Hotel Europa - Boca Chica

Hi,
Can someone who has stayed at this hotel give me any feedback?

Al,
Europa is a very affordable hotel, but don't expect 5 star.
No elevator, no bellhops, no restaurant on premises, no bar on premises, no pool, horrible circular stairs to rooms, some of the
water heaters leak, BUT having said all that I stay there each time I need to stay in Boca Chica, which has been at least 5 times over the last four years. One block from beach, one block from a wonderful sidewalk coffee stand and close to Club Neptune,
one of the finest restaurants I've ever eaten at.
Good luck....
gs

Great hotel for $40.00 per night. Hot water, quiet and the nicest front office people in the D.R. The owners are wonderful and the location is central. May I add the air conditioning is more then expected. Apon arrrival I was asked if I was there for the boys or the girls? I was there to sleep and continue on to the north coast the next day. Thought the question was a little different , I took it with a grain o salt. After check in I had dinner at DaNancy . Wonderful. wonderful, wonderfull. Probably the best Italian outside of NYC. On the walk back to the Europe I realized what the boys or girls was all about. This town is a big open air whore house. Probably because of this whore town impression I started to notice the litter and smells emitting from every corner. What a nasty town. Next mouring took a walk on one of the most senic beaches I've ever seen. Fifty and sixty year old men walking with young Dominican girls. Don't know where these men where from but there bathing suits were pretty brief. I could have barfed. Leaving Boca Chica I travelled the back roads to Andres. Garbage, garbage and more garbage. There were huge mounds of garbage on the LAS Americas Highway heading to Boca Chica. In addition to the necular power plant being built off the shore of Boca Chica this town will be known as the garbage capitol of the republic. The Europe and DaNancy are grear, the rest fo Boca Chica sucks.

John: How Benevolent of you

Nice of you to point out that a poor country was not up to your hygenic standards. Luckily you don't have to be able to spell properly to exit the country or you'd have to live there the rest of your life. FWIW, the Europa is a bit expensive for the quality and the location is not that great.

Re: John: How Benevolent of you *PIC*

Rooms start at US$25 and that includes breakfast. See http://www.bocachicabeach.net/hotels_small.html and http://www.bocachicabeach.net/europa.

John's description of Boca Chica is mostly incorrect or at least highly distorted, but then again, Al wasn't asking for an opinion of the town. For those interested in a more accurate description and some photos, see www.BocaChicaBeach.net.

<a href="http://www.bocachicabeach.net/hotels_small.html"><img border="2" src="http://www.bocachicabeach.net/images/hotels/europa7_small.jpg" alt="europa7.jpg (72168 bytes)" width="198" height="125"></a>

Re: John: How Benevolent of you

Jim Hinch/Regular Guy (or what ever your calling yourself today)I expect you to defend your territory but it seems that attacting me (and others) personally has lately become your style. My spelling is terrible but my observations are right on. First off I paid $40.00 at the Europe on Feb 27th of this year. I asked for a quiet room with a view and that is what Bertrum quoted me. Second, I am not knocking the D.R. I'm knocking Boca Chica. I have been visiting the Dominican for 30 years as a vacationer, homeowner and business person. My first introduction to the republic was a bunch of tanks and personnal carriers sitting on the rotary outside of your fair town. The first night was spent at Villas Del Mar in Juan Julio. It's not even there now or it's been incorporated into one of the all inclusives. Boca Chica then was a few beach homes, a hulk of a hotel and some picnic tables on a terrible road which is still there.In those days the entire country was dirty, today its relatively clean except Boca Chica. Tell me why Jimmy, you have all the answers. Why do you say a group of luxury hotels are in the planning stage on Punta Caucedo exactly where CSX World terminals is building a port facility? Why do constantly mislead potential visitors into believing that Bica Chica is a vacation paradise? Tell it like it is, Boca Chica is an open air whore house. Boca Chica smells. Boca Chica has one big garbage problem. I often think of that vacationing family that decides to spend their week at a non all inclusive in your fair city. Those poor people. Jimmy, I've seen the entire country many times over, Boca Chica could be the best if it was cleaned up. Why don't you put your considerable efforts into that endeavor and stop the misleading. By the way you are right, you don't have to spell to get out of the country. Checked my passport, 63 trips the last seven years.

Re: Cool response

What a great response.
You go guy!!

Re: John: How Benevolent of you *PIC*

"Tell me why Jimmy, you have all the answers. "
Only God can answer that.

"First off I paid $40.00 at the Europe on Feb 27th of this year. I asked for a quiet room with a view and that is what Bertrum quoted me."
That's the price for their premium suites, which is apparently what you were quoted for. If you had asked for a low cost simple room, view unimportant, you would have been quoted less.

"Why do you say a group of luxury hotels are in the planning stage on Punta Caucedo exactly where CSX World terminals is building a port facility?"
This was in the DR1 News multiple times. The strip shall run from the port to the airport. Check the archives.

Why do constantly mislead potential visitors into believing that Boca Chica is a vacation paradise?
"Most who visit think so."

