@hotdogs: It's just natural resort employees in a "plain view" will not be using their BBs and other smartphones in visible places for all guests to see them. But other posters are right, SD and ST are BB-crazy, you go to bars in SD and even the bartenders/esses (usually the -esses) are BBing underneath the bar table. BB is the most desired phone in the DR.
Example: on Monday I got a call from a friend of mine (pretty intelligent but not most tech-savvy) and he asked me about a cost of BB phones on ebay. Didn't have a clue about EDGE, 3G, etc. and he was quite surprised when I told him he actually needed a data plan with a BB (costing US$35 per month) to make use of it...otherwise it's just a pretty uncomfortable and bulky phone. At the end he said... even to use it for making and receiving calls, he wanted a BB... enough said.