On my recent travels to DR I planned to stay 2 nights in Santiago between my Santo Domingo and Puerto Plata stops. It being my first time in Santiago I didn't have high expectations for a wild fun time, only for a clean comfortable stay. When I checked in the Bell man takes me to a room that looked clean but upon my normal quick check/walk around I found water leaking from the bathroom ceiling which left a nice sized puddle on the floor. After pointing the problem out to the Bell man he tells me "cinco minutos por favor" ok cool, no big deal. 30 minutes later the Bell man returns to take me to another room right down the hall, upon enter this room the intense smell of shit hits my nose. I look all over the room looking for a pile of shit the bathroom, under the bed, the fridge but I could not figure out where the smell was coming from. Already I am disappointed with this hotel after being there less than 1 hour, walked to Puerta del sol for lunch but did not eat because the waiters appeared to be extremely busy even though there were only 6 other customers in the whole restaurant so I settled on the dingy chinese spot next to Matum where I expected and received the worst chinese food I ever had. Later that night I went to Pucho's Food which is on the opposite side of Matum where I had some good Mofongo but while sitting at the bar finishing my meal a pale looking young man comes from out of the kitchen and sits in a chair behind the bar, this kid appears to be about 17 years old he's wearing an apron obviously working as a cook but he looks sick. After about 5 minutes of sitting down this kid coughs up a lung right there behind the bar. I look around the restaurant to see if anyone noticed this other than me but nobody was paying attention. A female server calmly comes over to clean the beef stew off the floor and helps the kid back into the kitchen. I head back to my room to relax and wait for my chica to come after she gets off work, around 11:30 she text me that she is in the lobby. I go down to meet my chica in the lobby and bring her up to my room but the desk clerk is asking for 900 pesos for my guest. I did not know that Matum also charged for guest and it was not brought to my attention upon check in. I couldn't take another 24hrs at this hotel so I turned my 2 day trip to Santiago into a 1 nighter and skip town the next morning. Matum, never again!
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