Playa Dorada Cinema Movie Times?

This gives the normal screening times but it isn't up to date with this weeks films
http://www.puertoplatadigital.com/puertoplata/cinedel17AL230708.htm

An ad. in local paper says for Sats & Suns Studio 1 7.15 & 9.30 pm, Studio 2 7.00 & 9.30 pm & Studio 3 7.30 & 9.30 pm but it refers to last week's films so I don't know in which studio your film is being screened.

The paper was up to date - it was Friday of last week's paper. There wasn't an ad. in Tuesday's paper & I don't have yesterday's paper where there will be an up to date ad. The progs change every Thursday I think. If you have a copy of yesterday's print version of El Faro you'll find an ad. with the times in there.

As for the online listing.............:cheeky: it's actually 2 weeks out of date because the films have changed twice since then....................

Adscene free shopper @ Playero & other places around the northcoast lists the movies each week.

They have an office in Sosua but I don't know about Cabarete (I live in Puerto Plata). Newspapers are generally sold in farmacias & supermarkets. Sometimes even in bookstores :cheeky:.

they also had a website but it has been dead for a while now which makes me think the cinema is gone as well...

mike.n.amy said:

... no matter how many times I listen to the recorded message for Playa Dorada movie times (809-320-1400) I can't make out the movie times

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Apparently they are notorious. I asked one Dominican friend to interpret for me but she could understand nothing. The second I asked said it would be a waste of a phone call as no-one can ever understand them! That was a year ago. You would think that even in the DR they would have fixed it by now.

mike.n.amy said:

Haven't actually been to the theater yet since living in the DR ... but wanting to try it out.

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Be prepared for a culture shock. I think I went there during a local motoconchistas' social outing. About twenty guys with their female companions came in after the movie started, talked, shouted, sang (it wasn't a musical), threw food about, constantly changed seats, etc. Of course I would have left after three minutes of this but my young Dominican guest wanted to stay and watch the movie and did not seem to think there was anything particularly unusual or disconcerting about the environment. Add to that minimal or no air-conditioning and a floor awash with rubbish.

This was in a cinema within an AI. The mind boggles at what cinemas in local areas must be like.

Enjoy the movie! :cheeky:

The movie theatre at Playa Dorada is the only one in the whole area. The old one in POP closed down a long time ago. Usually it is freezing inside.

For the record, the movie theater at Plaza Internacional in Santiago (only about an hour's drive from POP) is comparable to theaters in the US. Tickets are 150 pesos, snacks and sodas are reasonable, and the patrons don't act like they've never been to a theater before. I think there are 6 screens. They even validate your parking There are two other major cineplexes in Santiago as well, Hollywood and Colinas Mall, I assume they are similar.