Map for Workshops and Hotels

See the map to locate the workshop place BAR LUCIA 302 and the recommended hotels Palacio and Antiguo Hotel Europa.

Workshop Place

DR12 workshop place BAR LUCIA 302 is the most prestigious, beautiful, simply the best in Zona Colonial. Lucia is located in the middle of everything. It's surrounded by restaurants and cafeterias. Hotel Palacio is just 1 block away and Antiguo Hotel Europa 4 blocks away.

Hotel Reservations

Please, don't improvise!! instead of reserving a random hotel, false dates or agonizing with the room sharing, ask for the advice of DR12 organizer !!! Notice!! you should arrive 1 day earlier and fly back next day. E.g. fly and accommodate Dec 9-19 to participate the whole 9 days (Dec 10-18). You can also opimize your return flight back to home to be on Tuesday Dec 18 from Santiago or from Santo Domingo after 6PM.

Hotel Choices for Santo Domingo

DR12 recommends luxurious Hotel Palacio or convenient Antiguo Hotel Europa. They have served us flawlessly for a decade. Both of them are enough close to the workshop place. Theoretically you can choose any other hotel as long it is in the walking distance of the workshop place. However then you'll loose the convenience of the DR12 party bus stop and the night security.

Hotel Palacio is extremely beautiful historical building. It has a pool and minibars in the rooms. The building was the Palace of the Dominican Republic ex-president Buenaventura Baez. Book directly www.hotel-palacio.com.

Antiguo Hotel Europa is affordable and beautiful. It has a fancy lobby, roof Terraze and absolutely excellent location close to Ruins and Plaza de España, but no pool and no minibar in the rooms. THE BEST REFUNDABLE DISCOUNTED PRICE you'll get if you let DR12 organizaer Vesa to pass your reservation to the hotel manager. Ask Vesa the discounted prices for single room, double room with 1 bed and double room with 2 beds.

Look at the Antiguo Hotel Europa trailer below.

Ruta Bachatera Hotels

DR12 will take care of your Ruta Bachatera hotels Dec 15-18 (3 nights). The DR12 ticket price includes the Ruta accommodation in a shared double. Single participants should contact DR12 organizer to select with whom to share the room or whether to pay a single room extra.

DR12 Festival Ticket Prices DR12 Full 9 days US$1120   - Catamaran + StoDomingo + Ruta   - including Ruta hotels and Private bus   Catamaran 1 days +StoDomingo 4 days US$540   - Hotel NOT included Ruta Bachatera 4 days US$680   - including hotels and private bus!!

It's possible to pay in parts
You can pay the DR12 Full 9 Days price also in parts. First part is the price of the first 5 days price which allows you the option to select later on just the first 5 days instead of full 9 days. DR12 organizer will tell you more.

Ready? questions? contact DR12 organizer, Bachata Ambassador Vesa to get the payment instructions and disclaimer text.

DR12 TICKET REQUEST

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What is included and not included!

DR12 Catamaran price includes the bus transport, catamaran, lunch and all the drinks. DR12 Santo Domingo price includes 20 workshops, parties, concerts and party transport, but not flight, food, drinks and the hotel room in Santo Domingo (Dec 9-15). DR12 Ruta Bachatera price includes Ruta activities, Ruta hotels (3 nights in a shared double Dec15-18), private bus transport and entrance fee to the river&waterfall, parties and concerts, but not flight, food and drinks. The airport taxi is not included into the prices. The exact sum to be paid, payment instructions and disclaimer we will send you by email.

Total price

There are no big hidden expenses, but it's a good idea to understand how to count the total price. You simply add to the DR12 discounted 9 days ticket price (US$1120) the Santo Domingo 5 hotel nights (about US$240 per person in a shared double), flight, airport taxi (US$50), food and drinks. If you are lucky to get an economic flight, the total amount of money needed for full 9 days should be about 2000 euro from Europe and about US$2000 from United States depending from where you fly.

Do you have to pay it all at once?

The order of the payments is:
1. Now DR12 ticket and Flight
2. On arrival Hotel Europe in Santo Domingo
3. During the event Taxi, food and drinks

You must arrange your own flight!

The companies flying to Santo Domingo (airport code SDQ) from USA are JetBlue, American Airlines AA, United Airlines UE, Delta Airlines DE, Copa Airlines and from Europe Air France AF, Air Europa, Condor and Air Berlin. The cheapest flights from Paris you'll find from French Blue and from Brussels from Jetairfly. Try also Google "Cheap Flights to Santo Domingo" and compare in www.momondo.com.

DR12 disclaimer

By paying the DR12 festival ticket you accept the festival Disclaimer, which basically says that DR12 festival and it's organizer are responsible only for the festival workshops, fun activities, parties and concerts. DR12 is not responsible for the flights and Santo Domingo accommodation. DR12 reserves all the rights to do any changes to the festival program before prior notice. No refunds even if your favourite artist/ instructor is missing. In the past some live bands have cancelled the signed and paid contract but we have been able to get even better artists to do the job. In DR3/4/5/7/8/9/11 we didn't have any problems at all. Notice! your name is your ticket and we'll check it when you arrive in the festival.