Great Resort

The Hotel was clean and very nice. The food was amazing, a lot of seafood, which you don't get in most hotels.and the people were amazing, helpful and very friendly. I will be staying at this Hotel from now on when I travel back to the Dominican Republic in Puerto Plata

Good property

Great hotel and wonderful maid service. Food was ok. Seemed Friday and Saturday we were in a different resort. The new group of men that came in for the weekend were constantly harassing girls including my daughter. She was unable to walk or even sit without feeling uncomfortable. We heard worse stories of sexual advances occurred with younger girls. The bar service became really poor if you were not pushy as the bartenders did not try to service in any order. The beach was very windy and with  [... read more]whipping sand you generally had to leave in the afternoons. Most staff were amazing and Sunwing reps were always available and there to help.

Fantastic Resort

Very clean, the service perfect, the food was excellent and the fruits was always very fresh. I travelled alot and I think this hotel was in the best I visited. I was with my mother of 83 years old, and she really enjoy staying at that hotel also. Thanks Iberostar for everything.

Great Resort

Very clean resort grounds, small resort that you could easily access all facilities, they even had wheel chair accessible area at the beach. Couldn't spend afternoon on the beach as wind picked up and felt like you were being sand blasted. Would recommend getting a garden view room if you're interested in a quieter room. Luckily we were able to use resort credits and extra cash to upgrade to ocean view room otherwise we would have been facing service buildings. Front desk said king beds were  [... read more]not available in regular rooms. Lots of loungers at the beach and pool. Buffet and pool were very crowded on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with a lot of locals .. perhaps empty rooms were rented out to locals??? Staff were out early on beach collecting seaweed that was washed up on beach. You typically had to go through approximately 1 or 2 feet of seaweed when getting into the water, although we usually found a path through it.

Fantastic

This hotel was beautiful. The grounds are immaculate, the food amazing, staff are absolutely fantastic. Rooms were clean and nurse onsite goes above and beyond. Wish we could've stayed another week to enjoy more of this resort. Air transat was also amazing. I wont fly with anyone else.

Resort Okay, Beach not so great

We stayed at the Iberostar Costa Dorada for 10 days April 18-28th. We had a pool view room which was great for the entertainment but if you wanted a nap later in the afternoon forget it, it's so loud. The food was really good especially the Japanese Restaurant. The beach was terrible, being on the Atlantic side the ocean is so rough, and so much seaweed, the sand is very dark and hot . We have stayed at the Iberostar in Punta Cana many times and I would definitely recommend it over Puerto Pl [... read more]ata.

Been to DR 6 times.... Best one yet!

Clean rooms and grounds, lots of things to do with the kids within the resort, amazing food and great selection. The only thing that I would warn people about is that the beach swim area had a lot of coral with seaweed attached so you really had to go over to next resort areas to have a swim, also don't know if it is always like this or just while we were there but beach was very winding so a lot of blowing sand. Would definitely return to this resort for the money we paid. Great job to all who [... read more] work at this resort and make it what it is!!!!! We had an awesome family vacation!!!!

Nice Resort

I think it was a pleasent experience staying at the Iberastar Costa Dorada Resort. To give context to my review I will have to add that we were a total of 8 adults 5 children travelling to this Resort. Upon arrival I was pleased to see how clean and beautiful the Resort was. The staff were very freindly, welcoming and helpful. They tried their best to accomodate us all close to each other, as we were four families in total. However, we had to wait three plus hours to be able to finally get rooms [... read more]. The room we got a had beautiful ocean view. The room was very clean and on the most part, modern. I will have to add that we asked for a crib for our little girl and when it arrived we noticed a small roach inside of it. We decided to not use it, obviously and let our daughter sleep with us instead. I did not see anymore insects inside our room however, in my sisters room next door they had found two on the wall. During the course of our stay, there were occasions that I saw a man walking around the building with spraying equiptment. I’m assuming he was going into the rooms that had roaches and insects in them. I think its also important to note that the noise level was very umcomfortabl at night and not easy to sleep with. From my room I could hear loud music and in the morning I would get woken up from the kitchn trollies that were being moved around to different parts of the hotel with many plates and glasses in them.The peacokes were beautiful watch as they are let to roam around the hotel but were very noisy, specailly early in the morning. So I would advise that you bring ear plugs. The food was alright, a bit repetative I think. But I would advice you stay away from the sea food. On the last night we had reservations for the greek restaurant which is the snack bar during the day and they served a lot of sea food which caused most of the family to experience stomach problems afterwards. Then again, it could be that we are not used to eating that much sea food and not so much the way they cook it. The highlight of the trip was probably the Japanese restaurant which had a small kitchen for each table and you are able to watc the chef cool you food. The sushi starters were amazingly delicious. The pool was large and I enjoyed that they had a shallow and a deep end (deep meaning it would go as high as my neck when standing on my tipy toes, Im short too). They also had a kitty pool which I would have used more for my daughter but it had no shaded areas and the sun would blare down on us. So we stayed away from that and used the big pool and stayed close to the edges for the shaded areas. The beach was not the greatest. There was a lot of green stuff by the shore and it was not pleasent to swim in. On, the positive side the staff were great as I said and go above and beyond to accomodate you. The place is very well maintained.

