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#10 Royalton Bavaro
#10 Royalton Bavaro
Punta Cana
Dominican Republic
142 reviews
A solid 3.5 star hotel
Note that we booked in Diamond Club and so used our butler to handle the restaurant reservations. Otherwise booking restaurants each day took some guests over an hour in line to setup. The hotel feels a bit dated, we stayed in March 2024 and in our room (diamond club) we had several issues: 1. Sliding Bathroom door was broken, it ended up locking a guest in for 30 min, after repairs, it would not close more than halfway without sticking to the floor. 2. Sliding Room partition did not work at all. It was entirely off the track so we could not partition off our room from the main area. 3. The TV's are partially broken with black lines over parts of the screen 4. Very humid in the room regardless of how AC was set. 5. Not enough spots to hang towels and bathing suits. Nothing seems to dry out at all even when hung properly. Every morning we put on cold, wet bathing suits. Overall the resort suffers the same issues as many others, Lots of seating is "reserved" by ghosts who put a towel down and then are not seen for hours. Frequently the resort ran out of clean beach towels so you couldn't reserve chairs or dry off properly. Food was fairly good but most fish, pork and beef were overcooked. Generally the burgers and chicken were the most reliably well cooked. Expect to do a lot of relaxing or socializing as the activities were limited. There is a mini golf course and one volleyball net is available. Diamond club included access to a "water park", but there are only 6 slides. The water park was close-by but offsite and after 2 hours our kids were done with it. There are also Kayaks and Hobi Cat's available and the wind was always favorable for the sailing. This is a fantastic place to go and decompress and soak up some sun while never having to worry about cooking or cleaning. But there are cheaper options for that type of vacation.
#11 Bahia Principe Luxury Esmeralda
#11 Bahia Principe Luxury Esmeralda
Punta Cana
Dominican Republic
551 reviews
SUPER VACANCE
Le soleil était présent presqu'à tous les jours. Personnels souriants, gentils serviables qui tentent de nous parler en français, le comprennent certaines fois mais n'osent pas le parler. Vive les traductions du téléphone. Au lobby Frederico tentait vraiment de nous aider. Au buffet la nourriture était variée et très bonne, Mimosa sur demande à tous les matins. La chambre toujours bien arrangée, champagne lors d'un anniversaire. Lit très propre, chambre très grande, propre mais dans les toilettes une odeur persistante d'humidité et puisard. La porte-patio fermée ce n'était pas bruyant. L'autre côté de la rue, le Punta Cana est en réparation donc des coups de marteau. Piscines avec beaucoup de chaises, serviettes disponibles mais l'eau de la piscine était très chaude pour se rafraîchir nous prenions des douches à l'extérieure près de la piscine. Service autour de la piscine très présent. Plage très étendue MAIS vis-à-vis le Bahia il ne ramassait pas les algues donc après 1 semaine il y avait une accumulation de plus ou moins 3 pieds de hauteur à la longueur. Nous nous sommes plaints mais ça n'a pas changé. Dans l'autre semaine, ils en ont ramassé un peu mais jamais assez pour pouvoir marcher sur la plage. Par contre vis-à-vis le Ambar, les algues étaient ramassées. Nous sommes déçus de n'avoir pu marcher comme l'an passé au Onyx. Attention à un représentant de compagnie, il vend des excursions plus dispendieuses que la publicité de sa cie avec des avantages qui n'existent pas. Si tu te plains, le patron va communiquer avec toi par courriel, j'en ai reçu un de : dominicanarepresenta@gmail.com c'est du bidon.
#17 Majestic Colonial Punta Cana
#17 Majestic Colonial Punta Cana
Punta Cana
Dominican Republic
457 reviews
Majestic colonial
I came to the majestic colonial for 5 days and stayed in the colonial club section. When we first arrived it was a bit chaotic. There wasn't really someone directing what to do. A staff member finally stoped us for our info after a few minutes for being confused but she wasn't pleasant at all. She had a bit of an attitude which was off putting. We were taken to the colonial club lounge to check in and that took almost 40 mins between our group of 5. When we got our room we met our butler Louise who is the best staff member ever. Our room was what we saw on the pictures and clean so we were happy with that. My sister had to get a new room on day 2 because it reeked of mould and was causing her asthma to act up. My cousin has to get a new room on day 3 because the ceiling above the toilet started pouring toilet water from upstairs at 3 AM. The room service is horrible. The food is bland, the burger was raw, the desert we ordered wasn't what it said on the menu. You can't order drinks to your room. The bars are pretty good. The drinks were Always delicious. The beach is nice and clean and the vip section isn't really that secluded and pretty much anyone can sit there because no one is making sure it's only vip coming in but the bar there is excellent. The restaurants we tried were quite disappointing, the food is super mid at best. The Japanese restaurant and the buffet honestly have the best food. La gourmet was super disappointing. Taino was just not good and no options when we went at 10pm. We tried the steak place on the beach for dinner and the portions were tiny and we didn't get what we ordered, for example the menu says parmesan fries, but we get regular fries with not even salt on them. This was a problem at all the restaurants.Also the restaurants at the beach have no ac as they are open to outside so eating while sweating buckets isn't fun. The highlight of our stay was going on the wild on excursion. Those people were amazing and we had a whole trip ourselves because no one else booked. I will say we were mad at first because the representative we booked the excursion with told us they would be snorkelling and that's all I wanted to do on my birthday so we booked the excursion and when we get there our guide tells us No snorkeling, but he allowed me to do it anyway because we were the only people in our group and it was my birthday. But if we had been with more people, we would not have gotten to go snorkelling So that was false advertising, and we paid way more because we thought it was included. The pool games were also a really fun time don't miss those at 4pm !
#18 Bahia Principe Grand Aquamarine
#18 Bahia Principe Grand Aquamarine
Punta Cana
Dominican Republic
298 reviews
Not the best, not the worst
We expected a bit more from this resort given the reviews, but were ultimately underwhelmed over all. Pros: The resort itself was nice, well kept, and generally accessible for people with mobility issues. The beach was lovely and clean, but was a bit cramped and had lots of vendors walking around. The shuttle service was a nice, consistent touch. The a la carte restaurants were generally quite good, but you had to make a reservation way in advance on the app to get a spot. Cons: The resort was generally somewhat disorganized, the food was mediocre, entertainment non-existent, and the service was pretty inconsistent. The customer service staff were nice, but we would have liked to have more of the resort features explained to us upon arrival (where we could go and not go, activities etc). Generally staff other than a few people were pretty disengaged most of the time. We also found that our room wasn't cleaned consistently unless we asked and tipped (particularly if we needed extra TP, towels, floor swept, garbage changed - you can't flush TP down the toilet). The room was very dated and bed was hard, but we made the most of it. The buffet was very mediocre at the hotel as well as the beach (food was cold and often not replenished, there wasn't much variety, there was one spoon/tong for multiple dishes of food, had to wait a long time and tip for hot food like meat or eggs, tables often missing cutlery, staff kind of disorganized with a lot of people just wandering around). The entertainment was generally non existent - mostly dancing every night, no shows. They had games by the pool, but seemed to cancel other activities that people may have been interested in (e.g. rum pairing/tasting). Also ended up having stomach issues by the second day (didn't drink the water and travel regularly), and was eaten alive by mosquitos and sand fleas. A few people on our flight said the same thing, and some ended up switching resorts. It seemed more effort and money was put into the neighbouring Ambar than the other resorts. Would not say this is a 4.5-5 star, probably a 3.5.

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