Hi everyone,
I will like to shed some light about this subject because I see there is a lot of confusion in this matter. And I must tell you the truth about it, since every normally people are afraid to tell, but I am not.
First of all, prices goes with the number of services at your disposal, so cheap in santo Domingo is not the same as cheap in Tokyo(if anything like cheap exist there!) I must say that if in santo Domingo you pay more than 50 bucks, IS NOT CHEAP!!!
I ask forgiveness to every one who does not like what I say, but people it is the truth at least. Then on to the other matter.
Not all cheap hotels in santo Domingo, ARE HOTELS AT ALL!!!
Please be advice, there are many different flavors about it, and I will explain this to you know;
Pension: The cheapest kind of accommodation there is, but be advice, it is a place with rooms, not restaurant, pool or even warm water in it!!!, is normally better for single people, and offers no recreational facilities at all, but is cheap.
Hostal: This is more like a real hotel, but the main difference is that like the pension, is not for normal tourists since the building is normally old, and not very accommodating the facilities, normally don?t have restaurant, game room or
a bar, but is cheap.
Apart-Hotel: Now here is a LOT of confusion involved!!!, this is not a HOTEL!!!
this are places we you rent a small apartment, and you live there for a price.
That means, you have to prepare your own food, you may have or nor air conditioning o warm water, and NO ROOM SERVICE AT ALL, of cause is obvious, because they are apartments for rent, but sadly, the worst drawback is simple, at 47 US dollars to begin with is not CHEAP at all!!!.
And finally Hotels: you know what they are, so I tell you what you shuold know, First cheap is UNDER 50 USD here!!!, so the only matter is left are the facilites and accomodations, most of them offer telephone in the room, BUT LOCAL CALLS ARE NOT FREE!!! so watch out!, they all shuld have air conditioning, but sadly don?t, please always check out!!, Emergency electric generator is a MUST HAVE, since blackouts ARE comom in Santo Domingo, and is not going to change in the near future eather. Then there is Cable TV or satelite TV(now extint), Game room with pool tables and stuff, consider this if your stay will be more than 3 days on, and shopping stores for woman are basic, but consider your self lucky if they have does, since it is normally a trade of the more Expensive hotels. There is only just one BIG exepcion to all of this hotel in the cheap category, and I will tell it since you should know:
HOTEL CARIBE?O, is the ONLY of them with all of the characteristic that apelling UNDER the 40 buck mark!!, They have FREE LOCAL calls, Air conditioning 24/7 electric energy, Cable TV, Game room and Cold and Warm water, a swimming pool and big department store and the same building!!!, I know what your are thinking, all of this under 40 bucks, that is too good to be true, and yes there is a catch, this is a commercial downtown of santo domingo, avenida Duarte after 7 pm at night is simply dead, so if you are thinking to go out for a walk please think again, this can be bad! but for 35 to 30 bucks the room and all of the above included at least it should be consider and try it. Sorry to all the people that don?t like it, BUT IS THE TRUTH, AND IS CHEAP!!!
I will like to shed some light about this subject because I see there is a lot of confusion in this matter. And I must tell you the truth about it, since every normally people are afraid to tell, but I am not.
First of all, prices goes with the number of services at your disposal, so cheap in santo Domingo is not the same as cheap in Tokyo(if anything like cheap exist there!) I must say that if in santo Domingo you pay more than 50 bucks, IS NOT CHEAP!!!
I ask forgiveness to every one who does not like what I say, but people it is the truth at least. Then on to the other matter.
Not all cheap hotels in santo Domingo, ARE HOTELS AT ALL!!!
Please be advice, there are many different flavors about it, and I will explain this to you know;
Pension: The cheapest kind of accommodation there is, but be advice, it is a place with rooms, not restaurant, pool or even warm water in it!!!, is normally better for single people, and offers no recreational facilities at all, but is cheap.
Hostal: This is more like a real hotel, but the main difference is that like the pension, is not for normal tourists since the building is normally old, and not very accommodating the facilities, normally don?t have restaurant, game room or
a bar, but is cheap.
Apart-Hotel: Now here is a LOT of confusion involved!!!, this is not a HOTEL!!!
this are places we you rent a small apartment, and you live there for a price.
That means, you have to prepare your own food, you may have or nor air conditioning o warm water, and NO ROOM SERVICE AT ALL, of cause is obvious, because they are apartments for rent, but sadly, the worst drawback is simple, at 47 US dollars to begin with is not CHEAP at all!!!.
And finally Hotels: you know what they are, so I tell you what you shuold know, First cheap is UNDER 50 USD here!!!, so the only matter is left are the facilites and accomodations, most of them offer telephone in the room, BUT LOCAL CALLS ARE NOT FREE!!! so watch out!, they all shuld have air conditioning, but sadly don?t, please always check out!!, Emergency electric generator is a MUST HAVE, since blackouts ARE comom in Santo Domingo, and is not going to change in the near future eather. Then there is Cable TV or satelite TV(now extint), Game room with pool tables and stuff, consider this if your stay will be more than 3 days on, and shopping stores for woman are basic, but consider your self lucky if they have does, since it is normally a trade of the more Expensive hotels. There is only just one BIG exepcion to all of this hotel in the cheap category, and I will tell it since you should know:
HOTEL CARIBE?O, is the ONLY of them with all of the characteristic that apelling UNDER the 40 buck mark!!, They have FREE LOCAL calls, Air conditioning 24/7 electric energy, Cable TV, Game room and Cold and Warm water, a swimming pool and big department store and the same building!!!, I know what your are thinking, all of this under 40 bucks, that is too good to be true, and yes there is a catch, this is a commercial downtown of santo domingo, avenida Duarte after 7 pm at night is simply dead, so if you are thinking to go out for a walk please think again, this can be bad! but for 35 to 30 bucks the room and all of the above included at least it should be consider and try it. Sorry to all the people that don?t like it, BUT IS THE TRUTH, AND IS CHEAP!!!
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