Either would be good for me, Any thing I can do let me know
13 days away.......................
Well this invasion is shrinking....Essex bailed and Skynrd MIA....
Looks like a mini-invasion....Cant be all bad.....battle on men
We have a new roster spot winner
I'm still in, rally caps gentlemen
also,
Air Fare
WAS - MBJ = $505 (3.5 hours direct/ 6+ one-stop)
WAS - NBO = $707 (no direct/ 17-20 hours one-stop)
Lodging (comparable)
Negril = $55/ night
Mtwapa = $35/ night
Dinner
Negril = $10
Mtwapa = $6
Beer (bar price)
Negril = $3.00
Mtwapa = $1.40 - $1.75
Pum-Pum (comparable Ho's)
Negril = $35 Up
Mtwapa = $15 Up
Airport transfer
MBJ to Negril = $25 Up (1.5 hr trip)
MBA - Mtwapa = $12 Uber, 20 - $25 taxi (30 minute trip)
Ho's
Negril = Entitled, most won't even consider oral, quick to ask for unreasonable amounts ($200)
Mtwapa = Grateful, will do anything to make you want to come back....anything with a smile....happy with what you can give them
My personal experience places the difference between a mongering trip to Negril as opposed to Mtwapa on the same level as the difference between a mongering trip to Miami as opposed to Santo Domingo.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wrong thread Grey...this is Boca
There are so many....how's a guy supposed to keep track of all that Punani???
So, back on subject...where can I get a 1br apartment, full kitchen in Boca Chica for $20? I love the fact that BC is easy to the beach and easy to the action and easy to the airport but airfares there are taxed to the point of ridicule. The taxis try to charge more for the little 4 mile ride to BC ($25) than a 12 mile, hour long trip to downtown Nairobi from NBO in rush hour traffic ($20).
I have chosen Boca Chica many times just for the convenience but the government has it's hands so far into the pockets of tourists that the "long weekend trip" is becoming a thing of the past. It's difficult to get a reasonable flight to SDQ for under $500 now when a dozen years ago it was a $300 fare. That same 12 years ago it was difficult to get a fare to Nairobi for under $1,800 and now $680 - $750 is the norm.
12 years ago there was an unlimited supply of Dominican restaurants, serving real Dominican food all over Santo Domingo for $5-$6 a plate but now it's Italian, German, American and French food, fast food franchises and shit charging twice that and more. That's the same shit that moved me past Aruba and Sint Maarten. Let's don't even talk about the price of Pum-Pum, it's depressing. I have lain with Angels in Santo Domingo for $30 in the past. Now everyone wants to get rich, right now. Don't get me wrong, there are still great deals, they are just a whole lot fewer and further between.
When I choose the D.R. it's because I get to spend a little time with friends whom I don't get to see very often more than any other reason.
For anyone going down for this invasion, or anytime really, I reserved a room at Hotel Castello Italiano through www.booking .com.
Will run me $50 for 2 nights, including tax. A straight shot north of the parque on the west end of Duarte. Looks to be all of a 6-8 minute walk from the Piano Bar section of Duarte.
Has a bar, restaurant and pool. I'll be there for a couple nights on Memorial Day weekend.
809-864-3254
Two nights.
Arriving at SDQ on that Sunday afternoon, the day before Memorial Day, and leaving on the Metro or Caribe bus on Tuesday.
I'll be in Sosua the final 5 nights.
As Grey said, even though there are chicas around, a trip there for me is at least as much for meeting up with friends, bm's and other assorted societal rejects.
The chicas remain a piece of the pie, but no longer the whole pie.
Yes, only have a week off then, and departing from POP. I still enjoy Sosua, and a couple of day trips to PP. I like both spots, Sosua clearly has the better beach scene to me, but the nightlife on Duarte with the closed street makes for a much livlier street scene. And El Batey disco is much preferable to Classicos.
Have friends in both places, more naturally in Sosua, and would like to stay longer if time and money would allow. But 3 months after that, I will be back on the Kenyan coast for 2 weeks, with maybe a side trip to Uganda or Ethiopia thrown in. Haven't decided for sure yet. Only have so much vacation time, gotta spread it around throughout the year.
Come on down to Boca that weekend. I'd like to at least meet you and shake your hand, might even even bring you a zip lock baggie of fudge!
I'm still "Just A Lurker."
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken
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