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This Spanish restaurant and bar offers meals or tapas, and there is a casino for adult amusement. The real action begins at around 1am when Dominicans, dressed smartly but provocatively, arrive for a good time.
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One of the capital’s best gay clubs. Wednesday is the Foam Party, Saturday the Message Party, and on Sunday there’s a drag and stripper show. DJs play house and dance music until dawn.
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Attracting the older crowd with classic rock, merengue, and ballads, this club is only open on weekends. On Friday and Saturday you can hear merengue, and on Sundays there’s Cuban son for a different Latin beat.
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One of the 1970s big bands that has adapted traditional folk rhythms into urban dance music.
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A bar and disco where DJs entertain with merengue, salsa, and international music. Although most customers are tourists, there are lots of Dominicans around to teach them the dance routines.
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Prodigiously gifted and versatile musician credited with fusing African and Cuban influences into mainstream merengue.
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A large, fun disco where they play a mixture of merengue, bachata, Latin music, rock, and pop. At weekends it’s mainly Dominican music, which attracts local youth keen to befriend foreigners and teach them how to dance.
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This band mixes merengue with rap and hip-hop to produce “merenhouse” music.
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Set in a natural cave, this place is decorated with stalactites and Taíno pictographs. There are native dance shows (the club has two dance floors), and fashion shows are also held here.
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A casual place where Dominicans come for good Latin dance music. Things don’t get going until after midnight and continue till dawn. Look out for live merengue bands on Mondays.
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