Good resort

Rooms are spacious and kept clean. Food is good but most of the dishes very salty. Resort and pools are nice and maintained well. Bars were excellent. Some of the night entertainment was good.Meat dishes were tough and hard to eat. It would be good if the food could cut down the salt especially for people with health problems .

Peaceful and relaxing

Just returned from the trip to Riu Bambu, Punta Cana. Overall it was very nice trip. Room was clean and staff lovely. Both Sunwing agents Jonathan and Raysa were very helpful and professional. Thanks to them, trip that started with some challenges turned in to relaxing vacation.

Amazing resort especially for the price!

You could go here young, old, or inbetween. We stayed as a 25~ year old couple and had a blast at the Riu parties as we love to party. you can also stay on site and relax, they also have lots of activities. pool, beach, food, staff were all great. Do not expect 5 star room quality service, and you will have an amazing time.

Amazing resort!

Don't try and pet the black and white cat. It will bite you but we had an amazing time there! It is a big resort and we were surprised by that but the food is excellent for the Dominican! I would not recommend if you have walking issues because there is a lot of walking.

Great staff and customer service

Great staff providing service in room cleaning, beach towel, animation: morning program including stretching, zumba, dance classes, restaurants. Food was in good in quantity not so much in quality and presentation. Entertainment shows had great dancers. The sound and stage background was mediocre.

Party Resort!

If you’re not into parties stay away. App helps a lot, as you can order things you might need This resort also has lots of kids. Checkin in ok, rooms ok, usual Dominican open bathrooms, with water closet. TVs not working to good at first. Air cold or off, same with fan … both noisy as with drunk people returning from disco at early hours, Pool areas are not the cleanest, stained chairs, and stained beach towels… no cleaning going on that we could see other than the pool guys throw [... read more]ing pails of water from pool onto deck tiles. Pool Bathrooms are cleaned only 1 a day, late afternoon atrocious! The bars are great, and the bartenders will make you happy! No need for reservations other than the steakhouse which we did not partake in.. Also way too many smokers! Show as where as usual in resorts 1 week was enough

Annual Family Vacation

Fast, friendly and efficient check in service. Very impressed with cleanliness of hotel. Very easy to get oriented on the property. I enjoyed the fact that everything is within a short walking distance. We enjoyed buffet every day, the variety and quality is at its finest. When red and black caviar is served you know that the Riu is going all out. Plenty of seats, tables and staff to look after your every need. The Bavaro beach is one of the best in the area. Only suggestion I have for the hote [... read more]l is that since we arrived at 10:30 pm with a family of 7 after travelling all day is that they provide a small snack section with fruits and such. The sports bar sandwiches are not enough. As well as bell boy service to take luggage to rooms. It’s a little difficult to get your bearings at 10:30 at night .

Like a 3 star cuba resort.

Bad service, rooms smelling from the shower drain, everything old in the room. People bothering you all day at the beach selling drugs. The staff not friendly. No water to buy anywhere and no bottled water in bars or lobby. They put people with kids in strollers on higher floors with no elevators and ask for 80 dollar a day bribe to change to first floor. Most people in group got some sort of stomach problems…

Nice place

Clean rooms and facilities, food was not bad, show and entertainment and enough things to do. Place is big and connect to two other hotels that you get access too. Lots of tourist from all over to mingle with and lots of quite places if that's your choice.

Good value for the money!

Clean and well maintained. Pretty grounds with lots of palm trees and wide white sand beaches. A good variety of sun and shaded areas. Lots of lounge chairs for everyone. We loved the quieter pool by the beach surrounded with palm trees😍 We had an amazing room with sofa and chair and balcony that faced the ocean and pool surrounded by beautiful palms. Loved it. Great variety of food choices that were tasty. Never hit the other restaurants because enjoyed the main one so much. We enjoyed sitt [... read more]ing out in open part the most. William was amazing server and treated us like family. Enjoyed the live entertainment in the beach bar after dinner. Ideal family vacation👍🏻

Wonderful holiday

My husband and I visited the riu bambu Nov 14th to 21st 2019. This is a very lovely hotel rooms were great beach was superb! We have been to the riu hotels many times in the past and always found them to be good resorts. If I had anything negative to say about the resort the only thing would be that the beds were like sleeping on a slab of wood. Very hard!

AWESOME RESORT

alot of small shops in the resort, riu bambu is connected to all riu hotels so you can walk around and see the different shows. there are pool parties in the resort that run during the day and night. food was really good also and service was great

Amazing Resort

Pros: - Amazing Resort - Resort and rooms are clean and well kept - Lots of lounge chairs at beach and pool - Good selection of food and drink Cons: - Lots of weeds on the beach - No huts at beach for shade - Coffee machines around resorts kept breaking down

Amazing Resort

The grounds were very well maintained. The food was amazing. The staff was very good. I would recommend this to anyone. We did two excursions on the property and they were so much fun. We did parasailing and catamaran. The room were a good size.

Rui Bambu

I was so excited by going by pictures of this beautiful staircase that i was told was there. To find out the place has been totally remolded days looking for this staircase and no longer there. And even the people working there said they dont like the new model. The food was same everyday and brought out for days old and not fresh. The intertainment was horrible. And some staff were getting people to sign and lie on a petiton saykng there pink party and white party they had was good. But no one  [... read more]went and as we were sigiing this sheets the guy drank all our drinks. And we had to wait long time for them the first time. The plane going there should not even be in use. The seats were all broken and fall to the side. Window edge coverings where cracking. We got no complementy champaigne and we paid 100 for these seats. It was disgusting dirty. The swim up pool was to be adults only out of 5 pools and kids were destroying our drinks repeadily. Tooms were teo beds put together so we slept apart or fall between cracks. I would rate this 2+. I was not happy for 3000. Spent. And on he way hime flight again no specualty at all.

Very nice resort

The resort is laid out well and has lots of eating areas. Only thing that was bad was swim up bar close to the front. There is not supposed to be children in swim up bar area. Place was packed and kids splashing water in your drink. No signs up to tell no kids either. An announcement was made but no one listened. The entertainment at night was non existent and terrible lol. They had the entertainers going around getting people to sign petition saying it was good. Then they would take your drink  [... read more]and go to next table. Also when I went at the end of May is pretty much full of locals on vacation.

Very good

The Riu Bambu was very nice , it was a mix of younger , older people which made it a great mix , and had something for everybody . It was very lively, a lot of entertainment , pool party’s and the staff were very friendly and approachable .

Incredible Vacation!

Ok I'm Going to make this short and sweet...We loved this resort! Everything about it was Fantastic except for one thing which I will get to in a second. The room was Very nice very clean. The people were very warm, from the cleaning staff to the folks at the front desk.The grounds themselves were super clean and VERY well kept. The food was good...It was not out of this world good but it was very good. the food staff were excellent! In the week we stayed there we didn't even come across a spid [... read more]er I'm not kidding...there were no "bugs"to speak of. Now for the bad part...The only thing that this resort was lacking was the proper production (lighting) for their nightly entertainment. The shows were good but when you are putting on a semi big show you need the proper lighting to go with the production. If you do not have this it just looks like a rehearsal.The stage was big and the seating was very accommodating. Just fell short. Apart from that...We loved the Bambu and would definitely recommend this place to our friends

Impressed

I've been to Punta Cana many times and this resort would be on the top of my list. Beautifully maintained and well managed in every aspect. I was overall impressed with the way this resort conducts business.

It was a nice resort

the resort was nice the ground the pool was good but the beach was very good that was we spend are time at the beach the at the bar area the service was very friendly and had lot of fun with the service personality and very outgoing