Juan Dolio - South Beach of the Caribbean !!!

STEVE G.

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Its a rather nice beach as it is. The cliffs sorrounding it are also marvelous. ..I believe that land used to (or perhaps still?) belong to the Hazims. Are they building where the government moved people about a decade ago, ..i.e. where they were planning to expand the SPM port? How close are they going to the river?

The shape of the cliffs surrounding the beach is really nice , just asking for a nice development there . There are no renders yet available on the Marina , should be a big one .
 

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recommendation for a good hotel in Juan Dolio

I am going to stay in Juan Dolio for two days. Could anybody recommend a nice hotel with a beautiful beach?

Thank you in advance
 

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Not many hotels left!!! Only two worth staying at on the beach are Barcelo Capella and Costa Caribe
 

STEVE G.

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Not many hotels left!!! Only two worth staying at on the beach are Barcelo Capella and Costa Caribe

Well... Coral Costa Caribe is becoming the condominium too ...sales will start from North buildings ( where Casino is located ) , after South buildings ( on the beach) ...main building will be the hotel and Vacation Club units...
 

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Aquabella

Another good news for Juan Dolio - Ing. Rodriguez Sandoval , well known by projects like Malecon Center Residencial Towers and Hilton Santo Domingo Hotel , Caney Tower , Caribe Tower , Guavaberry Resort and Country Club etc. is going to start this year his new project in Juan Dolio - Aquabella... Rodriguez Sandoval
 

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Oh! How exciting! Soon I won't have to leave South Beach. So then what's the point of going to the D.R.

I go to the D.R. for the Dominican Republic and its culture not to a place that is a replica of my home country and sterilized.

What is in your minds, people?
 
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Oh! How exciting! Soon I won't have to leave South Beach. So then what's the point of going to the D.R.

I go to the D.R. for the Dominican Republic and its culture not to a place that is a replica of my home country and sterilized.

What is in your minds, people?

You'll have to travel inland...from east to west to reintroduce yourself to this big beautiful country and it's culture.........or not.......
 

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Say what????

Oh! How exciting! Soon I won't have to leave South Beach. So then what's the point of going to the D.R.

I go to the D.R. for the Dominican Republic and its culture not to a place that is a replica of my home country and sterilized.

What is in your minds, people?

It's all these dense Americans with more money than brains!!

Met one not long ago that said he had $200,000 US with which to buy a condo (he was willing to offer that to the owner of one of the apts in our building that sold for US$65,000 after we steered him to a more suitable location for his $$$$).
 

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Well... Coral Costa Caribe is becoming the condominium too ...sales will start from North buildings ( where Casino is located ) , after South buildings ( on the beach) ...main building will be the hotel and Vacation Club units...

You know where I can find more info about this? I was going for a lot in Cabamar but would like to see this option as well.
 

STEVE G.

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Oh! How exciting! Soon I won't have to leave South Beach. So then what's the point of going to the D.R.

I go to the D.R. for the Dominican Republic and its culture not to a place that is a replica of my home country and sterilized.

What is in your minds, people?

Well...90% of DR is not developed at all ( are you happy ? ) , so sorry for sharing the good news of this new development in the area with you . The developers use the name New South Beach as a reference and not as a replica of any place . You can still come to DR from a rich country to our third world and compare to make sure you are lucky to live in US ( if you fill this way ) ... DR is big enough to discover its culture traveling the island and not sitting in AI Resorts ... Sorry again that Juan Dolio is growing every day ... there are thousands of plots in the area , but less then 20% of them developed ( are you still happy ? ) What is in our minds ... lets see clean roads , streets , gardens , villas , condominiums , commercial centers , golf courses , marinas , sanitary system , secure neighborhood, clean white sand beach with a walkway along the coast ... ( are disappointed ? ) ...BTW when you fly to DR you might use Las Americas Airport in Santo Domingo or La Union Airport in Puerto Plata, were built by Ing. Rodriguez Sandoval too , that is why I called a news of his new development in Juan Dolio a good news ...
 

STEVE G.

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Contact Intur

You know where I can find more info about this? I was going for a lot in Cabamar but would like to see this option as well.

