RE: Tenerife's Latin America Sweep (DR, Colombia and Beyond)
Experiences and thoughts on Santo Domingo
After flying into SDQ I looked around the airport for a SIM card. The Claro kiosk and the Orange kiosk stood next to the entrance, and on a whim I went over to Orange.
I had pipelined for a few weeks on badoo and latincupid before arriving, and had over 60 numbers on whatsapp in my iphone. I was a little worried how all my contacts were going to switch, but it was actually a pretty seamless process, though for some reason girls weren't able to see my picture. I got 3g service with only a gig for a month.
I then took a 30 dollar taxi into town (apparently you can haggle down to half that). Looking out the window I was actually afraid for the first
few hours. I thought I was going to get instantly robbed. I told the taxi to take me to Hotel Discovery which is located directly across from Parque de Independencia on the very western end of calle del conde (the big tourist pedestrian thoroughfare in the old town). The first thing that struck was how apeshit crazy the driving was. I've been to many East Asian countries, and that seemed tamed to what laid before eyes.
It was wild. My taxi was going the wrong way up one way streets, and there seemed to be absolutely no rules at all. There were multiple times it seemed certain we would crash, but somehow we made it to the hotel.
Looking out of the taxi into the old town, I thought we were in some miserable ghetto, but no, it's actually the tourist area!
The hotel room cost over 40 dollars, but was as small as a sardine can, with air conditioning that didn't work, and same for the internet. The room was a sauna, and the temperature outside was 90 degrees.
The next day I moved directly onto Calle el Conde to a small hotel for about 36 bucks a night. They were fine with me bringing girls back, and there was decent wifi in the lobby.
Girls and Bangs
I spent the next twelve days there bringing girls to the room from online. Walking around Conde, my sex drive actually hit some all time lows. I found myself attracted to barely any of the women. I suppose pipelining on latincupid had given me a false impression of what this country had to offer. See, latincupid has about 5 times better quality than badoo, and for me it was a much better response rate from the girls I was attracted to. Even spending 400 credits a day on badoo didn't get me the results I wanted, but on LC, it seemed like I was getting 5 numbers a day from bangeable girls (most of whom turned out to be flakes, semipros, or good girls). On all the dates I used google translate on my iphone especially the voice feature which translates directly from speech.
The first girl I met up with asked me for money and was a hardened semi-pro. My second day I met a petite bookworm who I managed to get to my place and banged. The sex was really good and she was a total freak.
A lot of the other dates are actually a bit blurry. I met up with two very quality girls from LC, but one was a total player. One girl was probably my top pic from online. I agreed to pay her taxi both ways, got her to my room, and managed to dry hump her and suck her tits, but she wasn't going to give it up. I ended up giving her 650 for taxi fare and she never responded to a single one of my text messages after.
Another girl was a cute caucasian university student who I got back to the pad on the first date. Same thing with the last girl, heavy makeout and tit sucking, no sex. She pegged me as a player and said she wasn't "going to be anybody's entertainment". That was that.
My next bang was actually my first day time approach. Turned out to be a virgin, and was extremely tight. Not pleasurable at all.
After that I met up with a super snobby, petite upper class girl. She was telling me how I was terrible for being a player. We walked over to parque colon and sat on a bench, and she just kept telling me how she hates players. I just kept joking about how I wanted to go to my hotel. I kept groping her on the bench. She said that she wanted to go to a disco with me, and I was like "but I thought you said you don't like bad boys. Why do you want to go to the club with me?". I just kept calling her on her shit. Honestly, I did not like this girl's personality at all. A total bitch.
I went with her to a photoshop to get her graduation pictures developed. Afterwards I got a grilled chicken sandwich at pollo rey (ate there damn near every day) and she just sat there. After this, I took a circuitous route to my hotel, where we both walked up and she just said nothing about going to my hotel, even though she was giving me a ton of shit before. Got her to the room started kissing. Clothes came off pretty easily. Starting having sex without a condom and then after
a bit she goes "no use a condom". I bitched and said no "sin condon". I hate having sex with a condom. She then grabs all her shit then leaves immediately.
