A dose of perspective
I always see posts more and more on DR1 for getting a cheap hotel,cheap cab ride,cheap dinners,cheap flights,cheap girls etc....... I rarely see anyone post that they are looking for a nice hotel,dinner,taxi,etc......
In my opinion if you can't afford to go on vacation and enjoy yourselves stay home and watch the travel channel you bunch of Cheap skates. Does anyone agree?
Everyone?
Come on Badpiece, you can't possibly think that the active members of DR1.com represent any significant proportion of any population, much less the number of tourists that visit the DR.
99% (and this is an understatement) of tourists to the DR don't even KNOW about DR1.
So no, everyone visiting the DR are not cheap.
However, most people motivated to ask for "help" on DR1 do tend to be of the cheap kind, or at least it appears that way.
People that have top dollar talk to travel specialists and they know the "it" places on the island. They, more often than not, get referred by people they know that visited a top notch top dollar hotel and, more often than not, they will be referred to that particular resort. No need for DR1.
You will never, perhaps never is too strong, rarely see a post about a soon to be tourist asking about accomodations as the Westin Roco Ki or Altabella Resort in Cap Cana or Tortuga Bay in Puntacana Resort & Club, or even Casa Colonial in Puerto Plata.
And when the Four Seasons opens in Casa de Campo or the Ritz Carlton in Cap Cana, you definitely will not see those names being totted around in questions posted on this forum.
DR1 members don't even add up to 1% of the population of any place (postage stamp islands don't count), so don't go off assuming things based on the participation rates of certain type of people here.
-NALs