oh, I see that no one is actually asking but us Gazcue promoters are just piling on to invite you here!!
Hey, it is great in Gazcue, c'mon down.
Hey, it is great in Gazcue, c'mon down.
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Any good inexpensive hotels in Santo Domingo
Beautiful old trees in Gazcue. La Cadena Supermarket on Calle Cervantes, just up from Avenida Independencia (fresh cut flowers can be purchased in front of that supermarket). Also Villar Hermanos restaurant about two blocks from the Maison Gautreaux Hotel and the Hotel Alcaldeza. Villar Hermanos restaurant/bakery/sandwich shop, you can eat there or get the food to go. Several colmados (small grocery stores) that can deliver to a hotel.
Renaissance Jaragua Hotel in Gazcue will be closed for a year while it gets a $30US million dollar renovation. The recently renamed Sheraton Hotel in Gazcue, recently was remodeled. Puro Humo cigar fabrica and lounge on Avenida Delgada about 5 blocks up from Avenida Independencia is one of my favorite places in Santo Domingo.
Gazcue is about a ten minute walk to the beginning of El Conde, Zona Colonial, near park independencia. I have walked around in Gazcue and Zona Colonial, all hours of the day and night.
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Hotel Alcaldeza used to be part of the Radio Caribe Building. The owner of the Hotel Alcaldeza, his family, I believe were from Santiago and maybe suffered losses during the Trujillo Era and I believe the Radio Caribe property was given to his family, maybe as reparations. The owner of the Hotel Alcaldeza has family that lives in Puerto Rico. He has some nice motorcycles parked at the Alcaldeza, as well as a very nice Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.
Photo of Radio Caribe from the 1960s.
The back of the Alcaldeza Hotel business card with a map. http://i61.tinypic.com/4jtl52.jpg
V Centanario Hotel is now called the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Calle Ahrens seems to go for only one block and runs parallel to the Malecon and Ave. Independencia. Avenida Pasteur is one and half blocks to the west and runs perpendicular to the direction of Calle Ahrens (they don't intersect).
Calle Burgos is good to use if you are driving and want to make a left onto the Malecon to go east, the obelisk on the Malecon there gives you room to merge onto the Malecon, when making a left onto the Malecon from Calle Burgos.
Calle Burgos is very well lit at night with new street lamps. Park Hostos is adjacent to Calle Burgos and was recently remodeled. Hotel El Se?orial is around the corner from the Hotel Alcadeza.
If you know the large lamp store on Avenida Independencia, the rear of that store faces Calle Ahrens and the Hotel Alcaldeza.
There is also an apartment rental on airbnb located on Calle Ahrens.
The website for the hotel used to work, not sure if it does now.
Some photos on this site; Booking.com: Hotel Alcaldeza , Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - 6 Guest reviews . Book your hotel now!
Coffee and bread for breakfast included and free wifi.
That is one of my favorite blocks. I always pass to walk down that one with my dog. Beautiful trees, Amazing quite. And then up the next block which has some of the prettiest houses in Gazcue. The new park is indeed lovely. They did a good job with it, even though it took forever. But it is also a very lively people watching place at night. Over the weekends, particularly, in the afternoons and evenings, the park across the street, with the "little houses" is filled with families and kids flying kites. You can sit across the street and have a great Cubano and people watch.
LOL MA, there should be a sticky thread on the wonders of Gazcue. Either you hate it or you love it. I happen to be one of the people who love being in Gazcue.