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As all of us who live here full or part-time know, times are harder this high season than in any of recent memory. Hard-working and resourceful "Mom and Pop" (very small) businesses can give superior service, save you pesos AND prolly make you some new friends, right?
So this page is devoted to free promotion. Let's help out the little guys who are trying so hard to deliver good products and good services.
We're compiling a list of ones we've found so far which will be added here shortly. As time permits, we hope to provide them all with their own little webpage ad but that's going to take awhile.
If you have someone truly good that you have personally used and would like to have promoted here, please EMAIL US this info. Contact info on the business is essential and will be checked by the editors before including it on the site. Think Spanish teachers, upholsterers, carpenters, manicurists, tailors, tiny take out bizes, etc.
Here's what we have so far just so you have the gist of our focus. Stay tuned in the weeks to come for contact information. And keep those suggestions coming!:
Mereka Bakers |
Marcel & Erika make some great bread: whole wheat with amarento, vegetable and fruit breads.And you know how hard THAT is to get on the island. Better yet, they bake and deliver daily. If you are Spanish challenged, no problem. Both of them are completely bi-lingual. Try their bread, you'll like it! And they are such sweet folks, too. Call them at 044 987 101 1267, tell them where you live and they'll put you on their route.Recommended by July Henninger & Carey Sutton
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| Cabrilla's Nauti Pescador | NC-native and long-time Coz resident Dailene, first started selling her great flipflops out of a backpack. These became so popular with the fisherman crowd that she was finally able to open a shop of her own featuring the same sandals t plus a lot of other fishing and watersport related garb. This is the only place we've found on the island to buy really comfortable, long-wearing flip flops in the right size to fit an American man's foot comfortably. (AJ loves the pair he bought there last month). Shop is located next to Las Seras Taqueria. On Avenida 30 between Salas and Calle 3 Sur, west side of the street. Recommended by Carey Sutton |
Yani Sánchez |
Yani is the nicest young woman! Speaks wonderful English. Gives a very nice haicut using clean equipment. Plus she is one of the only licensed massage therapists on the island and will come to your home or rental villa with her own table. Great massages (She used to be the masseuse at El Presidente), excellent haircuts and she's also a cosmetologist. So if you really want to treat yourself all the way, give this cute, spritely little gal a call for an appt. 872-7899, cel 044 987 112 2708 . You can also email her. Recommended by Michelle Brader-Tapet, Carey Sutton, Jean Berg & Linda Staton
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Dress-maker to the rich, the famous and people who just want to look that way. This guy is muy talented and makes his own patterns. Take him a picture, the material and your bod and he'll make you something really special.
25 between 5 y Hidalgo on the west side of the Avenida. Tiny, bright blue Mom and Pop store is right next door. There's an alleyway next to it and then, way at the back of the alleyway is a neat little, canary yellow house whose door is almost always open. The artiste, Facundo, lives and works here. No English spoken but its all in the context here, right? He's a real sweety too. Recommended by Annie
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