Bahia Principe Explore La Romana: Take this with a grain of salt

Our original stay was in the Royal Golden section of GBP LA Romana. Part way through we upgraded and went over to Luxury Bouganville side. Would recommend that resort over the regular GBP everyday of the week. Rooms and grounds on both resorts were very clean. Food was OK, pools were nice. Beach is surprisingly very nice. Water as most people have been saying is murky but not a big problem. The most troubling part of this trip was the HUGE language barrier that exists. We've been to close [... read more] to 10 resorts in the DR, Cuba and Mexico over the years and this was by far the worst for communicating with staff. This led to a lot of confusion, misrepresentation and perhaps some unintended dishonesty from staff. Overall it lessened the experience and would prevent us from returning to this area of the DR.

Iberostar Selection Hacienda Dominicus: Top notch resort and service

We are a family of 4 with 2 boys travelling for March break. Overall we were very satisfied with the resort and it's management. The ocean was warm, shallow and had no seaweed. Excellent for snorkelling and waddling. Everybody at the resort was very friendly and happy to help-we never met a grumpy person. Management was always on top of any minor issues that arose. Our concierge, Paula was the most helpful person and arranged a surprise birthday cake and bottle of rum/fruits for my husband's bir [... read more]thday. Availability of family suite (2 connected rooms and 2 bathrooms) is what made us choose this hotel and what contributed to a happy holiday, as our teenage kids had their own space. Resort did not seem very crowded despite being March break and we always found a place to sit in the shade even after 10 am. Everyday we did a different activity,we never got bored in 2 weeks, despite being a relatively small resort. Evening shows are the only thing that were really lack lustre at this resort, and you could not find a place to sit in the lobby at night to have a drink, so we just walked around instead or decided to retire early, which we have never done before on vacation. Food choices were plenty, but they seemed to lack spice or taste- but you could add your own to taste after, as a wide variety of sauces and spices was available to help yourself from. Overall very happy with Iberostar.

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: Great Trip

The resort is very clean and very well maintained. The bars are under staffed and lineups are constant. The food is good and the guest rooms are very nice. The GYM is very poor, outdated and small - it was disappointing and it could only accommodate 5 people at any one time and the hours of operation were very limited. The night life was very low key and low talent. Be prepared to have communication difficulties with resort staff if you do not speak Spanish. Power (hydro) outages occur [... read more]red daily and often between 4pm - 7pm. The weather was EXCELLENT 32 degrees daily under sunny skies and no rain (April 2-9, 2017).

Weare Cadaques Bayahibe: Small, quiet, perfect for families and small children!

Four (3 adults, 1 toddler) of us travelled to Punta Cana direct March 20-27. This was our second time to Dominican Republic (mostly travel to Cuba). The resort is about 45-50 minutes ride from Punta Cana airport. Upon arrival to the resort, we check in and immediately get our room. The rooms are spacious, bright and very clean. The bathrooms are clean and modern. This is a newer resort so everything is very modern. We had no issues with the safe or anything else in the room. You get a mini-f [... read more]ridge and the fridge is restocked daily with 2 beer, 2 coke and 2 sprite. The room also had a coffee maker with to predone packaged coffee filters. The resort is VERY small and VERY quiet which makes it perfect for the non-partying type and those with small children. It is not a far walk to the beach/main dining area and the resort was not busy with people...so loungers at the pool and the beach were always available. The main pool is beautiful. The second pool is in a very awkward place. It is small and it is directly in front of the dining area and bar so everyone can see you swimming while they are eating their breakfast/lunch and supper... it's just a strange place to put the pool. There was one bar at the main pool (swim-up bar) and one bar by the beach. The dock is absolutely beautiful and it is the main entry-point into the ocean water for a swim. The beach itself is not the nicest beach I have seen. The shore is mostly coral rock so it is very difficult to walk into the water (Punta Cana and Cuba are not like this). The only part to get into the water from the shore is off the stairs on the dock or a tiny sandy area with no coral rocks right next to the dock. There are man made coral reefs very close to the shore so you can snorkel and see the tropical fish. We regularly took bread from breakfast and went to feed the fish to see them all come out. The food was delicious. There was plenty to choose from. However, there was absolutely no seafood. There was fish... but, there was no shrimp, squid, other shellfish. This is the first time I went to a resort down South that did not have seafood. What's up with that. Another thing was, since the resort IS small... there is only ONE main dining area (not including the a la carte). There was a day (when everyone arrived) that the line up was outside the dining area to get food. A few times on the weekend... we had to wait for a table to be able to go sit down and eat. Due to this, I think management needs to expand their dining options because I would hate to see what the dining area looks like during peak travel. Had to call the doctor since the toddler was sick from a cold and the doctor showed up first thing next morning and treated the patient. Very happy with the medical service. The resort grounds are immaculate and you can tell that the landscaping staff work very hard to keep it clean and tidy. The water park is SO fun and perfect for toddlers and older kids. The adult water slides are also super fun. The waterpark is open from 11-1 and again from 3-5! The resort gets 4/5 stars due to the dining room issue being overcrowded and no seafood!!!! I would recommend this resort to a friend but I wouldn't go back since I don't go back to the same resort twice. Maybe some time in the future.