"Tell it like it is, Boca Chica is an open air whore house."
Totally false. You're losing credibility fast.

"Boca Chica smells."
Totally false. You're losing credibility faster.

"Boca Chica has one big garbage problem."
Totally false. You've lost all credibility by making things up.

"I often think of that vacationing family that decides to spend their week at a non all inclusive in your fair city. Those poor people."

I would never recommend families to stay in Boca Chica at a non-all-inclusive. That's because all the lodging is inland.

"Jimmy, I've seen the entire country many times over, Boca Chica could be the best if it was cleaned up."
Great. Get to work. Any place is best when cleanest.

"Why don't you put your considerable efforts into that endeavor and stop the misleading."
My repuatation precedes me. Yours is now preceding you.

Why don't you post some pictures of all the whores that are supposedly everywhere in this "open-air, smelly, whore-house, beach", or offer something besides chest pounding about your number of visits?

Real pictures of what is like can be seen at www.BocaChicaBeach.net. That is what the average visitor can expect to see. Also, you'll see an HONEST description of what to expect in and around town and at different times of the day and days of the week.

Re: John: How Benevolent of you

Mr. Hinsch as usual you are always right. I guess I must have been imagining the room, the hookers, the discusting old lechers on the beach, the garbage and the families that will flock there to enjoy the wholesome atmosphere you promote. I repeat: in 63 trips over the last seven years I am hard pressed to remember a place in the D.R. worse then Boca Chica. You know water, just like people, seeks its own level and apparently you've found yours.

Re: You weren't imagining, but you ARE fabricating

I've known John M. for some time and I know him NOT to lie. He doesn't need to. And he's not prone to "fabricating" things and is straight as an arrow. If he says that's what he saw and experienced, I believe him.

Re: You weren't imagining, but you ARE fabricating *PIC*

Well, from your past messages, especially recently, your own credibility is suspect as well. Now even more so, since you should know better than to stick up for what you KNOW is not true.

I know Boca Chica, and it is nothing like he describes. So he is either fabricating or hallucinating. You decide.

"I had dinner at DaNancy . Wonderful. wonderful, wonderfull. Probably the best Italian outside of NYC."
A good restaurant value, but if he thinks this is the best Italian food outside of NYC, he doesn't get out much.

"This town is a big open air whore house."
Hallucinating or just plain fabricating (lying). You decide.

"litter and smells emitting from every corner. What a nasty town."
Hallucinating or just plain fabricating (lying). You decide.

"In addition to the necular power plant being built off the shore of Boca Chica this town will be known as the garbage capitol of the republic."
Hallucinating or just plain fabricating (lying). You decide. This guy obviously hasn't been around much. There is trash piled up all over the island. Boca Chica is one of the better towns, but still has its share.

"The Europe and DaNancy are grear, the rest fo Boca Chica sucks."
Again, statements from somebody that just doesn't know what the hell they are talking about. Boca Chica has 2000 hotel rooms. Is John blind, a liar, or does he just plain talk crap. You decide.

I wonder why Boca Chica is the only town in the DR that actually reported GROWTH in tourist visits for the first quarter of 2001. Better take a look at http://dr1.com/board/index.cgi?read=61460.

Re: You weren't imagining, but you ARE fabricating

Since you now want to question my creditability as well, I too completely agree with his observations. You can attempt to discredit us all you want, but the truth is the truth. I wanted to stay out of this but in the visits I've made to the fair Boca Chica, I too have seen the hookers, the pimps, the garbage, the lecherous old men, et al. Boca Chica is truly the "sex capital" of the DR, if not the Caribbean and there's a continuous supply of young flesh, given it's reputation and proximinity to Santo Domingo. And its sad because it could be truly as nice as you would like people to believe it is. But then you have a big website that promotes the area (just like I have for Samana, to be fair to anyone who reads this) and do not want the real Boca Chica and that wonderful, neighboring surburb, Andres, to be exposed for what it really is below the antiseptic surface you attempt to portray.

Re: We all know Andy is all BS- Here's why

We know you are all BS Andy.

Just last month you tried to tell everybody your Samana web site gets a million viewers a year (http://dr1.com/2001/index.cgi?read=61023). Not hits, VIEWERS. When a few people told you you were full if crap, you kept the BS up, and eventually backed off and said HITS, which several other also pointed out is a meaningless statistic. (http://dr1.com/board/index.cgi?read=61227 for the thread).

I pointed out how just last year how you were warning everybody not to invest in the DR, and that you were going to get out and soon as you could unload your hotel in Samana, and that now you are telling people the opposite, that the DR is a good place to invest, specifically in the area where you have your hotel, with the only explanation being that NOW, the local government isn't as corrupt. (see http://dr1.com/board/index.cgi?read=61452)

What a bunch of BS. Do you now lie about Boca Chica because you are mad at me for exposing your BS, or is it because you are jealous that you invested in what is essentially a rural, hard-to-get-to, and dead part of the DR while Boca Chica remains the high growth area (the ONLY high growth area I might add for 2001), and that the government of the DR has decided that Boca Chica is the country's tourism gem and that it is THAT area where the majority of development funds are going to go over the next 5-10 years.

