01/2007 - Short trip report
There 13 - 20 Jan 2007, I'll just give the skinny on 4 popular houses and the changes since our last trip in Sep '06:
Casa Teresa- Sep '06 ST/TLN=1,000/3,000RD. Jan '07 3,000/9,000RD
(Stay away from Casa Teresa)
Girl House - Still 2,500RD TLN (TLN now = 2 hrs, >2 hrs negot. starts at 4,000RD).
Sky Club - Still 3,000RD for 2 hours. 4,500-5,000RD = 11 am next a.m. depending on Chica.
Lapsus - (now this gets tricky) Standard house fee is still 2,500RD for TLN (now redefined as 2-3 hrs.). Some Chicas will try to claim a salida fee of up to 6,000RD if they think they have an unwitting dupe. I had to warn several potential marks away from these scammers. Aparently the house is not inclined to intervene in these scams, undermining my formerly high opinion of them. One has to act like they've been around the block and stand firm on price and time or U will get used. It was never this much work before.
Concerns:
Whatever Chica union meeting that established a TLN standard of 2 hrs. must be countered with a mongerer agreement to demand more time or less money or both. Toda La Noche has become Two Fucking Hours in a few months. This is wrong and we must not take this lying down (pun intended).
If a house price is established (i.e. 2,500RD), the price MUST be held as a standard at the club for all working Chicas there. We may need to counter this trend of price variance with low starting bids of 1,500RD (and stick to our guns) in order to return some sanity to the process.
Casa Teresa must be boycotted. These are Netherlands Antilles prices and not reasonable by any standard under the circumstances. I'm sure that the Chicas aren't even getting half the fees charged there. How can they expect a working month (DR) wages for a 2 hour fuck? Tell everyone you know to stay out of that joint or they'll bring the price of punani to ridiculous highs all over the country.
That's just my 2 cents...
Re: 01/2007 - Short trip report
Bitching about the prices even back then! :rofl:
But, maybe more reason to as the exchange in '07 was 32 to 1. Considering the cost nowadays once on the ground, the DR is still a great deal for a vacation compared to other Caribbean locations.
The biggest cost increase is the "getting there" part to that ground, as a flight for me back in '07 and '08, from California was in the $500-600 range, and that was into POP. Now, it's nearly double that amount for me, and thats with a SDQ arrival and departure.
With POP now? For me....fuggetaboutit!
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Mr. Smooth
Bitching about the prices even back then! :rofl:
But, maybe more reason to as the exchange in '07 was 32 to 1. Considering the cost nowadays once on the ground, the DR is still a great deal for a vacation compared to other Caribbean locations.
The biggest cost increase is the "getting there" part to that ground, as a flight for me back in '07 and '08, from California was in the $500-600 range, and that was into POP. Now, it's nearly double that amount for me, and thats with a SDQ arrival and departure.
With POP now? For me....fuggetaboutit!
It wasn't just the prices. When I 1st started going to Santo Domingo it was a totally different vibe. The casas were the center of the night life and they were open until the crack of dawn, as were the neighborhood joints. There were country fresh Chicas being bused in regularly for work in the casas and cock fights on the back streets.
The Capital was one big party until they decided to stop selling booze (effectively shutting the night life down) at Midnite.
All the Chicas had Razor flip phones or Blackberries back then so the trade effectively moved to a digital platform. Since that time, technology and the virtual meeting place has replaced the old casa paradigm for most and for those of us old schoolers who prefer the face-to-face meeting, the move to the open air street market style of play as is found in Boca Chica has become the best way to meet Chicas from Santo Domingo without having to completely immerse in the urban culture where the stakes (and the rewards) are higher.
A huge increase in the number of deportees and drugs flooding the Capital over the past decade has caused me to prefer the slow and easy pace of Boca Chica. The flavor has definitely changed over the years.
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greydread
A huge increase in the number of deportees and drugs flooding the Capital over the past decade has caused me to prefer the slow and easy pace of Boca Chica. The flavor has definitely changed over the years.
Boca is our little secret. For others that never been there, it sucks.:corky:
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Jimmydr
Boca is our little secret. For others that never been there, it sucks.:corky:
Truth told, it did suck 10 years ago before they cleaned all the short-eye perverts out of town.
The beach needs a good dredging and the businesses pop in and out like "Whack-a-Mole", but the place has a very slow and easy vibe to it now. It's proximity to the Capital gives it an advantage which cannot be found up North. 1/3 of the country's population resides in Santo Domingo.