Ocean Blue and Sand: Meh!

We decided to upgrade to Privilege since our Tripcentral rep had requested the 2’nd or 3rd floor (2 adjoining rooms) however we were assigned to the first floor and I had read in other comments that there’s more chances of roaches, etc. Another thing that we were very disappointing in was when we went to return to Toronto from the airport in Punta Cana they said “ we have bad news….” Basically Sunwing had overbooked and did not allow us to pre-pick our seats. Needless to say we WERE  [... read more]getting on that flight even if we couldn’t sit together as a family. Why bother booking an all inclusive if you aren’t even guaranteed a return flight home?? Beware this hotel allows locals to go for weekend visits and the resort gets very busy and not very relaxing at all as the swim up bars are hardly accessible! Wish I knew this ahead of time. We probably would not have booked in the first place.

Barcelo Bavaro Beach: Great friendly resort

We just arrived from Barcelo Bavaro Beach adults section where we spend the week of 19 to 26 August . . The resort is beautiful , clean and well maintained . We took the premium package which included oceanfront view from the room ( 4086) and a daily a la carte restaurants either in the resort or in the Barcelo Bavaro Palace with a 20 minutes in the spa for hydrotreatment and the option of having lunch or breakfast in the Palace buffet This extra is very much worth it and you enjoy the huge Pal [... read more]ace resort , but i preferred the entertainment and quiet of the adult side a 5 minutes distance with the motor train I was amazingly surprised that resort employees wear masks all the day even when they organize and lead the entertainment sessions . We feel very much safe with the current covid situation I even noticed that they scrub the ladders going to the swimming pool as well as the beds inside the swimming pool daily The only point i can say is the rooms need renovation , but they are clean and comfotable . Your minibar is supplied with beer and soft drinks and as a welcome gift we had a bottle of sparkling wine and a bottle of rum delivered to our room Becaiuse or the sea weeds , the shores were cleaned daily and the sea weeds taken away . In summary, I will definitely return to Barcelo Bavaro Beach

El Beso Adults Only at Ocean El Faro: Amazing Resort!!!

Modern, luxurious hotel. Food taste so good, lots of pools and restaurants. Service was also good (all happy and respectful workers) Will be staying here again. Great choice you won’t regret trust me!

Royalton CHIC Punta Cana: Pretty resort

Clean well maintained but had a bad seaweed problem and hotel was not quick to remove it. Not the most modern rooms shower leaking out and the air conditioning not very cool. Boutique hotel with excellent food choices, coffee and icecream bar and great tropical drinks beach was the only problem if you are a beach person

Riu Palace Punta Cana: Nice Resort

The resort has been renovated to three pools where one pool is full of the usual young drinkers and a fun volleyball pool and one large crowded pool. Summertime is packed and the resort seemed overly crowded. Literally bumping into people trying to get your food. Many choices for food which was nice. However I came down with food poisoning and COVID-19 at this resort. The rooms were not cleaned very well and there was no time in between the previous occupants. A bit of a concern with COVID-1 [... read more]9 being still an issue. Time in- between new guests arriving should still be happening.Cleanings staff left bleach cloth on husbands clothes which discoloured them. Food hygiene needs to be improved too. I saw a raw sushi cart being transported from one of the kitchens to another kitchen in the middle of the day in high heat. These are all ways people can get sick. Raw meat/ seafood should be covered and cooled. Food safety 101. Most of the staff we’re great. Some of the bar staff at the beach bar we’re not overly friendly when we spoke English. Spanish-speaking guests seem to get preference over other guests. But most of staff seemed lovely! Especially front desk Jesus!

Ocean El Faro: Good resort but beach seaweed blocked access to the beach

Overall, it’s not a luxury hotel but for it’s price, it’s good value. Service was good and many members went above and beyond. Beach was often inaccessible because seaweed was built up to a very high level blocking access. They only used tractors to move it once in a while but would more often leave it untouched OR just have a few workers use small buckets to move it. If this issue was at least addressed to some degree, the resort value would go way up.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Nice resort

Bahia Principe is a nice complex of hotels. The grounds are very well kept and there is a good entertainment every day. There are several pools with swim up bars. The beach is wide and cleaned daily. (Because there is lots of seaweed )

Melia Caribe Beach Resort: Amazing!!!

Resort was amazing, lots of greenery. Perfect for kids with the splash island. Good food choices. Just very slow check in and check-out. Staff would follow-up if your request was delivered to your room. Nice pool but have to be early in order to get a good spot for the shady lounge chairs.

