REVIEW
Republic of Dominican Republic, Punta Cana Resort
PUNTA CANA PRINCESS Hotel
Sergey and Elena, Podolsk, Russia.
Visiting time: 11-21.11. 2009
We understand that you have already read a lot about him.
Therefore, first about the main thing that you could not find in the reviews you read and officially published information:
So, at present, out of the four hotels of the PRINCESS system, two: “CARIBE CLAB P…” and “TROPICAL P…” are under repair and, apparently, for a long time, hence two consequences:
1) You, of course, will not be able to use their infrastructure, but you will be able to use the BAVARO PRINCESS infrastructure for free, which was not there before;
2) "PUNTA CANA PRINCESS", although it remained a hotel without children, but temporarily will not be as quiet as described; part of the entertainment has been moved here, so, say, in the evening in the bar at the reception it will not be possible to sit quietly; although they finish early, no later than 23-00 locally.
Well, this is a note, and now the impressions.
The main thing: WE REGRET THAT WE GO - NOW, IN COMPARISON, EVERYTHING WILL BE WORSE.
Okay, these are emotions. Much has already been written about the Dominican Republic and the hotel, so we just want to emphasize something; someone might object.
SO:
- of course, the OCEAN AND THE BEACH is the main thing, there is nothing to add, it is already worth flying for this;
- TERRITORY: in fact, not very big, but due to the fences camouflaged with greenery, it seems huge. Everything is very beautiful: palm trees, coconuts overhead……. There are no bad rooms there: they will not put you in a room with a view of the garbage dump, the construction site or the technological zone. When checking in for $ 50, they asked to give only not the first floor: safety, dampness, etc. - they did it. There are no mosquitoes there, they poison very actively at night: at dawn you go out to the ocean - it stinks, even hang an ax, but it doesn’t interfere with sleep - the air conditioner intakes are located correctly, the room doesn’t smell at all.
Of all the living creatures, a very small lizard once ran in, lived for a day under the closet and asked back, probably, she wanted to eat.
-NUMBER: everything is in order, everything works, the furniture, of course, is not made of Karelian birch, and it is not necessary, anyway, they only came to sleep. Bring a bottle opener from the minibar. But what kind of fool came up with the idea of dividing the sleeping area and the recreation area by level into two steps? During the day, when you are not there anyway, it can be beautiful; and in the dark and break your neck for a short time.
-CONTINGENT: You can count the Russians on the fingers, the rest are a complete international: all of Europe, Canada, the States, Brazil (?! ), Chile, Argentina, it seems there was even one Japanese.
- FOOD: compared to Egypt, at first glance, it may not seem so diverse; but this is only due to the lack of a variety of salads, which are still prepared from cuts that were not eaten yesterday.
And so everything is fine: there is always pork: they dry out the beef, and it is difficult to spoil the pork if desired. Seafood, juices, ...come on, a lot has been written about this. What is important, it is really "all inclusive". No restrictions, such as: “until such and such an hour it is free, and then for money. ” If it's open, it means it's sealed. Go to meet the dawn on the ocean even before the official breakfast time (and this will be the case, at least in the early days - the difference in time zones) in a restaurant by the beach you can eat some yogurt, a bun, drinks - it is around the clock. On the beach, between breakfast and lunch, they constantly grill meat, chicken, and who knows what else. Interestingly, in the main restaurant, the names of dishes are written in Russian as well. It is very touching, looking at sausages, to read that they really are “sausages”.
We didn’t go to “a la carte” restaurants (by the way, now there without an appointment) - we heard a lot of reviews from the Russian brothers: you order incomprehensibly what (there is no menu in Russian), you wait incomprehensibly how long, ate and think - and now you should have dinner at a normal restaurant, especially since everything is the same there.
-STAFF: Someone said they were lazy. I can’t speak for the entire Dominican Republic, but as for this hotel, it’s not true. Exceptional politeness, friendliness and at the same time unobtrusiveness - without idiotic questions “how are you? ”(again, a comparison with Egypt), in a word, the atmosphere of an endless holiday. You enter a restaurant - immediately “do you smoke or don’t smoke”, “sit down here”, “what will you drink”, then constantly “do you need anything else? ”, even if the restaurant is already formally closed. Before the trip, we printed out a Russian-Spanish phrasebook for ourselves - it was not required: we got by with three words “hola”, “grasias” and “no comprendo”.
