Great info indeed, I've had great times on my short visits to Santiago and knew nothing of these places. Looking forward to checking some of them out.
Gracias, y saludos.
Great info indeed, I've had great times on my short visits to Santiago and knew nothing of these places. Looking forward to checking some of them out.
Gracias, y saludos.
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Gunz my good brother I'm waiting for that place I cruises through with you and your peeps, this huge underground quasi local one I asked you about that I wanted to "show off" to that Santiaguera that I've been at
My drinking hole of choice for years and years.
When I was going there, the widow of the owner still ran the money box. She was in her 80's back then. I'd stop there after work everyday before I'd pick up my "chica of the day"
They had a back room for men to drink and smoke cigars that was off limits to women. I never saw one in there out of the hundreds of times I went.
If a girl went there with a guy, she had to stay in the front if he went in the back to hang out. For that reason, you'd never see many girls in the place.
Notice the coolers? They had (Have?) a process for moving bottles of beer from one progressively colder cooler than the previous cooler until they arrived at the sub zero cooler. Every time they served a beer, it would trigger a procession of beers being moved from one cooler to the next.
Beers came out of that last cooler "vestida de novia" and were known to be the coldest beers in the city.
They were also known for their "Quipes". Big suckers, full of meat, cheap. No other fried stuff, just Quipes.
Lots of great memories of that place.
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I am sure There are good hospitals in The capital. However I know there are two good hospitals in Santiago. One is HOLMS. Its the best in the country! Quite possibly the best in latin America according to wiki..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospit...no_de_Santiago
http://www.homshospital.com/index.php?lang=en
Another Hospital in Santiago is named Union Medica.
http://clinicaunionmedica.com/
They do take credit cards. This is very important in an emergency. In DR no payment, no treatment. Also, if you have the empire blue cross blue shield card they may except it. I amm enrolled in the Blue card world wide. It covers you in emergencies. Some of the card are white and say blue card world wide. My card was blue. It did not say they. So, they would not accept it. However, when I was home I submitted a bill for 7,200 us. I was refunded 6,000. So, I was Happy. Down side was it took almost 2 months to get the refund
They have different types of rooms. You can get a simple room with a bed and a shower. Or a bigger room with a bed and a small couch, they even had rooms that were like suites. Prices were like 2500-4000. or somewhere in that area.
There is a nice mall across the street , and bella terra mall is about a block away on the same street. Plenty of good eats around. If you know where KFC, and Mcdonalds are in Santaigo under the highway, the hospital is right there.
I appreciate the info on Blue Cross/Blue Shield ... they're an option with the Federal Employees' Health Benefits program. I'm currently with Kaiser Permanente, under FEHB, and they gave me more hassle than it was worth about covering my two-night stay at Centro Medico Cabarete, back in March 2014. (It was only a few hundred dollars, not like your Santiago hospital bill, Tgunz.)
Looking into BC/BS now ... and I may switch over, come the next Open Season.
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Thanks for all the great info Tgunz, much appreciated.. Am a little apprehensive about hitting Santiago until my Spanish gets to a decent level; someday I will get graduate into it..
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