Great holiday for the money

Written: 18 may 2009
Travel time: 24 march — 4 april 2009
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
in the hotel Gran Bahia Principe 5 * Dominican Republic Punta Cana rested with his family in late March-early April 2009. I liked everything! The hotel is huge, but you do not feel a huge number of people, because. the territory of the hotel is large, the food is super, a lot, delicious, from 6 am to night....Whatever drinks you want....(although in some reviews I read that you can’t interrogate anything except rum, we didn’t have such problems that we asked , then they gave it, without money, although then they left a tip) in the rooms there was coffee (coffee maker), tea....a bar....a jacuzzi (although almost not needed). Beds are changed every day. Food is everywhere, as much as you want and always. They did not find anything so specific....Everything is like ours. The variety is huge, we haven’t tried everything in 10 days....The bar in the room, full of drinks, beer and mineral water, is updated every day (I had to wash my hair with mineral water, everything is included in one word). The room was changed without any problems (I did not like the first floor and the view from the window), without additional payments. The local population is friendly (they smile and sing songs even when they mop the asphalt at 5 in the morning). There is nothing special to see in the country, but excursions to the islands are super....But a little expensive $ 100-200. So if you want to travel, then you need to have a reserve, especially if you are with your family, then you immediately get one excursion for decent money. And so there is nothing more to spend money on, except to buy coffee, but it is there $ 5 per pack, cigars, rum... Indeed, everything is unreasonably expensive (souvenirs, etc. ). Animation is constantly, although we still didn’t have the strength to go to all the performances and concerts in the evenings, but there were a lot of people there (I couldn’t even believe that everyone lives in the hotel, where are they all during the day ??? ), naturally not in Russian , otherwise many are indignant that nothing is clear, there are not many of us there and the local population speaks Spanish, English with difficulty... Discos every day from 22 to 23 nights on the square live local tunes, and after 23 to 2 nights a normal disco.... you can dance, there are Dominican boys (on purpose) who do not let girls get bored at discos and will learn local dances with you....
Some write that there were not enough sunbeds and lay on towels. I have never seen such a thing. Yes, there are a lot of people, but you can always find a place....And given the time difference of seven hours, they still got up early, so the beach was empty.
The ocean was always clean, although it was stormy, the beach was clean. No algae after the storm, they probably clean it up....there is a wild beach nearby, so we saw some algae there.

In general, you can probably find cons if you look for them.
Yes, in one review I read that they did not change the bed and they slept on a holey sheet for 11 days. I can’t even imagine this, they changed every day without reminders, the beds are excellent (in my opinion, satin, very pleasant to the touch). True, the cleaning time is extended in time, that is, in reality, the room can be cleaned after dinner, which is sometimes inconvenient. . .
Yes, in the pictures the hotel is not at all green....strange, it is very green there, probably the pictures are old... .
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