If you speak English in a minimum volume, it will be enough. True, it may not be the case everywhere. Been to BAVARO PRINCESS: once in the evening on the "shuttle" to the performance (nonsense) and a couple of times walking along the beach, so it's possible that they have five people waiting at the bar, and the staff is doing some more important things - for "PUNTA CANA PRINCESS" this is nonsense. Perhaps this is the trouble of large hotels, where guests for staff are a gray mass; and we all had it like relatives - the bartenders already on the third day know who needs what.
-POOL - none. Apparently, it has remained since the time when children were allowed to go there - the depth is 1.2 m. And is it needed? You have to be a complete pervert or a German to wallow in an incomprehensible puddle fifty paces from one of the best ocean beaches in the world.
For a change, sometimes they came there to a bar with chairs under water to look at people, listen, feel the atmosphere; and even then it is better to do it after 13-00, when the same Germans move in amicable rows to eat.
-BEACH. Beauty has already been mentioned. There will be enough sun loungers for everyone, but there may not be places under the fungi by 10 in the morning. But in the first days, you will still get up early, but when you get a little tan, it doesn’t matter, in extreme cases, you can cool off in a bar on the beach. And further! Do not try to take places on the first line. According to local laws, the coastline belongs to everyone, even if there is even Abramovich's castle three times nearby (which is what local residents from the hinterland, especially on weekends, use - they walk in herds along the coast back and forth). But where the mushrooms are, these are guys, excuse me, private property - the guards are on the alert.
- EXCURSIONS - expensive.
Here everyone decides for himself in accordance with age, health status and the thickness of the wallet. We were in Santa Domingo (quite interesting with a good guide) and in the new zoo (still under construction, if you go, it’s better not to regret the extra $ 70 for swimming in the ocean with dolphins)
-WHAT IS BAD, and, alas, irremovable: a short daylight hours - the whole year 12 hours plus or minus a little bit, but there's nothing to be done here - almost the equator.
-TEZ TOUR - no complaints, except that a bus could have been given a little more for an excursion to Santa Domingo - the path is still not close. Meeting at the airport is ok. Delivery guide Irina from Ukraine will not leave the hotel until she is sure that you have been accommodated, and will help with the translation into Spanish at the reception.
Special thanks to our hotel guide Lucy from Cuba: having learned that we, in a hurry, forgot the charger for the mobile phone and were left with practically no connection, the next day she brought her plus gave an adapter for their sockets (when leaving, they decided to return it - here it is not for us what, and there someone will help). BTW, BE AWARE!
Those adapters that are sold there for $3-5 are just adapters from their flat contacts to our round ones, but not 127/220V transformers, so there can be no question of fully charging devices. With a mobile phone, if you don’t keep it constantly on, still back and forth, but for photo and video equipment we recommend having a spare battery - we didn’t have enough for a day, moreover, at the right time.
-Now about the MOST UNPLEASANT - this is a / c "Transaero". We do not mean the flight crew, which honestly performs its not at all easy work, but the management, to which we are now addressing. LORD!
How is it possible? On the official website of your Company, it is written in black and white that “a four-class service system operates on the B-747 and B-777 aircraft of the Transaero airline”, which includes, among other things, a premium economy class (+ $ 25 in one end per capita) is 10 extra centimeters between the rows and a greater angle of inclination of the backs, and with a 12-hour flight, as they say, “this is not nonsense at all, my friend Iceman. ” And what do we see in reality? 11.11. 2009 Departure from DMD. Instead of 777.747 is available (by the way, on Wednesdays and Saturdays from October 26, the 777 mentioned in your schedule has never, in my opinion, ever flown). Well, God bless him, 747 is also a good car, but that's just the same class of places there was not there. Accident? So the representative of the a / c said - they say, at the last moment they gave another board. Let's say. But 21.11. 2009 when departing from Punta Cana - the same situation.
The consequences are completely unmotivated flight delays for an hour or more: the weather is great, the plane is standing and breathing, I don’t want to fly, and people are standing, cursing at the entrance, trying to get what they paid for, and there is a window for departure will close. Lord! What, is this a systematic scam? The expectation that a person who paid $ 4-5 thousand or more for a vacation will not sue because of $ 100 for two (plus, hypothetically, the same amount for moral damage - our courts will not give more)? Well, then your calculation is flawless. We definitely won't, there's no time. Only if you happen to read this - let you be ashamed if this feeling is familiar to you.
- Okay, let's not end on a bad note. Have a nice holiday. The choice is yours. But we, if we had a chance to go to the Dominican Republic again, would again choose PUNTA CANA PRINCESS - they don’t look for good from good.
GOOD LUCK!
