The future of Sosua
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If you seen 1/2 the kitchens restaurants you would never eat in them..
I eat in a few, I have seen the kitchens. Yes, there are some on the beach that are dubious. Never been sick from the beach food in almost 20 years. It's more than I can say about some of the regular restaurants in town.
I eat on the beach most days I am in Sosua. I am only reporting my personal experiences.
Need to have a place for the expats in Sosua to go. They seem to enjoy it.
I suppose....not somewhere I would ever go but hey...to each their own.
Let him RIP, but when I saw that first time I was like " if this is what you need to do to keep your BAR/ Restaurant afloat .... maybe you are doing it wrong " ....
Call me crazy , but I thought people went for FOOD, Drink, and perhaps a Screen to watch a game .
or maybe Expats in Sosua really are that Bored ( or boring) , who knows ........ But a Bingo night ? on Pedro Clisante ? ... its like something you should only see on the Twilight zone ... which Ironically enough is exactly where we are at right now ..
Do I think a Mayor would try to stop a multi-million dollar project on private property? No, I do not. Where on earth
did you come up with this idea?
If people enjoy playing bingo on Pedro Clisante, who are we to criticise them?
One does not have to imagine it. That is what we have had for a couple of months now. The future? Who knows.
From your post, you said: Now that Willy is Mayor, no changes on the Beach (paraphrased).
If I misinterpreted, my apologies.
POP airport might not open for tourism until 2021
He argued that airports that are more dependent on tourism will require a little more time to reactivate and normalize, since they depend on the work of selling the destination and the packages of the tour operators. "In the case of the airports of Puerto Plata and Samaná they will be...
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Check out a news post I just made about POP airport and how it may not reopen to tourists until 2021.
Great movie. And everytime I watch it I notice another film parody.
And I agree with Ram, the beach restaurants do seem cleaner to me.
That said, , I picked a hell of a time to give up drinking!
No worries. I misinterprete things constantly,
usually after my third glass. Cheers.
Considering that there is a pandemic and tourism is dead right now and will be severely reduced for at least the next two years,
The question is,
How much will this condo/hotel development cost?
Who will be the investor in this business climate?
Where from and when will clients come, to make this business venture cost effective?
I'll start by saying I have no idea who if any investment group would touch Sosua right now...
I do know that in 1990, IGY Marinas was looking hard at Sosua and in negotiations with the government. The sticking points were the kiosks on the beach, and that the DR Govt. wanted IGY to build a new sewage treatment facility on on their dime.. This was right after they finished Blue Haven Marina on Provo.
If IGY or any other hospitality investor was to build anything in Sosua, they wouldn't be worrying about where their clients would be coming from because they would be built in.. Companies like Four Seasons, Starwood Resorts, Viceroy and many others vacation conglomerates already have their client base built in. They can care less if people call to book. What's important is the different destinations they have available for their "Vacation Ownership" clients. Many little islands with less than half of the tourism draw of the DR have these very expensive resorts on them and are booked all of the time. The more properties they own, the more memberships they can "sell" and that's where their clients come from.
I'm assuming your questions are rhetorical?
Like any large project, they'll adjust to the market. But considering it will take several years to complete the build out anyways, the pandemic may hardly
effect the schedule.
for Sosua to advance they need an updated or new sewage system. I like the town but not so much the smell of sewage after a rain.
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