Slow July in Cabarete?

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CFA123 said:

Seems to me just not very many tourists in town this summer.
My imagination?

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No, but a very sharp observation.
Why should they come?
Weather, crime, crisis.... :tired:

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i'll be in town in september...the less tourists the better....

Well July and August are the doldrums of the low season, and we're in the midst of a global recession/depression. Employment is down, ticket prices are up, and nobody north of the equator really feels the need to escape the cold right now.

It'll improve a bit once the snow starts sticking.

I visited in early July and have nothing to compare, but I was talking with a few Dominican busines people in Cabarete and they said it was very slow. It was nice to stop by at the Coffee shop and get a table to sit...no problem... I'll visit again in a few weeks and this time I'll have to remember to wear my bow shoes so the kids can earn a small bit of change and freshen them up. Hope I get lucky and the rain lets up... It was beautiful the whole time I was there except for that massive lighting storm and downpour one afternoon... But that passed in a few hours and all was good after that... If you see a goofy 48 year old, grey haired, slighly over weight, guy smiling and saying hello to stern serious looking Europeans and etc. it will be me...American guy, of course...

Flight prices from Canada are really high right now. We are coming there next week and got cheap flights months ago...trying to find a flight for my nephew now and prices are 3 times more than they were when I booked. I guess the airlines aren't terribly interested in filling those seats. Odd since it's off season.

When will the businesses there learn that they have to focus of the robust booming internal economy?