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Well, Sosua isn't the place for a "decent" night life (to "meet girls" lol)... but it's my recommendation because everybody has fun there! :bunny:
Cabarete has more "decent" tourists as well as Playa Dorada but I had enough of both these places after a few nights - boooring! :cheeky:
Cofresi has a casino and that's it. Worth a look (for 1 night).
Cabarete has more "decent" tourists as well as Playa Dorada but I had enough of both these places after a few nights - boooring! :cheeky:
Cofresi has a casino and that's it. Worth a look (for 1 night).
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If your friends want to know how a rockstar, or a super hot chick in a redneck bar at closing time feels, send them down Calle Pedro Clisante in Sosua after 11pm! As long as they are not looking for "decent" chica's, they will come back feeling on top of the world and stories to tell that their buddies will never believe. 
If your friends want to know how a rockstar, or a super hot chick in a redneck bar at closing time feels, send them down Calle Pedro Clisante in Sosua after 11pm! As long as they are not looking for "decent" chica's, they will come back feeling on top of the world and stories to tell that their buddies will never believe.
sounds like these guys are goin to have a blast......or get blasted.....or both.....lol
LOL that "pedro clisantes" suggestion sounds so ominous...what are they going to be ambushed by when they go there?!
what they keep asking is "where are the hot girls going to be?"...and being that ive never gone out looking for any i really dont know what to say LOL
is Sosua the place then?
what they keep asking is "where are the hot girls going to be?"...and being that ive never gone out looking for any i really dont know what to say LOL
is Sosua the place then?
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One trip down the street and they will nolonger be asking that question, and along the way they may get ambushed!
One trip down the street and they will nolonger be asking that question, and along the way they may get ambushed!
Sosua
Sosua is full of working girls most do not hit the streets untill around 9 or 10 pm at the disco and that can be an intresting place. Some girls are very very pushy and you guard should be up at all time in Sosua disco.
As for during the day you will find girls at the beach or walking around the main drag. they tend to hang out alot around Europa hotell and the little bars in that area.
Most girls in Sosua are trying to make some money and will go with a tourist but not all i know a few very nice familys in sosua that would never let there daugthers work the streets
Also try la passion bar there always seems to be plenty of working girls around there. And some of the small hotel like new garden and europa
Sosua is full of working girls most do not hit the streets untill around 9 or 10 pm at the disco and that can be an intresting place. Some girls are very very pushy and you guard should be up at all time in Sosua disco.
As for during the day you will find girls at the beach or walking around the main drag. they tend to hang out alot around Europa hotell and the little bars in that area.
Most girls in Sosua are trying to make some money and will go with a tourist but not all i know a few very nice familys in sosua that would never let there daugthers work the streets
Also try la passion bar there always seems to be plenty of working girls around there. And some of the small hotel like new garden and europa
PopNY - whats up? How was your trip?
Tell them to land in Puerta Plata and head for Sosua - the rest is easy.
not "working girls" lol i think those are an obvious find...just girls, i guess.
i tried to explain that as decent dominican women we are taught to stay the heck away from sosua (even going to the beach there is a rarity) or anywhere we may be considered "one of those loose ones"....but then they say "no working girls"...ummm...not sure whats left then? cant have it both ways LOL
i have only been to the clubs at playa dorada complex...but because they are frequented by average, decent dominicans (hemingways used to be popular but dont know how it is now---fads come and go) and its much harder to make out the "working girls" as they arent as aggressive in that setting. to this day i have never been anywhere in sosua...
cabarete i always liked because its so lax...never saw a plethora of "hot women" though...just tourists and the occasional dominican staying there for the weekend...
