Of course I have, but I would not say that service is "atrocious" as a whole. It is not something I encounter regularly. Is it a Dominican's general perception or is it yours of what service looks like or should look like. I just find it amazing that people that have chosen to live in the DR can constantly find the negative. Punta Cana is a resort town, and for what it is, service IMO is good. I have the same opinion about service I receive in Santo Domingo or elsewhere.
That of course is to be expected around lunchtime in a big city especially. Miami, NYC and London for instance. I wonder if Santo Domingo is becoming like that in Piantini/Naco.
Probably not as much as a typical AI customer who is likely there for a week.......but they do pay taxes and fees when booking......even if they never leave the ship. Cruise ship operators pay a docking fee at every port of call......collected from passengers when they book.
When they publish the stats they could divide it into overnight staying tourists and cruise ship visitors
the DR is a socalled developing country.
Lol...I would not describe how I/we live as simple, not even close (although sometimes I wish it was). As I said, I just have never had that constant "atrocious" service you seem to experience constantly. But moving on as this thread is about Punta Cana low resort prices.
Respectfully,
I think instead of saying how many tourists they get a year... talk about what was the total amount of money from the alleged number of tourists.......
There is only one way to assess that with any reasonable accuracy........and that is, much like Europe, to refund tourists the ITBIS they pay on purchases. That might be the only way to come close to figuring out how much tourist spend is actually taking place,
