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Old 08-11-2004, 10:05 PM
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res.candil@verizon.net.do

Petteri reads E mail several times a day.

1-809-523 - 4252

Call that number and say:

Puedo hablar con Petteri o Guiseppi por favor.
Yo necesito un reservacion!

Maria answers and will page them within 30 seconds.

You are starting to sound helpless.
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Old 08-11-2004, 10:40 PM
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You know you are lying about the customs thing...Of couse they check you going out...they check your bags before you even can get checked in...Rick you always like to prove me wrong but you are lying about that one....

As for me paying extra at the pink house if you only paid 15us then more power to you...I don't think that is true...but I guess you get the frequent customer rates …and if you are paying under 50us for a hot girl in Santo D. they you are the man… because if you pay attention I list from 20-50…clearly 20 is in BC where 50 was in SD

As for the hotel…if it was clean for you I’m happy but it was not when I.. was maybe they just had a bad week….maybe you are some of the other posters work for the hotel or get hook ups from them…could that be why ??
Also I am black and found them to be a little racist….maybe they give better service to Latinos and whites…

You are a petty man when you get kicks out correcting misspells you spend when too much time in here…do you even work?
I have NEVER had a problem going thru customs myself. And my bags going back have been full of brugal and mamajuana and other things.

As far as the race card goes...i dont buy it...I have stayed at El Candil with my black american friends and have encountered no problems. And quite often there have been a number of other black guys staying at the hotel (usualy firemen or policemen).

More and more it is sounding to me (IMHO)..that something went personaly wrong with you and P&G...Maybe they just didnt LIKE you. perhaps you and your ten buddies acted obnoxious and arrogant and tried to take over the place and non-intentionaly ruin the other guests experience? In that case i can understand if they were cold to you. (not saying you did that...but just a possible scenerio)

I still cant believe you said the pool was dirty! that is just sooooo not true! I forget the new guys name..but i remember antonio being out there every morning scrubbing the pool by hand! (heh...and what a site that was:-)

There was perhaps a minute bit of rust around one of the bathroom fixtures....but uh...for 40 bucks a night i can deal with that.

next time...just stay at the hamaca....and eat buffet food...and have a non DR experience.
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Old 08-11-2004, 11:22 PM
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lechero...i do understand her (?) concern....even after staying there many times...petteri is very slow to return emails. BUt you gave some great advise by giving her a bit of spanish to be able to communicate to maria or sandy in order to get thru to either petteri or guiseppi.

another bit of advise.....think of exactly what you want to say BEFORE you call....and perhaps ask here for a translation. Im sure someone will help you. Perhaps something like "i do not speak spanish and i would like to talk to petteri to confirm my reservations." I would give you the translation myself but i tend to ruin the language :-) Oh....one other bit of advise....if it woman who answers the phone...she is maria...if it is a guy....then its Sandy.

i SWEAR...once you get petteri on the phone you will relax.
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Old 08-12-2004, 12:42 AM
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You know you are lying about the customs thing...Of couse they check you going out...they check your bags before you even can get checked in...Rick you always like to prove me wrong but you are lying about that one....

As for me paying extra at the pink house if you only paid 15us then more power to you...I don't think that is true...but I guess you get the frequent customer rates …and if you are paying under 50us for a hot girl in Santo D. they you are the man… because if you pay attention I list from 20-50…clearly 20 is in BC where 50 was in SD

As for the hotel…if it was clean for you I’m happy but it was not when I.. was maybe they just had a bad week….maybe you are some of the other posters work for the hotel or get hook ups from them…could that be why ??
Also I am black and found them to be a little racist….maybe they give better service to Latinos and whites…

You are a petty man when you get kicks out correcting misspells you spend when too much time in here…do you even work?
Don't confuse the hand baggage security as with every airport in the world with customs. There is no customs check when you leave, there is examination of carry on security, the usual checks for explosives and so on behind the scenes for checked bags and passport control which is a migracion not customs, function.

Sometimes if you have to fly in coach (I see this happen from the first class check in where it doesn't happen at all) they randomly open bags before accepting them as luggage - that too started post 9/11 and is a security not a customs function.

The X ray of checked bags outside the airport before entry is a joint USDA / DR program to prevent food and fruit from entering the US and is not customs either. So you must be one unlucky SOB to be the only passenger of a million to have his own customs guy when leaving. Or perhaps, you made an error in your perception of what happened.

Hey if you are going to insult what I know to be a well run and clean perfectly fine hotel spell it right.

I don't patronize the Pink House or any of the BC clip joints at all but for adequate negotiators there is no price of $50 US in the capital either - that is over RD$2,250 in a RD$1,300 world. However you can pay or overpay what you like they sure won't refuse it. I am not sure that the Pink House even has running water and I know they don't have A/C so who'd go in there?

I'd be surprised by the proprietors mistreating a guest only due to race or skin colour. I presume you didn't play the loud music , get drunk and obnoxious, make a racket or annoy other guests, so that would be a surprise they'd seem to act that way and it really sounds quite out of character.

I work a lot and I can say without knowing you I bet significantly more than you do and for more dough too.

Try a different hotel next trip, maybe Europa or Joker or Calypso.
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Old 08-15-2004, 02:58 PM
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Default 2time , just try a different country,please

I don't work there (El Candil), i just stay there after trying some of the other hotels.

Yakitori, I just got thru yesterday to El Candil via email, and got a reply within hours. Perhaps you should try a different email server, maybe yours for whatever reason is being bounced.
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Old 08-16-2004, 01:33 PM
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Bcmike,
I have sent five emails and they are getting through. I FINALLY was able to call and speak to Petteri last Wednesday. I started asking him about my reservations and he said, "Are you the guy who emailed". I said yes and he said he would answer my email immediately. I have not heard anything since and have emailed three more times trying to get a response.
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Old 08-16-2004, 01:38 PM
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Yakitori:

He probably does not want you to stay in his hotel because you have annoyed him with your persistance. Dude, chill out! Its DR....things are just a little slower. In case you did not know, September is not exactly high season @ El Candil.
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Old 08-16-2004, 02:53 PM
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Lechero,
I don't think I am being overly persistent. I just want to get things set up. I also understand that it is mostly my fault because I don't speak Spanish. All he needs to say is, yes no problem for your reservation and i won't need to annoy him anymore.
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Old 08-16-2004, 03:10 PM
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Petteri and Guiseppi BOTH speak English.

Last edited by Lechero; 08-16-2004 at 03:15 PM..
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Old 08-16-2004, 03:16 PM
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You're not listening are you. I can't get either of them on the phone when i call, or when i do, they say they will answer my email but then don't .
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