Hotel Libano
We ended up staying in the Hotel Libano at Trinitaria#33 809-557-2528. We were offered a choice of a regular room at RD1100 or a suite at RD2200 per night.
The hotel was very nice with a pleasant and helpful staff. It seems to be mostly for business people and does not have many frills but was very comfortable. We chose the suite. It was not overly large but was very clean with a good size bathroom with plenty of hot water. There was good A/C and a small refrigerator. There was a big couch and good cable TV.
The suites are located at the corners of the building on each floor and had the very nice feature of large floor to cieling wrap around windows in the corner of the room. The windows had one way tinted glass so the views of the city and the mountains were beautiful. The tinted glass gave very good privacy but made the view seem like looking through sunglasses.
There was a restaurant on the top floor with excellent nightly specials (sanconcho, marinated pork chops), pool tables and a small bar. The views and breeze were very nice and though the menu selections were limited the food was very good and very reasonably priced. We had dinner for two and three grande Presidentes for a little over RD600.They do not serve wine.
The bar was not very busy and the baseball game on a small TV was the low key entertainment. The restaurant offers room service and we had coffee and warm ham and cheese sandwiches delivered to the room for breakfast.
There is a department store on the first floor in the plaza with a selection of clothing and household goods. The area around the hotel had a nice selection of clothing, furniture and other small stores and farmacies. There is a nice park nearby. It seemed like a very nice and safe nieghborhood and the hotel as a good size parking lot next door.
A very nice though basic hotel that was perfect for our several day stay in a very pleasant, friendly and scenic city and our visit with some of the followers of Liborio Mateo.