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: Great Resort!

The grounds of this resort are spectacular! Rooms are beautiful and super clean, staff was all very helpful and friendly. Buffet restaurants were all good, a la cartes could use some work. Not enough staff at pool bars, however pools were excellent and nice beach.

Bahia Principe Explore La Romana: GO SOMEWHERE ELSE....

This resort is clean, staff are friendly, food is ok But what the pictures don't show you is visible from the beach of this resort is a factory, and industrial smoke. If I had known that this would be visible I would have never gone to this resort. The water is also murky, not that nice blue that you want. We were also suckered into a time share presentation, waste of time. go somewhere else, learn from my mistake. Be warned the pictures do not show you the whole, real picture...if you are payin [... read more]g thousands of dollars to go on a resort vacation go somewhere else.

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: Honeymoon

The hotel was beautiful . Al a Carte were terrible Other than Japanese . Power was constantly out Beach was gorgeous Room Was gorgeous Buffett were the same everyday no variety at all Drink Selections fantastic Friendliest staff I have ever experienced

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: The good the bad the ugly

The Good This was an awesome place to stay, from its excellent buffets to the perfect a la cartes The Bad The service at the bar was hit and miss. Sometimes there was no beer, or limes or even vodka at the big pool. Very in consistent. The Ugly The last day that we were there, a new group had just arrived. Boy what a group. From a guy dancing on top of the swim up bar to girls taking their swim suit tops off and nothing was being done. We were discussed. A bunch of us left and went to [... read more] the quiet pool, but unfortunately that pool became rowdy. We were very unhappy and glad we were leaving the next day. We will not be going back because of the UGLY.

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville

The grounds of this hotel is 5 star. The grounds are immaculate. The rooms are a great size. If your not getting an ocean view ask for building 57 facing the pool with a balcony we were in 57122. Even numbers face pool. This is a new building facing the new quiet pool. It's close to everything the buffet the a la cartes and lobby and la Romana le gourmet. A la carte a can only be booked by the Bahia app which I recommend to install. The only restaurant that must be done by the staff is d [... read more]on Pablo gourmet restaurant. In your check in envelope is your keys luggage baggage a slip so bellman bring your bags to your room and a mso. What is a missing is the Dress code for the a cartes are shirts with sleeves belted shorts or pants with closed toe shoes. Don Pablo and le gourmet you must wear pants. How to set up free Wifi. The hours of the restaurants especially the buffets. These are most important if you arrive after 6 pm. Check in will be done on the bus in. So ask your Butler or bell man or front desk when you get there. Note reservation number or reservsa number is different than confirmation number. If you are lucky they might give you both before your trip so you can book your a la carte a before you arrive two or three days before. Upgrade to option plus on return you get to buy ok your seats ahead of time first on a plane seperate line for booking at airport. Most important access to privekedge lounge. It's 54 each well worth it. Your at the airport 3.5 hours before flight. Book your movies in advance on cineb app. You are permitted 3 shows total. The movies are date specific if you set them up for your departure it wouldn't be available on your return. You watch it on your cell or lap top that you downloaded it to. The bar is all premium names of brands you have heard of before. Bacardi gordens crown riyal baileys Chivas etc. The only additional charges are some single malt scotch cognac and bottles of wine. The gourmet restaurants is fine dining leave your diet at the door. The grill is for people that love meat have a early seating for this as the meat sometimes is kept warm and gets overcooked for late bookings. Stay away from fish house. The Asian is great ask for jose he will take care of you. Make use of your Butler they put scents in your room. Get you special pillows with or without scents help you with packing and unpacking etc. Two dollars goes a long way. The restaurants are limited to wine and shots for coffee or after-dinner drinks. Lobby bar is fully stocked. Enjoy your stay. We will return 5 stars. It's is great for a relaxing holiday it starts at 8 am and gets really quiet at 11pm unless you go to la Romana side.

