Sunscape Puerto Plata: GREAT RESORT WELL SETUP

It was a last minute decision to visit this resort. Grounds, pools, food, beach, staff, public places all awesome.for us, the rooms were dated but if you spend much time in them, you are not on vacation. sunshine :) Tks;Tripcentral

VH Gran Ventana Beach Resort: Amazing Resort

Very clean, good food, staff were very nice. Loved my room view of the pool and ocean Specialty Restaurants awesome Octopus one was great. Would go back for sure. Mixed age group Good for families and older people. No disco so if your looking for night life after midnight not the place to go. Close to the airport so you don't have a long drive to get there after travelling.

Cayo Levantado Resort: Paradise !

Amazing location! Gardens and beaches are very beautiful. Villas more than meet your expectations. An abundance of good food choices. Always friendly service with a can do attitude. Quiet and relaxing. Simply paradise.

Grand Palladium Palace: Great resort!

Abundance of foods to choose from. Friendly and hard working staff! Nice lobby, accommodations, and beautiful beach! The massage on the beach was terrific! Things that could be improved: don't allow vendors to harass guests into buying their products. Too aggressive! Evening entertainment could have been better. Some of the male waiters frequently made animal sounds around the tables when serving drinks. Doesn't appear professional. All in all it was a great experience and we would recommend t [... read more]his resort.

Punta Cana Princess: Wonderful resort

Punta Cana princess was wonderful. Great service, everyone is very friendly. Rooms and resort were very clean. Food was good. Love the no reservation rule.Had an amazing trip and would defiantly go back.

Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach: Very nice

The resort itself was beautiful, well maintained and a pleasure to stay at. The staff were very helpful when the airline lost my luggage and were the primary reason that I was able to recover it while at the resort! Thanks for the great memories!

Occidental Caribe: It was an ok resort

Well it sure had its ups and downs. The downs being the water was hardly working in our room so we couldn't flush the toilet or shower, and I found some of the employees really not friendly. Also I didn't find that the entertainment staff tried to get people involved as much as they could have. The beach was lovely and the pool was nice.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: 600 university students staying at GBP Punta Cana

We stayed in the Royal Golden Club of the GBP Punta Cana. The GBP is a resort that has 5 smaller resorts combined into one big resort. There is a total guest capacity of 5000 people. The size of the resort worked well for our family as we could chose to walk or take a trolley - the trolleys were constantly running and there was very little time to wait for one. The beach was a typical Punta Cana beach, although there were few chairs available in the shade. The pools were nice, we preferred the ' [... read more]quiet' pool and we didn't have a problem finding chairs at 9 am. The buffet restaurants served lots of food but the food that should be hot was almost always lukewarm. The restaurant service was ok, not great...it was often difficult to get someone to serve you a beverage. The grounds were very well cared for, although there was some damage done to the fences and restaurant decor by the university students staying there. The resort had a well marked 2.4km running track throughout the grounds which was very nice to have. I also used the gym which was small but well maintained and I didn't see anyone waiting more than a few minutes to use a machine. The entertainment was good, in addition to the main shows, there were bands or DJ'S in the lobby in the evening. The circus show was amazing! By far the worst thing about the resort was the 600 university students who stayed at the Punta Cana resort as part of 'Campus Vacations'. They were disuptive, inconsiderate and many used vulgar and disgusting language despite there being children around. They would wake us up at night usually at 3 am and 5 am as they were travelling to the beach snack bar. The GBP corporate office makes the decision to allow student groups onto their resorts and when I spoke to the on site coordinator of Campus Vacations, she said there will continue to be student groups at the resort from now (we traveled in February) until June. Despite the good features of this resort, the presence of the student group means that we will never travel to a GBP resort again in the future. The resort did not have enough security to control the rude and obnoxious behavior of many of the students.

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Don't pay extra to go there

definitely not a 5 star as service was the pits. Grounds were nice, buffet good but had nothing but issues. Went to Cuba last year and found the people spoke much better English than DR xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Senator Puerto Plata Hotel: good resort!

Pretty good resort! Entertainment its great, food gets boring, restaurants are average. The beach seems to be nice. Lots of people and lots of chairs. Be sure to wake up early to get a spot at the pool, people tend to place there "towel" on chairs to save them as early as 6 am

Blau Natura Park Resort: The 'new' number one World Resort

I have been to many places, but this Blau Resort will match any in the world, the location, the grounds, pools,plants and trees, interesting areas, shade if you want it, a fantastic fresh food, entertainment stage shows,Bingo dancing.Great value and very good service in every area. The inclusive is grat valu. This place is very clean and tidy as well - Fantastic, Yes, I'll be coming back.

Paradise Playa Dorada: Best Week Ever

I went with a bunch of friends (university students) for February reading week and it was a blast! It was a great place to go to meet other young people (though there were also families and retired individuals around as well). The food was delicious (especially the fried chicken)! The drinks were also well made and very strong. The beach was beautiful (I noticed walking down to other resorts they had more stuff washing up on their beach). The hotel staff were professional and friendly. The rooms [... read more] were clean and spacious, and the maid did a great job of tidying the rooms up each day for you. The resort had a great atmosphere and I would definitely recommend it to university students looking for a fun place to go!

Paradise Playa Dorada: Fun Times

The resort is a great place for university students to go to. The food was great, drinks were strong, and there were a ton of other university students there during the February reading week. The workers at the hotel were all super friendly and made an effort to get to know your name and give you a high five when they saw you. They also went out of their way to provide great service. Overall, I had a blast with my group of friends and made a ton of new friends as well!

