Dominican Bound

[Kass]

Anything else to be wary of? What about fake domincan cigars?

[drew_goring]

Anything else to be wary of? What about fake domincan cigars?

Don't count on finding real Opus, or if it is real it won't be cheap. The way Fuente is set up is that all of their production has to be exported to the US. If any real Opus make their way back to the Dominican, it will have to be imported from the US.

[bigpoppapuff]

virtually any of the name brands are export only....you might see some...but not alot...you will see plenty of leon jimenes and la aurora....which are not export only......and don't buy anything that is s'posed to be cuban.....they'll be bad fakes...

[Kass]

So my only chance of getting some brand names for a good price is going to a factory?

[bigpoppapuff]

So my only chance of getting some brand names for a good price is going to a factory?

you won't be near the fuente, LFD.fonseca,or la aurora factories unless you're going to santiago...you might get product at your hotel if they have a good shop.......why should they give super deals when they know they can get the marked prices??..

[Kass]

I'm going to try to go to La Romana. Hopefully it works out.

[Kass]

Well I didn't make it to any factories, although now I regret it.
I grabbed these from the airport though:
3 partagas serie D No.4
5 Davidoff grand cru no.5
4 domaine avo <20>
5 private stock no. 5
I was pretty disapointed by the selection, thats about all the brands they had plus cohibas, RYJ and MC (cuban and dominican)

Lots of "cubans" for sale on the beach, especially the glass top variety. There was a stand at the hotel one night with this guy selling cigars. Most of them cohiba, RYJ and MC cubans. He gave me a free MC no. 2 to try. It was actually a pretty good smoke and I enjoyed it so I bought 2 more ($7 for both) because I was running low on smokes. The hotel had La Aura robustos at the gift shop ($7), a bought a couple of them. Nice smokes.