Foreigners rates?
Obviously my naivity is going to show here and I am slightly embarassed by this, but here goes.
I contacted a company in the East providing a 'fun day' caving and the like, wanting to know about prices. The email response I got was
"hello
Dominicans is for the price of RD $ 1160.00 pesos per person
For foreigners is $ 70.00 Dollars
thank"
Now OK naive I may be on discrimination issues, but a 100% mark up if you are a foreigner is just downright unacceptable to me. The activities will be the same, the time the guide spends with you will be the same and so on.
I am learning all the time about the culture in the DR and this is just one of those lessons I suppose.
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