Nice layout of resort

huge pool, beach was beautiful, food was great, could have used more bars on the beach. we changed rooms upon arrival, they gave us an ocean view which was a awesome view. one complaint was we had to call for bath towels 3 out of the 7 days.

Fantastic resort

Amazing food....restaurants were top notch! Friendly people. Clean water (potable). Not for seniors as loads of stairs to climb daily and lots of walking as it is a huge resort. But for us we loved the exercise!! Would recommend this resort highly!

Wonderful holiday

Nice rooms, food was great and the staff wonderful! Music at meals was a bit loud, but overall good value for your money! Easy access to town with taxi. I would recommend going to the Dunn river excursion.

Beautiful!

The resort was great. Much bigger then I expected. The rooms were decent and the staff were all so friendly. The food was amazing!!!! The buffet was unbelievable and had so many options. The beach to the leftcwas beautiful. Snorkeling was ok. Lots of water activities. Would definitely return!

5 star resort with 2 star beach

food was decent but not amazing and no lobster . Beach was not good and for the price we paid i was not happy. rooms very nice but always short on towels. Don pablo restaurant very good and pool was nice.

Good, yet poor service

had a beautiful week, resort is good but need a few minor repairs, food yummy but service wasn't good. I would recommend it but don't expect good service... We where said that we need to know what we wanted to drink at the buffet cause she was only going once for the drinks!! :( rooms where clean

Good Bang for your Buck Place!

The Good - Long nice Beach , Had Decent food , Nice Looking rooms with showers with good water pressure and temperatures , staff were nice , place was clean and a lot of stuff to keep the kids occupied The bad - skimpy on alcohol in the drinks , bed was not very comfortable and mosquitos , bar unable to make certain drinks at times. No Major problems Overall for the price I would recommend this place

Amazing time

I had a wonderful experience at the Bahia Príncipe. Staff were so friendly and considerate, food was AMAZING, loved the room, only minor thing was that our bathtub plug didn't work to enjoy the jet tub but that wasn't anything to complain about. Amazing place to go to:) I can't say enough how amazing the food was :)))) five stars here :)

Absolutely stunning!!

Food and drinks were amazing. Very friendly staff and easy to navigate around the resort. Entertainment is top notch as well the beach. Second visit to this resort and would go again very soon. Kerol and Adain at the pool bar are awesome guys.

Just so so for Jamaica

This was my third trip to Jamaica and my least satisfied experience. The food was good. The drinks: they never had tequila or vodka and when they did have Gin they had no mix only orange Fanta, the wine was not drinkable and I never asked for Rye or Whisky since I figured they had none. It was very much like the 3 1/2 star I was at last year in Cuba. However, in Cuba, you get great service. No service at this hotel. Every employee I encountered seemed to despise travellers as well as their job. [... read more] There is no activities other than one spot at the pool where there is a very uninterested MC barely asking people to join. The night life is non-existent. The shows seemed like they were preformed by a high school group. So we only went three nights and were disappointed those three nights. We booked at this resort because of a wedding. The wedding ceremony was nice but there were three weddings happening at the same time in the same restaurant. So you could hear everyone's speeches. It was odd and uncomfortable. There is a lot of segregation at the Grand Bahia Principe. Depending on how much you spent or which side you were on - luxury, adult or where I was - I am guessing the general pop - you got the service and experience you paid for. You can't go on the luxury side and there are segregated areas everywhere for the luxury people. Yuk. They get the best of everything while the rest have to beg for a working toilet. I ended up changing rooms twice because of a broken toilet and on another occasion because there was already someone in the room they gave me. Needless to say, it was very disappointing.

Excellent Resort

Everything was awesome. There was only one thing that was wrong and that was a leak at the shower head. the restaurants where very good especially the Japanese one. They cook the food right in front of you, the food was amazing and delicious. The beach was great, we did some snorkeling and saw all kinds of colorful fish and sea urchins. All in all, we had an amazing time except when my wife broke her foot at Dunn's River Falls. I would go back again.

Worst experience I have ever had in Jamaica

service worst I have ever experienced .Grounds were beautiful.The advertised features of this hotel were all false.I was told could go ala carte all three nites ,once there was told one night only however a la carte restaurants were booked solid all three nights.I was told free pour alcohol in the room I had two beers in the fridge.

GREAT RESORT

GREAT RESORT GROUNDS IN GOOD SHAPE.STAFF WAS GREAT AND FOOD WAS GOOD.NIGHT SHOWS WERE NOT THAT GOOD,ROOMS WERE CLEAN AND LOOK AFTER EVERY DAY.POOLS AND BARS WERE CLEAN AND EXCLEANT SERVICE AT ALL BARS.

Great Resort

Another fantastic trip to the Grand Bahia Principe in Runaway Bay, Jamaica! This was our 3rd trip here and met up with a group of friends from previous years. As this was our 3rd year we were given Golden Club status. Private check-in was a breeze and we got our favorite room with a 200 degree view of the ocean, beach. This is a large resort but if you have a room in the 16,17,18 blocks you are close to the beach, main pool, lobby, Garden Grill resto, Dolce Vito resto and the main buffet. Rooms  [... read more]are fairly large with king size beds, and modest furnishings. Lots of variety of food in the buffet and different themes through the week. Depending on your time flexibility, reservations at the A la Carte can be fairly easy. We ate at Mikado, Picasso, Don Pablo, Garden Grill. All were excellent! The entertainment staff at the main pool are top notch and a lot of fun! Pool bar can be slow at times. Beach is average. Great value for the money.

