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Hello I was wondering if anyone can help, I just booked a trip for jan. I wanted to know how much damage was recieved during the recent hurricane. I am staying at the Occidental Grand????
For damage received during recent tropical storm please read this thread & look at pics & videos which start on page 7 (I think):
http://www.dr1.com/forums/weather-beyond/68188-tropical-storm-noel.html
Or were you just asking about the Occidental Grand? In Punta Cana or Playa Dorada?
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theres a lot of hostility to holiday makers around
If this is geared to me, I was hoping to get the question clarified. The poster did not ask about hotel damage specifically, but 'damage'. If they were asking about a hotel, we need to know which one. And in any event on the thread linked they will see several statements about no hotel damage. So that thread answers both the question they asked and the one we might think they are asking. Where's the hostility in that?
Seeing hostility where there is none is likely to provoke.............hostility. :cheeky:
There have been hints of controversy on this matter in a few threads, so let's just hang it out in the open.
Some people feel that tourists coming here should be more concerned about the plight of some poor Dominicans who were wiped out by the storm, and less concerned about their vacations.
Then there are others, like myself, who feel that one has nothing to do with the other, that tourism is the #1 industry in this country and that we need it to survive, and that we should do all we can to appease those who are asking about their resorts/destinations.
One poster in another thread, went so far as to tell a newbie off for asking about his/her resort in Punta Cana, and that the newbie was being insensitive to the needs of the country.
Wel..... Guess what...
The people asking, are merely tourists.
It's not the Red Cross volunteer group calling.
They are simple tourists in dire need of a vacation and they should not be harassed, or pressured, IMHO.
Alienating tourists is not going to help the cause.
Some people feel that tourists coming here should be more concerned about the plight of some poor Dominicans who were wiped out by the storm, and less concerned about their vacations.
Then there are others, like myself, who feel that one has nothing to do with the other, that tourism is the #1 industry in this country and that we need it to survive, and that we should do all we can to appease those who are asking about their resorts/destinations.
One poster in another thread, went so far as to tell a newbie off for asking about his/her resort in Punta Cana, and that the newbie was being insensitive to the needs of the country.
Wel..... Guess what...
The people asking, are merely tourists.
It's not the Red Cross volunteer group calling.
They are simple tourists in dire need of a vacation and they should not be harassed, or pressured, IMHO.
Alienating tourists is not going to help the cause.
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At least we agree on something........lol...by the way I wonder what happens to all the out of fashion clothes that they sell in the stores in santo domingo.....they probably shred them rather than give them away
No way would they shred them, in fact, Dominicans are way less wasteful than folks where I come from.At least we agree on something........lol...by the way I wonder what happens to all the out of fashion clothes that they sell in the stores in santo domingo.....they probably shred them rather than give them away
They make use of almost everything and anything.
There have been hints of controversy on this matter in a few threads, so let's just hang it out in the open.
Some people feel that tourists coming here should be more concerned about the plight of some poor Dominicans who were wiped out by the storm, and less concerned about their vacations.
Then there are others, like myself, who feel that one has nothing to do with the other, that tourism is the #1 industry in this country and that we need it to survive, and that we should do all we can to appease those who are asking about their resorts/destinations.
One poster in another thread, went so far as to tell a newbie off for asking about his/her resort in Punta Cana, and that the newbie was being insensitive to the needs of the country.
Wel..... Guess what...
The people asking, are merely tourists.
It's not the Red Cross volunteer group calling.
They are simple tourists in dire need of a vacation and they should not be harassed, or pressured, IMHO.
Alienating tourists is not going to help the cause.
Spot on!!:bunny:
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