Sunscape Dominicus La Romana: Horrible! Money grabber Resort

Definitely NOT a 5 star resort as they have it on their lobby wall. I have been to many resorts and based on experience would say this is NOT even a 4 star hotel. Maybe a 3-3.5 star. I don't have high expectations and if you are going to cuba or dominican Republic you should not either. I don't care if there's birds flying around the buffet area or if the waitress dropped a plate on the floor and put it back on the pile. I don't want to think about how they cook the food in the back or barely wa [... read more]sh our beach or room towels. However, I have never seen a division of hotel guests the way I saw it in this resort: VIP vs Regular guests. I'm fine with them having a separate beach, bar, room and services; however in a resort with 1000 guests where 800-900 of them are regular, I didn't see it proper for them one day all of a sudden to reserve half of the beach outside their VIP beach area for the 100-200 of them, especially when there's signs saying 'Forbidden to reserve sun beds'. Everyone was wondering around trying to find a sun bed where to stay - not so nice. The beds were barely used. Just an inconvenience for the rest of us. If I would go VIP though, I would pay extra to go to a dreams or luxury resort instead of here. Also the big pool for regular hotel guests not clean and very few sun beds available. I never used it for my baby and I wanted to. The VIP pool super clean. It's more for hygenic reasons that I was worried and so should the managers of the resort. Also there was 1700 people at the resort at one point and only around 500 sun beds. The reason why is because they wanted you to pay for their beds 10$ a day and if you wanted to stay at the pool you had no choice but to pay. The beach and sand was very good with rocks on the bottom but still very good. The food was good for me, even with a one year old. I'm not sure why people have commented here that it's hot when supposed to be cold and vice versa. Not true and that comment really worried me but I found the food better than Cuba so I was happy about that. The resort, hotel and services were not good. The rooms are old, the key to safety deposit was 3.50$ per day. I have never paid for the safety deposit key anywhere else. Everyone at the resort is trying to sell you timeshare or excursions. For the 10 days I stayed, there always was someone trying to sell you something. If people want to buy gifts, they will walk to the shops or go book excursions. Also, the majority of guests were European so it's true that the staff barely spoke English. Italian and French was mostly heard. Also, you need to pay a deposit to use the kayaks, and only 30 min allowed. I guess they don't want people to stay longer than 30min, which is fair to the other guests but because of the deposit issue, people just didn't bother. So if you are a kayak person and as long as you have a watch on you, then no problem.

Dreams La Romana: What's not to like?

came back a second time and like the first, all around pure happiness. Weather is always good, grounds are immaculate, rooms awesome and food fantastic. Staff are the best even though it was pretty busy this time still could always get loungers either on beach or by pools. A la cart restaurants never have to make reservations and again even as busy as it was could always get a table. Love this place.

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: Beautiful Quiet Resort

We just got back from a very nice, relaxing vacation. Food and service were good, facilities were very very clean. Room was clean, fridge stocked nothing missing. The beach is very nice but as most other comments the water is not crystal clear, which is not very inviting... so if you like to swim in ocean this may not be the ideal place for you. The ambiance is cool, one pool for activities and the other for relaxing. Our only negative comment is the night life, there is none!! at 11.00 sharp  [... read more]the resort closes down. the lights turn off, the bars close and it's straight to bed. It's unfortunate because we had dinner reservations for 9.30 and it would have been nice to have time for a night cap before bed. maybe midnight would be better.. In my opinion paying the extra to be at the adults only is worth it so don't hesitate.

Dreams La Romana: A resort you don't want to miss.

We went with our extended family, ranging in age from 18 months and older. We all really enjoyed our visit to this hotel. It is a short ride from the airport and with small children this was a real bonus. Everything was of high caliber. Our room was very comfortable, clean and quite spacious. The staff where very friendly and helpful. The food was good and the coffee shop was a lovely bonus.

Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach: Loved it!

The room is NOT beautifull, but all the rest is! Wounderfull beach. excellent restaurants. great staff. And it took only 45 minutes both ways to travel from airport/hotel. I was travelling with a baby, and she love it too!

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: Very Nice Resort

The resort was good, food and service okay. The one thing that annoyed us is that we paid the extra for the luxury and all the events were at the main resort. When we tried to order a premium liquor at the mail resort they refused us saying it was not included even though we had the wrist bands indicating we were entitled. The staff was very attentive and our rooms was really nice. We didn't realize that it was so far from the airport and there was no shopping other than at the hotel. T [... read more]he excursions were limited.

Weare Cadaques Bayahibe: Property is great... staff and service is very poor.

Property is in a great location. However, the staff service were very poor. In the beginning nobody smiled... later on we got a couple staff to smile. The drinks were watered down no-name brands... any common brands were not included. No mix, other than soda pop... very cheap draft blonde beer. Line up and wait for service with a single bar tender. Usually overwhelmed. With a little attention to detail, this place could be amazing... but, as it is it's a two star at best!

Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville: Fantastic Resort!! Great Service!!

There is lots of chairs/lounges around both pools and the beach. You never need to reserve a spot. The food was great at both the buffet and the newly opened gourmet restaurant. Service in all the dining areas is spectacular. The entertainment staff are very friendly and engaging with all the guests.

Weare Cadaques Bayahibe: Picturesque resort with miles of beaches to walk

This resort is perfect if you are not a big fan of over sized commercial resorts. Never had to worry about beach or pool chairs, beach area never felt overcrowded and their was a beautiful pier to lounge on / enter the water from if you preferred. The view from the beach was peaceful and picturesque and water was crystal clear. Your could walk for miles in both direction along the beach, (one direction leads you to a locals market area) Our room appeared to be updated, was very clean and [... read more] nicely laid out and the water pressure in our room was amazing (as good as home) The grounds were nicely kept, continually saw workers sweeping, cleaning them and the sandy beach activity area was raked every morning 1 swim up bar (which I wish I spent more time at) is very nice, the bartender we had Vicana (we called her Vicki) was very nice, smiled and joked and took pictures for us, pool was a great temperature and had varying depth making it easy to both swim and walk through the pool Here is a short list of what this hotel needs to do to take it to another level There is only 1 buffet & 1 Al la cart restaurant - there were no signs to advise what the meals were but meals appeared to be basically the same daily. Although the hotel has a massive water park that would be awesome for families there was very little "kid friendly food" (i.e french fries, chicken fingers hot dogs etc). it would be nice if they mixed it up a bit just so the food didn't appear to be the same day in and day out. The Al la cart restaurant is small and quaint but only has 3 meal plans (Mexican, Italian and Gourmet) and the menu does not change just repeats. Our servers were great, as soon as they saw us walk in they had our wine poured and brought to the table without a word being said. There is 1 main bar (by the buffet / beach) service varied a tonne depended on the bartender and only 1 or 2 actually smiled unfortunately. most struggled or didn't speak English. Cocktail variety appeared minimal probably because of the language barrier of being able to ask for it. Watched a guest get upset because he wanted Dark rum on ice but he kept saying "not white" so they dumped the white rum on ice they made and then poured white rum in a glass without ice and tried to give it to him...... If they had a "featured drink list" of some specialties in the different languages/ with pics probably would have helped the bartenders and the guests Service got much better over the course of the week (probably because we tipped so they became very helpful to us) - if you expect to be able to communicate only in English you will be disappointed as most the staff just don't speak anything but Spanish, most frustrating was asking for butter and no one understood what we were looking for.... I'm not one that needs to be waited on a tonne to be happy so I would defiantly go back but I hope they read the reviews and take to heart the little things because that would tip it from "nice" to an amazing resort.... .

Bahia Principe Explore La Romana: I will be returning to this Hotel!!

The whole property is amazing and very spacious. We never had to wait in line-ups because the service was amazing. The best part of the Hotel is the people (staff). The animation team is amazing!! Teddy Bear and Mantaraya were my favorites because they made me feel so special and I was never bored because they made sure I would participate in all the events! The Mgmt team also paid special attention to all of us which was amazing. I will be returning to this property for sure because of all the  [... read more]staff is amazing! A lot of properties are the same but the people can make the property amazing which was the case for this great Hotel. See ya soon!!

Dreams Dominicus La Romana: Enjoyed our Holiday at Dreams Dominicus

What a beautiful resort. The entertainment staff stand out to me as being one of the best parts of our vacation. They worked so hard and were so enjoyable. The food was also amazing . The a la carts were done very well and the food was excellent. It was great not having to reserve. There is a few things that need improvement. The language barrier was a big one, a lot of staff couldn't speak English. At coffee bar wanted a Spanish coffee , they did not know what it was, and could not un [... read more]derstand us when we tried to explain it. It would be helpful to have a list of drinks with ingredients listed to delete the confusion at the bars. Also for some reason we often got mugs and glasses that were dirty. One night we got a beer with a straw paper cover in it . Also one morning my coffee mug had lipstick and imprint of lips on the outside of mug. Not sure if they dont have a good dishwasher or , it appeared the glasses and mugs may have just been rinsed off. This grossed me out. I felt that at bars and restaurants they need to improve on their organization it often seemed they were running scattered. There is not a lot of shade on the beach and we had to always ask for umbrellas . Just invest in more umbrellas ....problem solved. I understand they just opened and i feel that if they listen to the reviews and address some of the issues this resort will be amazing.