Dominican Republic Vacation Turns Scary

Years back my wife, two young daughters and I found ourselves in a very dangerous situation. We had been there 10 times before and stayed at a Five Star hotel. Where I made the mistake over the years I became friends with one of the staff. As such I asked him to take us shopping for a fee. Now let's get this straight I don't trust anyone and I watch for body language carefully. As we left things began to arouse suspicion. We stopped where I had requested until later on a dirt road appeared. Here is where things went bad as we rolled along quickly. I asked our driver to stop. He said trust me. Wrong answer. I told him to stop again as we drove deeper into what was known as little Haitai village in the Dominican.To put it perspective there was nothing there except dirt and crime, yet he claimed it was a shortcut to good shopping. Later I looked up the area on google maps, at the end was an open field, nothing else. At this point, I grabbed the wheel and turned it abruptly forcing him to stop. Pressing up against him I told him to back out of the area slowly. Which he did. It was apparent he had arranged a kidnapping scenario and He knew I knew it. If he had refused there was only one option, him or us and he wasn't going to win! As we got back to the main road I saw taxi stand and we departed his vehicle in favor of another unknown ride he had no connections to. Finally I would like to point out this could happen anywhere! PS the hotel you depict here is a two Star at best.

Meanwhile like 1,000 pervs flooded the Don Juan reservations line with calls after this episode aired!

Tonights top story: Theres prostitution at the beaches in Dominican Republic. Thank you ABC. We would have never known.

The Don Juan resort is literally the cheapest trashy low class dirtyest hotel in DR

"oh it was scary. pssy everywhere" says the guy who obviously doesnt like pssy.

boca chica is cheap and is more likely for locals, tourists that goes there are more likely  looking for drugs and prostitute. my suggestion are punta cana, samana, juan dolio, Puerto plata are the best places. you can not judge Dominican republic over one place, for sample here in the Bronx we got Orchard beach, is getto and is for locals, people sell all kind of stuff and I mean all kind of stuff, so you cant judge all the beaches in new York for that one alone.

Lady: "The brochure did not mention prostitutes or bed stains." Manager: "I'm very sorry. We ran out of room in the brochure."

You paid to stay in a hotel called DON JUAN what on earth did you expect would happen?? 😆

Why are they surprised that when they followed a guy selling prostitutes that they went a seedy part of town? Any city in the US would have probably been even sketchier than that place. 

This video isn't directed just to the DR. They're just saying make sure any trip you're going to make sure you do your research. It doesn't matter whether your going to the DR, Japan, the US, Nigeria, or Greece. Just make sure you check out the place you are going to.

The guy escorted them back ? Wow that IS scary hahahaha . . .

A friend of mine told me that if you see anything real cheap on Groupon going to another country to stay away from those deals

hahahahah is like saying "lets go on vacation to motel 6 in Daytona next to the drug dealers and the poor neighborhood" then complaint abt it

Oh no... two guys end up at a bar with a bunch of girls...….scary... you gonna be ok? Should we get the US military involved?

This should be titled "Greatest vacation ever!"

Oz lets go back to the spot after u ditch the frigid reporter lady 😂😂😂

I go to resorts every time in dominican republic and y'all pick the worse place to go just to make a vid smh

Was this the first time that those reporters went out from their backyard? Life is not easy in DR and people try everything to get some pesos. However, prostitutes and vendors are not a threat to tourists' security at all, you can just say No. This report would have made sense if someone tried to understand the life of those vendors and those prostitutes. My suggestions to those US "journalists" is to travel more and get to know real life for what it is: not always a bed of roses

This woman would NEVER survive in Rio LOL

Americans dying left and right over there and they know exactly what’s going on smh