Sosua is a a dump. Pedro Clisante is a dump. The town is just an adult playground--a glorified Las Vegas strip club with a glorified Mustang ranch, Bunny Ranch, and Chicken Shack rolled into one.
The places around Sosua, however, are very nice...some are stunning, a few are Conde' Naste materal and Architecture Digest photo shoots--Sea Horse Ranch, Infiniti Blue, Panarama Village, Hispaniola, Ocean Village--to name a few--are amazing, but they all lay outside of Sosua. But the downtwon of Sosua, i'm sorry, it's a glorified 1970's Ft. Lauderdale Spring Break strip club...a wet-t-shirt contest gone pathetic.
Sure, Sosua has potential. No question about it. But right now, in the state that it's in, it wouldn't matter if they open 5 new nightclubs, or 10 new ones, or 20 or 50 new nightclubs. The demographics won't change. There is only so much sex tourism to go around, and no matter how nicely you try to dress it up, make it pretty, put a new fresh coat of paint on it, enlarge the spaces of the nighclubs, the demographics and type of the tourists that frequent Sosua will not change.
Who are the tourists? They're Russian hillbillies who recently came into money; They're fat, obese New Yorkers and Midwesterners who haven't been laid since Nixon was in office; they're African American's from New York and Washington DC who have 4 or 5 days off of work and run to the airports as quickly as their Viagra filled veins can carry them; they're Canadian rednecks who have a one week vacation and want to drink themselves into oblivion before being pick-pocketed and projectile vomiting across their hotel room; they're east-coast Italian rednecks walking around in muscle t-shirts with their belly's hanging down over their velcro shorts, running down to passions with their new bottle of Viagra they just bought off a beach vendor; their divorcee's and alcoholics who have recently come into money from either a recent divorce, an insurance payout, an inheritance, or a real-estate sale.
Sosua is an upscale Boca Chica circa 1983 when Boca Chica was the place to run to in order to get laid cheaply. I was there; i remember the place in the 70's and 80's...that's what Sosua is today. The only difference is that Sosua is bigger than Boca Chica, and with better infrastructure. Sosua is Puerto Plata 15 to 20 years ago when Puerto Plata was the Mustang Ranch ten times over. In the end, Sosua is just a glorified Bunny Ranch catering to an adult only crowd, and offering absolutely not one single redeeming quality for children under the age of 18 on vacation other than visiting Ocean World park or the tiny water park inside Ocean Village--both places which, by the way, lay far outside of downtown Sosua.
Sure, you could take your kids to the beach in Sosua and have a pack of beach vendors start braiding thier hair for $1500 pesos, but really, in the end, there is nothing for families to do in Sosua but to sit around a bar, or within the confines of their hotel room, or venture out into the streets where they will be rained and raided down on by street vendors that are a cross between a vampire and a werewolf--and with as much class as a stray dog with catracts. Barring that, children have nothng else to do but sit inside some bar on Pedro Clisante and watch their redneck parents drink all day while stairing at some concrete wall inside the restaurant.
I don't get Sosua; i never have. Yes, I lived there for 4 years, but I drove to Cabarete twice a day simply because, in Cabarete, I understand the attraction of sitting on the beach and watching surfer girls & Kite surfer girls walking up and down the beach in Bikinis all day. Now this i understand. I like sitting on the beach at a nice cafe--like LAX--looking out over a saphire blue ocean, watching kite and wind surfers zip up and down the beach, talking to friends or reading a book, while dozens of girls from Norway, Canada, Finland, Belgium, Sweden, Russia, and South America come and go. This i understand. But sitting in some concrete building on Pedro Clisante or somewhere else in downtown Sosua drinking all day and watching people get ripped off and pick-pocketed every evening, i'm sorry, i don't get that. I never will.
Let me qualify one thing here: there's nothing wrong with chasing the beaver--the beaver is your friend, your companion, your coat of arms, your muse; a fat beaver keeps you warm at night, and gives you shade during the day. The beaver inspires people and inspires creativity. I understand all that, I wrote the book on it. But, of all the places to search for your muse, to seek out your shade...surely, there must be better places then Pedro Clisante?
Frank
[h=5]Merengue Bar[/h] 
[h=5]D' Latin[/h] [h=5]Furthermore, the good news is that hotel 'Sos?a Bay', certainly one of the finest hotels in Sos?a, will reopen again soon. Final news message, mayor Ilana Neumann will present next week the plan to close the main Pedro Clisante for traffic. The street will also be refurbished. The intention is to festively open the new 'Pedro Clisante boulevard' at the beginning of January. We wait, as always, in suspense.[/h]
Plus, our hookers are prettier than his.