Great, Good & Not so Good!

The Great; Marie our personal concierge was amazing and always kept us up to date with activities and meal options. Polo and Leydy of the serving staff were top notch. Watson and Jean Carlos as pool waiters were fast. The spa was a wonderful experience and well worth the time and cost, the individual staff attention was exceptional. Insomnia cafe was a feature and the diamond club beach bar and restaurant was a gem spot. The good; Food was often similar but good quality. The drinks were varie [... read more]d and with Diamond club you could get almost anything, even expensive scotch. All staff were friendly and more than willing to try and help. The not so great; other than the spa, the hotel needs repairs in all areas. *Our room didn’t smell wet which was good but had broken tile, a broken light shade and lots of flaking paint. The hallways, stairwells and most common areas had some disrepair. An evening storm had knocked clay tile from roof which shattered on the ground; took 3 days before the shards of dangerous pieces were swept up. The hotel pool was dirty; all walls were covered with algae, lots of tiles missing, garbage floating around (which I know is guests inconsiderateness) but even in the morning the pool was dirty. By the afternoon it was not good. Advertised beach and pool volleyball consisted of 1 terrible ripped up water logged ball and no organization. The vibe team were more interested in anything to do with dancing. *The fitness instructors were well organized and consistent. Beach was not good; seaweed (which can’t be helped), a tractor was driving around overloaded meaning he wasn’t picking anything up… needs training. *Waves were beautiful. Suggestions; more pool cleaners from 6pm or at 6am. A deducted repair team with a lead hand who can recognize and prioritize repairs. The team also needs proper tools. As an example; a plumber in the lobby bathroom spent 2 days changing urinals because he didn’t have the proper equipment. He also was unrealistically asked to reuse tiles that were not meant for the job. Finally we enjoyed our trip. The good outweighed the bad and we made it 4 out of 5. We are not complainers at all but if we were a negative couple the rating would have been a 2 or 3. 5th Royalton and will stick with the brand but maybe not CHIC until a remodel.

Needs a face-lift

Nice hotel that has great potential but maintenance needs to be done . Had a great time but wouldnt pay the price we did to go back. Many things were broken including the pool bar counter and we were there 12 days and still wasnt fixed . Rooms were dirty and broken doors and mirrors.

Very nice place

Visited this resort in mid April and it worked very well for us. It is on the smaller side with about 330 rooms, adults only and sits on a beautiful beach with not a lot of other properties around. No buildings are over 3 floors and as a result, no elevators needed, This resort is easily walkable without the need for golf carts or other modes of transportation to get around. Before discussing the individual elements of the resort, I think that I should acknowledge that the single most importan [... read more]t advantage to staying at this property is the staff. From our experience and meeting the staff members that we did (not all, but many), every single encounter was exceptional. That included a passing greeting, seeking direction or asking some other question. The staff work long hours if necessary, work many consecutive days without time off and they never stop smiling, being friendly and totally professional. Well done. The resort grounds are impeccably maintained and even though it claimed to be at capacity, it never seemed overly busy or overcrowded with people. No need to stake you chair claim at 6 a.m. from our experience. We would place towels on our desired space when going for the breakfast buffet around 9. There always seemed to be spare lounges at the pools and the beech. We were is a standard luxury room which was well appointed and a nice size. Included a balcony with chairs and a table. Our room was fine, but it had been well used and was in need of some upgrades and repairs. Everything worked fine, but the room needed work. The food was very nice as far as we were concerned which included the buffet and the a la carte restaurants. A la cartes run from 6-10 each night and we would show up 6-6:30 with no reservations and be seated immediately. Not everything appealed to us but there is enough choice to make anyone happy in my opinion. A hidden gem is the Insomnia coffee shop where the barista makes virtually any custom coffee, as well as Italian pastries and tiny sandwiches available along with soft ice cream. Hard not to go there every day. The entertainment team works hard every day to keep people involved as they see fit and there is entertainment each night. It's not great but it is a very small resort and the team works hard and also brings in local entertainers, some of which were excellent. There is a Diamond Club which offers superior accommodations and extra privileges. I felt that the same staff that looked after us looked after them and provided the same services. In some respects, I thought the Diamond Club pool etc. was a little isolated and away from the activities. If that is what you wish for, great, but I couldn't justify the cost. An aggravating drawback to the resort comes in the form of tour agents on the property constantly trying to sell excursions and selected vendors allowed on the property every other day to sell their wares. The off site vendors must remain in their dedicated area and have a proper display set up but boy do they come on hard and fast, and unless you tell them straight up, they are relentless. They have to earn a living too, but they are hard sell people and negotiation is very much alive. There are some employees of the resort that also try to upsell service but their approach is more gentle and is provided as a source of information if you want it. Case in point was a sommelier named Florentino who tries to sell premium wines to the guests to improve their experience. He asked me every day and I never purchased, but he was great with us. I know it's all part of the game but he went out of his way every day to make us feel special in some way. Every day he would tell me "I love my job". How many people in the real world can say that? At the end of our week, this location and resort was everything that we had wanted it to be for a reasonable price.

