This resort is beautiful. The entire property from top to bottom is kept very clean. The beach is beautiful, Soft sand, large area, never struggled to find a chair at beach or pool.
We had the club upgrade & enjoyed the club pool & bar. We felt that the initial reception was lacking. We were brought to the club room & no one gave us informaiton, we sat for a bit,unsure as to what to do. Eventually a person from the desk handed us our keys. we had to ask if we could have a drink and where our room was...it was not a warm welcome.
We liked the food at Waves & Tempest. The breakfast buffet was good too. Overall, the food taste was average at best. We were very impressed with the food manager who we met by chance, Urickz Lozano. He was attentive, kind, engaging and very passionate about his job! He deserves a raise. We felt all staff were respectful but many could not understand English. Going to the Ziva side was nice, but we had a hard time knowing what, when & where activities were happening. It would be good if there were more places with resort activies posted, than just an app. especially when wifi is spotty.
Overall would give a 9 out of 10, the biggest drawback being that some of the staff pursued us relentlessly to either book the Blind Butcher dinner 150/person additional or to sit through a seminar for future bookings. Annoying when you have already paid a decent price & upgraded.
frustrated that Expedia did not link us up with E ticket to enter DR.