ctrob, i havent even gotten there yet! still have a month or so to go, but i talked about it so much i ended up inadvertently convincing some of hubbys friends to go before we get there....now im fielding all these questions i dont know how to answer! LOL
i tried to explain that as decent dominican women we are taught to stay the heck away from sosua (even going to the beach there is a rarity) or anywhere we may be considered "one of those loose ones"....but then they say "no working girls"...ummm...not sure whats left then? cant have it both ways LOL
i have only been to the clubs at playa dorada complex...but because they are frequented by average, decent dominicans (hemingways used to be popular but dont know how it is now---fads come and go) and its much harder to make out the "working girls" as they arent as aggressive in that setting. to this day i have never been anywhere in sosua...
cabarete i always liked because its so lax...never saw a plethora of "hot women" though...just tourists and the occasional dominican staying there for the weekend...
ctrob, i havent even gotten there yet! still have a month or so to go, but i talked about it so much i ended up inadvertently convincing some of hubbys friends to go before we get there....now im fielding all these questions i dont know how to answer! LOL
May that guy rest in peace, but his down fall unfortunately was of his own doing not Sosua and their chicas, and that certainly could have happened anywhere based on what they suspect he was doing, drinking to excess, and popping viagra like there was no tommorrow.
Thanks for sharing it, because others should certainly take note, so that a similiar fate doesn't happen to them.
I understand but it still makes no sense why a healthy young man would abuse viagra like that, after all it is still a drug.
For some one that has never been there, you sure have a lot of knowledge/advise about the place, and who should or shouldn't be there, and what type of reputation one can or will aquire just by walking down the street there.
The people who have taught you so much about Sosua, where did they get their knowledge from ???
And like you say earlier in your quote you can't have it both ways LOL.....
well, if your family and everyone you know always tells you and everyone else you know to stay away from somewhere because you'll be confused for a puta, wouldnt you know not to go, at the very least? thats common sense.
anyone who lives in POP knows that about the sosua area. everyone. and i was raised in POP. to NOT know would be crazy. its right there. so much so, that as a puerto platan girl, its considered an insult to be told you "look like youre from sosua". those are fighting words lol
to puertoplatenos, sosua is considered a place for "gringos" and women who "hang out" where theres only gringos, in general, are thought of as putas. who would want that if they ARENT a puta? especially in the DR where its so easy to soil your reputation for life. nothing is ever kept hidden. if you are seen there, its OVER for you as a decent girl. no one will ever respect you again. why wouldnt parents warn their daughters about that?
what would anyone seek there if they had a regular life in Puerto Plata? seriously, even going to the beach in sosua is a rarity for puertoplatenos. you are more likely to find folks there from elsewhere in the dominican republic....unless its the local surfer boys, who are also known for "sankie"ing. again, a horrible thing to be known for.
so for that reason i do not know where people go there for anything ...only that i should never go. get it?
like someone else said, there are decent dominicans living there (though not many) but they dont let their kids mingle there at night either. same reason: common sense.
kacuni, it depends what clubs in playa dorada...puertoplatans are very fickle about where they go..the fads change every few months. hemingways, crazy moon and andromeda used to be frequented often by middle to upper class dominicans and usually there wasnt any obvious soliciting...however, being that the fads change quickly, i couldnt honestly say where they are going these days...wherever they ARENT at is because its deemed too "gringo" oriented or slow...and thus not of interest.
curious?
I am curious what your family tells you about gringos in particular, since it seems that they feel that gringos only come to the island for one thing, would anyone in your family be caught dead with a gringo, and if a female member of your family was to date a gringo would the rest of the family consider her to have a bad reputation.
I have heard this thing from many others, I myself know that when I used to live in Sosua sometimes it was easier when you met certain people to just say you were from Puerta Plata or possibly Cabarete, because as soon as the word Sosua slipped out of your mouth you were automatically labelled. To tell you the truth although I understand it, I still find it to be a bit judgemental, because like you since I lived there I did have the privlege of meeting quite a few people that lived, worked etc. in Sosua that weren't involved in prostitution. Although they lived there, they never went to the discos etc. I always felt it was so sad and unfair, that because they lived there, or their family was from there they had to be labelled like that.
