Bahia Principe Explore Coba: DONT BOTHER GOING

Things to beware of at Grand Bahia Principe Coba Resort Mexico Beware of the grounds watering system, it smells like gray water (brackish) Beware of flooring in the rooms when wet especially in the washroom. AC in room may start to drip on floor, remember slippery floor. Shower is of poor design as water will flood floor every time. In room Jacuzzi is a 6-foot bathtub with jets, the same you shower in. When walking on paths take care not to let your foot step off the ce [... read more]ment road as it is not level with grass area and may twist your ankle. Above said walking path is also used by all service vehicle so you will often have to give way to them. Conclusion: Stay away from this place. If Mexico's tourism is dropping it may be because of all the killings of non-Mexicans tourists and resorts like this one. 14 killed in tourist hot spot Cancun during bloody 36-hour span ... whnt.com/.../14-killed-in-bloody-36-hours-as-violence-rocks-tourist-hot-spot-cancun/ This is the week we were in Mexico. The staff is not the problem here, the concept and management are. In our 7 days stay we met and talked to 4 Americans, 4 from England, 2 from NB Canada, 2 from Grandby Qc (one of which slipped and fell and hurt herself on wet floor in room), a family from Ontario (another who twisted her ankle on side walk), one woman from Gaspésie Qc, all of these people said they will never go back to Mexico. We met 4 more from NB and did not ask their opinion as they were happily drunk for the most part. Day 1 Arrival was without major incident. We waited more than we should have in the bus at the airport. Learned mid-way in route that it was because of 4 missing passengers and that they had been detained at customs for bring cigars into Mexico. Check in ok, bags no problems. It's about 3pm, Ok now try to find your room. Room number has 5 digits, 32032, building has another set of single or double digit, 3. All this is explained and written on your key card pouch. NO ONE TELLS YOU THAT EACH BUILDING HAS 2 SIDES IDENTICFIED BY A or B. And you can't just cut across the building …. oh no,,, you have to walk around it. Building signage …. good one side only and small print. You have to walk close to it to see the fine print of your 5-digit room number and then look at the other side of said sign for the building # and the A or B. Then you spend the next 2 or 3 days trying to find yourself using the 5-inch square map they provide shows somewhat the roads but then overlapped by square blocks to show you where the Lobbies are. Magnifying glass not included and North is at about 50 degrees east. Day 2 Get lost. Return to where you think you come from. Get lost again. Recognize 2 sets of large water tanks laying on their sides and these become your road beacons. Thank you, Tanks, day or night I can see, you and feel safe knowing I am on my way to my room. Cafeteria. Few if any tables are ready. Seems low on staff. Not very organized. Foods was consistent and good all week. Find one of 3 pools. Although the third is located near my tank beacon and I call this one the small pool with large bar. Full size bar for about 20 people pool capacity. Afternoon we want to find beach. Take shuttle service as it would take about 30 minutes' walk each way in 32 degrees Celsius. The beach..... well.... it is man made for the most part, with break water cement barriers creating a series of ponds where sea algae collect's and brave staff work to remove every day and where you are expected to swim as the rest is roped off for your own protection. Even by Toronto standards this hardly qualifies as a beach at a 5-star resort. Day 3. Don't get lost, find your way and even learn shortcut to pool of your liking. Service at breakfast is the same. Often no one to greet you at the entrance door and sometimes no hand disinfectant either. Stay at poolside and sun bade. Entertainment evening show.... He's bad, He's bad....Michael Jackson ladies and gents. 6 dancers on stage 3 new how to dance 3 had learned the steps. Day 4 Don't get lost, find your way and even learn shortcut to pool of your liking. Service at breakfast is the same. Stay at poolside and sun bade. Entertainment evening show looks like karaoke not very good at all. Mostly can't hit the notes. Day 5 Don’t get lost, help people who are lost. Service at breakfast is the same. Stay at poolside and sun bade. Magic show... I hear it was nice …. it lasted about 45 minutes. Get ready for bed, turn lights out, 15 minutes later water can be heard dripping on the floor. I see it comes from the ceiling and we are on the top floor. The AC is leaking, floor extremely slippery. Call front desk and problem solved in about 30 minutes. Day 6 Don’t get lost, help people who are lost. Service at breakfast is better, even management is pitching in. Stay at poolside and sun bade. Day 7 Heavy rain and lightning for most of the afternoon. Lightning causes a few power failures. AC in our room does not recover from power failure and does not cool any longer. Service man came fast but was more interested by the movie playing on our TV than resolving the issue. We used the ceiling fane that night.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Nice resort

The staff there were amazing treated us like gold.the food was amazing and the Michael Jackson performance was mind blowing.the room cleaning could have been a little better.beach was beautiful. I really in joyed my stay can’t wait to go back

Bahia Principe Escape Runaway Bay: Luxury Bahia Principe - Amazing Choice

Hotel/Grounds - amazing Beaches - just okay Food - very good Value - fantastic Weather - amazing **late check out was not an option, so we were without a room from 12 noon until 11pm when our transat bus picked us up. flight kept getting delayed, but better to sit at the resort than the airport I guess! Transat agent was non existent during this delay.........all day!

