Hotel Zapata

[blancoman1970]

Good morning to everyone in DR!

This is my first post onto this forum, having read it for the past few years. I've taken four trips over the past few years and will be heading to Hotel Zapata in Boca Chica next week with two friends.

The last time I stayed in BC, we had a great time because it was our first trip. Besides the lady shenanigans, we actually did a lot of activities...casino, charter fishing,cockfights, dancing, etc...But to be honest, I was a bit depressed by the chaos in the streets with the peddling and vendors.

The last few trips have been to the North Coast but the airline tickets into POP were ridiculous. So, my friends and I are heading into SDQ and will spend a couple of nights at Hotel Zapata.

Can anyone provide recent feedback / rumors on Hotel Zapata and it's choice of stay for BC?

Is it clean? Friendly management? Do they keep the peddlers and vendors away from inside their premises? Do they allow chica visitors? Is their food good? Is their beach good?

Thank you for your feedback.

Blancoman1970

 

[retiree]

We stayed there 3 years ago for 2 days and thought it was the best choice on the beach as well as the nicest area of the beach. It was clean, the management friendly, no vendors in the property but a headache on the beach. I do not know about visitors.

 

[LTSteve]

STOP. It is not too late. DO NOT go back to Boca Chica. Are you kidding me. That town is one big hassle. Go to Las Terrenas on the Samana Peninsual. There you will find some of the nicest beaches in the DR. There is a wide range of hotel choices and the food in town is fabulous. If you are flying from NYC or Canada you can fly directly into El Catey/Samana (AZS) Airport. You are a 30 minute taxi ride away. Check out lasterrenaslive.com for info on the area. Good luck.

LTSteve

 

[Criss Colon]

"LT", have you ever stayed in "BC", and if so when was that?
"Tastes" are not all "Vanilla".
I stayed at "Hotel Zapata" many times.
It is a mix of "normal" tourists, and guys looking for some "company".
Everyone was well behaved, no displays of affection, not much going on, except eating, socializing, and "Sunning".
Only down side for me, no pool.
It was clean, well managed, good food, and "Friend", friendly.
Not my first choice for me these days, but good for some single guys, or gals, on vacation.
"BC" is a little like "Sosua", it has a public "Perception" that it nothing more than a "Sex Tourism" town.
Not true about "BC", and defintely not true about "Sosua"!
A person can "Get Laid" in ANY town in the DR, but that doesn't mean that getting laid is the ONLY THING you can do in ANY town in the DR!
But I'm glad that the "Getting Laid" option is available! :bunny::bunny::bunny:

 

[Lothario666]

Welcome to DR1

 

[beastwood]

CC's remarks about Zapata is spot on...my wife and I stayed there a year ago. Place is fine...clean, quiet for the most part. But normally we stay in rooms above a private beach restaurant nestled within the Don Juan up the road. $35 a night, windows onto the beach and lovely.

We actually like BC, it is a short jump for us to get away from our apartmemt in villa mella. I granted have a lot of interior and north coast exploring to do over the coming years ... But BC is cheap and local and unpretentious, and safer for my gringo masshole arse than the barrio, so I will take the Duarte late afternoon people watching w a grande fria, over listening to bad 1980s loverboy, Phil Collins and other nauseating (non Latin) pop music by the pool of an all inclusive, any day.

In fact we celebrated an anniversary last week. We asked the staff at our favorite bc breakfast spot to have the night staff set a special corner table inside...we arrived at 8pm, our candle lit table was waiting with a bottle of red and a lovely bouquet of roses. All really nice. Later a table outside the piano disco bar, for more laughs watching the choices people make for their evening occupations...(often wishing we could point the chicas to a higher class of clientele than the craggie faced amero-euro- has-beens that are overflowing in places like BC...present DR1 company excluded of course!).

then back to the room after, as is the norm, respectfully declining the many offers of late night, liquored up moto rentals...you gotta love a country where the drunker you are, the more appealing you are as a potential customer. That's the Entrepenurial DR spirit I love.

 

[blancoman1970]

LT Steve...what would you recommend as a place to stay in Las Terrrenas that would have comparable accomodations, opportunities for local play, and pricing? Any names, numbers, suggestions?

 

[blancoman1970]

Thanks CC.

 

[blancoman1970]

Thanks beastwood. What are some good places to eat local cuisine in BC? Do I need to travel into La Zona for a decent local meal?

 

[beastwood]

Thanks beastwood. What are some good places to eat local cuisine in BC? Do I need to travel into La Zona for a decent local meal?

You will get more variety and probably spend more in santo domingo and the colonial zone. But you can get a reasonable meal (a lot of Italian) along Duarte...600 - 700 pesos for two with a drink included.