hello everyone welcome back to another video in the beautiful dominican
republic if you happen to be new around here trevor anna we're the delightful travelers
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videos coming including the one you're about to see yeah but in last week's video we're
actually showing you an all-inclusive we stayed a week in one showed you around told you what
we liked what we didn't like this week we're doing something totally different we rented an apartment
i'm going to show you around and also show you the things you can do that are not on
an all-inclusive resort so i think for a lot of you guys that are watching it seems natural to
rent an apartment in a place that you're going to and eat at local restaurants but for a lot of you
especially in places like the dominican you just come down to an all-inclusive and you don't even
think of going off the resort or the idea of it is really really scary so today's video is all
about like how there is another side you can stay in an apartment you can eat at local restaurants
you can visit still visit the beach go to the pool that kind of thing and be totally safe
doing it by the way i know trevor just mentioned that you should subscribe but
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i mean we can wait all day really we can so let's talk about where we are right now we're only about
a 10 minute drive away from the resort we were at in the previous video and we're only about a
10 minute walk to the same beach we're still in bavaro punta cana where that beautiful beach was
and now we're at a condo we're going to show you here today sienna admiring you can see the pool
down there we're going to be sure to take you down because it's amazing it's very much like a resort
it is it totally feels like being on a resort more or less other than you don't have service you know
you have to buy your own beer and bring it down to the pool yourself it's awesome but there is a
beautiful beautiful pool here so before we give you the full tour of the place i just want to
say those of you that follow us on instagram have already seen the inside we do little sneak peeks
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but come on inside we're going to show you the place now i don't know if you can see it but right
here there is a sofa i think this pulls out into a bed so you can sleep another person but you can
see look how big the space is so you can see the kitchen right behind me nice little rocker here
we go this way and you're going to see a dining room table now i love that there's
multiple stations in here as you can see i made this a desk do i do that in every video i think
everywhere we stay i make it my office trevor i think you forgot to point at this cool walk block
it's like an art and a clock at the same time both of us were wondering how hard that would have been
to like install and get get all the numbers at the exact right spot but it does work they did
interesting yeah but over here is the bathroom it's a really big bathroom i feel like normally
when we film our bathrooms we can't both fit in at the same time but this is a great big bathroom
we have some storage on one side big sink here toilet obviously there but the shower is really
really cool one of the most interesting showers i've seen in a long time look at this window
so let's get into the kitchen a little bit more there is a full-size fridge
there are a burner cooktop i guess you would call but there is no oven but there is like a toaster
oven back there which is more than enough we've honestly been eating it most of the
time but if we were staying here really really long time we'd definitely be cooking in here
coffee maker and there's a microwave as well it's also a really really well stocked kitchen
lots of dishes and all the cookware that you possibly need let's take you guys in and show you
the bedroom it's a very comfy bedroom there's lots of windows and there's a very very big king
sized bed it's comfy one isn't it it's comfy we're big fans we like king size beds and you
don't get them all the time when you're staying at apartments or airbnbs so the tv is actually here
in the bedroom i like that i prefer it rather than the living room i do too especially when
you have a bed like this but super comfortable and cozy to curl up and watch some netflix it
is a smart tv but we also bring usually like a fire stick an amazon fire stick with us so we
can watch netflix while we travel speaking of we need some new shows guys do you guys have any good
recommendations for anything new that came out on netflix or maybe something we might not know about
for those of you that are wondering about air conditioning yes it does exist you can kind of see
the air conditioner behind us there's one in this room and there's one in the other room now however
you have to pay for your own electricity here and the only way that usually happens if you use
these things we just use the air conditioners at night we like it cool when we sleep
and by doing that i think it's very affordable i think it's like a few dollars a day but if you had
both air conditioners on all the time i'm sure you get up to 10 or 15 dollars a day so just keep that
in mind but this place because we have two patio doors in the living room we have a tremendous
cross breeze and oh if you're wondering that's another patio so this is our other patio it's
uh either as big or even maybe bigger than the other patio it's crazy how much patio space and
outdoor space there is in this unit you're gonna see a big jacuzzi tub it actually either doesn't
work or i wonder if it's just too expensive to run electricity is really really expensive here
so it's one of the other but you can't use it but anyway it's still loads of space you got a table
over here also a barbecue yeah so for those of you that want to grill you can do that right here what
a space huh well welcome officially to the pool we've been spending a lot of time here because
this place is so beautiful it's a beautiful it's also a really unique pool there aren't so many
loungers we were a little concerned that before we booked it that there weren't enough but so far it
has not been a problem most people just kind of come down for a little while come around and then
