oh, the article i read (link in spanish) said "hotel". even their website says: For reservations and hotel inquiries, please email us at. sorry if that's not accurate.
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oh, the article i read (link in spanish) said "hotel". even their website says: For reservations and hotel inquiries, please email us at. sorry if that's not accurate.
At the end of the street before you get to the Ocean Club, is a very large hole they dug, the length of the block. They were pouring concrete the last time I was down the road. Maybe it's the parking garage. Just wondering what was being built.
It is the parking garage. It is being completed now.....loud noises every day. Sometimes cement trucks all night long. They are completing another building and also doing something where the Dominican house is between their main building and Infiniti Blu. By the sounds of the pounding and machinery, I think maybe they are cutting out stone to make another swimming pool. This is their only shady area, so they should make something important there.
Lindsey
Its a public place... bar/restaurant should be open to all comers.
also, try the Beach Club at Playa Grande... Playa Grande Beach Club
also, try the Beach Club at Playa Grande... Playa Grande Beach Club
thanks guys 
WW, don't know about playa grande. i just got new car and my first drive will be to pick my friend up. luckily she has a set of mega airbags but still... not sure how i feel about driving further. but miesposo may get some time off so we could all go.
WW, don't know about playa grande. i just got new car and my first drive will be to pick my friend up. luckily she has a set of mega airbags but still... not sure how i feel about driving further. but miesposo may get some time off so we could all go.
Originally, Larimar
As guests of the current owners, my family and I stayed in the 4 bedroom penthouse and know more stories about the history of this lovely hotel (perhaps best described as a suite-hotel) than I could share in a short message. While it was heartbreaking to sit in a restaurant space where my uncle's, Thomas Philipp's, lifeless body was dumped over a balcony almost 26 years ago, the food was n excellent. Thomas Philipp built Larimar on the site of the beach house that he owned. (Perhaps gifted to him by General Imbert, though my grandfather, Bruno Philipp came to own the remaining DORSA lands in the early sixties). My family has never seen a peso from the property thanks to the Dominican government's cover-up of my uncle's murder, the theft of the property by Jaime Morey, and a boggled ownership structure thanks to a series of incompetent and corrupt lawyers.
I wish the current owners and developers every success. They treated my family like royalty and worked hard to create a gem of a restoration of the Larimar. Gated resorts are the new normal for third world boutique properties, and I imagine clientele without social consciences will turn a blind eye to the ugliness outside the gates.
As guests of the current owners, my family and I stayed in the 4 bedroom penthouse and know more stories about the history of this lovely hotel (perhaps best described as a suite-hotel) than I could share in a short message. While it was heartbreaking to sit in a restaurant space where my uncle's, Thomas Philipp's, lifeless body was dumped over a balcony almost 26 years ago, the food was n excellent. Thomas Philipp built Larimar on the site of the beach house that he owned. (Perhaps gifted to him by General Imbert, though my grandfather, Bruno Philipp came to own the remaining DORSA lands in the early sixties). My family has never seen a peso from the property thanks to the Dominican government's cover-up of my uncle's murder, the theft of the property by Jaime Morey, and a boggled ownership structure thanks to a series of incompetent and corrupt lawyers.
I wish the current owners and developers every success. They treated my family like royalty and worked hard to create a gem of a restoration of the Larimar. Gated resorts are the new normal for third world boutique properties, and I imagine clientele without social consciences will turn a blind eye to the ugliness outside the gates.
We ate there last year and the food and ambience were both excellent. We are going there tonite at 7pm and I will update on any changes. It is open to the public.
thanks guys
WW, don't know about playa grande. i just got new car and my first drive will be to pick my friend up. luckily she has a set of mega airbags but still... not sure how i feel about driving further. but miesposo may get some time off so we could all go.
May I meet your friend ??
Balloons and air bags only come in three sizes...
Large
Huge
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just right
hahaha
WOW ! !
that's a story....
hard to believe but I don't doubt you
I am watching another NoCoast hotel 'seal themselves in' as we type....
totally exclusive and , it seems , exclusionary
Right O
Anyone desperate for real luxury able to pay will not come to the DR.
There are other places in the world with real luxury, safety and infrastructure.
Why drop big buck's when outside your door is a s!!t hole.
Originally, it was condos. Then the developer contracted with Gansevoort. Those who purchased were offered 7% of their unit value each year, if I remember correctly.
Development continued and another building constructed, this time by a different developer.
Thus, if Gansevoort is out, the owners still own their condos. But the place is boarded up for now.
I am friends with 2 of the owners. I'll see if I can contact them to ask what is going on.
Lindsey
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