Не рекомендую! I do not recommend!

We've arrived!

Registration went pretty quickly, we got apartments at number 10113. Next to us, a Russian girl expressively expressed her wishes: “I want sea look! I want two or three floors! No animals! » Hearing this, I once again decided to improve my English. The dark-skinned receptionist said that we could go, and the expressive girl offered to wait a little longer and left. We went for the suitcase, which was already in the hands of another extortionist. Taking the suitcase from him, I asked: "Show me a way to the room number 10113, please. " Realizing that he would not wait for free money from me, the black man waved his hand somewhere in the direction of the pool. So it means: do not pay, look for yourself! Fortunately, we immediately went in the right direction and did not search for long.

That's the number!


The first thing we noticed when we opened the door was the smell of dampness. They came in and took a look. Old, shabby furniture, an old TV, an ugly bathroom with a crooked watering can in the shower, a dilapidated air conditioner.
There were two large double beds in the room, each of which was the following: a rusty base frame, on it a thick mattress, on it another of the same mattress. Two mattresses in total gave a high, fairly comfortable bed. There were 4 pillows per bed! Pillows are so-so, synthetic, but still better than I've seen in other hotels. Entering the room, they threw things away and the first thing they did was to shake up and search the beds for the presence of bed bugs. Not found. But we found cockroaches! There were a lot of them. The mustachioed lair was in a dressing table on which there was a TV. For example, in the evening you come to the room, you lift a sheet of paper, and from under it cockroaches scatter in different directions. I continue ...The large double door to the balcony (the floor was the first, by the way) was closed with a thin pin far from the first time.
It was necessary to align the sashes in a special way, then dance a ritual dance and then try to stick a pin. Surely everyone has heard how a drill works. These are the sounds made by an old half-broken air conditioner. Mold, rust, peeling paint...In three-star hotels, the interior and furniture are much better!

Territory and infrastructure.

Small by Dominican standards. But well-groomed. From the reception to the ocean, about 4 minutes at a calm pace. There are neatly trimmed lawns, beautiful fountains, swings, playgrounds.
The only negative is the labyrinthine paths. Only a few days later we began to navigate the terrain normally. There is also a coffee shop on site that serves coffee (many variations and types), tea, and a variety of cocktails. The choice is large, the quality is not bad, they don’t take extra money for it, everything is included.

So coffee lovers will definitely like it. Something like 3 bars, a pizzeria, 5 restaurants and 2 canteens. There is some kind of entertainment (it seems even not bad) in the evening, but my body for all 8 days treacherously turned off by 20:00 and we really didn’t manage to visit any animation. Well, what can I say, summing up on this topic? Typical Turkey or Egypt, absolutely no difference. Everything is standard and simple, for a long time you will not surprise anyone with 10 bars and 5 pools. Because in the bars in these everything is the same, and everywhere! There are tennis courts, billiards, ping-pong. As for tennis, the time for recording is quite inconvenient - from 8:00 to 16:00, that is, the very heat. At 8:00, of course, everything is scheduled for the week ahead. We tried to play from 10:00 - hell! Billiard tables are broken, cues are crooked.

Food.

At first I wrote "terrible food", but then I thought that it would be more correct to write "they fed badly. " They fed badly! No shrimp or mussels for you.
Only a bony, tasteless fish of an incomprehensible brand. Unripe tomatoes and fruits that are not needed for nothing. I don’t even want to specify vegetables / fruits. One word - disgusting! Yes, there was a range of dishes, but there was practically nothing to choose from. Something more or less edible immediately ended. Even pastries, which all hotels usually shine with (especially 4 and 5 *), were pissant. I read other reviews and am surprised. As if people wrote about a completely different hotel. Well, almost every day I took pasta with cheese and sauces. On food I put a hard trouban! Shame on the owner! Now let's talk about hotel restaurants. There are 5 restaurants on site. As I recall, Italian, Mexican, Brazilian, Japanese and Spanish. All of them are decorated in the appropriate style, they require you to follow the dress code. You need to sign up in advance, so I recommend not to waste time and competently plan your visit to everyone (well, at least for a change).

We managed to visit three. The first was Japanese. Around the cook, 8-10 people are planted, and the Dominican cook begins to show a master class. In front of him is a large heated baking sheet, on which vegetables, rice, meat, chicken, seafood, etc. are placed in turn. All this hisses, sizzles, smokes and exudes aroma. The cook turns the meat over, adds the sauce, divides it into portions, then mixes everything again - he tries, in general. We liked the food there, and the show was good. The next was a Mexican restaurant. Ate-ate...And suddenly an orchestra of 4 people comes close to our table and starts to sing, dance, rattle. This action caused bewilderment in me, but the emotions were positive. The last restaurant we visited was Italian. Ordered a traditional Italian soup. Interesting, I think I'll give it a try. They brought a plate of broth, and a raw egg floats in the broth. Here is such a traditional soup in Italy, according to the Dominicans.
In general, it's also good. The guys in the restaurants are great, it is clear that they are trying. The dishes are good, some even delicious.

Beach and ocean.

The entire coastline of Puntacana is light sand. Not white (and seen whiter! ), of course, as everyone says for some reason, but not yellow either. Sand grains are ordinary, not flour. Again, nothing special! Tall palm trees grow along the coastline, it all looks very cool. But in some places (just on our beach), next to the palm trees, some other coniferous or semi-coniferous trees grow, because of which the sand turns into a dirty prickly mass. The Atlantic was not very clean, but warm. The color of the water in the coastal zone is beautiful turquoise. Heaps of algae were constantly washing up, which were diligently cleaned daily by the servants. In March, there were few people, free sunbeds could always be found, although we always had to take good places before breakfast.