Bahia Principe Escape Ambar: Good resort

Great beach. Excellent food. The rooms were nice. The ala carte restaurants were excellent and the service at those restaurants were fabulous. Room service was good. Staff service and guest service was poor. Guest service employees were unprofessional and booking ala cartes was stressful, staff were rude and did not book us for any of the ala cartes that they said we were booked for. If it were not for the great beach, excellent food and otherwise friendly staff, our trip would have been r [... read more]emembered as a stressful encounter with rude employees. Also this resort has the feel of an annoying telemarketer, as you are solicited by the resorts staff in every build to book trips only through them and not travel agents. Mia you like talking to telemarketers during dinner time then go to this resort.

Bahia Principe Grand Bavaro: My 8 th times there.

We love this hotel, for the location, for the service, for the beach, for the beautiful grounds, clean rooms. Friendly service, help. We stayed at this hotel 8 times, and will go again and again. Who ever criticize this hotel must have very very high expectations. For this kind of price what else they want. One more thing that we don't understand, why man don't obey the dress code rules, and go to restaurants with shorts, flip flop sandals and baseball caps at night while their ladies are in  [... read more]proper, nice, night attire. Respect guys.

Bahia Principe Explore Esmeralda: Great value/good resort

This is a huge 5 star resort, and has pretty well everything. The pool is in the shape of the number "8", is huge, has a kids area, a whirlpool and a bar. There are also several kids and family games organised round the pool area, during the afternoons. Several restaurants are available to handle your hunger, however our favorite ones were the two (all you can eat) buffet style. The vast variety of food available, and all was absolutely delectable and tasty. The service is exceptional. They [... read more] constantly chearfull, bring you water (and drinks), and remove your used/empty plates. The beach and lawn chairs area must be experienced. The calmness and soft sound of the waves rushing onto the sand. The beach includes a bar and a dance/exercise area (with loud music). The nightly entertainment by the pool was appreciated. The rooms are well laid out, comfortable and spacious. However...room service was horrible. When we returned to our room in the late afternoons, we either had to request blankets or face cloths. These were items the were removed from our room, but were not replaced. I find it absolutely unacceptable to provide room service (clean the room/replace towels/etc.) and forget to leave face cloths. This happened several times. The sign on the mini bar/fridge indicated that it is replenished daily, however that did not happened. Also, we had had to call for burned ceiling bulb, etc. I was really disappointed with the room service from a 5 star resort. To be fair to the readers, I'm not sure if this was simply an isolated incident, rather then the norm. I may return to this resort, however my room expectations will be lower.

Bahia Principe Grand Bavaro: Nothing but positive

This resort is by far one of best we have ever visited. We were here for ten days and have nothing but positive to report. From the rooms, getting around the resort, the staff, all positive. For the size of this resort it is very well organized, the food was top notch and no waiting at the buffet to fill your plate. Probably one of the most impressive things was how clean everything was. Again for the size it was incredible how clean any public area was including washrooms that were imaculant. [... read more] Would certainly return to this property.

Bahia Principe Escape Aquamarine: Somewhat above average resort!

This was our third visit to the Ambar Resorts, but this had its problems: - No Malbec red wine, nor Italian red wines throughout the entire resort! - Irish folk music being played at the Italian specialty restaurant and no Pasta & Meatballs! - Ordered Shiraz red wine at the French restaurant.......brought to our table ice cold, my food order was mistaken for another client, my wife ordered braised duck served in puff pastry..........it was served on SHREDDED WHEAT!..........Requeste [... read more]d our bill and left without any dinner!

Bahia Principe Explore Akumal: Beautiful Resort

Very impressed with the resort for its cleanliness, size and friendly staff. Special mention about Dinaldo and Alberto at the front counter; they were very helpful to have our room changed. The first room given to us by the front desk staff (sorry did not get his name) after I requested a room with an ocean or at least a garden view when I booked my vacation in October 2017. However the room that Dinaldo gave us was much better, at least we have a view of the swimming pool and was much brigh [... read more]ter with no jungle blocking our view! The rooms were very clean and the cleaning staff was very friendly.

Bahia Principe Explore Akumal: Love this resort!

