Viva V Samana by Wyndham: Relaxers Palace

Well groomed and maintain grounds. Food top notch too many choices for a 3 day stay. Rooms ok and clean not a cramped space. Uncrowded hotel with lots of land and beachfront land and chairs.to go with it.

Viva V Samana by Wyndham: RELAXING

EXTREMLY WELL MAINTAINED RESORT, CLOSE TO SAMANA AIRPORT WITH CONFIDENT AND, WELCOMING STAFF WORKING AS A TEAM TO INSURE THEIR EFFORTS ARE REWARDED FOR BY THE PAYING CUSTOMER. ROUGH BUT BEAUTIFUL BEACH

Viva V Samana by Wyndham: Would Recommend this Resort!

Stayed at this resort November 2023 and it was well worth the money. The resort was very clean and well cared for. Long beach and beautiful clear blue water! Food was good as far as quantity and variety. Restaurants always available. We stayed in the Vibe room which was clean, sheets changed every 3 days or upon request. We had problems with getting English TV stations which never was resolved before we left. Also it was advertised as ocean view but in reality “no” vibe room has ocean v [... read more]iew unless you are a Vive member. Staff was always friendly and willing to help. I would highly recommend and would go back!

Viva V Samana by Wyndham: Viva Samana!

Luscious grounds with inviting loungers and cabanas. Lovely layout of resort. Excellent service; although Checkin could’ve been more organized. Excellent a la carte restaurants! Animation team is the highlight of the resort!

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: Great Resort

Great food, spotless rooms, beautiful beach and pools. The resort is not new but very well maintained. Our group did have issues with room key cards not working multiple times. This was a hassle as the trip back to the main lobby to get new key cards for our rooms was not short. When you are ready to head back to your room to have a shower before dinner or to turn in for the night a trip back to the lobby to get access to your room is not welcomed.

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: Nice Beach

We did enjoy our stay. Nice beach, rooms nice and clean with comfy beds. Buffet excellent, however, the 3 restuarants you needed to book were awful. The food and service could do with improvement. Overall staff were friendly, but needs some improvement on Customer Service.

Viva V Samana by Wyndham: Amazing resort

This is a nice, clean ,quiet hotel with a beautiful public area, beautiful restaurant and a buffet where we enjoyed our meals. The entertainment is very good. The beach is gorgeous. We walked for hours along the beach.This is a best place to relax.

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: 3 star resort, not higher

The resort is extremely understaffed. The rooms are quite dated, each room has issues. For example, our shower was broken, water facets were covered in rust and our AC control unit was defective. Our friend's TV was broken, another friend's AC was moldy, and so on and so forth. They make you change rooms and you discover different issues in each new room and have to move again. This doesn't feel like having a vacation. The food was okay, but again, we had to get our own water, coffee, and tea,  [... read more]because there was not enough staff to help us. The beach itself is okay, but there are a lot of rocks in the water, which makes swimmable spots crowded with people.

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: Great Trip!

Beautiful property - friendly staff! Entertainment and bar staff were amazing! Buffet was great. Greek was my least favourite of the restaurant dinners, butt was still good. Rooms were good, always cleaned and ready when you came back from the pool/beach. Beach was fantastic. We had 2 bad days of rain and the entertainment crew still made it fun! Yovanni helped us with our breathtaking tour to El Limon Waterfall and gave us great local day trip ideas.

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: Family Vacation

I will start by saying the staff was amazing. Any complaints were met and resolved. The grounds were very clean. And I would have to say, this is one of the better beaches I have ever been to. That being said, the room fridge was never cold. Some of the lights worked in the room - very dark at night. There was almost no water pressure and one night we only had cold water. I have a smaller child and I did find it disturbing to see the lifeguards on phones. It was very challenging to book  [... read more]our a la carte dinners, as the restaurants are not even open every night. Overall, very good trip and I would go back again, but request room in the 26 villa complex.

The Eurostars Grand Cayacoa: Beautiful Resort! BUT...

Everything was fantastic, the views, the service, the rooms The only 2 negatives are: 1) we were there the 2 last weeks of september and what this resort do is they open to the Dominican people from Friday to Sunday! it cost them 200.00 US for the weekend. A lot of peoples and their family comes in! the pool is full!!! the Bar is full!!! the buffet restaurant is full and they eat everything in site! so if you are not there at the opening of the buffet there's no place to sit and hardly any  [... read more]food left!!! Luckily for the evening meals they are not allowed to go the the " A La Carte Restaurant" PHEW!!! 2) the beach of the hotel is very small you cannot take long walks and also just at the end it is open to the public so they come into our side, the vendors come in too (discretely) but are still there to bother the people. So that's not great because they are very insistant. we heard also that this resort will become a "non all inclusive" starting next year. So I think with point 1 & 2 and the non "all Inclusive" that there will be less people that will go there that's for sure! Next time that we go to Samana we will go to Grand EL Portillo because we like Samana but before I book I will inquire if in the fall the Dominicans are allowed to go to that resort too for the weekend!

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: Beautiful resort to enjoy

Beautiful resort to enjoy ocean beach hotel entertainment restaurants and amazing food. Very calming atmosphere, all facilities working just perfect, guest service outstanding and caring about all guests needs. Very appropriate Lidia for comfortable stay. Live music enjoyable and give more charm for romantic vacation. Very happy return home and thank very much for beautiful and unforgettable time at Bahia Grand Principe Portillo

Viva V Samana by Wyndham: Amazing Resort!