leave where we like to you know hang out and yeah lounge and then swim and so not just that besides
the beautiful pool there is an area to barbecue so that's very important even though we have our
own it's like a communal barbecue plus there's also a gym where we have been trying to work out
work off some of that coke trying to trying to and we're struggling but you know i know i already
mentioned how much i love the design of this building but you'll get a better look at it while
we're out here it's all very linear square there's lots of glass lots of white and wood tones it's
really really modern but i feel like in another 10 or 15 years it's still gonna look really nice
uh the water is so nice in case you're wondering this is the perfect temperature it's not too cold
and it's not too warm but check it out so the pool's about i'd say five feet deep maybe i'll
put it on the screen with that as in meters then you have different landings over here so you can
actually sit on this and right next to it there's like i guess it would be kind of like a kids
section there's some stairs that go down to really shallow water but you can also just sit in there
and have a drink if you want ah this feels so good and it's been a long time since we've gone
swimming had access to a pool every single day some of you might recall that we were in when we
were stuck in the philippines we were basically in the pool every single day because what else were
we supposed to do we were stuck we couldn't even leave our resort for like over a month
oh this just and uh yeah we spent so much time in that pool watching the sunset and just floating
around every day yeah big thanks to all you guys for following that adventure because that was that
was a doozy yeah and uh yeah it's just good a lot we got a lot of messages so far from the previous
videos just saying that you love that we're back in a tropical place and that we're on the
road again and we're just as happy about it as you are i mean this just feels really good and
we got a lot coming up on the dominican we do so much stuff so much stuff and actually in the last
not the last video two videos ago we did our first dominican video and so many of you guys
are already sending us suggestions so we're going to have loads of things to do yeah so keep sending
those because we're here for a long time and we'll have time to actually go to some places yeah
all right this is what i'm talking about yeah it really is a super quick walk we even stopped to
like film a whole bunch of stuff on the way and it still probably only took 10 minutes so maybe
it's less than a 10-minute walk and it was really close this side of the beach is way different than
the side we were at the resort for instance look there's like tractors and there's just a lot more
locals around yeah but just for a little bit of reference i don't know if you'll be able to see
this from here but there's like a pirate ship a pirate ship funny i don't know if i can get
it there but when we were walking on the beach the other day you could see it way off in the
other direction so we're just like way down you know like the malia is just like around that
corner and maybe here's a 20 minute walk here's the question are we going on the pirate ship
no no not our thing no so this is interesting in our first video uh we did a walk up and down at
the beach that was just a couple videos ago and we talked about the seaweed because i know you
guys are really curious about it dominican has had in the caribbean in general has had a lot
of issues with it up by the all-inclusive where we were i'm sure they cleaned it up quite a bit
but it wasn't bad at all but down here take a look at that there's a lot more
yeah yeah so i guess it depends but last week we were staying up around here and it wasn't this bad
yeah and maybe they're just waiting for someone to come along and pick it up and then it could be who
knows in an hour from now because completely different i'm only jumping no thanks dude
he's right there getting used to these guys yet yeah i think i said this in another video but
at first it's like really really annoying and kind of intimidating and then after a couple
days it's just like whatever you get used to it yeah but we're on our way to find a drink so
so we just came over to a beach bar called souls and we got a venezuelan beer they
didn't have any presidente but they assured me this was really good so hopefully you guys can
see you don't have to be on a resort to come to like a little beach club there's loungers
here the sand is white the ocean's right there it's very nice we also got a snack look at this
it's not dominican actually i don't think they have a lot of dominican food here but that's
fine these are chicken bites covered in like a white sauce and we took one bite already i'm
not gonna lie and it was delicious just give me one second i'll try to describe this too
this is insanely good so you can see those little chicken bites covered in the white
sauce the sauce is almost like a mixture of garlic and beige chameleon and cream it works
so so well together because you got the chicken it's really tender and the skin pops and then you
got the creaminess it's really good with the beer it's like the perfect appetizer i'm digging it the
chicken dish was honestly so delicious we heard the food here was really good but obviously that's
really really on point and by the way we are in the dominican for quite a few months so if you're
wondering why we're not eating dominican food we'll do lots and lots of videos in the future and
there will definitely be dominican food involved maybe even more than one video also i switched
over to a drink like a mixed drink i went for a mango colada which i've never had i have lots of
pina coladas before but oh my goodness this is extremely delicious that looks incredible and i
went for a mojito that looks good as well this is so good it's like a mango smoothie almost but it
presumably has alcohol in it as well i'm digging this mojito but the plan now is to finish this
yummy guy up and then we are still hungry believe it or not we have an idea where we're going to go
it's been a while since we've had it but we're going to take you with us of course
we have now come to a restaurant called estrada it's a mexican restaurant you can see
the flags and this well to be honest we were here the other night and it's authentic and