Great resort

Loved the resort !! About 1 hour from airport but really nice drive !! Food very good !!! Staff very friendly !! Grounds very well kept !!! Beachparty on wednesday nights was a blast !! Great entertainment staff !!

Trip of a Lifetime

I had an amazing time at this resort. Food was quite well and there was so many options! The only downside was it was hard to get Jerk Chicken, it was so good it would be gone sometimes if you waited too long. The staff was excellent, it was clean, and they were so friendly and helped whenever it was needed!

Grand Bahia

I just love Grand Bahia it's the best one I stayed in Jamaica (my 4 trip to Jam.) I will definitely go back. The food is amazing, Lots of different kind to choose from. Their is something for everyone. The alla cart restaurant food/service is excellent.

Good resort, could use improvement.

Overall its a good resort, big and well set up rooms. Washrooms were great including jet tub. Friendly and polite stuff. Buffet, although somewhat repetitive but with a decent variety of choices to accommodate different tastes. As it was Jamaica, we were expecting a bit more of a local flavor to be included in the cuisine. Had to go outside of the resort to experience the famous Jamaican jerk chicken. The resort has many ala cart restaurants however, even though we visited only 3 out of 5 (4 ope [... read more]rational at the time of our visit) the only decent place with some sorts of flavor was the Don Pablo restaurant. The Picasso served uncooked fish, and meat. The Mikado (sorry if misspelled) was a poor excuse for a Japanese food/sushi place. If u still desire to eat at Mikado, when booking it tell the person at the desk to get your meal with the show. We didn't, but it looked like a fun presentation for others. Not sure if they were fed the same food as us also. The pool was shallow, but big with two pool bars. Good white send beach with Cristal clear turquoise water with very Minor waves and sea wheats. Not sure why but located to the side of the humongous hotel, so if you are a preferred costumer (the organization has this aggressive marketing scheme where, what looks like hotel stuff, under wrong pretences including lying, are trying to sell some sort of time share.) So for the few suckers or maybe not :) who bought in to it, the hotel houses those people at the other end of the hotel where the construction is going on 24/7 and at the furtherest point away from the beach. However, from what i have seen the lucky bunch gets to enjoy premium alcoholic drinks. And drinks if you wish to have to be premium, they are expensive! A half bottle of Hennessey VS is $100 usd at the store. Their export Appleton Rum, is about 30% cheaper here in Canada, where the liquor gets taxed like there is no tomorrow in some instances costing twice if not trice of what our American friends pay. So I'm a bit puzzled. Anyhow, i did find a way to the premium liquor cabinet and drunk about $200 worth of good drinks for about $15. Now to not some fun stuff: Even though, the hotel is fairly new, the constriction integrity is not holding up. While on our trip, a partial collapse of an eaves trough on the top of the 5th floor came crushing down through the roof onto a very busy pas sway below where majority of people walk to get to the buffet or washrooms. I'm glad and surprised how no one got killed by 50 lb concrete blocks falling from the above. That experience kind of masks the leaky ceiling that was flooding our room for the last two nights that we stayed there. The issue was addressed and fixed the first evening when that happened. On the second one we were offered to move, but it was too late as we had our plane back in the morning, so we just stayed in a flooded room. Be careful with excursions, even though i purchased ours through the representative who worked with our tour operator (more expensive) we were mislead to believe that the the Chukka Catamaran/Dunn's River Falls climb was all inclusive and was a 9/10 or a 10/10 excursion. They refused to serve alcoholic aperitifs on the way up, sighting they were doing us a favor by protecting us from getting sick. Although, i can see they would rather not see a bunch of drunks climbing the falls, we did sign a liability waver, and a seasoned trooper like me could have been more prepared for the adventure had i known earlier. Had to pay for drinks at a lunch stop also. The Dunn's River Falls climb was an awesome experience though. But id recommend to take a $40 bus and Dunn's river falls climb cruise instead of the sailless sail boat for a $100. Just saying. After collecting almost $4000 in sales, the least they could do is provide a better variety of drinks besides, orange juice, (beer and the cheapest white rum on the way back) Bob Marley excursion was okay. If you like to toke this is the excursion for you. If you dint ud might feel out of place and possibly get high on fumes lol. I'm personally neither. I dint smoke nor have anything against it. So it was an enjoyable experience. WestJet so far is one of my favorite tour operators. The website and app could use improvement though. For the life of me i could not retrieve my lost password which required for me to have at least one capital letter, one number, and one special symbol. High 5 for the security attempt. -1 for neither site/app works properly when retrieval attempt is made. Oh and no Internet availability on the flight back. :p So, overall it was a great time, with minor scuffs here and there...

Great Food!!

Hotel was impressive on entry. Lobby is very attractive but rooms are not very modern. Pools were great and beach was gorgeous!!! Loved the food in all the restaurants!!! The selection and taste of every menu item we tried was just sumptuous!!

Excellent Resort

good value for the money. staff very helpful,try hard to make us happy. Also need more staff on the front desk. In room towels were scares, particular face cloths. We did enjoy our stay there. Don't mind if I return soon.