Afterwards she sends me a text in spanish saying something like "that's what you get for not using a condom".
What, is she trying to train me like a dog? I never bothered to respond to her. I often encountered really pushy and bitchy attitude from Dominican women.
Nightlife
Before coming to Santo Domingo I had read a lot about the nightlife. I was pretty excited to go to Avenida Venezuala, which some people said had "relentless talent".
Yeah, that was a disappointment. Girls at Avenida Venezuela should go to America and tryout as linebackers for the NFL. The place is a total doghouse. Combined with the fact that everyone is sitting at tables, and the music is loud as shit, I can't recommend going here. I'm never going back. I did a few warm up approaches on some mostly unattractive women, and my reception wasn't that great here.
The only club here that had quality girl was WAO, but the night I went there they wanted me to pay 1000 pesos to get in (insane).
Zona
Zona Colonial nightlife is nothing to write home about as well, the reports about it on the board were pretty accurate. I checked out Onna's and Bio, both are extremely small places. There just aren't that many people partying in Zona Colonial it seems. The quality of girl here seems a bit higher than Venezuela though.
Another issue that I was completely ignorant of upon arriving: NIGHTLIFE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK ENDS AT MIDNIGHT. Holy shit! I thought America was bad. Most places have an extension to 1am (how generous) and on the weekends it's 2-3am. Clubs in Casinos are exempt from these retarded laws and contain afterhours spots.
Naco
If it weren't for Naco, there would be no reason to even return to Santo Domingo. Walking around during the day, the people look mostly the same (the upper class folks are driving around in SUVs with tinted black windows). At night, if you go the right club, you are in for a surprise. Expect everyone to look spaniard, and expect to see some amazingly attractive women. I only spent a few nights out there, and there seems to be practically no intel on this area. I searched DR1, but most of the info there is 3 years old. To places that have bars are Plaz Uris and Plaza Andalucia. The former contains Zambra's (a small upscale lounge) and the latter contains Cafe Retro and London Box (a rooftop bar and discoteque).
Malecon.
I went to the after hours spot Pure at Hotel Magna (formerly known as Coppa's Bar at Hotel Melia). A couple people had mentioned it. It's a total whore house. I don't think there was one normal girl there. Just a bunch of whores and a few wrinkly old dudes. Out of curiousity I asked a very large girl how much she wanted for two hours of sex (she would probably crush me if we actually went through with it). She quoted me some absurd price like 200 dollars. I tried to haggle her for shits and giggles and she wouldn't budge at 150. What a fucking joke.
I had the good fortune to go to another afterhours spot called the Mint. This place is solid. A good place to go after 2am on a weekend. Not a p4p spot and people come from lots of other clubs to here to keep the party going.
Something that surprised me was the almost total absence of gringos. Even on Calle el Conde I didn't see many, except for maybe tourists from other spanish speaking countries. Most of the time I went out, I saw maybe one or two other gringos.
The women
The women of Santo Domingo are all over the spectrum looks wise. The sad thing about DR is that class is correlated with attractiveness, unlike in most poor east asian countries where its pretty evenly distributed. The upper class dominican women are way hotter than the barrio chicks, who are mostly black tend to be huge and ugly.
There are some attractive black women, but I didn't see that many. If you love the typical "chocolate thunder thighs" look, DR may be your heaven. If not, stick to the upper class spots and you will be happy.
Personality wise there aren't many women here I like. Many of them are pushy and bitchy. The upper class women can be complete snobs and the lower class women put me off as well. Take me back to Philippines any day.
I'm currently in Santiago, and the town here, as well as the women, is quite a bit nicer overall compared to SD. I will do a write up of that town in a bit.
Overall, I'm still enjoying my trip to DR. The country truly is a beautiful tropical island and as soon as my apartment lease is up, I'm going to spend a week on a beach, perhaps Cabarete or Punta Cana. I also really enjoy listening to all the different types of music they have here, and the dance culture is really cool too. Seeing the hot girls move their hips in every manner possible is definitely one of the bright sides of this country.
And the Ice Cold Presidentes
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