Lopesan Costa Bavaro Resort Spa and Casino: Relaxing week away

Stayed July 29-Aug 5 The resort is beautiful. Lush gardens and water fountains everywhere. Still new resort opened in May, but staff are trying hard to please. Rooms very comfortable, we had swim out adult very clean, relaxing. Lots of pools, throughout the resort, beach was being cleaned and we actually were able to enjoy it. Beautiful scenery sitting by the pool. Food was excellent American Grill was awesome anytime during day and night. Buffet, Mexican Japanese favourite. Italian nee [... read more]ds more lighting to dark. Bars and drinks were wonderful. Boulevard was nice especially cafe and pub. It will be awesome when everything is open and completed. Great resort we had a wonderful week!

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Overall nice resort but our stay was plagued by problems

We have traveled as a group of 10 (8 adults, 2 children). Overall a quite nice resort. The good: - Good food (something for everybody) - Large comfortable rooms - Excellent inter-resort communication (yes, it is a large area) - Well maintained pools - Perfectly maintained green areas - The white sandy beach is spectacular - Sufficient number of chairs on the beach (most in a decent shade) The not so good: - The weeds on the beach damped the mood slightly and it was simply overwhelm [... read more]ing for a couple of guys with pitchforks – the resort is in urgent need of professional equipment to clean the beach - The á la carte restaurants (3 bookings allowed) mostly booked until the last 3 days of the stay for new arrivals The ugly: 1. In one of the rooms room the safe box did not work, in others they had problems (service tried to solve the problems but it did not last). Safe box in one of our rooms just could not be used. 2. On the second day our room entry keys stopped working. The lock was tested by service (Ezqequiel) and was working just fine with the cleaning service magnetic key) yet the first 3 replacement sets of magnetic keys did not work (half a day wasted walking back and forth). The fourth set of keys (delivered) finally worked for the rest of the stay. 3. In one of the rooms, water from the roof (or AC condensate) accumulated in the ceiling (big bulge) and was leaking at the center of the passage and on the walls. The cleaning person reported the problem but was ignored for two days. On the third day, first thing in the morning I have reported the problem to the reception - despite a promise no one showed up for hours. The cleaning lady made a call and I spoke to someone - when I asked when someone will show up - the person on the other end of the line just hanged up the phone. At that moment I went to the Guest Service and filed a formal complaint in writing - I was told to contact the Guest Service after 3pm. At that time no one seemed to know anything ; it took another half an hour of talks to couple of hotel reps before decision was made to relocate the affected party to another room (just for the last night). Disclaimer: The above could be just our bad luck but nothing justifies ignoring problems reported by resort staff and customers. Overall, I wasted more than a full day of my stay dealing with frustrating problems as opposed to relaxing.

Bahia Principe Explore Esmeralda: Beach front resort

Beautiful ground and good transportation between resorts and beach. Tasteful a-la-cart dinner and very good services at buffet. More activities would be a plus, specially for the kids. Nice beach location and services.

Melia Punta Cana Beach Wellness Resort Adults: Disappointing

The hotel it's self is very clean. The food is sub standard, always cold. The only hot item I got was an omelette daily, even the soup was lukewarm. The transportation from the rooms to the main areas was golf carts. Sometimes it took 30 minutes to get a ride to lunch. It was very spaced out and no cover to walk if it rained. We have stayed at two other resorts close by and they had covered walkways in the event of rain. It was very unorganized. At the pools there was no servers only at the bar. [... read more] We stayed at the Adult only section and it was different. There was very little activities, no music no interaction with staff at all. The liquor was only native to the Dominican Republic. There was no premium except at the casino you could get a crown royal for $5.00. Our room was beautiful, spacious and extremely clean. Again the seaweed was out of control and the ocean was not really accessible which is a huge problem for Punta Cana in general. It was not worth the money and I would never go back there.

Caribe Deluxe Princess: Beautiful old girl.

This not my first stay at Caribe Club Princess(CCP). But CCP is due for renovations and unless I can make it down at Christmas it will be my last at least until the rebuild is done. I ll miss the parties in the great big pool. The sunrises on the beach. The 6 or 7 servers that know just how much milk I like in my coffee each morning before I am fit to talk to other humans, or that I like this much red wine. Or the ladies at the front desk that remember me each time. I am sure the Princess [... read more] people will do a great job with the rebuild but you can almost feel the history of fun and relaxation in this place. Love you CCP. See you soon.

Dreams Onyx Resort and Spa: Overall a good time

Pros: - close access to the beach - friendly and happy staff - clean environment - hotel rooms were overall well kept - very nice gym facility - drinks and bar service was excellent - staff kindly decorated the hotel room for birthday, including balloons and a door banner Neutral: - food was just okay. Buffet was much better than a la carte dining options - beach was well kept by staff, constantly removing seaweed from shore but ocean water was inevitably infested with seaweed anyway [... read more]s also causing a slight fishy Odor to the overall beach area Cons: - extremely poor signage. Difficult to find your way around the resort. And you never know which restaurants are open or closed each night until you get there - jacuzzi pool in main pool area was filled with bugs - cleaning service kept forgetting to refill our toilet paper and towels. One of the days, forgot to clean our room entirely - a lot of solicitors on the beach trying to sell you things - half of the resort was reserved for “Preferred Club” members which pressures you into paying a premium to upgrade to get access to these services. ie: 1 out of the 2 main pools are reserved for preferred club members, seating areas at beach/restaurants, etc. Which was not advertised or warned of before booking this hotel. Also, the main eating area (the buffet) is outdoors and only preferred club members have access to the AC seating area.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Great resort

We've been in Grand Bahia Principe Punta Cana in July. We started with the "left foot" because we had to stay 2h at the reception desk(the room was not ready). After that was ok. The rooms are like in the pictures. We've been place between restaurant and beach, next to one pool. Even if you are far from one of them you have some mini car(mini train) that pass all the time so you do not have to walk if you don't like it.The resort was clean, a lot of palm trees. The food was very very good with s [... read more]o many options(you could easily put 3-4 kg after this cooking experience).The beach was very nice, a lot of seaweed but they were not disgusting ; my kid even enjoy playing with them. It was a nice hotel, we will return for sure.