you guys know the long time og viewers know that we always seek out mexican food while we travel
only because in our part of canada you can't really get mexican food that's the east coast
i mean it's there but it's never as good so we're back on the road and now we're excited to do it
and we've got some yummy things that you're about to see so the other night we actually
got a bunch of saucy things like enchiladas and i don't know how you say flotas and they
had all had like green sauce over them tonight we went a little less saucy even for the tacos
hopefully they're as good we have for the corn tortillas the option of flour
and with chicken we it comes with four and we wanted to do half and half but
they don't let me do that so it's all chicken tonight it comes with i think some cilantro
looks like there's onions there are onions there's some cheese on there oh you already put the lime
i think you did i did no i didn't no actually i didn't we need the lime all right my taco is fully
dressed so it's time to eat this baby i'd say there are not double tortillas on this so i
have a feeling it's gonna fall apart but that's okay there was a point i remember wondering why
they would do double tortillas in some places and well especially in mexico it's to hold it together
okay this taco totally holds up against the food we had the other night it's delicious
first thing i noticed is that corn tortilla i'm sorry i'm corn tortilla all the way flour
nah doesn't cut it i just love that taste like you get that corn taste to it it's so delicious
the chicken itself is quite simple it's got a little bit of sauce on there but not too much
seasoning but i put some hot sauce on there i think maybe they make their own hot sauce here
there's two different types one's extremely spicy so i just put a little bit and then one's kind of
smoky so i put a little bit more of that the onions add a little bit of crunch always love
cilantro this is a perfectly balanced delicious taco okay i'm ready to go here i loaded mine up
with some of the sauces that you're seeing right now and they are very picante very very spicy i
had a little sample but before i'm about to try this but i think i put too much but let's go
oh my oh whoa wow there comes the heat full of flavor i'm full of spice honestly i cannot
believe we're finding mexican food like this that's this good this reminds me of being in
mexico this is like the real deal stuff but oh my is this spicy but it's very good i think anna
said everything that i would possibly say about it you can't beat a corn tortilla the only thing
i would do is double it up one thing we also have if you come down here got some rice and
beans guys so this is pretty typical you'll find in mexico and you'll find all over the caribbean
mix that together can't beat it because it cuts down the spice right away the minute you
put that in your mouth here's the thing though i'm pretty sure in the dominicans this is like
a pretty much like a staple it's a local dish but one thing we don't know we need more local dishes
from the dominican we're gonna dive into that before any of you guys comment down below or if
you have already delete the comment we're gonna get into dominican food but we need to know more
from you if the dominicans are watching what kind of dominican food should we be trying all
right i'm trying to fix the lighting on the camera here because our lighting is not so good in this
bedroom i know it also wasn't really good at the last place either so sorry we look so orange we're
not naturally this orange and sorry if the sound is bad in the last flip tube this part of being
a vlogger is having to deal with bad lighting and bad sound we're back at our place that you
saw earlier but that's just how it goes but you guys get the point you know how this all goes but
it's time to end the video but we just wanted to say thanks to all of you that are leaving comments
and just watching so far we're getting like a tremendous amount of feedback from all of you
and it helps us just push on because we're here in this country for an incredible amount of time
for very i don't even know how long yeah we don't even know we kind of have an open-ended
ticket and we're getting advice from locals and from people that just visited the dominican
republic on where to go and we're taking notes trust me yeah and for all of you guys that have
purposely tuned into this video in particular hit that subscribe button if you haven't already
but we really hope that it's giving you sort of opened your eyes a little bit that there is life
outside of an all-inclusive resort but there are other options there's great options it's safe it's
fun it's breath preferred yeah i was going to say for us it's preferred it's not that
we didn't like the resort but a lot of you long time viewers know that we're not resort people
but it's fun every now and then to do a resort but we like to get kind of off the beaten path and i
wouldn't even say this is that much off the beaten path we're staying in a very kind of um cushy
apartment luxury very safe neighborhood apartment in a very safe neighborhood and you can do that
too if you don't want to stay at a resort in punta cana i remember we met someone that said like what
do you do if you stay in a condo or an apartment in punta cana like where do you eat i'm like they
have restaurants here they have good restaurants yeah really better than there is anyway oh 100
so we'll be getting up to a lot more as we explore this country we can't wait to see more i think in
the next video we're going to possibly go to see a beach we're going to go to a beach a very famous
beach we're not going to say what it is yet but a lot of people say it's the best beach in the
dominican republic people think that we'll find out then we know for sure we are going to santa
domingo at some point and we can't wait for that and eventually making our way up north where we're
going to kind of set up home base where we're going to live and that's in cabarete and we
can't wait to get there just like 20 minutes or so from port to class so many exciting things ahead
this feels good oh i know we're a few videos into the series now but guys this feels good we're back
on the road all right guys that's it from punta cana wishing you delightful travels see you soon
now