I was a victum fooled by Ms. Pellerin, thankfully everything turned out ok. I came to DR never living there before and had been doing quite abit of research over the internet. I had come across the tropical house website. Everything sounded great so i thought i would give it a try. Thankfully i didn't wire any money down like Ms. Pellerin had asked for. After a long flight we went out Tropical House to settle in. We had a long drive on one the worst roads i have been on, both in Canada and DR and finally found the place. Realizing we weren't close to any facilities (bank, supermaket etc.) and knowing that we were going to have to travel along this road to get anywhere i was already having second thoughts. Diane had given us a tour of a few of the apartments, and might first impression was that these places were an absolute dump. I had nothing to compare them to because as of this time i hadn't seen any other apartments in Puerto Plata but I thought they can't be worst then this. I had wanted to check somewhere else out before i had made the committment of living there. Once in the city i found an apartment right away (thanks to some great help). This apartment was very clean and modern and something I would be living in in Canada. So we felt way more comfortable. The price of this place was actually cheaper and in a wonderful, quite area with everything close by; restuarants, beach, downtown, supermarket etc. I know tropical house is probably a wonderful place for some people but just a word of advice for newcomers; check the place out before sending any money down and don't think this is your only option of a place to stay just because she has a wonderful website up. There are lots of nice places around for half the cost, and way more conveniant