Hotel for 4 points out of 5

Written: 22 february 2019
Travel time: 13 — 23 february 2019
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This is our first time in the Dominican Republic. The time difference is quite significant - 10 hours, this is a big minus, but the mild temperate climate without temperature drops and sweltering heat is a plus. We came here as two families with 4 children aged 5 and 6. I will say right away and honestly - there is nothing for Russian-speaking children !!! ! The meager animation that is available is in Spanish and it is just awful! ! For example, they gather all the children in a circle and begin to pass the hat to the music, on whom the music stops, they ask the name and send them to the side to sit on the floor. This action lasts 50 minutes!! ! And the music plays the same and exactly 45 seconds each time!! ! For the children who caught the hat first, the whole event was held sitting on the tiled floor! ! When all the children named their names, the animators danced one dance and all the announced mini-disco ended. There are practically no toys in the children's club, a tiled floor, parents are not allowed in, and a black woman who never smiled watches over the children. On the ice cream holiday, for example, they made an application in 5 minutes and said goodbye. The playground outside is good, but there are a swarm of bees on it, so there is no way to go there. On the beach, children's animation is represented by the same unfortunate animators who do not know how to play with children at all and, for example, suggested that children on the beach blow up balloons !!!! ! In the evenings, after the minidisco, there are performances - there was a magician's show - not bad enough, a circus performance, a Michael Jackson show, but due to the time difference (at our house it is 6 in the morning), the children already watched it with difficulty and fell asleep. At the same time, live music is played on the terrace. Aquamarine is located next to our room (74), there is an incendiary disco that we listened to for half the night, but the entrance is closed to the guests of the Bavaro and Punta Cana hotels, you will also not get to the Barn, Esmeralda and behind a fence with barbed wire is Fantasia, where the entrance only through security. So do not believe that the entire territory of the hotel will be available to you. Regarding food: every day for dinner a different cuisine, but in general it is represented by a small number of dishes. Always available Mexican pump, pizza, meat mainly chicken and pork. Fresh juices only in the mornings in assortment, the rest of the time only orange. The breakfasts are good, amazing omelettes are cooked on the spot, excellent muffins and pastries. Personally, I liked donuts with custard and white chocolate, very tasty. From fruits pineapple, papaya, tangerine, watermelon, melon, something sour (I don’t know what it is! ), sometimes grapes. No apples or apple juice! Now about the beach. For so many hotels, it is small in the sense that there are always no sunbeds. If you need a sunbed, then come before breakfast and take it, as well as by the pool, because there will simply be no places after. At the same time, you will see half of the empty sunbeds occupied by someone.... People mostly sunbathe, very few go into the ocean, most hang out by the pool. During the whole time, one can observe a picture of the migration of vacationers along the ocean, and this process is constant. The territory of the hotel is quite large and it is more convenient to move around it on plying electric vehicles. The water park is located in the most remote place and is designed only for kids, the depth is 40 cm. Opposite the water park there is a rope park and minigolf. Wi-fi works in the lobby, in restaurants, in the water park, miniclub and caught on our balcony (I think at the expense of Aquamarine), the hotel offers paid Wi-Fi. Cleaning in the rooms is not bad, but they may simply not come to you and not respond to the request to clean. From TV channels there are RTR and ORT.
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