Contact Intur : INTUR - CONTACT US ...Grupo Intur is a Dominican corporation which owns several real estate and hospitality companies, headed by Inversiones Inmobiliarias y Tur?sticas, S. A. (Intur) and the Coral Hotels and Resorts hotel chain ( Coral Costa Caribe is not part of Globalia Hotels like others )
It develops its own real estate projects and markets third-party real estate properties through its brokerage firm, Coldwell Banker Dominicana... As I know they put people in a contact list to provide more info on it later .
 

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Oh! How exciting! Soon I won't have to leave South Beach. So then what's the point of going to the D.R.

I go to the D.R. for the Dominican Republic and its culture not to a place that is a replica of my home country and sterilized.

What is in your minds, people?
Can't culture exist with progress?

I am often intrigued when people say they go to a place for 'its culture' and yet, the same people reject or, at the very least, feel uneasy when progress begins to take place.

Look at Puerto Rico, very modern and progressive and yet, they still retain much of what makes a Boricua a... well... a Boricua!

Sometimes what people deem as 'culture' in many ways is nothing more than an economically inferior lifestyle compared to the lifestyle of people from the first world and I think many "first world tourists" want for certain places to remain the same forever, for their own enjoyment on their two-weeks vacation.

For many of these foreigners and tourists, the 'real' Dominican culture is manifested in one word: POVERTY. Anything that leads away from poverty is seen as tampering with the 'culture', thus in order to protect the local 'culture', the poverty must be protected as well and that means keeping the huts with thatch roofs, keeping the dirt roads, keeping the deprived people deprived.

Notice how not many tourists regard middle class Dominicans or upper class Dominicans as being part of the 'real culture', it's only the poor Dominicans and many include poor Haitians under the title of the 'real Dominican culture' while excluding Dominicans from the upper classes from such 'real culture'.

Culture is a complex thing that is out there, intangible, fluid, and in constant change. Culture is not manifested through thatch roofs, dirt roads, wooden shacks, and people hanging from pick-up trucks. Culture, real culture goes beyond those visible things.

Thus, the notion that the change Juan Dolio is experiencing is going to be bad because its affecting the local 'culture' I think is a nice way of saying that many tourists/foreigners don't want the area to be affected by progress.

And yes, many do use the excuse that the locals are not being benefitted (despite the construction jobs and the new jobs which will be created). But, I think that even if the locals were given more than their share of such progress, many of these people would still object to such.

Why?

Because if the locals were given the attention that would elevate their standards of living to a level where the actions of goodwill from the foreign tourists will no longer "buy their friendship", those locals will become as "normal" as the people from the country where the tourist came from.

Thus, we are back to the same dilemma once again!

Is it really the 'culture' that most tourists are after or perhaps its something else... that notion of a tropical paradise with palm trees, sunshine, and... uncivilized savages which would create the perfect opportunity for the civilized Westerner to do an act of goodwill in order to feel better for him/herself.

I'm sure many foreigners are truly concerned with the well being of the locals (despite the underlying power influence between relatively wealthier foreigner and impoverished local which creates a friendship based on one giving material gifts to the other while the other gives certain emotions of happiness and, perhaps, a validation to the foreigner of being "good").

However, many doesn't mean all and its that double side coin which keeps me wondering everytime I read or hear a non-local claim that they want to protect to the local 'culture'.

Could it be that they want to protect the local poverty? The local conditions which gives the foreigner a chance to feel good about him/herself when he/she gives gifts to the deprived locals? Could that be where much of the so called charm lies?

Food for thought!

-NALs

BTW: You can follow the debate that may or may not come forth from this at the Debate Forum in the thread titled : "Protecting the culture?".
 
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Villas Del Mar of Juan Dolio

Villas Del Mar of Juan Dolio will have as well small gated communities of villas besides of 4/6 - 12/20 story condos ...like Ocean Breeze Villas : , , ... Villas Del Sol : , ,... New development near Capella Resort : ... there are many other similar projects in the area under construction as a demand is high and not only of condo apartments but villas as well...
 

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Hey Steve G. - I hear Aquabella is going 20 stories with a 200 slip marina!
On the Beach side of the road....(so much for the announcement that the really tall structures were only going to be on the non-beach side of the road!!!).
What's the word on this? Is my 'source' giving me the straight talk?