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Family from London relocating to punta cana :-))
There used to be a chocolate chip cookie stall in the CCCT. They sold the cookies by the gram. Holy crap!!!! i used to take the bus to the mall just to buy those cookies. Thanks for the flashbacks!
There used to be a chocolate chip cookie stall in the CCCT. They sold the cookies by the gram. Holy crap!!!! i used to take the bus to the mall just to buy those cookies. Thanks for the flashbacks!
Oh yes. Chip-A-Cookie. I think it's a full blown franchise these days...
We are kind of hijacking this thread...
Hate to further hijack... but it sucks how terrible things have become over there. Ever since my uncle was murdered their in the 90's and constant stories about what happens in Caracas and Venezuela as a whole I could never step foot on that land. My sisters friend recently almost got kidnapped at the airport by two men with large guns.. she was saved by her driver who convinced the armed men she had no money... she never returned. And with Monica Spears death a couple days ago... sometimes I think DR isn't too bad...
Man, you got good eyes!!!!!!!!! Yep, it was taken out in the mall's parking lot!
Man, i spent a lot of time in Caracas, Venezuela running around and chasing women.
I was once young.
Frank
"Frank",.....Looks like the little guy to your left,and possibly the one on your right, FOUND what they were looking for,.......YOU!!!!!!!!!
My "Meter" is clicking!!!!
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My "Meter" is clicking!!!!
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I remember from the days I was pregnant with my two sons that it was a wonderful time.
I think there is more personal medical care here and unless you are a high risk case I wouldn't think about it twice.
Raising your children in Punta Cana will let them focus on family, enjoy the beaches. Come and check out the schools.
That will be your most important decision because the parents will be your first close friends because you will share things.
Cocotal is midway between Hard Rock and Punta Cana and Cap Cana. Heritage school is the furthest away -- would go with the Punta Cana International or the one that Chiri suggests.
There are many hotels in Punta Cana with wonderful facilities for children. Through your husband you can get special rates and enjoy these facilities.
Also, be sure to have vacation time to travel the country. Now with the highway you are less than two hour's from Santo Domingo and from there to the rest of the country.
These will be the days you will always remember as the "good old days" when family was united and you can enjoy so many good weather days.
I think there is more personal medical care here and unless you are a high risk case I wouldn't think about it twice.
Raising your children in Punta Cana will let them focus on family, enjoy the beaches. Come and check out the schools.
That will be your most important decision because the parents will be your first close friends because you will share things.
Cocotal is midway between Hard Rock and Punta Cana and Cap Cana. Heritage school is the furthest away -- would go with the Punta Cana International or the one that Chiri suggests.
There are many hotels in Punta Cana with wonderful facilities for children. Through your husband you can get special rates and enjoy these facilities.
Also, be sure to have vacation time to travel the country. Now with the highway you are less than two hour's from Santo Domingo and from there to the rest of the country.
These will be the days you will always remember as the "good old days" when family was united and you can enjoy so many good weather days.
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Just about all my family in Venezuela has left. Only an Uncle and some cousins left.
Same here, one aunt-by-marriage and some distant cousins.
I lived and worked in Caracas for several months in 1988 and visited once again in 1992. I went to Los Roques, Isla Margarita, Morrocoy, Puerto La Cruz, Merida and Los Andes, Canaima and Angel Falls, and Maracaibo.
Not been back since.
I wonder if the "Teleferico" to "Pico Bolivar" is still in operation????
Unreal Trip!!!!!!!!!!
I was "Scared $HITless"!
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Unreal Trip!!!!!!!!!!
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I still come there once in a while but last times only Maracaibo as I have family and friends there.. I dont visit other parts of the country alone.. which I did like 10 years ago.. Its a shame as it was a decent country and relatively safe.. It is still beautiful with nice people but it kinda changed from heaven to hell.. RD has its issues but it is not like Venezuela is now..
Even Monica got robbed 6 times before and the family left Vzla due to the crime, her ex husband was already robbed and shot before (and his best friend killed in front of him) he left the country but returned...
I hear their "Mechanic" is Dominican!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I got stuck half way up on the Puerto Plata cable car.
In 1986!
No MORE trips on those things for me EVAH!!
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I got stuck half way up on the Puerto Plata cable car.
In 1986!
No MORE trips on those things for me EVAH!!
Hello everyone !!! We are relocating to punta cana from London in February and being very new to the country we would kindly appreciate any advice . Most probably we will rent in cocotal golf course and my husband will be working for a hard rock casino
Hi:
You sound like the adventurous type. Don't be discouraged by the negative comments, however if you have no language skills and are not familiar with the customs it will be a big learning curve. One thing you should do while you are still in London is to get together your documents for applying for residency in the DR. You will need the following: your birth certificates, marriage certificate, and you need to have a criminal background including fingerprints, also any health documents, especially for your child. Bring these all with you. You will need to have these translated into Spanish which can be done in the DR. Arriving in Feb is great from a weather standpoint. This is the best time of the year. Temperatures will be around a high of 82F and a low of around 70F. It doesn't get any better. Just remember from June to October it is very very hot. Security is the number one priority in the DR. Make certain that your flat and the complex where you live has security and that you lock up your apartment any time you go out. Do not carry a lot of cash and DO NOT where flashy jewelery. These attract the wrong people. Just use common sense and you will be fine. Hope you have a great experience here. Buenos suarte, good luck.
LTSteve
This just isn't true. As I recently wrote in another thread.. I gave birth 'the European way' (very comfortable private room in private clinic) and it cost $1000 USD without insurance. And I chose to have my baby here instead of going back to Canada where it would have been free. We had zero issues getting our daughter a passport (we chose to do British first as my husband is British) and will easily get her a Canadian one as well. People on here will try to scare you out of having your baby here but it was absolutely fine for me and I plan to do it again next time around.
I personally wouldn't stay back and send my husband ahead for 6 months because you are doing this as a family. Your son is still quite young so I am sure he will adjust well to a new school and friends.
Definitely do your research and have a plan but don't get too scared by people treating you like you are crazy to make the move and to have the baby here.
Nobody is calling anyone crazy, btw, if you paid USD1,000 to give birth the european way and all went well, you were lucky. And probably 80% of the time it will go well and without complications, a normal birth is routine, which in my country goes well at home, without a doctor (even though the midwives are probably better trained than most doctors in DR).
However, if something goes wrong you want to be in a place where they know what to do, doctors AND nurses are trained and hygiene is good. Just like in my country, if something is not in order they will have you give birth in a hospital with good, trained doctors and nurses.
My wife is dominican, gave birth two times in Holland, the natural way. No pain relieve, since it seems recovering is faster and healthier without it, the pain serves its purpose. The third time she gave birth here, also natural (but with pain relieve), in a private clinic, in a private room, but she told me it's nothing like the care they gave you in Europe.
Small example: common practice in DR is to take the child away from the mother and only bring it back hours later. Another common practice is that nurses will feed the baby from the bottle the first days. In a real country they don't do that stuff. Unfortunately in this country there is no education, and worse, no common sense of how you should do things.
That's not to scare people, that's to bring some realism, so people know what they are getting into, and won't say: I didn't know.
On getting passports, of course it's easy to get your child a passport from the country you or your husband are from. Why wouldn't it be. It is true though that it is smart to make sure you have some papers at hand, you might need.