I'd be mad too, but I would not take it out on our readers by feeding them BS. You and everybody else knows damn well that John's post was mostly BS. While one CAN find garbage, whores, pimps, and old men with young girls, it is pretty much no different than Sosua or Puerto Plata or any other city that has its diversity, including right here in my home town in the USA. I wonder how many posters on this board in fact are foreign men married to younger Dominican women (or vice-versa).

Well don't blame me or the readers of DR1 for you own past BSing, or for your own bad investment decisions. You did it yourself.

You can keep up the BS, but if you do, you'll just be digging a deeper whole and showing how full of crap you are as I post links to every message ever posted by people describing their Boca Chica experience, and how they loved it. The ones that like it seem to out number those that don't by about 30 to 1. Hmmm. I wonder why. Could it be because:













From the BocaChicaBeach.net web site:

"Congratulations! You have found the Caribbean's best kept secret - Boca Chica! Boca Chica is the largest reef protected bay in the Caribbean, the nightlife capital of the Caribbean, and a beautiful beach town. Even more special, expect to pay 1/3 the price compared to other Caribbean destinations.

Boca Chica is a small beach town in the Dominican Republic, about 10 minutes east by car from Santo Domingo airport and about 25 minutes east of Santo Domingo's western edge. It is known for its crystal clear, calm, and shallow waters, its proximity to both the capital and airport, and its abundant night life. It is the most complete, ungated beach town in the country. "

Now, for those that want SEX, Santo Domingo is the place. There, you'll find numerous brothels, piano bars (whore house/bar combos), strip joints (with takeout available), cabarets, and of course for you convenience, numerous Caba?as set up specifically for anonymous sex, and of course, many streets filled with "walkers".

You'll find none of this in Boca Chica. No brothels, no strip bars, no cabarets, no piano bars, no Caba?as. Late at night, yes, there are services available for those that might seek it. Ditto for Sosua, Puerto Plata, Cabarete, La Romana, and yes, even Punta Cana.

We KNOW what you're full of!

Hinsch/Samana Disbeliever and Commentator on the SN Forum: Whatever name you use you are about as full of it as a Christmas turkey. BS? Man I don't even compare to what you're full of: yourself. When you can't reply rationally, attack the messenger. Jimmy boy, that's your style,...and it's pretty pathetic. Grow up and be the man you are so desperately trying to emulate.

Re: Ha, Ha, Ha. Europa and BC

Andy. Are you now down to sticks and stones? I point out you are lying and show a recent past history of your lying, and hence I make my point. Your reaction? Well, I'm embarrased for you.

Now back to the subject of Hotel Europa (from Cazador):

There are 3 economy rooms at $25.00 US for one person. (The prices increase by ten dollars for each additional person.) Economy rooms do not have A/C. All rooms have hot water and a security box. Continental breakfast and tax is included with all rooms.
There are 6 standard rooms, $35.00 for one person. Standard rooms have A/C.
There are 15 superior rooms, $45.00 for one person. Superior rooms have A/C and cable TV.
There are 6 sea view rooms, $55.00 for one person. Sea View rooms have A/C, Cable and balconies overlooking the water.

Out of the 500-5000 people that are on the beach and/or street of Boca Chica on any given day, I wonder how many were the "old man with young girl". 2? Oh, that's grounds for never coming back. His type probably should stay away. The town doesn't need people like him visiting and then telling all his friends what a dump it is.

By the way, Boca Chica is where all the airlines send their employees for layovers. It is also where many of the countries most important conventions in addition to the Juragua. It is the site of several events coming up in the 2003 Pan Am Games. It is where all the most expensive yachts on the south coast are docked.

Boca Chica gets a huge number of repeat visitors. That's just my own observation.

I always post as Jim Hinsch. Period. Not Jim, but my full name. That's because I stand behind everything I say. You can make false accusations all you want. It's just more BS.

You must be pretty stupid if you think I post on Samana.net. As webmaster, you have access to the IP's of the poster so from that, you can tell it isn't me. Think before you post. Always have evidence to support what you say else you end up looking stupid, as in this thread. More Andy BS.

Enough Guys!

You have both said your piece, take it to email.

Any more posts like this will be deleted.

Rob.

Re: Enough Guys!

This Was Just Getting Good!!!!!!!!

Re: Ha, Ha, Ha. Europa and BC

Hi Jim. Are you certain **all** airlines send their crews for layovers??? I frequently used to see many (uniforms and all) at the Hotel Santo Domingo and Hotel Dominican Fiesta in Santo Domingo. Just wondering.
Regards,
Keith

Re: Ha, Ha, Ha. Europa and BC

The Hamaca is sometimes not available. They also send them to Boca Chica Resort and the Don Juan on occassion, both in Boca Chica. I can't say if it is all airlines, but I can say it is true for American and Continental airlines.