Riu Republica: Best part of the trip was the food and staff

Grounds - the grounds were beautiful and very well kept Rooms - the rooms were clean, a little musty day one, but I got used to it after. They were all white so not as interesting as it could be compared to other resorts but no real complaints. Dining - I LOVED the breakfast! I loved it, ten extra pounds later, lol. The food was great the rest of the day too for the most part. Asian and Italian not out favourites, Indian and Steakhouse were our favourites. People - the folks in the dini [... read more]ng area were outstanding! The level of service during our first couple of days was amazing, they paid so much attention so when drinks ran out and plates were empty they were quickly replaced/removed. The last days it wasn’t good, so don’t judge them, service depends on the day I guess. Entertainment - not much in the way of night time entertainment, the Michael Jackson show was fun to watch. We didn’t do the daytime parties Tips: for the first couple of days we got towels no problem. Then it was busier and we didn’t get towels for a couple of days. You have to get towels before bfast to be sure you have one. Covid - wasn’t even a consideration. We come from Canada where about a third of people still where masks all the time. Rarely did people behave in any way with Covid in mind.

El Beso Adults Only at Ocean El Faro: Amazing Resort !!

The resort was amazing in so many aspects. My and my husband went alone with no children. We stayed on the adults only side, only because it was a better deal when we booked our trip. We spent most of our time on the family side but did spend a couple days on the adults only side at the pool. We also really enjoyed the beach. We were very nervous about the beach as we had read a lot of negative reviews about the beach. They were actually giving discounts on the excursions because they stat [... read more]ed the beach was poor and they were trying to compensate for it. We loved the beach. There were so many chairs available any time of the day at the beach and the pools. There was some seaweed and the first couple days were more intense then the rest of the week but the water was still amazing. At around 4-5 pm each day the flag would turn red and you were not suppose to go in the water but it was still so lovely to lay out under the cabanas and watch. The lazy river was amazing !! We took our own tubes after reading reviews and this was a great recommendation. The pools, and grounds were kept very clean. The buffet was amazing !! Every day there was lots of options and they also had lots of gluten free options which was wonderful. We booked a couple of a la cartes and they were great. The booking system at first seemed really stressful but once you had the app and knew how things worked it was actually very easy to get things booked. You just had to book on the day of. There was no reserving things in advance. The reservations opened at 7 am, so as long as you logged on at that time you could get into whichever one you were looking for. The nightly entertainment was okay. A few nights were amazing (magician, 90's show), but a few were disappointing. Amazing theatre to host in though. Our only negative review to post about this resort was the nagging for the premium presentation. They were in the lobby like leaches. It felt like every which way we went they were targeting us. We did find this incredibly annoying. It was the only downfall. Otherwise we had an amazing time. Wish we would have brought our kids as well because it was very family friendly. Also the weather was amazing. Only a couple hours of rain the whole week in the day :)

Royalton CHIC Punta Cana: Worth the Trip

Very good, very clean hotel, great staff and service (especially Margot who went out of her way for us). My only complaints were the damp bedding from the air conditioning I assume, but they were changed when I requested and everyday automatically. Saturday was the focus party day, great job at that on Saturday, just wish it was all week long since this is a party resort. I did love the hotel TV menu system to keep you updated on the activities, ordering room service and everything to do with th [... read more]e hotel. The beach while we were there had seaweed washing up, but they did attempt to keep it clean.

El Beso Adults Only at Ocean El Faro: Ocean El Faro Hotel Vacation

I just came back from our vacation, This was an amazing trip to this resort, my wife and I enjoyed our stay at the Ocean resort and will be going back at some time again. The food was good, the room were cleaned and the activities was great! The air Canada rep (Juan) is excellent at taking care of Canadians, he is worth the praise, he answered all our questions and take care of us while on the resort. Good Job Natalie as well, your guide to make sure we had all the documents to and from the is [... read more]land was on target, it made our experience during this time awesome. Good Job Team.

Wyndham Alltra Punta Cana: Just Average - Dreams P.C.