Republic of Dominican Republic, Punta Cana Resort
PUNTA CANA PRINCESS Hotel
Sergey and Elena, Podolsk, Russia.
Visiting time: 11-21.11. 2009
We understand that you have already read a lot about him.
Therefore, first about the main thing that you could not find in the reviews you read and officially published information:
So, at present, out of the four hotels of the PRINCESS system, two: “CARIBE CLAB P…” and “TROPICAL P…” are under repair and, apparently, for a long time, hence two consequences:
1) You, of course, will not be able to use their infrastructure, but you will be able to use the BAVARO PRINCESS infrastructure for free, which was not there before;
2) "PUNTA CANA PRINCESS", although it remained a hotel without children, but temporarily will not be as quiet as described; part of the entertainment has been moved here, so, say, in the evening in the bar at the reception it will not be possible to sit quietly; although they finish early, no later than 23-00 locally.
Well, this is a note, and now the impressions.
The main thing: WE REGRET THAT WE GO - NOW, IN COMPARISON, EVERYTHING WILL BE WORSE.
Okay, these are emotions. Much has already been written about the Dominican Republic and the hotel, so we just want to emphasize something; someone might object.
SO:
- of course, the OCEAN AND THE BEACH is the main thing, there is nothing to add, it is already worth flying for this;
- TERRITORY: in fact, not very big, but due to the fences camouflaged with greenery, it seems huge. Everything is very beautiful: palm trees, coconuts overhead……. There are no bad rooms there: they will not put you in a room with a view of the garbage dump, the construction site or the technological zone. When checking in for $ 50, they asked to give only not the first floor: safety, dampness, etc. - they did it. There are no mosquitoes there, they poison very actively at night: at dawn you go out to the ocean - it stinks, even hang an ax, but it doesn’t interfere with sleep - the air conditioner intakes are located correctly, the room doesn’t smell at all.
Of all the living creatures, a very small lizard once ran in, lived for a day under the closet and asked back, probably, she wanted to eat.
-NUMBER: everything is in order, everything works, the furniture, of course, is not made of Karelian birch, and it is not necessary, anyway, they only came to sleep. Bring a bottle opener from the minibar. But what kind of fool came up with the idea of dividing the sleeping area and the recreation area by level into two steps? During the day, when you are not there anyway, it can be beautiful; and in the dark and break your neck for a short time.
-CONTINGENT: You can count the Russians on the fingers, the rest are a complete international: all of Europe, Canada, the States, Brazil (?! ), Chile, Argentina, it seems there was even one Japanese.
- FOOD: compared to Egypt, at first glance, it may not seem so diverse; but this is only due to the lack of a variety of salads, which are still prepared from cuts that were not eaten yesterday.
And so everything is fine: there is always pork: they dry out the beef, and it is difficult to spoil the pork if desired. Seafood, juices, ...come on, a lot has been written about this. What is important, it is really "all inclusive". No restrictions, such as: “until such and such an hour it is free, and then for money. ” If it's open, it means it's sealed. Go to meet the dawn on the ocean even before the official breakfast time (and this will be the case, at least in the early days - the difference in time zones) in a restaurant by the beach you can eat some yogurt, a bun, drinks - it is around the clock. On the beach, between breakfast and lunch, they constantly grill meat, chicken, and who knows what else. Interestingly, in the main restaurant, the names of dishes are written in Russian as well. It is very touching, looking at sausages, to read that they really are “sausages”.
We didn’t go to “a la carte” restaurants (by the way, now there without an appointment) - we heard a lot of reviews from the Russian brothers: you order incomprehensibly what (there is no menu in Russian), you wait incomprehensibly how long, ate and think - and now you should have dinner at a normal restaurant, especially since everything is the same there.
-STAFF: Someone said they were lazy. I can’t speak for the entire Dominican Republic, but as for this hotel, it’s not true. Exceptional politeness, friendliness and at the same time unobtrusiveness - without idiotic questions “how are you? ”(again, a comparison with Egypt), in a word, the atmosphere of an endless holiday. You enter a restaurant - immediately “do you smoke or don’t smoke”, “sit down here”, “what will you drink”, then constantly “do you need anything else? ”, even if the restaurant is already formally closed. Before the trip, we printed out a Russian-Spanish phrasebook for ourselves - it was not required: we got by with three words “hola”, “grasias” and “no comprendo”.