The whole resort is kept immaculate. The food was fantastic. I can't say enough good things about this resort. The people are so friendly. Our butler, Alex, went above and beyond what was required to do his job. We will definitely go back.

Bahia Principe Explore La Romana: Very nice resort!!

Rooms are large and very clean, grounds are immaculate, very clean, large beach with plenty of palm trees, chairs and huts. The water is murky due to a river which flows into the bay but warm with a few rocks so step lightly when getting in. Food was good to very good. Hit and miss with warm or hot food. Good selection. A la cartes were very good. The service in the buffet was hit and miss. The wait staff serve, clean and set tables so they may be busy doing other chores rather than ser [... read more]ve drinks, water etc.... Royal Golden staff were exceptional. Had few issues with the room and when reported the problems were fixed immediately with follow up calls from the front desk.

Bahia Principe Explore Esmeralda: Beautiful resort

The hotel was wonderful and clean but the best part was the staff. They were absolutely incredible from being friendly to extremely helpful and efficient. I would love to go back just to see the staff again.

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: Breath taking resort

This resort was absolutely gorgeous!!! Everything about it was amazing. From the meticulously kept grounds to the lovely rooms, to the crystal clear pools to the scrumptious food it was a perfect vacation. The people were so friendly and very helpful. The only thing I can complain about is the trip was not long enough. When you think about it you spend 2 days travelling and only 5 days enjoying your vacation. next time I will go for 10 days.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Great time

Overall our stay was more then I had expected, with this being my first time outside if Nova Scotia to south, I was very happy. The first day I was very nervous and overwhelmed but by day 2 the staff and management team were so helpful and understanding with the needs of there guest I could tell this was a safe and heart warming resort, they were very quick to the needs of the guest. I would recommend it to anyone going to Punta Cana.

Bahia Principe Escape Sian Ka'an: Very relaxing

Friends recommended it to us. We didn’t use the pools at all as there were no swim up bars. Also the resort could use one more restaurant on site for those that don’t want to stay on site. The room service menu was very limited and somewhat disappointing.

Bahia Principe Explore Coba: Beautiful

Very nice, staff are friendly. Rooms are spacious, but need some upgrades. Food was good, at night you have to wait longer for the trolley to take back to ur room. Beach is far u need to take the trolley. Akumal is a better resort with better amenities. Closer to the beach and pool.

Bahia Principe Escape Runaway Bay: Wonderful Vacation

We really enjoyed our vacation at Bahai Principe Runaway Bay. The food is excellent, resort is super clean and staff exceptionally friendly. Thanks Deandra and Clark for making our dining experience 5 star.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Beautiful, large resort

The resort was large, well kept, and clean. Service was good. Breakfasts were great, lunch and dinner were good, but certainly not amazing. The Beach was beautiful and could walk for miles and feel very safe. One thing we did not love was the mosquitos! They were really bad in the evenings. We think perhaps do to their “marsh”, which is part of the property. First time ever in Punta Cana where this was an issue.

Bahia Principe Explore Legend: Best suited for families, ideal

Resort very new, all amenities and services excellent, the cleanliness was second to none. We went to attempt to hook up with friends who were at an adjacent resort. As a 60+ couple we found ourselves wishing our grandkids were with us as the resort is the most idyllic place you could ever want to take kids on a southern holday. We were at Jewel Runaway Bay a few years ago and it was the best to that point we had seen for families but this one was 10 times better for families woth children aged [... read more] 1-14. The food for all ages was spectacular, if you can't find something to eat that you enjoy here, you're usual duet must be rocks! We got jammed up with our room first night (no air conditioning and we watched the balance of the week as they continually put people in that room, without repair, which we knew as patio doors were opened in that room throughout niight and day in useless attempt at relief for poor B657688rds) and depsite being a tad cranky with a repack and move the next day the workers were spectaculer and service impeccable. The only other negative is with so many adjoining resorts, it was way toooo large. However with the assurance and diligence of security it's great other resorts can't visit this one, for childrens safety. With a lttery win I'd take our 8 grandchildren here in a heartbeat.

Bahia Principe Grand San Juan: Beautiful resort

The resort is very lovely and the staff are accommodating and friendly. Our room was perfectly located close to the small pool, which was excellent and steps away from the buffet. Our room was kept clean and well stocked daily. The food was great with an amazing array of choices. The buffet staff, although run off their feet at times, tried their best to keep our water full. It appeared at times they had run out of clean cutlery though. Check in was a little confusing as staff didnt send u [... read more]s to the West jet check in right away - signs would have been helpful. Our biggest problem for the week was finding rum cream to drink (our new favorite) as they were constantly running out. Over all, a great place, certainly worth what we paid.