I highly recommend this resort. I have not one complaint and all but positive feedback from the price, food, housekeeping to the grounds. The cleanest and prestine hotel with continual perks. We even found out in the bungalow section we stayed in we had a butler, Adonis who was very informative. We had room service 24/7 on top of an extended buffet 3x/daily with food to die for. Three beautiful restaurants on top of the buffet that we only took advantage of the last night as we were all alway [... read more]s exhausted and back in our rooms by 8p.m. with food comas 🤣. The beach is breathtaking and although I am a water baby, I didn't quite make it fully in as the ocean was often volatile but still no complaints, the sound and view was beautiful enough and the pool sufficed 💯% As I don't drink alcoholic beverages, they had more than enough amazing selections of mixed fresh juices, Cafe frappes, club sodas and of course ice cold bottled 💧 water. Wi-fi everywhere and someone asked about the mosquitoes.... there were some but I didn't see any. Only had one bite that I didn't feel but it was there. We had visits daily from a family of felines while we ate and entertained us, the kittens were adorable and had a hard time ignoring. Cutest dogs roaming the beach with a care free vibe and such respectful boundaries to tourists. I left extremely satisfied.

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: Very good!!!

The hotel is very clean. Very friendly staff. Very good service. BUT! We paid for a Superior Junior suite, but they gave us a Standard room. We arrived and looked again at the photos on the hotel website and this is a Standard room. We were told that this is a Superior Junior suite. Room 7202, we stayed from September 21 to September 28. Svetlana Baiguildina and Albert Baiguildine.

The Eurostars Grand Cayacoa: Beautiful view

The resort was beautiful and the food was very good, except that they had pizza and spaghetti everyday on the buffet. As far as the maids and cleaning the rooms, that was awful. Our towels were not changed for 5 days, even though we kept telling them, then no water was left in our fridge, then our shower wasn’t working and the water was rising up to my knees every time I took a shower. It is sad that they don’t take care of their guest with respect.

Viva V Samana by Wyndham: Amazing cozy resort

Extremely good beaches with ability to walk many miles, very easy swimming in the ocean for elderly people. Clean resort with excellent landscaping, reasonable food. Personnel is very friendly and supportive.

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: Amazing beach

Overall a very good vacationing spot. The beach is amazing, with lots of palm trees to provide shade. The coral reef is right in front of the hotel's beach so we did lots of snorkelling and fish feeding (my 10 year old was in heaven). We spent probably 85% of our time on the beach in the ocean and then the rest at the pool. The pool is somewhat small for the place it was full most of the time, they do have a second small pool further out between the villas but it was too far to walk too and tend [... read more]ed to be crowded too. Rooms are very dated but clean and that is all that matters. Service mainly good but you can tell that most servers/bartenders were overwhelmed as the resort was full so not all the time you received the best service and had to wait for drinks but they did their best. Food was plenty and good, lots of variety but again the buffet was a bit small for the amount of tourist were there, if you went early you were ok. A day before our return our beach towels were stolen, we left them out around 6:45 a.m. went for breakfast and came back around 8:00 a.m. (note that we followed what we saw is the practice with reserving your spot, even though the hotel says not to do it, if you did not reserve by 7:15 a.m. most seats were gone at the beach, they had spots at the pool until about 8:00 a.m.). Anyway we went to investigate as we also had personal items (some headbands) on each seat. Apparently it was not removed by security as they would return the towels to the towel place and then notify reception how many towels they collected. It was removed by a tourist as later in the day my niece saw one group was leaving and were short on towels and then another tourist walk over to them and offered them towels as he had extra towels... interesting... well his extra towels cost me US$40 in fine but whatever, I wish in the future will only have this much of "damage" on all our vacations. I would recommend this hotel/place for its beach/ocean for sure.

Bahia Principe Explore El Portillo: Good average resort

Pool and beach were great. Buffet decent. Gourmet and Brazilian alacstres good. Drinks are generic and should include more for the price. Rooms clean and spacious. Spa disappointing as they didn’t accept the offer posted in lobby. So take a picture of all offers to show them. So they can’t cheat you Staff very good.

The Eurostars Grand Cayacoa: Beautiful views

The hotel was very clean, beautiful and large. The layout was a bit confusing at first but original and this is what it makes the beauty of it. The staff was very attentive and professional, everybody with the smile. The villas situated on the beach level have nice views but you have to be ready to climb 70 stairs back and forth to get to the swimming pool, reception and buffet. So it is not for everybody. The resort is laid out vertically not horizontally. The views from different layers are a [... read more]mazing. the downside is you can not take a walk anywhere except it climbing or descending the multiple stairs. The food at the buffet was amazing: plenty of fish, vegetables, paella, all sorts of combinations of steamed or grilles vegetables. a lot of variety. the only disadvantage is we ate too much (haha). The beach is very small and not particularly nice. there are some stones in the water. plenty of shade though. The pool is amazing and large enough for a medium number of tourists. The entertainment staff did a good job. There are spanish classes with Shel Liana who is funny and teaches you well. The evening entertainment consisted of themes where guests participate which was a lot of fun. I particularly likes the couples contests where the guy has to do push ups with wife on top and say yo soy macho..that was hilarious ! there was also karaoke very good. averall a very pleasant stay.

The Eurostars Grand Cayacoa: Great Resort

The hotel was great with wonderful views. We had a room with city and bay view and it was one of the best views we have had in all our travels (being docked at St Marteen with a balcony looking at the city was close lol). People are all friendly and they do try to speak English as best they can. Food was great with lots to choose from. Beach was good and the ocean was nice and warm at this time of year. They keep it clean and lots of loungers to use with shade. We had an incident when we [... read more] were going to get a message at the Spa (fire next door) and we had to be cancelled. they gave us a 30 minute free massage 2 days later to make it up to us, which we can't really complain about as the incident was not their fault. We would go back to this resort if the price is right for sure.