Bahia Principe Explore Esmeralda: Love this Resort

This is the 3rd time going to Esmeralda and this past experience was by far the best vacation yet. Hyatt has partnered with them so there were many improvements The food is 10/10, the rooms have been upgraded and modern especially the washrooms our room was spacious and comfortable. The only negative is they always ran out of toilet paper at the beach washrooms so bring your own wipes because when you tell them it needs restocking they don't understand or speak English well so you leave frus [... read more]trated.

Bahia Principe Escape Aquamarine: Great resort!

Check-in: fast, easy. We had a request for particular building due to a mobility issue and Jedulka was terrific in helping to accommodate. Rooms: excellent. Large, clean and very good bathrooms. Dining: ala carts were excellent although booking was a little difficult. But food was great. Buffets were very good too. Beaches: excellent. Lots of palapas...great sand, no need for water shoes. Some seaweed but beaches were racked daily. Customer service: Exceptional! Had a leak over our  [... read more]toilet, customer service came same day, fixed and followed to confirm there were no issues. Got locked out of mini safe, customer service showed up within 15 minutes. One day our room wasn't made up, we called later in the day and they showed up within 20 minutes. Pools: always chairs available. Music was a little repetitive but we were at the beach most of the time. Unfortunately pools were closed at 6pm daily for cleaning, which seemed a little early but the pols were definitely clean and in great shape. Value: terrific value for price. We'll definitely be back!!

Ocean Blue and Sand: Second round was even better

We went to Ocean Blue and Sun last year with the family in the privilege area and it was really good which is why we came back this year. I don’t know if they forgot about us last year or if they’ve added more options to the privilege club because this year we got a Nescafé coffee maker and a regular coffee maker, a beach bag and a toiletry bag with essentials. Harry our butler also helped make this year’s stay even better. Carlos at the beach bar is always a pleasure and Argentina at the buf [... read more]fet made dinner a fun party. The food is always good in all restaurants. Best Mamajuana in the sports bar! The beach is fantastic. Float in the ocean with the gentle waves or walk for an hour in either direction. The sand is perfect. Everything is clean, everywhere. The grounds are maintained immaculately. Super comfy beds and pillows. Like every other resort, they have signs saying no reserving the beach chairs, but everyone does. One morning at 5 AM. We went to check the cabanas and most were all reserved. All the bars were good and the Michael Jackson show was pretty impressive. We really like the piano bar.

Iberostar Selection Bavaro Suites: My 3rd visit

Still enjoyed my 3rd visit to the property. Food was excellent. Accommodation predictable and good. Golf course terrific! Staff very friendly as always. Weird shower design. There is nothing to stop the water on the shower floor going into the rest of the bathroom. Had to use towels to dam up the water. It was the same in 2009. Nothing changed?

Barcelo Bavaro Beach: Resort was good

The resort was good. The breakfast was the best meal of the day. Made you eggs to order. The food could be better. I would recommend this resort and would return for a future vacation. Good atmosphere and staff would amazing.

Live Aqua Beach Resort Punta Cana: Beautiful Resort

Enjoyed this hotel very much. Excellent food, comfortable rooms, beautiful beach with lots of beach chairs available. Both party pool and quiet pools available. Staff always polite and very helpful. Enjoy!

Ocean Blue and Sand: GREAT RESORT

ROOMS WERE LARGE BEAUTIFUL BATHROOM GROUNDS WERE LUSH AND WELL KEPT. STAFF WAS AMAZING POOL BAR WAS VERY GOOD AT TAKING CARE OF YOU VERY FRIENDLY.ALWAYS LOTS OF FUN AT THE POOL BAR WITH STAFF ENTERTAINING SINGING AND DANCING. NICE BUFFET RESTARANT DOWN AT THE BEACH BEAUTIFULVIEW OF THE OCEAN. A LA CARTE RESTAURANTS WERE GOOD THE STEAKHOUSE WAS THE BEST AS WELL AS JAPANESE.RESORT WAS NOT NOT OVERLY BUSY WHICH WAS VERY NICE.BE BACK IN 2027

El Beso Adults Only at Ocean El Faro: EL BESO is the way to go!

Very clean, great food (and fresh), great people, friendly employees. Peaceful on El Beso adult only side. Big resort, lots to do and see. Bring crocs to wear, lots of walking! The train helps, and is very convenient. Speak Spanish if you can, most employees don't know much English. Beautiful views everywhere. I had a blast! Pictures and videos and all the details can be found on my Facebook profile!

Iberostar Waves Punta Cana: HONEST OPINION

This hotel was large enough to keep us engaged but not so large as to overwhelm us with large crowds. We had a swim access pool room that was recently painted, with a recently tiled private patio, with trellis screening; only 8 feet from a newly installed pool. This was our haven. We could venture out to the beach, enjoy dinner or hang out at the main pool but when we tired of having others around, we could retreat to our quiet oasis. The beach was raked clean and long enough to enjoy walkin [... read more]g in either direction. There were two associated adjacent hotels that we could venture to that provided some shopping, though a little more variety of goods would have been nice. The food was good, with the exception of breakfast sausages that were hotdog wieners in disguise. It made us wonder how many were put on plates but rejected to the waste bin. I only mention this because it is easier to talk specifically about a singular fault than to praise the variety of food that was available and enjoyed. Service was pleasant, though few English speaking staff. All in all, this was an enjoyable venue and one that we would select again or recommend to friends. Cheers, Garry