The other side of the story is, guess what if you met your girl in a disco in Sosua, more than likely she was there because she was working, and that is the way it is as well. But I have actually brought friends to the disco in Sosua to hang and dance with me, and they had never been there before, it is kind of sad to think because I brought them there and they were seen with me a gringo, if someone from their neighborhood saw them there they would be labelled for life.
I am curious what your family tells you about gringos in particular, since it seems that they feel that gringos only come to the island for one thing, would anyone in your family be caught dead with a gringo, and if a female member of your family was to date a gringo would the rest of the family consider her to have a bad reputation.
I have heard this thing from many others, I myself know that when I used to live in Sosua sometimes it was easier when you met certain people to just say you were from Puerta Plata or possibly Cabarete, because as soon as the word Sosua slipped out of your mouth you were automatically labelled. To tell you the truth although I understand it, I still find it to be a bit judgemental, because like you since I lived there I did have the privlege of meeting quite a few people that lived, worked etc. in Sosua that weren't involved in prostitution. Although they lived there, they never went to the discos etc. I always felt it was so sad and unfair, that because they lived there, or their family was from there they had to be labelled like that.
The other side of the story is, guess what if you met your girl in a disco in Sosua, more than likely she was there because she was working, and that is the way it is as well. But I have actually brought friends to the disco in Sosua to hang and dance with me, and they had never been there before, it is kind of sad to think because I brought them there and they were seen with me a gringo, if someone from their neighborhood saw them there they would be labelled for life.
Sosua and hookers
It is very sad to hear all these things about Sosua it is known around the world as a sex tourist spot and that is very sad to read some of these post but to brand all women in sosua as hookers is crazy and to talk about warning sweet innocent ladies from POP is just as insane.
everytime i go to pop i see hookers on the street at the beach in the stores have you never heard of some of the clubs there. How about hotels like black beards adult resort or the former feild of dreams come on and do not get me started on other parts of the dominican republic.
YES there are hookers in Sosua and there are alot. some do it for money others for drugs who knows what eles but in the 4 years of living here and over 10 years of visting i have see alot of terrible things But to brand everyone in the whole town as hookers and to praise girls from pop in my mind is insane.
It is very sad to hear all these things about Sosua it is known around the world as a sex tourist spot and that is very sad to read some of these post but to brand all women in sosua as hookers is crazy and to talk about warning sweet innocent ladies from POP is just as insane.
everytime i go to pop i see hookers on the street at the beach in the stores have you never heard of some of the clubs there. How about hotels like black beards adult resort or the former feild of dreams come on and do not get me started on other parts of the dominican republic.
YES there are hookers in Sosua and there are alot. some do it for money others for drugs who knows what eles but in the 4 years of living here and over 10 years of visting i have see alot of terrible things But to brand everyone in the whole town as hookers and to praise girls from pop in my mind is insane.
I agree...
I agree it isn't fair, and does a disservice to those who are not.
I remember when I used to live there, and my daughter who was nine at the time would visit me for a month over the summer, and we would go to the beach or walk around town,.... at one point after my daughter had left from her visit to go back with her mom, a guy came up to me that I knew, and I was still excited about my daughter's visit, and I asked him if he had met my daughter while she was there visiting me, and he said that he was glad to hear she was my daughter, that some people were saying some not so nice things about mel....
To be quite honest I got angry with him and told him the same, after all my daughter was only nine, and secondly he knew me, and if anyone came up to him saying such things, he should have punched the person in his mouth, for even thinking such things about me, or being able to think such things in general.
But in my opinion that says more about the people who think or can imagine such horrible things than about anyone else.
I agree it isn't fair, and does a disservice to those who are not.
I remember when I used to live there, and my daughter who was nine at the time would visit me for a month over the summer, and we would go to the beach or walk around town,.... at one point after my daughter had left from her visit to go back with her mom, a guy came up to me that I knew, and I was still excited about my daughter's visit, and I asked him if he had met my daughter while she was there visiting me, and he said that he was glad to hear she was my daughter, that some people were saying some not so nice things about mel....
