Yet another reason to stay in a luxury vacation villa instead of an over-crowded all-inclusive hotel...it costs a tad more but you get so much more. Bonus: No Poo in the Pool! Just sayin... :cheeky:
Stories like these are a dime a dozen and to be sure the horrific tales of urine and feces all over the place have no doubt been embellished right out of reality.
Beware of those "super cheap" deals. My daughter was guilty of purchasing such a deal in a POP hotel recently. Her room toilet didn't work. There's a reason that hotels offer "super cheaps." The level of hotel saturation and competition in the DR is daunting. "Super cheaps" are struggling to keep up. The hotel changed my daughter's room. She reported that while the hotel was disappointing, the excursions more than made up.
this is the agency that does the bookings for the Dominicans.. if you have a cedula you can get these prices
Mi Gente: Todos los Hoteles de Republica Dominicana para Dominicanos
Pretty normal stuff, if it was Sosua ... and it would be the Dominicans complaining about the tourists.and this is newsworthy? Dominicans taking a dump in a hotel pool, and whizzing on deck chairs with people on them? taking all the food? ho hum..yawn
But, 12000 is not cheap, bro! How can you say it is cheap when it is 95 bucks per person, a night in a 3rd world country?
It may be cheap for the LOCALS! But not cheap for foreigners. And that is where the hotel management has dropped the ball big times.
I do not care about Locals this, locals that. if you want FOREGNERS, TOURISTS to vist your country, your hotel, they need to be treated with respect. They cannot be intimidated by locals. The hotel has to be able to put LOCALS in their place like the FOREIGNERS. Period
This is not hotel! It is A COCK FIGHT PLACE!
It is nothing to do with culture, it is just nasty. Yes some Brits are even more nasty when they pop off on thier annual trip to Majorca, but I'd like to think it is not cultural of the Brits, and again simply the binge crowd being rude, nasty, filthy and drunk. I'd not expect to pay Punta Cana prices and be stood in the pool with a floating turd by my side. These people talk about how filthy Haitians are how bad mannered they are, how they are a lower life form and how they spread cholera and other disease and then go around doing stuff like this, funnily not surprising though!
Disclaimer: yes yes yes, i know, not all dominicans are the same, blah blah blah, but when 95% of the population is like that, well then....
You've met 95% of the population!!!!
I must admit, I'm very impressed.
One of the hotels replies to these concerns. "The culture in the Dominican Republic is very different and it is very important to us that all clients enjoy their holidays in our hotels."
I guess the hotels who mix locals with foreigners need to install outdoor, open air toilets rising out from the pools. Also special buffet rooms for locals who have not eaten for a month to prepare for this "chipmunk storing" glutten food fest.
Sadly I have seen similar many times at countless hotels here. It is a reason I will never return to Capella in JD, but many others in PC as well. The culture which is defended here all the time as "lovely people" of which are many dont get me wrong, but what trumps those is the normalcy we experience which is more of a "bad service" "late for everything" " no awareness or concern for others around you". Hell the hotel experience is the same way the streets and parks are treated by most. Its sad when people scream of patriotism and "i love my country" and then you see this..... Much easier to bare the one off "hockey style beatings that happen very infrequently, then being ****ed on while lounging poolside at a 5 star resort.
Scare off the whoremongers and now the families. Tourism marketing at its best!
It has everything to do with culture. The i dont give a f-ck about anyone but myself culture. The only culture this country has. Dominican lower/middle class is as filthy as it gets. How many times in the U.S. have you walked to a pool to find a turd? How many times in the U.S. have you gone to the beach to find a turd in the water? Never happened to me back home. Has happened to me 3 seperate times here in the DR.
I have never in my life met another culture that values simple human decency so little as dominicans do.
This all reverts back to one problem, lack of education. Schools dont teach family values here. Families dont teach family values here. No one takes the time to teach children anything about taking care of anything. Everything is about seeing how quickly you can destroy something and then hoping someone gives you another one. If this country lasts another 50 yrs without imploding I will be very surprised.
Disclaimer: yes yes yes, i know, not all dominicans are the same, blah blah blah, but when 95% of the population is like that, well then....
95% of the population that I have met is like that. Shouldve fixed that but it wouldnt let me edit.
To me, it is purely about EDUCATION! No respect for no one, expect myself!
Hum!