My wife and I and 2 sons,, aged 17 and 19, have travelled to many locations in the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic on 3 occasions, (Margarita, Antigua, St. Lucia, Aruba, Turks & Caicos, and others) in the tropics. So, we know what we want and for many of the things we were seeking, Dreams Punta Cana was only average. 1. Beach: Very important to our family and this was an unabashed disaster! up to 4 feet of seaweed on the beach with almost no effort by the staff to remove it. We [... read more] are a beach (not pool) family, so the sight of this much seaweed rotting in the 32C heat was smelly, to say the least. We were unable to swim in the water due to this problem,, so my teenage boys were not pleased.. I feel that our travel agent should have identified this issue for the summer months in the DR, in order to choose another appropriate resort to suit our needs. 2. Room: Satisfactory but not exceptional for an upgraded swim-out room. The usual smell of mold and mildew which is commonplace in tropical locations was definitely evident in our room, and in our son's room. Not inviting. 3. Food: Buffet was good, but food selection was pretty much the same every day. If you choose not to upgrade (cash grab) to a "Preferred Guest" level, you can only eat lunch and breakfast at the buffet and not select restaurants - disappointing. 4. Restaurants: Although there is advertized over 6 restaurants at the resort, Oceania and Bordeaux were closed for about half of our 7 day vacation for supper. We were not expecting this and when we are on vacation, we expect full access to all restaurants (and all other facilities) every day that we are there. 5. Towels: The towel booth opened at8:00 am each morning and by 8:45 am, they were all gone. Replenishment usually arrived not until 11:00 am, so this definitely needs to be improved. Since the beach was not useable, most of the resort population hung around the pool, resulting in this towel shortage, Unacceptable -. 6, People: The Dominican people could not have been warmer or more hospitable with us - a truly welcoming staff at Dreams PC, and we were honoured to have visited their island. Hi Juana, Ramirez, El and Guadaloupe! 7. Sales Hype: We found it a bit much to be inundated with sales folks trying to sell you a time share or excursion, almost every time you walked in the lobby - hold the brakes on that please. :-) Overall rating: 6/10. Probably would not return.

Lopesan Costa Bavaro Resort Spa and Casino: Large, beautiful hotel for Adults or Families

Lopesan is a large hotel so make sure you bringing walking shoes. That being said there so many choices of pools for all. Main pool is huge and clean but sadly you can’t see ocean from pool. There so many chairs everywhere so you always find one. Beach right now has seaweed but they clean beach all day long. Restaurant choices are good and food amazing. Buffet gets a little repetitive after a week but food is still tasty. Staff is very friendly and helpful and hotel staff keep hotel extrem [... read more]ely clean. Rooms are mostly king beds with pull out couches so not many rooms with two beds. We booked private transportation as it was easier than waiting for large group with WestJet

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Good resort

the room was clean but old , however the public area was good, but the restaurant was not clean we found cockrochs in many of restaurants the floor very greasy and not clean, the restroom below the average.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Simon

Very bad experience Food was sucks Pool very dirty Got infection Towels old Do not deserve flying from Canada and paying over cnd1500 Never to go again to Dominican Republic It was the first and last time. Mexico is way better

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Bad Resort

It was the worst vacation I ever visited in my life. More than 3 hours to check in. The staff were not professional at all .Rarely to find someone speaks English. Rooms were dirty and the service was very bad. Wifi was very slow and most of the times it wasn’t working. Restaurants were all fully booked except Mikado, but i wish we didn’t book there.Although we booked before,we waited an hour and at the end we found cockroaches and insects on walls and on our food table ,It was disgusti [... read more]ng 🤮. Overall, I don’t recommend Bahia Principe Grand Hotel ,and if I am able to rate it less than a star,I will do it. It was a waste of money.

Dreams Onyx Resort and Spa: Decent

Adequate could be better. Seaweed on beach. Wine was like water. Food was 6.5/10. Steak not thick and juicy at steak restaurant, it was more like thin and dry. For the money that you pay i would expect better food and better entertainment for the children!

Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Punta Cana: Amazing Hard Rock Punta Cana

This hotel was absolutely beautiful. Every detail was taken care of. The service was prompt and excellent. My son enjoyed the kids club. The beach and many pools were spectacular. We enjoyed the Asian restaurant Zen, Ciao the Italian restaurant, and Toro the steakhouse most of all. The breakfasts we had were lovely from the market and many lunch/snacks experiences throughout the resort. It is a large resort but the trolley system was helpful. Only con was the beach was red flag all week so it wa [... read more]s hard for young kids to enjoy.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Very disappointing

Very bad experience and not worth a single penny. Cleanness of dishes, spoons, cups is very disgusting. WiFi is garbage Food is not nice. We ate only pizza during our stay Most important, the pools have no filtration and most of the group returned sick with ear infections