I decided to go out and check out a couple of new places last night, specifically the old Elegant Center and Cisne massage parlors, behind the Intercontinental hotel.
There two centers used to have some very nice looking talent, with decent prices for massages.
Elegant Center is now called The Sky Club. They no longer offer on site massage, instead, now you take the girls out with you.
What is odd is that I was met at the door by the girl who owned Elegant Center, but she says she's not the owner anymore, and it is now run by a woman(more on that later)
I arrived around 11:30 at night, and was the only guy there. There were 6-7 girls there, none of which I found attractive. Then I asked prices.
They are asking 2500 pesos for three hours, and the clock starts when you leave. So if you're taking a girl to the cabanas out at the end of the malecon, you lose about 20 minutes right there. Definitely not worth the bother. That, plus none of the girls acted like they were even interested in talking to me. Two of them were walking around with plates of food that they were eating. I don't think they would have given me the time of day, had I asked.
Since I have known the previous owner of Elegant Center for quite a few years, I sat down with her for a few minutes to give her my impressions, and explained to her what the competition is doing on the North Coast, and could she understand why everyone is going to the North Coast instead of Santo Domingo? A blank look is all I got.
Then I walked over to the old Cisne massage place, which is now called "Girls Cafe Club" or something like that. I walk in, 4-5 girls sitting around. Nobody gets up. What the F**k is this? I sit at the bar, and there is a woman talking on the phone. She ignores me. After about a minute, I make a sign like I want to drink a beer. She does her "Don't bother me" look, and does the palm facing me sign to wait a minute, like a policeman would do when he's directing traffic and wants you to stop. Unreal.
Finally, a bartender appears after another couple of minutes, and gives me a beer. A girl walks up and sits next to me, so I started talking to her. The woman behind the bar on the phone is the owner! Not only that, but she also is the owner of the Sky Club I was just in, and also is owner of "La Parada" a little farther up the road. Now things are starting to come together.
The girl talking to me tells me she thinks the woman is somehow involved with drug money, and they are using the three bars for laundering money. That would sure explain the disinterested attitudes I got in both places.
I asked her how much to go out, and she didn't know, I had to ask the woman on the phone. When I did, she acted like I was bothering her, and said, 2500 pesos for two and a half hours. I looked at her like she was nuts, and she went back to talking on the phone. That was it.
I bought the girl a beer for the info, paid my bill, and left. I wouldn't give any of the girls there a second look, they are that uninspiring.
I have also been to La Parada three times in the last two weeks. The first time I took two friends, and both of them got fairly decent girls. As soon as we walked in, we were surrounded by a wall of females that wanted to get selected. I was pleasantly surprised to see 5-6 girls that I would take out in a heartbeat. There was maybe 20 girls there in all.
I went back with another friend a few days ago, and neither of the girls from my first visit were there. Most of the better looking girls were gone too. I counted 7 girls, and none of them got up when I walked in, so I had to try to count them in the darkness while they sat and gossiped away. In the time it took me to drink a beer, none of them got up to move around, nothing. Two american guys walked in while I was at the bar. They sat down, waited about 5 minutes without getting served, no girls walked up to them, so they left. I couldn't believe it.
I have to believe that this lousy service has got something to do with the dumb broad that is the owner of all three businesses. (I confirmed that again with a girl in La Parada.) I tend to think that what the girl said about her laundering money is true. I do know that I am not going to waste my time or anybody else's going to any of the three bars, at least not for a few weeks, then I may go back just to see if they've changed.
One other place I checked out. Anastasia Club. A strip bar supposedly with Russian girls.
The first time I went, there were 5-6 russian looking girls. They start a strip show around 12 at night, and the girls would do private lap dances upstairs, for 20 dollars a song.
I asked one of the girls how much it was for take out. She got mad, said she wasn't a whore, and got up and walked away. The waiter confirmed that the girls don't do take out.
The guy with me had a girl, and wanted a lapdance for the two of them. The dancer said no problem, but that it would then be 40 dollars a dance!
Obviously, they passed.
I went again last week, 12 midnight, and there were 3 girls, all latin looking. Prices are still the same. No one was dancing.
I went to Jazzy's too. They had 12 girls, 5 were definitely foxes. A lap dance is 800 pesos(25 bucks), and the take out is 5000 pesos after 12. WTF!! Am I in Las Vegas or something? Where do they get these prices?
It's amazing, none of these places understand what their attitudes are doing to business. And they simply are not interested when I tell them what the scene is like on the north coast.
So, for any of you guys thinking about doing Santo Domingo, I would seriously consider changing to the North Coast. The scams by the taxi drivers, coupled with the "give a shit" attitude of these bars, is just not worth the hassle.
Originally Posted by Coolhand
than Sosua/Cabarete, the lodging accomodations (villas/condos) on the North Coast are better, reasonably priced, and offer much more privacy than anything that I've been able to find in Boca Chica or Santo Domingo.
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