Hello all. I just got back from a trip in the DR and it was nice for the most part. My wife and I went to have an inexpensive surf trip and ended up having a bad experince. I hope I don't make any of you upset with the post. I'm not trying to be mean but was wondering if anyone else had the same problem.
We repeatedly had bad attitudes from all foreign surfers. They acted like they owned the beach or something. All the Dominican surfers we meet were super nice and accomodating however. The other surfers would not even respond to us when we would try to talk to them and would walk away in the middle of speaking to them. In one instance some punk guy decided to block the way out of a one way road out from the beach with his truck. He pulled all the way up in front of our bumper and sat there with the dumbest look on his face till I backed up off the road so he could pass. Even though I was just 20 feet from exiting the long road.
On top of it all my wife and I longboard and they constantly made comments about the "stupid longboarders".
Has anyone else had this problem? The surf was good (though I hear it's better in the winter) and the locals were very nice but the foreigners were unbearable. If their purpose was to make sure visitors never come back to "their" beach they are doing a great job!
We repeatedly had bad attitudes from all foreign surfers. They acted like they owned the beach or something. All the Dominican surfers we meet were super nice and accomodating however. The other surfers would not even respond to us when we would try to talk to them and would walk away in the middle of speaking to them. In one instance some punk guy decided to block the way out of a one way road out from the beach with his truck. He pulled all the way up in front of our bumper and sat there with the dumbest look on his face till I backed up off the road so he could pass. Even though I was just 20 feet from exiting the long road.
On top of it all my wife and I longboard and they constantly made comments about the "stupid longboarders".
Has anyone else had this problem? The surf was good (though I hear it's better in the winter) and the locals were very nice but the foreigners were unbearable. If their purpose was to make sure visitors never come back to "their" beach they are doing a great job!
