Hey "Mr. Adventure"........
...heres some excerpts from past posts on folks enjoying their vacations in the "frontier"..........
(All following "quotations" taken from search engine on DR1.com)
"Hotel Juan Calvo is a nice little family run hotel in Dajabon, clean and with nice rooms, a/c, tv. Don't have the phone #, might be on the pagina amarillas. They also have a decent little restaurant on the ground floor".
?Ask for Herv? (the frenchman) in Montecristi. He has a very nice hotel on the beach, not too expensive, and a great restaurant downtown.
If I remember, the restaurant is called "El Bistrot", but I forgot the name of the hotel...?
?I opted for (hotel) cayo arena on the same road but a bit closer?big comfortable rooms and great food??
"In Monte Christi we stayed ah Hotel Chic. . . . .BTW it wasn't very Chic;-)"
Mao?"I stayed at the Hotel Agua Azul in Mao ?hotel was small, inexpensive, and clean. The best feature was it's huge swimming pool. It has several slides. The pool is open to the public for a small fee and I had a great time playing in the pool with the local people."
Monte Cristi?"stayed at the Hotel Chic which was in the center of town??(later) I moved to a new hotel at the base of El Morro named Hostal San Fernando. Very scenic and comfortable, with very good food. There were no other guests. The hotel turned on the power and hot water when I arrived and shut it when I left for the day. It has just been opened for about 6 months so it still has some things to be worked out. No telephone, limited menu, but very friendly and accomodating..."