To be quite honest I got angry with him and told him the same, after all my daughter was only nine, and secondly he knew me, and if anyone came up to him saying such things, he should have punched the person in his mouth, for even thinking such things about me, or being able to think such things in general.
But in my opinion that says more about the people who think or can imagine such horrible things than about anyone else.
yayow, i do agree its not fair to label everyone but not everyone is, luckily.
things have changed somewhat. for example, my aunt worked at a hotel in playa dorada for a while when she was young and had a very handsome, young, rich european suitor. he was very decent and actually wanted to marry her. even though she liked him alot, she never did give in to his pleas. she was so afraid of what people might say about her that she let that chance go. now she reminisces about it and says had she known then what she knows now, she wouldve given him his due chance. back then "el que diran" was too strong of a risk.
on the other hand, my cousin actually lived in sosua with a swedish man for several years. no one ever saw her as "lowly" because they were living together as husband and wife for years and were respectable, though not legally married. she actually ended up marrying another swede and no one thinks any less of her. in just one generation it became more acceptable. i am actually married to a "gringo" too lol though we met in the u.s. as long as you are in a committed relationship, people are fine with it, it seems.
growing up i was never taught to see the sosua gringos as "bad" or looking for the wrong things. it was mostly the dominican WOMEN on that side who were given the side eye. im sorry you came across people who judged you wrongfully for living there. thats not right at all.
honestly if your friends you took to sosua were men, they wont be as harmed by being there. they will be given the benefit of the doubt. its dominican women that are labelled for life because truth be told, even well-known sankies are given much more respect just for being men. its just how it is. when i go now, we may go to the beach in sosua because we want to surf...but i will know to keep VERY close to my hubby otherwise people will start to talk.
that said, sadly, i do know some sosua expats sometimes are avoided by folks but again...mostly by women. that fear of being labeled a puta is very real. if anything i was always kind of taught that "gringos" dont have to adhere to our norms and its perfectly ok for them to do whatever since you arent from the DR. we just judge EACH OTHER (by that i mean other dominicans) harshly.
gringos have a sort of free pass in a sense...but on the other hand its a double edged sword as you've noted and can bring unwarranted problems too. i guess each perspective has its good and bad points.
things have changed somewhat. for example, my aunt worked at a hotel in playa dorada for a while when she was young and had a very handsome, young, rich european suitor. he was very decent and actually wanted to marry her. even though she liked him alot, she never did give in to his pleas. she was so afraid of what people might say about her that she let that chance go. now she reminisces about it and says had she known then what she knows now, she wouldve given him his due chance. back then "el que diran" was too strong of a risk.
on the other hand, my cousin actually lived in sosua with a swedish man for several years. no one ever saw her as "lowly" because they were living together as husband and wife for years and were respectable, though not legally married. she actually ended up marrying another swede and no one thinks any less of her. in just one generation it became more acceptable. i am actually married to a "gringo" too lol though we met in the u.s. as long as you are in a committed relationship, people are fine with it, it seems.
growing up i was never taught to see the sosua gringos as "bad" or looking for the wrong things. it was mostly the dominican WOMEN on that side who were given the side eye. im sorry you came across people who judged you wrongfully for living there. thats not right at all.
honestly if your friends you took to sosua were men, they wont be as harmed by being there. they will be given the benefit of the doubt. its dominican women that are labelled for life because truth be told, even well-known sankies are given much more respect just for being men. its just how it is. when i go now, we may go to the beach in sosua because we want to surf...but i will know to keep VERY close to my hubby otherwise people will start to talk.
that said, sadly, i do know some sosua expats sometimes are avoided by folks but again...mostly by women. that fear of being labeled a puta is very real. if anything i was always kind of taught that "gringos" dont have to adhere to our norms and its perfectly ok for them to do whatever since you arent from the DR. we just judge EACH OTHER (by that i mean other dominicans) harshly.
gringos have a sort of free pass in a sense...but on the other hand its a double edged sword as you've noted and can bring unwarranted problems too. i guess each perspective has its good and bad points.
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