So excited ! My first monger trip ever! and to SD

[MrHappy]

Hey Greydread!

Here's a handy little tip for figuring out the difference.. The 1000 bills have an extra little "0" at the end of the number..

Hope that helps!~!!!! hahahahhhhahaahhahaa

BTW, your cigars are calling out for you at night...

[greydread]

Hey Greydread!

Here's a handy little tip for figuring out the difference.. The 1000 bills have an extra little "0" at the end of the number..

Hope that helps!~!!!! hahahahhhhahaahhahaa

BTW, your cigars are calling out for you at night...

Yeah, how about that. I'm thinking about bringing my night vision goggles to help out my old eyes. I can't see for shit at night, especially colors. That's the price for spending the last 50 years staring at cathode ray tubes. They should have invented LCD, DLP & plasma while I was still young and could see.

I figure that in another 10 years or so I'll need a seeing eye punani sniffing dog. Maybe I'll bring my Shit Doodle (Shi Tzu/ Toy Poodle) bitch and teach her how to rate putas for me. See you sometime between 9-14 Nov.

[dijinn]

One last question. I know to drink only bottled water, sealed drinks (Cokes,Pepsi, beer, so on). I really like to drink frozen margaritas,pina coladas, strawberry daiquiris, and mud slides from a bar/restaurant. These drinks obviously have ice/water in them. Will they alcohol in the drink kill any organisms in the ice/water that can make me sick? Is this something I need to be worried about when ordering a frozen type alcoholic drink in the Dominic Republic?

[Cheeno]

One last question. I know to drink only bottled water, sealed drinks (Cokes,Pepsi, beer, so on). I really like to drink frozen margaritas,pina coladas, strawberry daiquiris, and mud slides from a bar/restaurant. These drinks obviously have ice/water in them. Will they alcohol in the drink kill any organisms in the ice/water that can make me sick? Is this something I need to be worried about when ordering a frozen type alcoholic drink in the Dominic Republic?

I've travelled to the DR over 30 times and I never gotten sick from a frozen type alcoholic drink.

You'll have a better chance of bumping into a chica that you know than getting sick from a frozen type alcoholic drink.

The casino at the Hilton Hotel makes excellent Pina Coladas and its free!!!

[JD426]

Do NOT eat the Raw Conch, either from the beach (vendors will come around with conch and Limes) or even in established Restaurants. ALTHOUGH they ARE fresh, they MAY have a bacteria which your body is just not used to and you CAN become very violently sick for about 3 days.
I happened to a couple of us. It goes away but it will ruin your vacation. Not worth the risk IMO. The locals will claim its an aphrodisiac , which it is, but just don't do it.

[ilikenyacional]

Do NOT eat the Raw Conch, either from the beach (vendors will come around with conch and Limes) or even in established Restaurants. ALTHOUGH they ARE fresh, they MAY have a bacteria which your body is just not used to and you CAN become very violently sick for about 3 days.
I happened to a couple of us. It goes away but it will ruin your vacation. Not worth the risk IMO. The locals will claim its an aphrodisiac , which it is, but just don't do it.

Are you speaking about lambi ? I always eat that, never had a problem. I put lemon or lime juice on it, helps kill the bacterias.

But I guess your advice is good for most people, me, touching wood, I always eat street-beach food. Never been sick but had some toilet problems ! But I never ate shrimps or oysters on the beach.

Enjoy !

[Aren]

One last question. I know to drink only bottled water, sealed drinks (Cokes,Pepsi, beer, so on). I really like to drink frozen margaritas,pina coladas, strawberry daiquiris, and mud slides from a bar/restaurant. These drinks obviously have ice/water in them. Will they alcohol in the drink kill any organisms in the ice/water that can make me sick? Is this something I need to be worried about when ordering a frozen type alcoholic drink in the Dominic Republic?

Unfotunately people are affected differently by this bacteria in water. I personally drink anything (even tap water on occasions) and don't have any problem (not just DR but other 3rd world countries), but others do. Just see how your body normaly behaves in other holiday places, DR is not any different.

I see many tourists drink cuba libre and other cocktails with ice in DR, I suppose you can always take some quality tablets with you.

[greydread]

Unfotunately people are affected differently by this bacteria in water. I personally drink anything (even tap water on occasions) and don't have any problem (not just DR but other 3rd world countries), but others do. Just see how your body normaly behaves in other holiday places, DR is not any different.

I see many tourists drink cuba libre and other cocktails with ice in DR, I suppose you can always take some quality tablets with you.

Most of the hotels and restaraunts in Sto. Dgo. either use filtered water for their ice makers or buy it. I caught a case on "Montezuma's revenge" in Cuernavaca, Mex. on the last day of a 2 week vacation there back in the 80's. I was staying at my Dad's house which had a clean water system but on the last night I stayed at a 4 star in Mexico City since I had an early return flight out of there. I ate a salad which apparently was washed with regular tap water and spent the next 4 days in misery.

I actually had a quick turnaround to drop my bags off in D.C. and fly out to Dallas for a training seminar. In between trips to the bathroom another student who was from the Canary Islands saw my plight and gave me a charcoal tablet. That's right, no pharmaceutical, just a charcoal tablet. I was cured by that evening and ate a full breakfast the next day with no ill effects (aside from an ass fire). Now I never travel without immodium AD and CHARCOAL TABLETS.

They're sold in drugstores all over now and I would recommend them as a precaution to all 3rd World travellers, everywhere.

[JD426]

Good advice
What I had was not montezumas revenge at all . I guess it was a form of food poisoning. I cant remember the name of the place where we ate but they have a lot of seafood, cafeteria style . The food is pretty good, but the 2 of us that ate the Conch Got violently sick. Whats strange was it took til the next AM to kick in.
Conch is caracola ? its a sea snail. The italians eat it too,cant remember what its called in italian though.
.... found it, similar to SCUNGILLI

This shit lasted 3 full days.Could not hold down food. I lost 15 lbs on that vacation.
Water and ice cubes are fine with me as most the hotels have reverse osmosis system which makes the water 100% clean .Never had a problem with the water in any country. And I east stuff from street vendors all the time. Just that fucking Conch knocked the shit out of me. My point was its just too high risk to eat, IMO.

[ilikenyacional]

Lambi :

[greydread]

Lambi :

Conch...on English speaking islands