Walk in rates at AI's?

No truth to that and you can start looking here. http://www.dr1.com/forums/east-coast/103560-punta-cana-resort-trick.html

In 95% of cases Dominicans pay more than 95% of foreign tourists in the same resort.

The other 5% of Dominicans are friends and family members of hotel management/owners who get dirty cheap rates or even free stays.

Yes you can get cut rates. There are promotions often for locals and expats with a cedula. This tends to be the criteria needed to get local pricing.

Often tourists coming in can get really good rates. Tour Operators bulk buy to guarantee their room allotments for high seasons. Thus they will blow out inventory during the low seasons. Not only check at the hotel itself but check online for hotel only options at the various clearance websites,like cheap Caribbean.

resident rares

There are almost always good discounts available on the north coast.
Go to Vacation Deals and Travel Specials by BookIt.com select hotel only and Puerto Plata
Put in your dates and you will have several options
H

I've never tried it at an AI, but depending on what time of day it is, you can often haggle in smaller hotels. It helps if you travel light enough where you can try somewhere else if they won't negociate. Show up between 4-6 and if they have a half dozen empty rooms and you have some leverage, but show up at 10pm looking tired and they won't budge. You can often haggle three days for the price of two.

Henry03 said:

There are almost always good discounts available on the north coast.
Go to Vacation Deals and Travel Specials by BookIt.com select hotel only and Puerto Plata
Put in your dates and you will have several options
H

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These are not "local" rates, these are Internet rates. Don;t mislead the Op please. he asked for walk-in, local rates.

there are once in a while, specially over holiday weekends and also during the low season periods, cheap local walk in rates out, announced on the Radio or written in the papers, but only offered by specific Budget Resorts here on the East.
for the good Spots the Walk In Rates are often outrageous High.
We spend every year several Times a week or a 4 nights long weekend at Resorts here, and mostly we book that through foreign online Travel Sites, Cheaper than walk in with pesos or dollars in hand.
some Budget Places here have sometimes offers of 1000 pesos and less per night, with the Room and AI, sure also many "Working Gals" use such offers to rent cheap Working Space at a Resort with all those 'hungry' Clients right next Door, lol.

Mike