This may sound like a strange question but I was wondering if you travel on your own, are you allowed to take your booze to the beach with you? I was wondering if you stopped into the store and bought your beer, can you keep it in your own cooler on the beach or would you have to keep going to a bar everytime you wanted one?
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I believe the OP was asking about bringing it to the beach.
Not many restaurants or bars would appreciate people bringing in their own beer or liquor.
Thanks guys for the quick answers. We are tossing around the idea of renting a condo next year instead of going A/I and the hassle of having to go to a bar every time you wanted a drink was one of the concerns. We were hoping to just take our bottle of rum, diet coke a a bag of ice in a cooler to the beach with us each morning. Here at home we have to sneak our booze onto the beach and disguise it in coffee mugs. We aren't too worried about the food aspect, we are good for the day on a bagel and a bag of chips. Since joining this forum, I am now aware of the multitude of restaurants available for supper because we have no intentions of cooking.
Look. It depends on the beach. If you're in Sosua -- the main beach -- or Cabarete for example, you'll probably want a place to sit, lounge, park your bottom. Bringing a cooler just isn't the way to go there. You find a bar, restaurant (further down the beach at Sosua, West-ish, is cheaper) and or rent a whatnot, order from the nearest place and suck it up.
If you're out of town on a less touristy beach then by all means lug a cooler in your rented car. (Frankly the frigid beer that used to be the rule in the DR is no longer as universal as it was, so a cooler isn't a bad idea.) But at the same time on those beaches the beer won't be that expensive.
If you're out of town on a less touristy beach then by all means lug a cooler in your rented car. (Frankly the frigid beer that used to be the rule in the DR is no longer as universal as it was, so a cooler isn't a bad idea.) But at the same time on those beaches the beer won't be that expensive.
Lest there be doubt . . . I'm not saying that you can't get an ice-cold one anymore, but on my last two visits there definitely seemed to be much less of an imperative to supply them. Warmish (or not very cold) more often than not I'd say. A contrast to many years ago when the usual default was soooo-cold that you had to have that brown wrapping paper around the bottle to hold it with.
I think as more places "calmados" have to actually pay for electricity the beer will get warmer
Whoa! , where in the world can't you take your own beer to the beach??
Even in here in Bermuda, which is fairly conservative, ie no open beer or liquor in the street or no shirts or bathing suits in Hamilton City(sic), everyone takes a cooler hard or soft full of ice and beer and or Black Seal rum....some enterprising company has started importing Presidente, but somehow it doesn't seem the same here. I guess I'm used to drinking it out of a tiny plastic cup!! Has anyone noticed how quickly a "Grande" dissappears into a couple of those things...I think there's a cosmic "wormhole" at the bottom of all of them...!
Even in here in Bermuda, which is fairly conservative, ie no open beer or liquor in the street or no shirts or bathing suits in Hamilton City(sic), everyone takes a cooler hard or soft full of ice and beer and or Black Seal rum....some enterprising company has started importing Presidente, but somehow it doesn't seem the same here. I guess I'm used to drinking it out of a tiny plastic cup!! Has anyone noticed how quickly a "Grande" dissappears into a couple of those things...I think there's a cosmic "wormhole" at the bottom of all of them...!
Here's what's prohibited on Cabarete beach since the new sand was placed here. http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p245/snowbird44/BeachSign.jpg
(photo courtesy of December post by Snowbird)
Littering
Bottles and Glass
Cooking and Eating
Motor Vehicles
Bikes
Loud Music
Unauthorized vendors
Domestic animals
Firearms
Sleeping on the beach after 8pm
At best - all of these things are selectively enforced.
(photo courtesy of December post by Snowbird)
Littering
Bottles and Glass
Cooking and Eating
Motor Vehicles
Bikes
Loud Music
Unauthorized vendors
Domestic animals
Firearms
Sleeping on the beach after 8pm
At best - all of these things are selectively enforced.
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