Nice & Clean

This resort is super clean, has (mostly) friendly staff, excellent food, and is a nice small resort. You can walk to everything within 5 minutes, but there's still plenty of pool space and a nice beach area. Overall, our experience was really good. We even went to the spa and enjoyed a massage and made use of the hydrotherapy pools - highly recommend. The only complaint that we have is with regards to the diamond club. We were given incorrect information about what our upgrade was going to incl [... read more]ude, paid for it, got no further information and then when we went searching for information we were told that half of the things we were told were included, actually were not. It was a waste of our money to be honest. The main beach area is really nice, so there's no need to have access to the diamond club beach. We never had any issues getting into eat at any of the restaurants, so reservations were not required. Overall, great resort but don't both wasting your money on the diamond club.

Awesome hotel

The Royalton CHIC was very clean and the staff were great. Every night the buffet had lots of options.Room service was also very good and prompt. The waves were too high to go in the water but the pools were great.

Fantastic quality service Hotel

The hotel location beach view section Diamond club is absolutely stunning! The professional service provided by employees is so ! Appreciated it makes you want to return only to this hotel. We were treated with respect and top notch! Quality service. The grounds are lovely and clean! And the rooms for the Diamond Club are fresh ans spacious with fabulous view! Overall it was one of the best ever hotel stay!

Couples Trip - Not Worth The Cost

I had previously visited the Royalton Chic Punta Cana in February 2015 and absolutely loved the trip. I re-booked at the hotel with my husband for our honeymoon in March 2023 and was so disappointed. We booked a Diamond Club oceanview room. Here were the pros: - Beautiful view of the resort & ocean from our room - Our Diamond Club butler Ronald was amazing. He was super friendly, booked our dinner reservations, booked a spa reservation for us, and messaged us daily to see if he could do anyt [... read more]hing for us. He was one of the best parts of the trip. He even had a bubble bath with flowers drawn for us one day. - The massages at the Spa were amazing. - We enjoyed the food at the Ceviche/Sushi restaurant and Elements Buffet (breakfast and lunches were great) - Great gym, nice and clean - We told them it was our honeymoon and they didn't do anything special for us. And here were the cons: - The majority of the staff were not very friendly and were constantly on their phones - The resort needs cleaning and a ton of minor repairs. - The purple lights in our room were burnt out (we asked for them to be fixed and were told maintenance would come but they never did) - The bed creaked whenever you rolled over in it - The restaurant service was poor. In several restaurants, we waited over 30 mins to have our orders taken and over an hour for food. The restaurants were fairly loud and it was hard to have a conversation over dinner. - The Diamond Club exclusive areas weren't monitored by staff and anyone could use them so I'm not sure why we paid extra for them. - The shows were great but had limited seating. They also started late but we were told they started at 9 pm. - The evening dancing was lack luster it was hard to get the crowd going (like a bad wedding dance floor). We wish there was a dance club on site.

