The hotel is super and the Dominican Republic is worth the money

Written: 30 september 2012
Travel time: 26 august — 8 september 2012
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
Rested in this hotel from August 26 to September 8.2012. Gran Bahia Principe Ambar 5*
I'll tell you briefly about the hotel all the pros and cons. I’ll start with the carrier Transaero, the company gets worse and worse every year, launching such a plane is a mockery of people, you can put your feet behind your ears, since there are places only for short men, and the food is slop, well, we suffered for 11 hours because it’s a trifle, small retreat. Now about the hotel, the hotel itself consists of hotel complexes of the same chain - Amabar, Esmiralda, Punta Cana and Bavaro. We rested in the Barn, we got a chic Delux room, there are no complaints about it, this hotel is super for newlyweds, they are greeted with rum, fruit and small presents, it was very nice. The territory is huge, green and well-groomed. The food in the restaurant of our hotel was varied, every day was themed, I really liked what they cooked with me, the pasta was super, there were also seafood, but somehow it was not right, although lobsters were served and shrimp and crabs everything was, that is breakfast, lunch and dinner were chic, there was always something to eat, by the end of the vacation we got a little fed up, and so we were satisfied with the food. I’ll tell you about the advantages of the Barn, those who choose this particular hotel, with this bracelet you can eat almost everywhere, they wanted to go to Punta Cana, Bavaro or Esmeralda, we went a couple of times, we wanted to go to the beaches of these hotels again, don’t want to eat in the bar on the beach of our hotel, we went to the Punta Cana snack bar, with our bracelets everything was possible. About the beach, again, a plus of our beach, we had umbrellas at almost every sunbed, Bavar and Punta Cana didn’t have this, they were all in the open air, and I’ll tell you that even cream won’t help you, the sun is very aggressive. Esmiralda had umbrellas, but there were a lot of children there and there was no silence there, it was quiet and calm, even from other complexes they came to us. Another plus is that only persons after 18 are allowed into our hotel, you will appreciate it later, that is, it weeded out American youth who came to drink and eat drugs, such freaks then settled in with us, but I was even surprised, a call to the reception that the neighbors are noisy, and security immediately appeared, explaining that in this hotel there SHOULD BE SILENCE and everything became quiet and calm (it was pleasing, you are waiting for this year - silence and tranquility). Let's go back to the beach, everywhere the entrance to the ocean was good, though all this was replaced by waves, then quietly, then there were no algae. But still swam enough and the ocean was warm and gentle)))
Like everyone else, well, almost all the newlyweds, we decided to arrange a second wedding, or rather a wedding photo shoot and I will briefly tell and warn those who decide to spend it there. We have been preparing for this for 3 months. We agreed with the organizers about everything we want, discussed everything with the photographer and waited for this day. I’ll tell you right away how you want it to fail, one factor is how not to discuss and don’t bring pictures of what you want at the exit, everything will turn out through one place, the Dominicans are lazy and our Russians simply cannot get results from them, that’s all we got. If you decide to book a salon, it’s not worth it, everything floats from such heat and it’s better to just tint the cilia and highlight the corners of the eyes, that’s EVERYTHING!! ! Take a light dress, because in half an hour everything flows and floats and you want to URGENTLY take it off and plunge into the ocean. Flowers brought us such squalor, we were in shock for a long time, the words to tint the flowers in this country are not like in Moscow, they stupidly fill them with paint from a spray can and everything is ready, and they didn’t give a damn that the flowers were starting to wither. Discuss EVERYTHING to the smallest detail and demand a contract if you decide to do everything yourself. If you want to entrust this to your tour operators, then I can also warn them that everything is banal and simple, but here you need to take a guarantee for the photographer, our friends from the Tez tour then spat before leaving, received a disk from the wedding and laughed and cried for a long time - 5 photos out of 450 is all what happened is normal, the rest is what it was and filled in without editing and did not even bother. So, before you want to do all this a hundred times, cock everything and think over and shake everything from the photographer, since they generally throw it in a terrible way, we were generally shocked by ours, not professionalism and per, even our own pictures when they arrived home, they knocked out another 2 weeks, although they say that 3 days and the work is handed over, although they gave the money right away (DO NOT give the money right away, no matter how good the photographer seems, leave half for the sake of which he will come and give you the work). Well, again, these are trifles, it would be better if they didn’t arrange anything and rested without nerves, but in fact everything didn’t turn out the way you want and sometimes it doesn’t depend on you, but depends on unscrupulous photographers whose sea is there and organizers who really can’t satisfy a whim and what they are paid for, too. Well, in general, that’s all, though it didn’t work out in a nutshell))))
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