Plaza Mambo in Costambar closes doors/for sale

[bachag]

Plaza Mambo, outside the gate to Costambar, closed it's doors the other day after six months of operation. That's what most locals had predicted. Anyway, it can be had as a turn key operation for only $700,000. 40/60 financing options are available if anyone is interested. Includes car wash, all buildings with bedrooms, massage parlor, club, restaurant, all furnishings and equipment. Another club off the highway between Costambar and Confresi is also for sale, Over 10,000 sq meters. Includes nightclub, all other buildings, houses and all furnishings and equipment. Appro $300,000. Financing available 50/50. Anyone interested, please let me know.

[Bug Boy]

yay lets spend 700,000 on something that is going to go belly up in a matter of months! Sounds like the perfect monger investment

[psriches]

What gives these owners the impression that there is a market for what they perceive to be "upscale" clubs in that area with all the cheap toto walking around?? The last time i was in Sosua, i had a talk with the owner/manager of VIP who tried to explain to me why his "upscale" club was different from the rest. I just don't understand it!!

[Jimmydr]

What gives these owners the impression that there is a market for what they perceive to be "upscale" clubs in that area with all the cheap toto walking around?? The last time i was in Sosua, i had a talk with the owner/manager of VIP who tried to explain to me why his "upscale" club was different from the rest. I just don't understand it!!

They will never learn.

[bachag]

They tried to offer a champange operation in a beer guzzling area. Beautiful environment, first class, but out of place and out of the way in POP (Costambar). Probably would have been a big hit in Santiago or Santo Domingo where there are many more doctors, crooked lawyers, businessmen and corrupt politicians and government employees. We don't have as many in POP to sustain such a large operation. Additionally, there prices were about 30-45% above the norm for this area. They started out as a 24/7 operation, but I think they forgot that it required staffing for three 8 hour shifts. Therefore their personnel and operating costs were out of sight. They offered first rate entertainment, but thast was a little hard to do when you have at best 15-25 customers drinking cervezas and rum and cokes. They had some beautiful chicas available there. but when you try to ask for 1200-1500 pesos salidas, in addition to the asking prices of some of them (4000-5000 pesos) for several hours of effort-it became very easy to predict disaster. Basically the area was not ready for this type of establishment as operated. Shame.

[Kevy]

This place was called Hollywoodin 2004 and went under then too. I think it is too far out of the way.

[Jimmydr]

This place was called Hollywoodin 2004 and went under then too. I think it is too far out of the way.

When they put the light rail system in, it may work.

[Phoenix]

This place was called Hollywoodin 2004 and went under then too. I think it is too far out of the way.

When they put the light rail system in, it may work.

It is up to you as our future mayor to make our dream come true Jimmy

[rley69]

For me there is just something ill-conceived about these type of outfits (VIP and Mambos). They all seem like nightclubs that have been designed by people that don't go into nightclubs. There is chrome everywhere and a very 1970s feel (in a bad way). I half expect a white jacket to fly across the dancefloor and then John Travolta to start prancing about!

I was at Mambos the night it opened. It was packed then but for all the glitz and copious entertainments it lacked any sort of atmosphere. I ended up in POP and spent the night in a typical, unspectacular Bachata place which was throbbing in comparison.

Come to that Classicos in Sosua is nothing fancy, give or take a few fairy lights in the stairs, but has seen off much glitzier opposition, even in the eighteen months or so I've been around.

What actually makes people want to put money into these places? (and BTW is Sea-crets anything to write home about? They were just putting the huge neon sign up last time I was around Sosua in January).

[Escort_King]

Yeah but the chica I meet there one night in Nov. was awesome - worth the $125 she was asking for TLN.... but I already had a girl from Frank's and as the extra was a little high.... would have grabbed her next trip but it was closed.