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I've just booked Bahia Principe in La Romana at the end of June, the rate came out at US$ 66 per person per night all inclusive which I think is very good. I've got another booking for Alma de Bayahibe for US$ 80 per night per person in a suite mid-June also all-inclusive. These places...

I know there are a couple of people on here who know a lot about Aviation so I am hoping someone can help. I booked some flights to Colombia with Arajet. On their website they have a page about my right to Desestimación, which seems to suggest that if I cancel the flight more than 24 hours...

Something very strange has happened. A friend of mine was coming to visit at the weekend. He is from Esperanza near to Mao and got the guagua to Santiago. Just before noon he sent a message saying he was arriving in Santiago and was going to take a Transporte Espinal down to the capital...

I've just come back from a couple of nights at the HM Alma de Bayahibe hotel and thought I'd give some feedback. The headline number is that we paid US$ 110 per night for two people, all inclusive. Which I think is the lowest I have ever paid. I will prefix my comments by saying that...

I am confused and hope someone on here can enlighten me. Before Boarding offers a service where they take you through their own immigration and security lines at SDQ. Reading about this, I think the way it works is that you prebook, you check in as normal with your airline, you then go to...

I've had a good look at the election results and it's clear that Abinader won by a true landslide, achieving just short of 60% of the votes. He also has 29 of the 32 senators in his party or allied to his party, so the PRM has a total majority in government. The PLD, Danilo's old party...

Flying out of SDQ yesterday we had to wait in line for 2 hours, no I'm not joking, 2 hours to be stamped out. Many many people in the line were saying they were about to miss their flights, I imagine a lot of people actually did. Rude staff, passengers were screaming for help and the staff...

Tonight we were in Blue Mall and decided to have dinner in Hard Rock. We were literally the only people in the whole place when we entered (at 7pm) and we were the only people who had eaten anything when we left (at 9pm). A few couples came in and had drinks, maybe 6 people in total. Such...

In a country where every single Dominican is permanently glued to their phone connected to their socials, WHY is it so impossible for companies to post their opening hours on Instagram over the Semana Santa holiday? It took about 5 mins to find out which banks were open, and there seems no...

I am absolutely loving it now that everyone has disappeared from the capital for Semana Santa. So lovely and peaceful, almost zero traffic, you can whizz around town really quickly, you can park, even the weather is perfect. Today in the Colonial Zone I stopped and it was absolutely silent...

Just a quick cautionary message to remind everyone that you must have an e-ticket before you travel to DR, airlines are now getting very strict about checking these. I was talking to a French lady who was denied boarding, along with 10 others, as they didn't have e-tickets, she missed her...

A friend of mine is moving to DR for at least a few months (snowbird +) and we were talking about her hiring a car long-term or buying. She's been offered a Hyundai Tucson, including full insurance, for US$ 1,450 a month (US$ 1,100 with minimum insurance). The cars are all supposedly new...

I just got back from a few days in LT and I was surprised by a) how many building projects there are, all building tourist-friendly apartments b) how many realtors there are who have swanky offices and c) how empty all the existing tourist apartments and hotels seem to be. It's December...

Has Aduanas announced yet how much you are allowed to bring into DR as presents? I think last year they allowed up to US$ 4000 but I just want to check the exact amount as I have done a little shopping and don't want it to be removed from me when I arrive back.

Along comes the person who does the web for Expreso Punta Cana. A bus company. What's the one thing you'd like to know from a bus company? What time the buses leave. And NOWHERE on their website are the times. Even on their Insta you have to wade through pages and pages of posts and...

While I was sorting out a licence on the Ministry of Tourism website the other day (living the dream) I noticed a link to apply for a licence for tourist rented apartments such as Airbnb. So they have it set up and I wonder how soon Airbnb's will be required to hold a licence. The online...

Yesterday there was a massive power outage in the capital, a massive area of the city was out from Gazcue thru Zona Colonial and into Villa Faro in SD Este, and to the north right up to Villa Consuelo. Started at 11am and went on until 4am this morning. Late last night Edeeste said that it...

No new news items for 7 days now. I'm wondering if they have shut down. Does anyone have any info?

Seven weeks ago I went to Las Terrenas and has dinner in a restaurant in Playa Popy. It had recently been completely refurbished and had a brand new wooden roof. There was a young mixed race French chef who was in a relationship with one of the staff who I think was a blonde lady. Wooden...

We are setting up a new trading company and I'd like recommendations for reasonably-priced lawyers or accountants who do company formations in Santo Domingo. To stress, I already have a very good but expensive lawyer that I work with, but I know he will charge into the thousands of dollars to...