A year ago we spent a week at a resort, due to covid, there were not may foreign visitors in the DR at that time.
The resort was operating at reduced capacity, and the majority of guests were Dominican nationals.
We were sitting outside their sports bar, enjoying the light jazz music the bar was playing inside and on their speakers facing the outdoor seating area.
A large family of Dominicans came along and sat down at two tables near us, One fellow had brought his monster, portable speaker and fired it up, blasting meringue music which drowned out everything within a few hundred feet. Seeing that nothing was being said to them, we chose to leave.
On our way through the lobby I saw a management type person and mentioned it to him.
He agreed that this was disrespectful and said he would speak to them. We continued on our way through the lobby and he went in the direction of the loud music. I chose to sit in the lobby for a while to see what would happen when he approached them.
Nothing happened, because he walked right past them, as if they were not there.
I can see on the public beaches that it would be difficult to keep people from bringing their own music sources, but at a resort?