If you speak English in a minimum volume, it will be enough. True, it may not be the case everywhere. Been to BAVARO PRINCESS: once in the evening on the "shuttle" to the performance (nonsense) and a couple of times walking along the beach, so it's possible that they have five people waiting at the bar, and the staff is doing some more important things - for "PUNTA CANA PRINCESS" this is nonsense. Perhaps this is the trouble of large hotels, where guests for staff are a gray mass; and we all had it like relatives - the bartenders already on the third day know who needs what.
-POOL - none. Apparently, it has remained since the time when children were allowed to go there - the depth is 1.2 m. And is it needed? You have to be a complete pervert or a German to wallow in an incomprehensible puddle fifty paces from one of the best ocean beaches in the world.
For a change, sometimes they came there to a bar with chairs under water to look at people, listen, feel the atmosphere; and even then it is better to do it after 13-00, when the same Germans move in amicable rows to eat.
-BEACH. Beauty has already been mentioned. There will be enough sun loungers for everyone, but there may not be places under the fungi by 10 in the morning. But in the first days, you will still get up early, but when you get a little tan, it doesn’t matter, in extreme cases, you can cool off in a bar on the beach. And further! Do not try to take places on the first line. According to local laws, the coastline belongs to everyone, even if there is even Abramovich's castle three times nearby (which is what local residents from the hinterland, especially on weekends, use - they walk in herds along the coast back and forth). But where the mushrooms are, these are guys, excuse me, private property - the guards are on the alert.
- EXCURSIONS - expensive.
Here everyone decides for himself in accordance with age, health status and the thickness of the wallet. We were in Santa Domingo (quite interesting with a good guide) and in the new zoo (still under construction, if you go, it’s better not to regret the extra $ 70 for swimming in the ocean with dolphins)
-WHAT IS BAD, and, alas, irremovable: a short daylight hours - the whole year 12 hours plus or minus a little bit, but there's nothing to be done here - almost the equator.
-TEZ TOUR - no complaints, except that a bus could have been given a little more for an excursion to Santa Domingo - the path is still not close. Meeting at the airport is ok. Delivery guide Irina from Ukraine will not leave the hotel until she is sure that you have been accommodated, and will help with the translation into Spanish at the reception.
Special thanks to our hotel guide Lucy from Cuba: having learned that we, in a hurry, forgot the charger for the mobile phone and were left with practically no connection, the next day she brought her plus gave an adapter for their sockets (when leaving, they decided to return it - here it is not for us what, and there someone will help). BTW, BE AWARE!
Those adapters that are sold there for $3-5 are just adapters from their flat contacts to our round ones, but not 127/220V transformers, so there can be no question of fully charging devices. With a mobile phone, if you don’t keep it constantly on, still back and forth, but for photo and video equipment we recommend having a spare battery - we didn’t have enough for a day, moreover, at the right time.
-Now about the MOST UNPLEASANT - this is a / c "Transaero". We do not mean the flight crew, which honestly performs its not at all easy work, but the management, to which we are now addressing. LORD!
How is it possible? On the official website of your Company, it is written in black and white that “a four-class service system operates on the B-747 and B-777 aircraft of the Transaero airline”, which includes, among other things, a premium economy class (+ $ 25 in one end per capita) is 10 extra centimeters between the rows and a greater angle of inclination of the backs, and with a 12-hour flight, as they say, “this is not nonsense at all, my friend Iceman. ” And what do we see in reality? 11.11. 2009 Departure from DMD. Instead of 777.747 is available (by the way, on Wednesdays and Saturdays from October 26, the 777 mentioned in your schedule has never, in my opinion, ever flown). Well, God bless him, 747 is also a good car, but that's just the same class of places there was not there. Accident? So the representative of the a / c said - they say, at the last moment they gave another board. Let's say. But 21.11. 2009 when departing from Punta Cana - the same situation.
The consequences are completely unmotivated flight delays for an hour or more: the weather is great, the plane is standing and breathing, I don’t want to fly, and people are standing, cursing at the entrance, trying to get what they paid for, and there is a window for departure will close. Lord! What, is this a systematic scam? The expectation that a person who paid $ 4-5 thousand or more for a vacation will not sue because of $ 100 for two (plus, hypothetically, the same amount for moral damage - our courts will not give more)? Well, then your calculation is flawless. We definitely won't, there's no time. Only if you happen to read this - let you be ashamed if this feeling is familiar to you.
- Okay, let's not end on a bad note. Have a nice holiday. The choice is yours. But we, if we had a chance to go to the Dominican Republic again, would again choose PUNTA CANA PRINCESS - they don’t look for good from good.
GOOD LUCK!
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