Barcelo Bavaro Beach: Nice resort

Great resort lots to do we are golfers the golf course in nice but pricy we bought the 4 day package for $72 each a round but it went up to $92 for the 4 day package March 1st US funds which is expensive when your golf is included the resort itself is huge lots to do. The rooms are nice the bathrooms could do with some updating other than that everything was fine

Royalton CHIC Punta Cana: Not recommended

We travelled to Royalton chic 25 th of February to March 4th, 2026. Overall good resort in the beginning, foods not good at all. I had only pasta and pizza during my stay there as their food wasn’t good. Room looked like clean but last day we realized my husband having some rashes on his skin. We thought it’s like allergies or reactions to something. We we returned to Canada and my husband didn’t feel well, he had visit with his family doctor and he said it’s be bugs bites. I’m so freaking out b [... read more]ecause if just one of them was in our clothes or luggage will mess up our life. If it happens I will sue them. I do not recommend this resort at all.

Serenade Punta Cana Beach and Spa Resort: Terrible Resort

Want food poisoning, rude staff, and barely edible meals? This resort delivers all three. We saw staff treat multiple families horribly, and heard the same complaints from nearly every guest we spoke to. After hundreds of resorts around the world, this was by far the worst — we won’t be coming back..

Caribe Deluxe Princess: Vacaciones de relajo

Been to punta cana many times all Different all inclusive ., and this was our first time at the caribe deluxe princess ., just have to say that we would never go back!! The minus is more than the pluses !! 1- services at the front desk awful 2- got there and the music was country music in English I was excepting salsa merengue bachata none to be found 3-food out of 10 a 3 not good !! After 3 days had to eat toast . Don’t expect meat and if there is can’t be eaten so hard!!!! 4-people  [... read more]that serve at the buffet look like they were in pain and not wanted to be there felt sorry for them no smiles no hello nothing!!! 5- they always forgot to leave toilet paper in the room. Towels uff you get two at the most Call to have some coffee so I can make in the room never show!!! At the end service was the worst The special restaurants not good Pluses 1- beach super nice 2 - buildings beautiful 3-rooms very nice 4-swimming pools nice

Grand Palladium Punta Cana: I would give it 4 stars

Resort was ok food had teste but menu was always the some , rooms need update specially the bathroom , cleaning was good Lots of vendors on resort and beach a little annoying entertainment was poor Over all 4 starts not 41/2 Good for a young family with small kids

Serenade Punta Cana Beach and Spa Resort: Terrible Avoid at all costs

Hotel Serenade Punta Cana was a terrible experience. Rude staff, terrible food that seemed reused, broken room service app, and poor service. My wife got food poisoning, and guests were treated like inconveniences.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: good but..

It used to be absolutely great .. now resort was overcrowded.... ....because of that: lines, service is down, food: not as good as expected.. room was excellent, location is excellent, need to come at 6:00 am to get chair at beach or pool..

El Beso Adults Only at Ocean El Faro: Beautiful Resort

This resort is such a beautiful resort. We were very impressed at how the resort is laid out. The “main strip” is something we have never seen before. Wonderful walkway flanked on either side by restaurants, shopping, fitness gym, bowling alley & many other activities. The restaurants were fantastic & our favourite being the Japanese restaurant Sakura. The “Adults Only” portion of the resort is well laid out. We did find that perhaps the main pool area on the adult side could benefit from  [... read more]new loungers. Many of them were broken. Overall we loved this resort & would definitely make a return visit.

Bahia Principe Escape Ambar: Amazing beach!

Very large rooms. Everything at the resort was very clean and lots of food choice. No trouble finding lounge chairs at the beach. We had a wonderful experience and couldn’t find anything wrong at all!

Grand Palladium Select Bavaro: New Experience

We decided on Bavaro Select because of recent renovations and the fact that we had issues with bathroom facilities when we were at Palace two years ago. We chose a Premium Junior Suite room without knowing where we would be located. As it turned out, this type of room was only located in one of the 3 larger Eficianado buildings on the extreme east side of the Bavaro section(E17, E18, E19). This put us at a fairly long walk to the Bavaro pool. If we had chosen a Superior Junior Suite, we would ha [... read more]ve been closer to both the pool and beach. When you book, it isn’t always clear which building might contain the type of room that you choose. The creation of Family Select at Bavaro caused some issues for us. The closest area of beach from our room that we were allowed to use had virtually no shade. Family Select and Travel Club had their own private beach that were restricted to us, meaning an extra long walk to find a beach location with huts for shade. Family Select also had a private pool but those guests were also allowed to use the regular Bavaro Pool, making it crowded at times. We had an electricity outage at our room that persisted over parts of 3 days. We had to walk to the lobby to notify of the outage because the land line in the room wasn’t working. The problem was initially fixed quickly but it recurred again the next night. If we were to book Palladium again, we would be looking at a different room type, or fork over more money to stay at TRS. We like the resort for the most part, but there are certainly some issues.

Vista Sol Punta Cana: Nice resort

Nice pools great beach our room was goid the bathroom needs work bed was comfortable there was a language bearer alotvof times the bar staff were great the food truck at the beach was nice over all a great holiday