Fantastic staff

Incredible staff - yoga instructors Chely and J Carlo helped this first time ever yoga student. I enjoyed 11 consecutive lessons. Ramona took great care of our family of 7 (including our 93 year old Dad) on the beach every day. She was a definite highlight of our vacation. Ruben gave my Dad lots of attention which he so enjoyed. Loved watching the vibe team dance. Front desk and concierge people were very helpful. Rooms cleaned beautifully every day. The entire resort was kept very clean always. [... read more] Buffet had lots of good options, again staff was very attentive. Other restaurants were mediocre in quality and service. Enjoyed several entertainment shows.

Very nice resort.

Allareas were clean, safe and very welcoming. All staff went above and beyond the normal to help with anything that you needed or wanted. Everyone tried to make sure to accommodate our group of 7 at all times.

Pleasantly surprised

The Royalton chic had a bit of everything for everyone. The pool area was a big huge party but also had yoga in the am The beach has beautiful soft sand and can walk or run for a long time. The waves were rough for the past couple weeks. Being the Atlantic I can see that The diamond club rooms were very spacious and in my opinion a MUST I don’t think I would like the resort as much. The diamond perks weee awesome. Too many to mention. Special shout outs to German Gabriel and Saskia  [... read more]Singh for always being there when you need them!!! Defintely recommend this hotel with diamond club

Fun party resort!

This hotel has decent rooms. Bathrooms have smaller areas and no exterior door to close off from the room. Rooms are well maintained. Staff are excellent. From front desk to entertainment. Areas are clean and in good repair. Food is good quality, no lines and no reservations needed. Beach was grated daily. Awesome music and entertainment miring and night.

Great Vacation

This was a very lovely resort, smaller than some of the other larger ones where you need a trolley to get around. Food and service was fantastic. Eddy, Adoni, Joyn (supervisor at the Indian restaurant) and Yaritza (Taboo) were all fantastic. My husband arranged an intimate dinner for my birthday at the Culunary Experience and food was unbelievable (this is an extra charge). It would be nice to have privacy doors in the bathrooms, rather than open concept, you get used to it, but doors are pref [... read more]erred. Rooms are smaller than other resorts. The entertainment in the evening was lovely and a talented bunch. Vibes crew were fun and always including the guests, with their great sense of humor. I would recommend this resort.

Great stay!

Loved the smaller size of resort so it wasn't too far to get to and from the resort amenities from our room. Clean and modern hotel with great daily room cleaning services. The pools were beautiful with a variety of spots to lounge. The main pool had a lively atmosphere but if you wanted something quieter, you could choose the smaller pool closer to the ocean. Great ocean front with seating available. You do need to get to the pool and ocean loungers early in the morning if you want a spot.

NEEDS IMPROVEMENT

OCEAN WAS TO ROUGH TO SWIM IN DON'T LIKE POOLS AND FOOD WAS ALWAYS WARM NOT HOT AND COFFEE WAS THE WORST THING I EVER TASTED 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Disappointed

