A Year In Santo Domingo (Data Sheet)
01-09-2016, 05:22 PM
I just returned from a nine day trip to Santo Domingo. I stayed in an apartment in Naco. It was my first time there since 2009. These are my thoughts:
1. Planet Fitness recently opened a location in Naco. It's located on Tiradentes in the same mall/complex where Applebee's and Embassy Suites are located. I go to Planet Fatness every day in the United States and in no way expected that gym to be there in Naco. Hours are twenty four hours a day from Monday to Thursday. They close at 9:00 P.M. on Friday and at 7:00 P.M. on Saturday and Sunday. The gym is much bigger than the U.S. locations I have seen. Before I went, I was planning on going to Body Shop in Naco, but obviously decided just to go to Planet Fitness due to the convenient hours, convenient location, and the fact that I wouldn't have to pay to use the gym.
2. If you are going for notches, are okay with average and slightly above-average quality, and are there for under a month, online dating is a must. I've never been a fan of online dating and barely even used it during this trip, but I seem to be a high quality, low quantity guy no matter where I go or what I do. Tinder, Dominican Cupid, tagged, etc.
3. I went to Jet Set three times during my trip, on New Year's, on Saturday, and on Monday. I'm completely torn about the place. The first time I went was on New Year's. The club opened up at about 1:30 A.M. and stayed open to 10:00 A.M. (yes, you read that right). The place was packed, there were tons of available girls, and the music was about 90% salsa, merengue, and bachata. I ended up leaving the club with probably the hottest girl in the place and spent much of the rest of my trip with her. I went again on Saturday. Forum members, JayMillz and fvitterbi (both solid guys) ended up joining me there, although fvitterbi left the club early. Almost all of the girls were with guys, the quality of the girls wasn't that great even if there weren't with guys, and the music was all over the place and I don't remember one bachata song being played the whole night. It was the complete opposite of just two nights before. I then went again on Monday night when I figured it would be better since Johnny Ventura and another band were playing there. No single girls that I saw and I was in and out of there in about half an hour. I would actually say it was worse on Monday than it was on Saturday when the two other forum members were there.
4. A new bar/nightclub has apparently opened on Avenida Abraham Lincoln in the space where Trio Cafe used to be. It's called 75 Grados and also has a location in La Zona Colonial. Trio Cafe was my favorite venue in the world, but the two forum members where were in Jet Set with me told me that the place isn't any good and I respect their opinion.
5. There is a place on Lincoln called La Barrica, which is decent, decent music, decent quality girls, and a fair amount of available girls. Merengue, salsa, and a pretty wide Mixx of everything else.
6. I didn't go to Avenida Venezuela at all. Never liked the place.
7. I say avoid the malecon completely. Too many scammers and annoyances. I spent some time at the casino at Jaragua maybe trying to meet some waitresses and girls gambling. I took a few hundred off the place, but other than that it was a complete waste of time.
8. Adrian Tropical is a restaurant with several locations throughout the city. Great food and horrible service. That goes for all locations.
9. Pala de Pizza in Naco may be the best chain pizza place I've ever been to.
10. Avoid going there during Christmas and New Year's if at all possible. Girls will be with their families and friends and you may have to compete for their attention, because you are completely new to them.
11. This is probably the most important part of my post and I don't know it has ever been posted here. To meet the girls who are a combination of the high end in looks and who are upper-middle or upper class, your best bet is a specialized form of restaurant game. There are certain types of restaurants which are packed with those kind of girls and you generally won't even see them in nightclubs or walking around some mall. If you do, they will probably be accompanied by someone. The way this restaurant thing works is you need to start taking a tour around 4:00 P.M. from Monday to Friday and around 1:00 P.M. on Saturday and Sunday. Walk around until you see a large number of quality girls alone, sit down, and proceed from there. If a place has a Miami feel to it and an outdoor section, specifically one where you can see the quality of girls there, you definitely want to walk by there during the hours I mentioned above. Interesting, the places where this works best seem to be on side streets and not on the main streets like Winston Churchill, Tiradentes, Lincoln, etc. There are at least two or three of them in the Blue Mall. La Dolciere on Calle Rafael Augosto Sanchez is another one, and quite possibly the best one. Walk by ten of those places during the hours I said, find the one with the most quality girls who appear to be available, go in sit down, order some food, send them drinks, and thank me later.
12. Overall, I don't consider the city to be great for either daygame or nightgame. When I say this, please take into consideration the fact that I went while the university students were on break, so I obviously didn't go to the universities to talk to girls. At least one guy on here was saying that one or more of the universities was really good for daygame. Other than that restaurant strategy, I found the most quality to be at Blue Mall. Agora and Acropolis really didn't have great quality as far and I really didn't see many targets during multiple trips there.
13. I went to a club called Euphoria during my last night there. The music really wasn't my kind of music (hip hop and reggeton with a little bit of merengue and bachata mixed in). There were both a lot of quality girls and a lot of fat and ugly girls. The place in general draws all walks of life, more so than any other venue I have seen there.
14. If you want American food, try Applebee's on Tiradentes where Planet Fitness is. Same as in the United States. I had lunch with Technics there.
