of food, room appliances
that broke down, cheap alcohol that gave me a stomach upset every day and sleazy Dominican men who thought that they were an Adonis. Now I'm Irish so I'm used to disappointment but this was different actually the toilet became my best friend. Admittedly when you take and all inclusive holiday you get what you're given but this was different all the food smelt the same I think it must be the oil they cook all the food in. But this is a Holiday Hell. Trust me. Cheap and cheerless.
For what it is the Seagrape is the poor relation of a crap holiday camp in the
UK except staff are far more lazier in the Dominican maybe because it's too hot they don't feel like doing anything. But the so closed animation are poor, the entertainment throughout the day is boring and repetative and no one on a hot day wants to bother. So they give up on it and disappear for an hour or so. They then return after siesta to hassle customers to join in their so called crazy games. I think they should be shown what it is to entertain, they forget about the children and tend to just hang about waiting for things to do, and young innocent girls to flirt with or couples with lots of money.
But all that aside I read in another review that the seagrape has gone through repairs so oh my god what was it like before. We were moved 3 times due to shower not working,toilet blocked etc etc.
And at night we treated to what this anime team called showtime which I was
quite looking forward to, but once again disappointed a keyboard player, bingo
and some dancers was the highlight of each evening. So like two typical Irish
girls we drank our sorrows away to then find we got sleazed on by I think every man in the Dominican.
Ewww these men are grose and they dont take no for an answer, two nights in to the holiday we went with some people we met to a bar called tuggi I think and a pool bar and we got hit by like every dominican in the place. My skin was actually crawling at the end of it. Prostitutes everywhere going with both girls and boys and god knows what they've got.
These men really think they're amazing, just like a typical male but this is a
new sort of macho that I've never experienced. A man whispering in my ear that they could take me to heaven and back I should leave my fiance and come and live with him and he would treat me like a queen for the rest of my life, This guy could barely dress himself right.. ha what a joke.
These Dominican men really think they are something special, and they are so
not. We met another two girls from germany who were about 19 years old with their bopyfriends and they said eevn with their boyfriends they were sleazed on everytime they werent looking. The odd thing is the german boys looked like they were having fun they kept beating these dominicans at pool and let me tell you this did not go down well with them they then actually starting inventing rules to ensure a victory . sore losers me thinks.
A few nights before animation team asked them if they would like to come to a dance bar with them all night and they ended up paying while they sleazy danced all over you right infront of the boyfriends. Saying that theyre "just dancing with them" and you end paying for all their drinks all night. They were happy to be leaving in a few days they hated the seagrape and they thought the men were sleazy money grabbers.
They both said they hated the men but we met them a few days later outside the toilets they told us that one night after their boyfriends had gone to sleep
they went for a walk back to the bar and ended getting really drunk with two
domincan men and for some reason they ended up on a beach down the way doing something wrong and don't remember how its happened, They said relationship ruined. The were admament they did nothng wrong. Mind you they were quite large girls and I know that dominican men pray on girls with low self esteem.
Surely the beach should be patrolled at night, in Ireland the beaches are
watched at night all the time it's stops teenagers being silly with a lad
they've just met and the seagrape had a gate with a lock that was always left open so what was the point of the gate.
It's funny just because it's in a foreign country people think its aceptable and
just to forget it but how can you forget something like that. The thing is I was an innocent when I met my husband and I've only been with him so I dont know what it is to be with another man and don't want to but imagine me risking this for holiday fling and ending up with AIDS.no thank you. I'm not their mothers so I couldn't really do anyting but it's tormented me ever since.
And the way this site works it legally covers them and warns me not to write
anything that could be considered a criminal offence hence once again hiding the real truth of the Dominican.
We saw them before they left and they were still so upset and I told them once they got back to Dresden they should get tested it dont matter theyre not clean in this country and you have got to be so careful. Hygiene is not important to them like us, They begged us not to tell anyone.? But I'm sorry girls if your reading this I havent been able to think staright about since I got back. This is a warning to parents or young girls who think, this country is safe because on reflection its not. These men are sleazy they consider us more financially secure and will say anything and do anything to gain your trust and get out of their country this is obvious.
They literally want out and are prepared to do anything to get out. They realise that our passport and a new life is worth doing what it takes to get.
These incidents actually dampened our holiday we were always on guard and
watching our drinks, mind you in the day it rained qute a bit so we went by the hotel taxi into cabarete and one day to sousa and that was worse, men every where sleazing with their " what's your name routine, I'm the best lover man" oh please I think its kinda papthetic that a man with no shoes and hardly any teeth but is telling me that he can make all my dreams come dream.
For me this hotel has nothing that would attract me back to it, I've told my
friends and a holiday rep I know for Thomas Cook that that area should be
flatened, and started again with tighter complex security and a brand new set of people. An example me and my fiance went to St. Lucia stayed in a complex hotel, where everyone had name badges there was security and the beach was patrolled all night. Tourists felt safe and just stayed in the complex infact we never needed to leave it had 5 bars, a nightclub and a variety of 7 restaurants from all parts of the world. And their animation had 3 sections , one for the kids, one for teenagers and one for adults. NOw thats a holiday and what a resort.
The Seagrape is neither, I know its an undeveloped country and these people need to survive but things have to seriously improve, Tourist police never saw once and the real police no where to be seen. So what happens if there was a serious.. hmmm...
Never going back...Rather stay in Ireland and get married and have home
comforts, the weather aint great but my husband to be is, my family and what I got here I would never trade for anything..and we certainly won't be going to the DOminican Republic for our Honeymoon. feck know..
When reading this just remember this is what happened to me and a few others not neccessarily what your experience will be like. If your a married maybe 40+ old or retired couple you might have a fabulous time, but parents taking your daughters please watch them all you can. These man are sleazy and they'll make your daughter feel like a million dollars and tell her anything to get what they want. When Alchohol is free flowing and out goes the wits...
Samantha