We are a family of 5, all adults (youngest 29 and oldest 72). I have to say we were a little disappointed, I would not say this is a 5 star resort and we travel a lot (15+ all inclusive resorts in the last 10 years). To start the resort was clean, and the grounds kept clean as well. The size of the resort was perfect, not too big and not too small, direct beach views from the pool, it’s all really close together which is nice to not have to walk for 20+ min to get somewhere. The beach is brown [... read more] sand, not white sand like promised and the waves very strong, most days not able to swim in the ocean (not the resorts fault - just mentioning it). Food was ok…. Not 5 stars, it was edible but not a lot of options and sometimes the labels didn’t match what they served. 3/5 members from my group had upset stomachs by day 5 and multiple guests we spoke to were experiencing the same thing. The Italian restaurant was AMAZING, very authentic and great flavors. Otherwise we had to eat at the buffet for all dinners because despite the resort claiming to be a reservation free hotel they prioritize reservations for diamond club members and then leave no room for the rest of the guests to eat until 8pm or later so we ended up at the buffet. We tried to make reso’s and we tried to just walk in at different times yet time and time again we couldn’t get in to the restaurants cause they were full (despite multiple empty tables). The entertainment was extremely poor, every night it was just 4 females dressed provocatively swaying their hips to music - this included their very poor NYE entertainment as well. Music was repetitive all day, into the evening, same in the club then repeated the next day as well. Despite being “all inclusive” the resort wouldn’t let you sit in certain cabana chairs unless you rented them, the chairs and beds sat empty majority of the week but they wouldn’t let you use them unless you paid minimum $120 usd. There was also a rooftop pool advertised to everyone but when you get there only certain guests can use it or you have to pay to use it (Mermaid Pool). They also tried to sell you NYE tickets to watch the show (the poor one I mentioned above), if you didn’t buy the tickets starting at $600usd for a booth (treated like booth and bottle service at a club) then you needed to sit over 50feet away from stage. Thank goodness we didn’t pay because we didn’t need to sit any closer to see how bad the entertainment was. Lastly the rooms, they were fine but very run down; shower door handle and air conditioning broken in one, door frame and table broken in another, and closet doors fell off the tracks in the third. The doors actually fell onto my Aunt and it took 30+ min for someone to come help. Many other guests were complaining about the rooms as well. Sometimes maids forgot to restock the fridge, leave towels and or other basics. However, it was clean and beds were typical. ALSO THERE ARE NO ELEVATORS FYI. Onto the positives: Meibi and Rosa who serve the pool areas made our trip! They were kind and greeted with a smile daily and were a pleasure to socialize with. Leo, Henry and Derrick who served us in the buffet were also very nice and provided some laughs. Miguel who I was a customer service representative (main lobby) was also so kind and lovely and chatted with us daily. The resort would be better if they upgraded the rooms, and maintained them more, switched to reservations at the restaurants or actually make it reservation free for everyone, and stop trying to sell you things like chairs and certain pools when we paid for all inclusive (would like to mention all these things they try to sell are different from the diamond club section) which is to expected. If we needed to pay extra we should have been told and it should be advertised as such on their website and through their bookings with the air carriers.

Disappointment !

Standard fare all-inclusive. Watered down drinks. Mid-shelf Jose Cuervo re-filled with THE cheapest tequila. Straight up lousy replacement tequila. I found a single bottle of 100% agave tequila on site (Heradura) at the *Diamond Club* beach bar hidden on the bottom shelf, lower right corner. Service seemed worse at the Diamond Club than at the *regular* side. You could sit for hours and not be approached by the wait staff. Forget the warm beer on tap or the watered-down vodka. I'm guessin [... read more]g even the local rum wasn't good. Rude and ignorant guests hanging around the pool and D-Jay station playing *Wet Ass Pussy* and other rude and vulgar C*Rap*. I have nothing against good rap.

Pretty resort

Clean well maintained but had a bad seaweed problem and hotel was not quick to remove it. Not the most modern rooms shower leaking out and the air conditioning not very cool. Boutique hotel with excellent food choices, coffee and icecream bar and great tropical drinks beach was the only problem if you are a beach person

Worth the Trip

Very good, very clean hotel, great staff and service (especially Margot who went out of her way for us). My only complaints were the damp bedding from the air conditioning I assume, but they were changed when I requested and everyday automatically. Saturday was the focus party day, great job at that on Saturday, just wish it was all week long since this is a party resort. I did love the hotel TV menu system to keep you updated on the activities, ordering room service and everything to do with th [... read more]e hotel. The beach while we were there had seaweed washing up, but they did attempt to keep it clean.

Resort

Enjoyed this hotel! Housekeeping was lacking a-bit but improved mid week( language barrier:; butler was excellent and communication was perfect;; food was terrific but found it unusual for buffet to be closed twice doing our stay; found some areas had weird little steps and if you didn’t pay attention could easily do a face plant;: bar sraff and recreation staff were great: would recommend this hotel

Great luxury resort

Great service. Above expectations for the dining experience, staff was extremely accommodating and clean resort. Very organised and welcoming. Entertaining was decent, would suggest resort to get some more halal dining options!