Dominican Republic Holiday Reviews

This complex was a bit away from any Town so it was a taxi ride to anywhere. But the hotel entertainment made up for the lack of going out. All three hotels can be used so theres 3 different shows each night

We didn't leave the hotel but from what we saw on the transfer in there didn't look a lot to see or do.

not masses to do where we stayed. there was a shopping mall but prices where rediculous. there are plenty of beach sports to do if you wanted to, the beaches are beautiful there are miles and miles of white sand.

Bahia Maimon is a small village to the west of the resort. Take a walk the locals are friendly, and the kids love a lolly.

Only drove through but would not visit.LOOKS VERY POOR.We only went for a relaxing week all inclusive in the hotel.

Water park and dolphin experience a must. Beaches lovely and good for kids as plenty of palms to offer shade.

Great resort for dom rep, beach is fantastic, one of the best in the world, beautiful. Resort is great for location, great for entertainment, ok for food, mini bar was filled up every few days, staff friendly, resort clean, all rooms have tv and fridge, hairdryer in bathroom, air con, but bathroom does need updating, pillows lumpy but surprisingly quite comfy, clean rooms and staff maintain the grounds, pool clean and beautiful, resort is large, has a theatre for shows that finish at 11pm, and after that has disco you can get to by little train that goes every 10 mins. Disco-inclusive drinks, dj plays up-to-date music, (the boat is at bottom of resort-not inclusive drinks) all late entertainment is down at the bottom of the resort so quiet after 11pm, security are all around so very safe, 24 restuarant for snacks up by the beach

no real improvements in 13 years possibly worse public beach areas between hotels filthy and strewn with rubbish......roads still dangerous, trying to charge high prices for everything and rip off / rubbish goods are pushed at tourists with a really hard sell........the people seem to have become very materialistic tourists are targets and everyone is trying to flog something or hit you with a hard luck story.....taxi drivers claim never to have change etc but if you just want to laze about a hotel it is fine

Did not venture out of hotel grounds other than on a safari so have no comments on Bavaro as a resort other than the roads are poor.

We didn't venture out the hotel, but did walk along the see front which was lovely.

Lovely calm sea, beaches cleaned every morning.

The only thing here are the 3 Riu hotels and the beach, there is nothing else, it is not safe to venture through the armed gate at the start of the complex. If you like to go outside of your hotel environment do not go here.

We were all inclusive and you need to be in this resort as the hotels are not within walking distance of restuarants and bars. There are lots of trips you can do, we went on the outback safari and the Paradise Island trips- defintely worthwhile! The weather was wetter than we thought it would be at this time of year, we had 3 days out 7 where it rianed pretty much all day.

You cannot really go out of the resort, as you are a big target to the poor people, who earn around $60 a YEAR! so you are a massive target for them, but if you go on excursions with the resort you are safe and really enjoyable! Beaches are NOT white and the sea is not clear as you are not the side of the caribean sea, its like a clean english beach!

a great resort with very friendly locals if a little pushy in trying to sell their wares, also v keen to be tipped, must be the american influence. I went for the windsurfing, but found that the wind didn't pick up until late in the day NOT 12 o/c as you'll be told, subsequently I had a go at kitesurfing and truly got the BUG....

just not enough to do at the resort for any one with young teenagers entertainment was the same every day and not enough things to do. but the girls and boys that run the entertainment were great fun and made the holiday they did thier best and gave a hundred and ten percent. on a night there were shows but they ranged from good to bad and only lasted one hour. Before hand you have very young kids of between 2 and 10 years of age on the stage dancing and having fun. But boring for every one else until the show started which was over to early. The drinks were watered down and you had no real choice if it did not have rum in it or do not like beer then forget it. Also the place was full of canadains that were like a bunch of larger louts. They were rude for the most part and thought that they should not have to wait for any thing. The rooms smelt of dampness and the air con was not worth having on. The beaches were ok but not the greatest i have been too. And for a poor country things were way to expensive on average you would pay 80 US Dollars each for an excursion some things were even more and not worth the money for the most part people were friendly but on the hole as a vacation destanation i would give it a miss