Why must you continue to "degenerate Dominicans". Are you better than the average DOM Barmaid who is just trying to make a living? I find it repulsive your continued demoralizing of the culture. If you don't like it here, leave. A poor girl working to support her children stricken in poverty is not a "Bird Brain" as you put it... You have this "condescending arrogance about you" that is very offensive to the poor Dominican just trying to feed her babies... Why not contribute something positive to the forum, instead you are constantly putting down the people who have accepted you into the Country even with all of your horrid shortcomings. Get a life and you will be happier.
Poor people can't be bird brains? I have been to bars in DR where the poor bar maids asked what type of music I wanted to hear. Responded kindly if I asked to lower the volume etc. I have also had 100s of times where I walk into a bar with zero customers but music blasting. Screaming into waitresses ear so she can hear our drink order and request for lower volume.
I went out to Punta Cana to see Marc Anthony. Stayed at Hard Rock Hotel. Never again. Nice hotel but cetainly not 5 estrellas. Decent food, but the 24 hour restaurant should have HRC style wings and chicken fingers plus burgers that are USDA Angus not burgers that taste like they have filler etc.
95% of the grounds of the resort you can not see the sea. Weird. We walked to beach and only two bars on the beach. One in VIP area and I was unclear how to get VIP bracelet. The other. . . . .. . staffed by bird brains.
I REALLY dig sitting at a beach bar with some appropriate tunes playing at a relaxing volume. In cabarete we would sit at a bar and chill to some reggae while having coffee or espressos. This tiki type bar had music blaring from two 12 dollar computer speakers on full volume. Sounded like ass.
Try to explain headroom to a dominican. Good luck. I asked the bartender to turn it down as it sounded horrible. I explained that those speakers were made for one person to listen to their computer and not to try and fill a beach with music. He said he needed to keep it loud so people on the beach would hear it. Dip****. We left without having a drink.
Next day we walked back to see if it was any better. Nope. Same crap. Except this time it took 5 minutes for anyone to notice we were there. The staff were dancing bachata together. Same horrible sounds blasting.
So. . . .I pull out my phone and start shooting video. Waitress notices and points it out to barman as she danced with him. I keep shooting and she stops dancing and puts menu in front of face trying to hide. I then take a few pics of the bar tender. She asks why. I say I need proof of how most dominicans have zero clue about how crappy their music sounds when played way too loud. I also said I wanted to show people why I would not return to the hotel.
A few minutes later a supervisor came over and was very nice. Told him, people come to beach to relieve stress. That I don't live in a barrio in SDQ and sure as crap don't pay Hard Rock prices to have barrio quality music blasting. He said bachata is dominican music. Told him, I love bachata, play bachata, am recording bachata songs etc. Pointed to the crappy speakers and asked him why in 98% of the grounds of the hotel they had decent Bose outdoor speakers playing at acceptable volume but no bose speakers here on the beach. Maybe someone decided not to have music there? I asked if he thought the music sounded good from those crappy speakers etc?
He offered to have them tun it down and I said nah, we are heading to another bar to drink. I mentioned that having ONE bar with view of the sea in a hotel that size was nuts. Having it run by a bird brain that didn't give a crap about guests, and just wanted to dance with his waitress was even crazier.
After three days we were dying to get home. That is sad. If I stay in Las terenas or cabarete we want the weekend or vacation to last forever. Three days of same food, same bars, virtually no beach view and bird brain DJ. . . .I mean . . . .bartender. . . . . .was enough.
