it is another beautiful day here in the dominican republic and today we have a tour for you
we're finally going to show you where we're staying yeah so a lot of you guys come down
to the dominican republic and you stay at an all-inclusive resort which is a lot of
fun and great in its own right but i want to show you the other side that you can come
and stay in an apartment and have a totally different experience so we figured we would
start today's video out here by the pool it's one of our favorite things about staying here
we've also been spending probably an excessive amount of time out here we usually get our
work done and then we come out and lay in the sun and then enjoy the pool we'll give
you a full tour of the inside as well of course but before we get going two big things to
ask of you one is hit the subscribe button we are trying to get to 100k it's going up
there slowly but your help definitely would be great also hit that like button because
it really helps get the video out there so as you can probably tell the grounds here
are absolutely beautiful i don't know if we've ever seen a more inviting pool right in the
dead center of this pool there is a bridge as well which is just a really interesting
feature but the buildings are nice and modern and everything is just so green and lush so
how's the water there it's it's quite refreshing a little bit chilly it's actually a little
warmer than i think it was the other day it rained like a week ago basically and it was
really cold after that but it's a little bit better but i'm still like slowly going in
rather than just like going in full force all right too much talking let's go for it
definitely not jumping right in huh
it's definitely a little bit better once you fully immerse yourself and i would say if
you lay out in the sun for a few minutes and start sweating which this guy likes to do
it definitely feels a little bit more refreshing but we have heard from people that live here
full time that in the summer time when the sun's like really high in the sky this pool
gets really warm just because it gets sun all day but this time of year the sun's a
little bit lower still really hot outside but the sun doesn't it doesn't hit the pool
as much so it's kind of funny right the water is a little cooler it is kind of funny like
the sun is lower this time of year and it's still 30 degrees celsius every single day
speaking of the weather in general we've been here now for close to a month and there's
only been one day of rain now we've heard from a lot of locals as well that oh this
you're gonna get a lot of rain this time of year it really hasn't been happening yeah
it's like in the evening sometimes it rains for like an hour not even that 20 minutes
sometimes i think once in a while it rains overnight but we're asleep for that so it
can rain all at once during the night and be like this during the days so one of our
favorite things about having a condo and not a resort is every day we do not have to worry
about getting a lounger that's one of the worst things about resorts when you stay there
sometimes we forget if we get there and we're like all right you kind of have to race out
in the morning put a book on a chair and kind of claim it for the day here you do not know
there's a surprising number of units in here so you'd expect there can there be times of
day where everybody would be down here but it doesn't seem to happen i think a lot of
people go to the beach or they're just like don't maybe they don't enjoy hanging out at
the pool so they just come down for a few minutes we've never had any issues whatsoever
it does get pretty hot here midday and it's midday right now but you mentioned the beach
and one of the amazing things about where we're staying is we are about a two to three
minute walk not even not even maybe a minute walk from an amazing beach so stick around
we're going to show you that in a little bit so i would say one of the main drawbacks to
staying at an apartment as opposed to a resort is that you have to make your own pina coladas
you have to fetch your own beer there's nobody to order from and bring it down to you you
have to go up to your apartment and get it uh you have to make your own lunch although
you could probably get delivery right to the pool we haven't tried it but speaking of lunch
i'm actually really hungry so why don't we head inside we'll give you a tour and maybe
we'll make some food so we're now back inside our place we're going to give you a full tour
in just a moment but first let's see what anna has going on over here okay so i'm just
making some lunch and i know for a lot of you you're going to be wondering like what
type of groceries can you get here is everything readily available and the answer is pretty
much everything there's a few things i haven't been able to find but they're really kind
of obscure stuff and we can probably get them at a bigger grocery store in like port a platter
and sosua here in cabaret there's a place called janet's it has almost everything making
some sandwiches bagel sandwiches we got multi-grain bagels we got some turd sliced turkey some
cheese some mustard so yeah you really can get the most of most of the stuff around here
and it's really quite affordable it's really affordable to eat out but it's also really
affordable to get groceries and we will be doing a cost of living video i think maybe
it might might be your next video so our sandwiches look really good i do have to say that take
a look we making you guys hungry it's been one of our go-to little lunch meals it is
because it's yummy and quick and easy and often we like do work in the morning go to
the gym and then like really want to get out of the pool so and as soon as we finish this
scene and eating this little bagel we have to get to the beach to show you guys the beach
but we do want to talk about what does something like this cost what are the costs for apartments
and condos in the dominican republic and specifically this area here in cabaret because we filmed
a video of a while back in punta cana and you guys all asked now again anna already
said this but we have to keep stressing it because we keep getting comments about it
yeah in the last video we actually i think i said three times that we're gonna do a cost
of living video and i thought i was being super repetitive we still got probably 10
comments asking about costs so cost of living video is coming soon bear with us however
we can quickly talk about prices for a condo or an apartment in this area which ranges
quite a bit we're not talking about buying here because that's totally different which
is very affordable on its own compared to a lot of places but we're not talking about
that here we're talking about renting an apartment somewhat short short term we're renting this
place for two months um you can rent i'm sure there's places you can rent for a year or
more long term that kind of thing the longer you're renting i'm sure the cheaper it gets
but for a place like this a condo building like this that's you know very very close
to the beach there are one and two bedroom units in this building i think what we've
heard from people that um that look after renting places here is that generally a one
bedroom in low season is about 1200 yeah and then a two bedroom in high season is about
3 000.