VIK Hotel Arena Blanca: Very nice and clean resort

Our second time in this resort, always have a great time here although it could use some updates resort is well maintained. Food is always good, staff are helpful and friendly beach is stunning except the seaweeds. Our favourite was the guy at the omelette station very funny and friendly loves to fist bump. Lobby needs more tables and chairs as we often had to stand and wait up for a spot to sit on. Overall had a great stay we will be back again for sure.

Royalton Bavaro Resort and Spa: Wonderful place for vacation

It is all 5 star, nothing to complain. From beach to hotel room’s all are perfect. My wife and 3 kids have enjoyed the place a lot. Tons of activities from morning to evening. You won’t have time to get bored.

Bahia Principe Explore Esmeralda: Amazing resort

we stayed at Bahia Principe Esmeralda for 2 weeks in July. It is a very beautiful hotel, very clean, amazing food and very close to beach! I would highly recommend this hotel! The only con would be the seaweed in the sea, however staff cleans it regularly.

Caribe Deluxe Princess: Very decent hotel. No complaints.

Well groomed and clean resort. About their help line for guest services, sometimes they don't answer the phone. Only people at the front desk speak english. Sometimes they say the creperie cannot make crespes and you have to come back later etc. the idea is to create some sort of minor confusion so you will tip them and get things done.

Excellence Punta Cana: Nice Resort

The facilities and staff were great. The food was disappointing and mediocre at best. Three restaurants open every night, which was fine since there weren't many people around. It's just that the food wasn't great. Perhaps our expectations were too high given they weren't buffets. We thought things could have been better.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Amazing Trip

Grounds are well kept. Service is great (Could use minor adjustments but majority of the staff is great) For a large resort it is easy to get around, Buses do come often however a few hiccups later at night but its expected. The only complaint would be the TV channels however who really watches TV on vacation. It was only before bed when wanting to see a movie or show in english was not a lot of options. Would highly recommend to purchase the Gold package as it makes your trip much smoothe [... read more]r as well as less waited times at the customer service desk as you have your own lounge and service. Visited the other Resorts/Areas of this chain as they are beside each other. For children Fantasia is amazing, the entertainment there is one of the best. I will be returning especially to try out the children friendly area as its just as entertaining for the adults Also to trip central for looking for the best possible price, Jenn Black was AMAZING! She honestly cares for your vacation to be the best in every way.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Amazing resort

foods are delicious Dining arrangements are good grounds are beautiful everything was amazing cultural activites were good sea beach was wonderful pools are nice and music and drinks in pool were fantastic

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Good Resort

The resort was nice but was a little too big, we were located further away from the beach and had to take the tram which was at times inconvenient when you have small children. The food was great lots of options, the service was good most of the times the staff were great but there wasn't consistency in the service during the week we stayed. The room was nice and clean but was facing the theater which could be loud at night when we were trying to sleep.

Bahia Principe Escape Aquamarine: Fantastic Resort

Grand Bahia Principe Aquamarine and the entire Bahia Compound is absolutely great. The staff are very friendly and accommodating. It's one of the cleanest resort I've ever been to. The restaurants are great with different menus to accommodate everyone. We will definitely be going back to this resort again!

Catalonia Royal Bavaro: Excellent

Modern fun decor, laid back vibe Breakfast restaurant was excellent, beautifully presented mimosas, crepes, fresh fruit, great coffee. Frozen cocktails on the beach with fresh banana, we really enjoyed the food and atmosphere of this resort

Sunscape Coco Punta Cana: An Okay Vacation

Our experience at the Be Live Collection Punta Cana resort was good, however we encountered several issues along the way. Firstly, once we arrived at the resort and went to check out the ocean, we were very disappointed to see that the shore was surrounded by algae. The water was full of the same algae and it smelled very badly of rotten fish. Thankfully, it cleared up a little after a couple days, but for the first few days of our vacation it was almost impossible to stay on the each because of [... read more] the smell. Also, our room did not get properly cleaned everyday, sometimes not at all. We found ourselves not having any clean towels to take showers with so I had to go to reception and complain. On the other hand, the resort had very good entertainment and different activities happening at the beach and the pool everyday. We were also pleasantly surprised by the free wifi that was available all throughout the resort. In the end, we did enjoy pur vacation quite a bit but were disappointed by some aspects at the resort.

Bahia Principe Explore Esmeralda: Resort was very beautiful and clean.

Dinning is good as well. I believe we choose wrong month for vacation as it was very hot there. Only 1 thing I felt missing is, Resort should have at least 1 indoor pool because you really can't enjoy pool service. They close pool at 7 PM and that is the time when sun goes down. For adults, it shouldn't close at all so that one can enjoy. The resort is very clean as our room was cleaned twice a day. Also, staff is very nice and polite. Would love to visit again this year.

Bahia Principe Escape Aquamarine: Amazing

Food was great , people were friendly. Had an amazing time Pool was clean beach was nice. Great service. Entertainment was fun. Helpful staff , overall we had a very good time and would do it again