MasterJohn, please take a look at this
If you are coming to Santiago on business, I am going to assume that you will be arriving at the airport in POP in the morning or early afternoon.
I would suggest that you get in touch with me, so I can arrange to have you picked up at the airport.
The only way I would suggest that a businessperson take a bus is if he/she is already staying at a hotel in POP.
My reasons are the following:
It takes sometimes an hour just to get out of the airport,Immigration, getting your bags and Aduana; then you have to select a cab from among the throng there at the airport, diddle for a price, and pay a couple of hundred pesos to get to POP proper. Then you have to get a bus, take the 1.5 hr ride to the bus station here in Santiago, and then take a taxi over to the hotel. You are looking at about a four or five hour odessy.
A taxi can pick you up at the airport (Large sign with your name on it for I.D.), take you to the hotel in 1:15 hr. and you are there!
Cost is about US$35 or RD$600. if you have someone that speaks Spanish you can check with 809 581 TAXI as to the price....
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