so it ranges a lot that is specifically for this building there are much more modern high-rise
type buildings around that would even be more but also before anyone says well that's too
expensive there are places you can get for a lot less we're in a couple different cabaret
day groups we often see people um putting up what their budget is for a month and if
they're staying for a long period of time and i've seen things go just for like a few
hundred dollars that might be a room in a house or i've seen places go somewhere around
500 to a thousand again it depends on the season entirely and how far away from you
the beach you are i'm pretty sure you get places that are a much farther walk from the
beach maybe they don't have a pool maybe electricity is separate it costs a lot more and the price
will get lower all right it's time to give you guys an official tour here so the first
thing you'll notice is this giant red sofa over here it's very comfortable and quite
possibly the largest sofa we've ever had in one of our places so we come back this way
you have a nice big coffee table you'll probably see the patio out there but i'll show you
that in a second another thing we have right here this is tv entertainment center we do
use this now when we travel we have a little prime stick we just plug it in the back of
the television and we get prime we get netflix and apple tv speaking of all those shows we
just finished the morning show season two it was fantastic and we also just started
watching foundation it's a good show so far curious many of you guys are watching that
in the meantime let's go back this way check out the patio so this is our outside area
we do have a table here can eat some dinner out here some chairs there's also this little
i guess kind of sofa thing here and then a really nice view of the pool the pool is easily
one of our favorite features in the whole condo you guys saw it already but now it's
time to give you kind of the kitchen dining room tour so this is the kitchen area nice
and big and spacious and there's loads of storage which is great get the full-size fridge
there's also a gas stove top there is no oven and i think that's pretty standard in one
bedrooms around here but there is a toaster oven so we haven't used it yet but i'm just
gonna use that other than maybe to cook like a big turkey or something like that it's a
microwave though and a toaster sink area and again like i said lots of storage and it does
come with like a blender if you want to make some mixed drinks all that stuff over this
way we have a dining room table and once again i've completely have taken it over it's always
the you know the office we also have a washer and dryer we wanted to make sure we had that
since we're staying for a long time we're gonna need it over this way is the bedroom
this is a really really large bedroom and this bed is i think a california king which
i believe is like the biggest kind of king-sized bed you can get over this way we have a nice
dresser there's lots of storage here and a nice mirror as well and speaking of storage
all the way on the other side of the room there's a full on closet and there's also
mirrors on the doors which is good it really makes it bright in here so this is our bathroom
it actually has two doors so you can access it from the bedroom and from the living room
area it's a nice and spacious bathroom it's got uh the sink over here and it's got storage
underneath there toilet is here there's a huge storage area over here with cabinets
so there's loads of storage in this entire unit which is really really awesome and then
you've got a walk-in shower over here so a couple other things to mention here the wi-fi
is very very fast i mean a lot faster than we expected it to be we even uh streamed a
live video a few videos back it's on the channel if you want to watch but yeah it worked flawlessly
yeah there's also a backup generator in this building which is great because you know we
are in a developing country this seems to happen in a lot of countries but there are
frequent power outages and we've never even really noticed it here i think it just sort
of flips over to the generator and you don't even really think about it which is really
really nice because we hear complaints from other people that they run out of water they
run out of electricity here and there so it doesn't seem to happen speaking of electricity
electricity is included in this condo in our monthly price yeah that's something you're
gonna find if you start looking at uh apartments here in the area even i think in the dominican
republic in general is that a lot of places for price of the electricity separately so
they might say this is the price but you're gonna pay per month yeah it was really nice
to have that included but speaking of really nice it's time to take you guys down to the
beach
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well it's quite the beach right finally we had a nice day where i could actually get
the drone in the air and just show you guys what it looks like from above and also we're
finally getting to see some of the kites out here it's funny because we obviously come
down here every single day and most days there's especially in the afternoons tons of kites
are out yeah but it seems like every time we come down to film there's no kites out