Great family resort

The hotel is great. The grounds and public spaces were beautiful. The people were friendly and accommodated. The food was delicious, although sometimes repetitive but the seasoning was so good. The best a la carte restaurant was the Japanese one. However it also had its downs. To start, checking in took awhile. We were waiting in the reception area until past 4pm and we got to the hotel at 11 am. In addition, we asked for a playpen for my 11 month old and we found a small cockroach on it so we d [... read more]ecided to sleep with her in our bed. The third thing was a leaking on the washroom that it was due to turning off our AC according to the people at the reception. And lastly, the beach area was full of algae due to the season we went I am guessing.

Iberostar Costa Dorada Hotel Dominican Republic

Food was good lots of choices to choose from, Hotel was clean and nice view. Lots of entertainment and sports which I enjoyed for example tennis and volleyball and variety of drinks at the bars. Evening shows were nice especially Dominican shows and live music near the theatre.

Resort

At first glance I thought it was nice landed on a cloudy day but still warm . I thought the shows weren’t very good the beaches were kind of dirty the staff were not very nice . And on top of everything I got salomonia poisoning

Love this resort

We just spent a week at this resort from March 26 to April 2, 2019. This was our 6th visit to this resort and it’s like a second home. Reception employees and the concierges are great especially Manual. The oceanview rooms are beautiful and our room was cleaned beautifully everyday with a cute towel ornament displayed. The food was great and the buffet has a different theme every night. The Japanese restaurant is entertaining as well as having great food. The grounds have been upgraded [... read more] with beautiful lighting at night. The beach is gorgeous and there was never an issue with finding an umbrella with chairs at the beach or near the pool. The pool needs some upgrading as it needs tiles to be fixed and a fresh coat of paint. The entertainment is probably the one area that could improve the most. The MC’s are fantastic but the singers are weak and the choreography was too intricate for the level of the dancers. The Star Band was great with talented musicians. The costumes were gorgeous and of course the Michael Jackson show was super! Overall we had a relaxing time. We highly recommend this place and can’t wait until our fall trip and will extend our stay to 10 or 14 days!!!

Amazing place

Very beautiful resort . staff was extremely friendly and helpful. Entertainment by the pool and at the stage was very good with excellent performances. Beach was very nice with lots of lounge chairs . pool was very nice as well with swim up bar . all the wait staff and bartenders are very friendly . the room was very clean . cleaned up daily and fridge was restocked as well and a beautiful view to the beach off the large balcony . will definitely be returning here again .

Nice resort, good value

Hotel is very clean and well maintained. It is however a little tired and could use updating in the rooms and bathrooms. Food is very good, lots of choice at the buffets. A la cart restaurants were just okay with the Japanese being the best. Drinks were fine and they have banned single use straws and cups which is great. Only drawback lots of smoking...everywhere accept inside the restaurants.

Awesome place

Gorgeous grounds, food was fantastic lovely rooms, the staff was invitting and helpful Went on snorkeling tour, it was so fun and entertaining. This is a great place for family or couple vacation. Pool was beautiful and the wild life that lives there is spectacular.

Quaint and Pretty

This resort is very small and quite quaint. The pool was lovely and the grounds on the resort beautiful. Unfortunately the beach was far less than ideal. A tremendous amount of seaweed in the water therefore we avoided it. The beach was raked daily but there was just way too much seaweed. Another negative to our experience was the food. We did not care for the buffet food at all. It was a split review when we talked to people. Some loved it and some did not. We were also looking forward [... read more] to frozen cocktails but those were extremely limited as well and only available at the main lounge. Our garden view looked over a chain link fence and the laundry/kitchen/maintnenance. facility for the resort. No garden in sight! Overall a relaxing trip but we won’t be returning.

Amazing resort!

My husband and I have been to many, many resorts in the Caribbean including Mexico. Some were very large. Some were brand new. It is an older one; however, we have been at brand new resorts that had issues. Internet was excellent (husband was happy). However this resort was the right size, excellent food with plenty of choices. Staff service throughout was excellent. Room was clean. This is the first time I actually wanted to stay longer.

Costa dorado

Everything was fine. Food was excellent. Room was clean. Service was great. Staff was friendly. Would definitely return. Location was very good. Only problem, some days lots of seaweed on beach.

This resort had it all beautiful top-notch

The grounds were well-kept and beautiful the meals were fantastic best resort I’ve ever stayed at and I’ve been travelling the Caribbean numerous times. Only about 15 minutes from the airport which was also good. The staff was excellent everyone that was involved in the hotel.

Great well run resort

The beach is not great if that is high on your wish list. The pool area was very nice with lots of shade available if you get up at 5am. Yes it is one of those places. Nothing like getting up at 530am just to get a couple seats around the pool. The food was very good as good as any inclusive place I have visited under $2000 per. Drinks were good as was the bar service. The weather was fantastic for our week which is very important. Tips will get you better booze and service at the lobby bar.  [... read more] Loved the area just wish it wasn't so packed with people. Also one of my friends had a cane and got around the place easily but needed a ground floor room.