Several years back before the several immigration raids...which has scared off and deported many ladies...the Delrey was packed every night . Especially on the weekends, it was so packed that the Monkey Bar was used as a holding tank of ladies waiting to get into the Delrey. On several ocassions my favoritas, arriving late to work, would get a hold of me and asked me to escort her in to the Dey Rey because the security guys wouldn't let her in until there's more room...and she was asked to wait at the Monkey Bar.
As for the ladies buying a drink first at the Monkey bar, it is still being enforce but not all the time. Several ladies have told me about it that it is still being done. Also once inside the DR, I was also told that the bartenders will not sell water to the working ladies but they must buy alcoholic drinks. I wanted to get Karol (Tica) a bottle of water but she said that the waitress would not sell her one unless I buy it for myself and then give it to her. Again, this policy is probably not enforce all the time. DR must be hurting for business.