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In this video, we explore Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, focusing on the city’s modern neighborhoods, green spaces, local food, shopping, and nightlife. Santo Domingo is often overlooked by travelers or assumed to be unsafe, but this day shows a very different side of the Dominican Republic’s capital.
We begin at Parque Mirador Sur, one of the largest urban parks in Santo Domingo. The park features long walking paths, ocean views, limestone caves, and shaded green spaces, making it a popular spot for walking, jogging, and relaxing with locals.
Next, we visit Downtown Center Mall, a modern shopping mall in Santo Domingo. While exploring the mall, we look for home and furniture stores as we prepare to furnish our new condo, and share impressions of shopping in the city.
Later, we head to the Piantini neighborhood, one of the most modern and walkable areas in Santo Domingo. We stop for a traditional Dominican lunch at Adrian Tropical, a well-known local restaurant serving classic Dominican dishes.
We then give a tour of our hotel, Aloft Santo Domingo, where we are staying using credit card points. We explain how travel credit cards like the Marriott Bonvoy Credit Card and American Express Platinum Card help us book hotels in Santo Domingo and around the world for significantly less.
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To end the day, we visit Cultura Cervecería, a popular craft beer brewery in Santo Domingo, highlighting the city’s growing craft beer scene.
This video shows what Santo Domingo is really like — a modern, vibrant, and safe city with great food, green spaces, and a lifestyle that surprises many first-time visitors.
0:00 This is Santo Domingo
1:01 Parque Mirador Sur
3:27 Where is Everyone
5:27 Squarespace Ad
6:29 This City is so Big
8:04 Downtown Center Mall
10:12 Dominican Lunch
14:41 Our Hotel
17:05 Craft Beer and Tips on the City
19:54 Wrap Up
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📍 Locations Featured
Parque Mirador Sur
Downtown Center Mall
Adrian Tropical (Piantini)
Cultura Cervecería
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Santo Domingo keeps blowing our minds! 🤯 You can watch our full Dominican Republic Playlist here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLne6uCHwRa6QT6P5a-tKg2FMc7U2I2sM1 Stay Delightful! ✌- Anna & Trevor
Next time you're in Santo Domingo, visit the cenotes you mentioned. The park is called Los Tres Oros and is definitely worth a visit!
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The park gets indeed busier during the weekends, especially on Sundays, many people go to the park after church and Sundays are also seen as the day to spend with family going out so the park is a top choice, other that that it also has many people in the late afternoon working out and the park often hosts marathons.
I have always been amazed from the images I see of Santo Domingo. I have to visit there. I have to visit there. I mostly visit the north because that’s where my wife is from. She’s not so hot on Santo Domingo. Nice video as usual guys👍
Besides Ikea, a good home decor store I would recommend in Santo Domingo is Ilumel or Casa Cuesta.
Trevor is right…mofongo need to be soaked with something,..
Awesome video!!❤❤🎉🎉
Oh man, you were struggling with that mofongo 😅.
You are provided with a separate plate for you to serve portions to eat easily. You pour some of the broth to get to the moisture point you prefer.
The mofongo is more flavorful than mangú. It's made with mashed tostones(fried plantains) and infused with meat and sauce. Mangu is simply boiled with oil/butter/salt maybe garlic.
Normally people going early morning and late afternoon
Is Santo Domingo bigger than Havana, Cuba?
Very nice Hotel what a view sweet by theway cheers to the cold beers i am having one now lol.
If you go early in the morning or in the afternoon, you’ll find lots of people in the park but it been Monday morning, that’s why it was so solitary. The weekends it’s way more people as you mentioned and that is not the only one, there is Mirador Norte, and Mirador Este parks, in addition to the botanical gardens and the zoo, which are huge as well. There are many large parks in the city. It is the largest city in the Caribbean Isles and Central America. You are supposed to serve the Mofongo in the plate 😆😆, pour the broth on top of it to make it more soft. Mofongo is a Puerto Rican dish made from fried mashed plantains and fried pork bits (chicharrón). But we love it and we have adopted it as Dominican dish as well.
Scotia Bank nice that is one big looking city cheers from the South Shore Nova Scotia.
Bella vista park, usually people go to the park early in the morning or after 5pm everyday but Saturday and Sunday is more crowd.
Happy Sunday Anna and Trevor! Just back to the snow yesterday from a trip to Belize. I can understand why you love the sun! I do have to say the snow is so beautiful for a little while lol. Have a great day!
Great info.. 🤙
I think in Santiago things are shipper than SD you should check it out
People are usually in park early in the mornings before work hours and later in the day after work hours. Also on the weekends the park is full of people.
Thanks for your videos
Los fines de semana va mucha gente
Mofongo is from Puerto Rico!!!!!😜
You can't compare NYC people and Central Park to DR people, I live in NYC for 14 years. We had 2 months of summer if much back in NY, in DR you have summer year round, of course NYC people are desperate to be able to go to a park and enjoy just the fact that is not freezing. Another fact is that NYC does not have all the beaches and outside activities you can do in DR year round, for us a park its not the bomb. W are used to being outside enjoying nature in many different ways. Parks are part of life, not a super extra attraction. I can also say that Dominicans are much more beach people than park people, now you tell me about some malecon at night time and we in!!!
I am from the Dominican Republic (Santiago) yaniqueques are eaten usually as a snack with some ketchup and people that like hot sauce can put some on along with the ketchup. Can wait for your apartment decorating videos.
videos always on point!!!!! love it
I think people in Santo Domingo use that park for walking or riding bikes as a way of exercising early in the morning or before the evening because, yeah, they prefer the cooler times of the day.