There are hundreds of members of this board who still do visit, or have visited, the DR for sex. Plus hundreds more who are no longer active members. Out of those many hundreds I can only think of three who have stayed in all-inclusives, and two of those regretted it.
Do not think you know better than hundreds of members here, some of whom have visited literally dozens of times, and none of whom stay in all-inclusives.
If you are like me, first visit, and do not have the confidence to go out and about on the streets of the DR, then stay at Blackbeards. It is a great introduction and next time you can do something different once you have learned the ropes.
Do not mess with weed. The vendors make a few dollars selling it to you. But they can make a lot more shopping you to local cops. You will gladly pay thousands of dollars to get out of a Dominican jail, where you can be crammed in with "sixteen naked hoodlums with just a hole in the floor to piss and shit in" (to quote one of our members who was arrested for causing a traffic accident).
You did not say how much Spanish you have. It should influence where you stay.
Which AI were you thinking of visiting? I recently exchanged emails with a guy who had booked himself into an AI in the middle of nowhere. The hotels like it that way as they get all your expenditure.
If you stay at Blackbeards or in a Sosua hotel you can easily meet up with experienced mongers to show you around.
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