listen rockero, you have asked the same questions on this forum about 100 times..yea you might find some roach and rat infested place in a red light district but nothing that anyone here on DR1 would stay at or even think about recomending to you..
I bet that you have never even been to the DR yet, things are not as cheap as you think, you want people to tell you about these great safe hotels for 10 bucks a night, well they dont exist..IF you want to stay in a hotel where they will rob you and your posessions and maybe even worse then good luck to you..the two places that Hillbilly recomended are probably your best bet,anywhere else you have to realise will be dangerous to a newbie like you..
The colonial is probably your best bet if you need air, they have overnight security, and the staff can be helpful if you need advise...
rockero.
I have lived for several moths in a small cottage at the countryside in Cuba, so I am used to all kind of insect, bugs, small animals, etc...so no big problem.
But you must also think safety, there is a lot robbery from houses now in DR.
Even that you are a poor foreigner, and Dominicans see you as that.Will you be a foreigner with maybe a laptop, camera, and credit card.
A friend of me wake up in bed in his Sosua apartment with two Haiti guys standing over him and press a knife at his throat. He had to give combination to his safe and pin code number to his credit card (he gave wrong pincode).They had in advance decide to kill him,but spared his life since he could little French.
The place he lived in second floor had a ladder lying on the ground and no iron bars in front of his open window. Now is the ladder secured and all windows has iron bars.
And if you got robbed, will in the end no place be cheap, since you have lost valuable items.
Hotel Colonial seems very safe and cheap for me, why risk to live cheaper for a few buck,when it then is much easier to rob you. Then had I choose to not visit Dr and stayed home..
My life is worth more than live in a not safety place,