Bahia Principe Grand San Juan: Good Value for the money

Nice gardens, similar to other Bahia Principe hotels I've stayed at. Nice long beach, due to the layout of the complex. Instead of the buildings running from the beach to deep inland, it is spread out widely along the shore with only 4 or 5 bungalows deep.The beach is longer than it is wide, with lounges spread from one end of the complex to the other. But the water is murky (probably due to the wave breakers they have in place). Food was great and the Mediterranean restaurant was amazing! Servi [... read more]ce can be a little slow if you are not sitting in the right area at the buffet. The only downer is the long ride to the airport. It is well over an hour to the Puerto Plata airport and about and hour and 45 minutes to the Samana airport.

Royalton CHIC Punta Cana: Diamond disappointment

We originally arrived at the airport at 6:00 am to be told our 9:00 am flight has been delayed until 3:15pm. We could not leave as we had just paid $100.00 for a week of parking and were told there are no in and out privileges, and SunWing would not reimburse us for parking if we left and came back. We were each given a $15.00 meal voucher. This didn't even cover our airport breakfast. At 12:00 we were forced to go through security after the ticket agent ensured/promised us that the flight woul [... read more]d not be delayed further and it was on time. I had questioned the SunWing agent four times if the flight was delayed further as it was not on the board. She promised me it want. As soon as we passed through security we were notified the flight is now delayed until 4:30. We missed an entire day of our vacation that we had paid $5200.00 for. Not a good start. Once we arrived at the hotel at 1:00 am, almost 12 hours past our expected arrival time, we were quickly ushered to our room and were provided zero information about the diamond club benefits. The rest of the week we didn't see our "butler" once, when were never given premium alcohol and our restaurant reservations were only honored half the time. Unless you more than generously tipped the Diamond Club bartender you received local vodka and beer. We watched those that tipped $5 and more per drink receive Grey Goose and Carona. We literally saw not one benefit to having paid an additional $1000.00 for the Diamond club. The good: Food: Buffet was good. Healthy options. Morrocan restaurant was very tasty. Room: the room was always clean and the fridge restocked daily Beach: the beach had ample room and palapas, although you do need to be up by 7:00 to get one. Grounds: the hotel is beautiful and well laid out, the casino was fun. Over all, if the service was not deplorable, I would have gone back. But this was simply not the case. I will never travel by SunWing again and will never visit CHIC again as a diamond member.

Sunscape Puerto Plata: Wonderful - IF you stay on the resort

Barcelo Puerto Plata was a beautifully clean, well managed resort. The rooms were clean and large. Mini bar really means pop and water, but if you wanted alcohol it was never very far away. Live entertainment every night was fun and entertaining. The 2 pools closed at 6:00 pm would have been nice to go for a evening dip but we understood about the safety factor. Truly the only thing and probably the biggest thing that will make me NEVER want to go back was the overly zealous in your face, don't  [... read more]take no for an answer people TRYING to sell you things on the beach. We were Never informed that the Barceló was on a "Public Beach" and the hotel security had no jurisdiction to chase them away. I suffered overwhelming panic attacks after the first 2 days of even venturing onto the beach in fear of being bombarded with requests to buy things. To please help them to feed their families. I would recommend the hotel to a friend but only after I warned them about the beach and the people there waiting for them.

Bahia Principe Grand Bavaro: Fantastic

Big resort but you don,t notice it as it is so well planned. Everything flows so well. Loved it. Would not hesitate to go back. Beach is beautiful. Right in front of sunken ship. Beware of time share people though.

Barcelo Bavaro Beach: Great Resort - we would go back

Hotel is close to the airport. Very friendly and helpful staff, clean rooms, well groomed grounds. Service at the bars/restaurants was quick, food was great with lots of variety at the buffet, as well as plenty of restaurants to choose from. Make your dinner reservations for the week as soon as you get in to get better choice of seating time. Evening shows at either resort were very entertaining. We stayed at the adults only resort, but both pools were extremely busy so we were on the beach ever [... read more]yday - plenty of lounge chairs available on the beach and the beach itself was kept clean of seaweed every morning.

Punta Cana Princess: beautiful resort

the resort was not only beautiful it was kept very clean and the staff are all very friendly people. we could not believ how well the resort was kept so clean and the grounds how well kept they were.the rooms were beautiful also. luv,luv loved it .:)

Bahia Principe Explore Punta Cana: Very Nice Resort

We went in early Feb. peak time, hadn't been to a resort at this time before. Lots of staff & very attentive to your needs, except the Resort was HUGE we got dropped off in our villa, they didn't take the time to tell us which trolly to get on, so we got lost that night & felt like we walked 10 miles. And the next morning was orientation & we got on the wrong trolly so got lost again & missed the orientation, oh & no map. We spent the whole week helping many people who were lost. We really enjoy [... read more]ed the buffet. We did 2 a la carte restaurants & were not impressed, it was so hard to get the reservation in the first place. Our biggest pet peeve was to get a chair either at the beach or the pool. People reserved a chair with a towel at 6:00 a.m. at both & never did use them. That part sucked. We had rain almost everyday, we were glad that we were on the 2nd floor since the people below us got flooded. They did provide umbrellas in the closet, except we had to ask twice to get one. Our maid Danielle was Great & our room was very clean. Oh & the last day they didn't have any beach towels, since it had rained & everybody traded their wet two for a dry one. Our travel agent suggested that we go with the Golden pkg. definitely not worth it suppose to get 4 reservations for restaurants, hard pressed to get a res. at all. Slippers in the room were the only perk that was nice. The rum in the room was Dominican so big deal. Would we go again no.