at all we haven't quite figured out what like the best conditions are and what's a good
day for kitesurfing and what's not because it always seems to be windy here but maybe
it doesn't do the ties the direction of the wind i'm not quite sure one of you guys i'm
sure will let us know we really want to know because we're very curious some days we expect
to see kites and there's none and then there's like almost 100 the next day let us know so
let's talk about our location specifically where we are cabarete is about 20 minutes
from the puerto plata airport so very very very close and only about 30 minutes i think
from the actual city mainly it's a lot of like condos and apartments here there are
a few hotels i think there's one all-inclusive but most of the all-inclusives are a little
bit closer to puerto plata so the bottom line what we're trying to say is this is a really
good alternative to a typical resort most people think about resorts when they think
about the dominican republic or mexico or some other islands down here but this has
it all and it's only 20 minutes from the airport like we said it is and don't get us wrong
we totally get the appeal that if you have one week vacation you want to come down you
want to lay on the beach and just you know not have to think about food not have to think
about money totally get the appeal but there's something really special about doing a vacation
like this so let's talk about loungers and chairs on the beach i know if you are a resort
person you want those loungers here on the beach you can rent them for about 200 pesos
or less you can always negotiate just a few dollars basically so there's always seems
to be chairs from what we notice so the guys you get them off of are in an orange shirt
you can rent off them like i said you can negotiate also they will get you drinks from
any bar or food as well so you can kind of have that resort experience just for hey i
mean paying in the day in the moment not paying for it beforehand making all-inclusive so
another thing we need to talk about while we are down here it's a restaurant it's probably
something you're wondering about are there lots of places to eat out i know a lot of
you don't want to cook while you're either traveling or on vacation whether it's extended
or short you just you know you want to go out and have a good time it's very very affordable
to do so and there are tons of restaurants especially here along the beach there are
lots some of them actually have their own beach chairs so you could come and spend the
day at the beach get a chair and eat and drink and then not pay any extra for the chairs
just a few of them that do that so there's loads of different types of restaurants you
can get great wood oven fired pizza you can get sushi there's mexican there's like fish
restaurants you can pretty much get most of the things you're craving also i just want
to jump in here really quick and mention the town which is just steps away from the sand
that i'm standing on right here there's probably even more restaurants in town so there's lots
of options and if that's not enough in this beautiful location there's another town close
by so sula and there's a plethora of options there for food all right so have we convinced
you yet are you being like yeah this sounds pretty good but i'm wondering about one thing
is it safe to be off a resort well the answer is yes you'd be surprised now of course always
use your best judgment we don't go out late at night put ourselves in bad situations you
know don't do drugs kids all the stuff that you would know right and also just be careful
of you know this is the same thing if you're staying at a resort don't leave like valuables
on your chair and then go in the water and not have anybody watching it like that's just
common sense stuff be cautious of your stuff we feel very safe if you're wondering we've
been roaming around by ourselves but always being careful we go to the grocery store we
go eat out at restaurants we leave our condo we go to the beach we know it could be home
at night time at like 9 or 9 30 and we feel totally totally safe all it takes is a little
bit of research on what you should and shouldn't do in any country that includes the country
that you probably live in yeah all right did we sell you on it are you not going to stay
at a resort the next time you come to the dominican republic think about that for a
second before you answer us no i'm just kidding of course this is not for everybody this is
the way we like to travel but of course it comes down to your personal preference some
people like resorts some people don't but we just wanted to show you an option today
yeah this is definitely our personal preference we love to travel like this the first time
being able to actually really slow travel and we're really really really enjoying it
it's probably what we're going to do from here on in most of the time anyway we'll do
some shorter trips here and one last time we just have to say it again we are going
to be filming a cost of living video soon if you've already left a comment below please
take this time and go ahead and delete it i'm just kidding sort of but we are going
to be doing a full cost of living here in the dominican very very very soon yeah hold
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on my way