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Hotel Zapata Map (Member report) (Special Tsm rate and preview)
This is a family run hotel, run at a Dominican
pace. Many TSM members have stayed here and recommend it.
Zapata's is right on the beach and only a 30 sec walk to "Ronnies" and
a 5 min crawl back. The hotel does not
accept American Express.
All rates are based on a three day booking and prepaid (meaning a swip of your cc). These rates include FREE breakfast and FREE safebox!!! All rooms have great A/C and daiy maid service! Any bookings less than three days do NOT include safebox or breakfast! Anything (discrete, please) is possible here!
Hotel Calypso (Map) (Pic1)
(Pic2)
This is a chain hotel. Many TSM
members have stayed here and recommend it.
Calypso is two blocks back from the beach (3 min walk). "Rambo" is the
security guard
(Pic3)
Casa Coco
Nice hotel, with a family atmosphere.
5mins walk to the beach, quiet location. Gary the owner is a fun French Canadian.
This place is often booked, you will need to book well in advance.
Comments from members ...
Boca Chica hotels ....
8/4/98
Hi Robert,
I spent my first time in Boca Chica in July and concerning hotels I can recommend the following ones :
I am myselfs a little bit piggy, the rooms has to be clean, safe, etc.. and that is what I found.
Calypso ($ 30 )
- Nice clean rooms/ bathroom with OK pool
- No hassel with girls with ID (only short time withyout ID)
- Breakfast ($ 5) no good - go to Casa Coco
- AC, OK but like all AC' s there load and because of placement (blows right in on
the bed)
- Clean
El Candil ($ 30-35, depending on season)
My BEST Choice!
- Junior suite (bath, bed and living room w/kitchen)
- Nice pool
- No breakfast / resturant
- Clean
- AC in bedroom (fan in living room)
= Sattelit TV
Both hotel are located near to mainstrip ( 2 blocks away=5 min), has safe ($ 3-5 per day) and good security gards
Casa Coco ($ 25-30) :
- Nice place with good small resturant (one of the
best breakfast)
- Nice rooms but smaller than Calypso and El Candil
- Safe
- Nice pool
- TV (Sattelit)
- 1 block closer to mains strip
- Good security
- MAJOR drawback - NO AC
N.B. There are other hotel further away from main
strip
N.B. I had no reservation but july is off season
Best regards
FREDDY
Boca Chica hotels ....
I read a number of comments down below re: the hotel situation in Boca. Here are a few comments from my recent trip.
El Candil - this has been my favorite hotel for over a year now. No longer. I checked out during this vacation. I didn't mind the occassional bribe to get a girl in, but things have gotten way out of hand. It feels like this place is being run by the teamsters. Three specific incidents made me finally say to hell with them.
Once I took back two girls - no problems at the gate, but back in the room with things just getting interesting - there was a banging - no nothing to do with me - it was at the door and was quite persistant. Losing my concentration, I finally open it to find the gardner jabbering away. I don't know what he is talking about but one of the girls tells me that he wants a 100 pesos ($7) or one of the girls must leave. Not being Solomon - I cough up the 100 peso note.
One night I take a girl back - spend my usual 5 minutes plundering and pleasuring her and we leave. At the gate, the new very surly guard demands $20 to unlock the gate if the girl has no cedula. She doesn't. I tell him no way - unlock the gate - he refuses - this goes on for a few minutes until I unload another blessing of the 100 peso note. This satisfies him and he lets us out.
Next night - I know most of you would already have checked out but I liked this place - I bring back one of the Wiggle Bar girls - as it turns out she says her cedula is at home - and the guard will not let us in. This girl is clearly over 18, but no dice - until miraculously the 100 peso note once again spreads wide the Jordan river.
As Parrothead reports below - during the day even the folks at the front desk are in on the act.
So to hell with this place. No one should go there anymore. If you have a reservation with them - cancel it - there are better options.
Zapatas - I've never stayed there so I have no axe to grind - but every TSMer I met that was staying there this weekend was bitching about the place - over priced - small rooms - disdainful,unfriendly staff starting with the owner. I think they treat some of the old TSM timers well - but they are making it very clear that we are not really welcome. Among most of the TSMers down there - staying at Zapatas draws rounds of mirth - its like admiting that AOL is your internet provider. Yes its near the beach and its near Ronnies - but from what I have observed most of us middle age TSMers can use the walking exercise !
Calypso - confusing set of rules and prices - sometimes they check the girls cedulas sometimes not. I definitely saw some girls without cedulas get in - on other occassions some didn't - must depend on who is at the front desk. Talked to two people who were paying $55 a day. Thats insane. Others were paying much less. Again it depends on who is at the desk and what they can stiff you for.
Casa Coco - friendly atmosphere - an owner who screws more women that most of us put together - so he doesn't worry too much about who you bring back. As the Joker said Gary's only complaint was when you don't send them to his place when you were finished. $25 or so - but no amenities - no tv or air conditioning. Good place to have dinner and slowly watch Gary get sloshed.
Burbujas - in my mind not a great place - lots of little things don't work. Apparently it is owned by the bank and they are putting as little money into it as they can get away with. What it always had was a very liberal entrance policy. As DR Dude has reported this is not the case anymore. And from what I have seen that was really the only reason to stay there besides its good location.
The Good News - the new place (Inmobiliaria Costalunga - 809-523-6883) that has opened around the corner from El Candil is the best place in Boca - nothing else comes close - it has everything you could want (well nearly everything). Great rooms, air conditioning, room safe, fridge, stove, satellite TV, fabulous pool with a jacuzzi (just imagine the nighttime possibilities) and their policy is that what the guest does is his own private affair. I came in with three girls at one point (they needed to cook something on the stove I think) and nobody said a thing or checked a thing. How long this will last I don't know - but for now this place is it. Only drawback is distance from the beach and Duarte. But I found out on my last day - that if you hang out at the little sidewalk cafe across the street - a lot of girls go by in the daytime on motorconchos or walking and were definitely open to negotiation. There is a link below with some picts - may take a minute or so to load
Two other warnings for now.
I have gotten into the habit of being electronically ticketed. Did it to DR in Febuary with no problem. This time at immigration they asked for my return ticket and I tried to explain the concept of a electronic ticket - nothing physical - its in the computer - ah huh - into a small dingy room I am escorted where they torture me for thirty minutes by making me watch Dominican soaps on a black and white TV. Calling the woman an idiot may have been a mistake. Finally Continental confirms that I do have a return ticket and I reluctantly leave before the novella ends. Now I'll never know if Sophia is having an affair with the young handsome doctor.
Secondly the garbage dump down the street from El Candil has some new tenants - a whole lot of them - it is infested with rats - you can often find traces of them on the street where they were a step too slow. I had visions of Willard - as I saw them dart all over the place. Its only a matter of time before they get to the hotels. In fact I was considering the possibility of leaving a large cheese path to El Candil - but nothing was open at night.
Ronin
Date: 6/6/99
