Royalton Bavaro

We are currently in the Royalton and it is absolutely fantastic here!! All of the hotel staff are so friendly!! The pools are amazing the food is really good, as long as you treat all the al a carte staff the same as the buffet staff.. Enmanuel Jimenez who sings along to all the songs of the jazz band and Chayanne who makes the tastiest cocktails from the martini mix bar are the most attentive and friendliest staff we have ever met, they refill your drinks without even asking and are really good to talk to of an evening!! Jordani is really good at delivering drinks to you whilst you’re lounging around the pool!! This is the most relaxing and happiest we have ever been on a holiday!! We love the staff, the pools, the restaurants and all the facilities they provide here at Royalton!! Would 100% recommend staying here!!

This was our 5th visit to this beautiful resort. We were welcomed with connecting swim out rooms and welcome back banners on the doors and some lovely treats inside along with a note signed by the hotel manager. What a wonderful surprise all arranged by the wonderful Diamond Club Manager Claribel Pena. She is a wonderful addition to the Royalton brand and she is the reason we will return for a 6th visit for sure. Special thanks as well to our kind and hard working butler Virgilio who was always smiling! He is incredibly friendly and we were lucky he was assigned to us. The service everywhere was fantastic. We had a cabana for my birthday and it was such a great day. We all enjoyed it and the service was fantastic. I can't wait to return to this resort. We stayed for 14 days and are missing it so much now that we are home.

Travelled to Punta Cana for two weeks with me, my mum, dad and sister. My sisters boyfriend and my best friend joined us for the second week. We all stayed in premium rooms. A very detailed and honest review: Rooms Super clean, always tidy. Great size, really spacious and the showers are amazing. Turn down service was hit and miss but really a luxury that isn’t by any means the end of the world. Always stocked mini bar and fresh towels offered every evening. Beach Sunbeds are very close to the edge of the shore during high tide. We had a lovely guy on the beach reserve our sunbeds for us every day, having said that, not a necessity as there are always spare beds every single day with the rows one or two behind. Seaweed wasn’t much of an issue for us, some days were better than others, its more irritating than anything else, not really anything the staff can do about it. Always a lovely man walking around offering us drinks at all times of the day - Carlos is fantastic! Pool There are 4/5 pools, a flow rider, and a lazy river. All were great, one was a half infinity pool and a few had bars in them. No faults there, staff were always on hand to help when needed or any mess etc was always cleared up. Cleanliness All the restaurants, room, the beach, pools and general whereabouts were always super clean, I never noticed any problems. WiFi was great too. Staff Big shoutouts to: Robert (de Niro) - our favourite and the best waiter Olvis (tepanyaki chef) - awesome! Maximo - the best of the entertainment team (Vibe Team) - super awesome. Carlos - our fav beach buddy Angelo - part of the el ranchero de Pepe team who organised all our excursions. Dr Medicin - the wonderful man who organised all of our spa treatments for us. You all deserve a pay rise!!! Excursions - all organised by Angelo: Trip to Santa Domingo - too many buses to get there and back, some very bizarre stops at petrol stations to change buses, all remotely confusing. An overall good experience but unsure whether or not it would have been better with TUI. Speed boat ride - we took 3 speed boats taking it in turns with our guides to drive, an awesome experience and a first for me, absolutely fab. We stopped at a dolphin (in sea) aquarium - something I am 10,000% against was the only downside, we didnt go into the dolphins but saw them jumping out of the water. The snorkelling stop was honestly amazing and the guides took some great quality photos as well as our own. We stopped at a natural pool too before heading back - beautiful beach and a few rum and cokes in the sea. Finally - trip on the doom buggies - this was amazing!!! Rode around the Forrest caked in mud, stopped at a gorgeous beach, a cenote - a personal favourite and a plantation for coffee, hot chocolate and hand rolled cigars - something i rolled my eyes at in the beginning but generally enjoyed listening to and found fascinating. Spa The BEST massage i have ever had i needed two. They were expensive but i can honestly say well and truly worth it, the spa facilities are also excellent. One of my favourite parts of my visit. Food Buffet: Good service, wide selection of foods, would have liked a bit more Dominican specials. Oceanside: Great for breakfasts for premium club members, lunches too and it turns into the seafood restaurant a night - yummy food, a bit hit and miss on the service, waters always topped up but not our regular drinks. Zen a la carte: Awesome service, great selection, great food. Zen show table: Really good fun, always a laugh and some of the best Asian food ive ever had. Italian: Bit of a strange one, we ended up going 3 times as we really liked the food, service was a bit shoddy to be perfectly honest, i think we were forgotten about quite frequently as it often took us a while to be served. Rio - churrascuria: Service was really quite bad, we went twice and were constantly having to call people over to ask for more meat. Water again, always topped up but drinks weren’t offered frequently. Meat was yummy but just the service for actually getting some food around the table wasn’t great. Hunters Steakhouse: Slow for drinks, great food, honestly fab!! A few complaints: ~ there are markets in the main part of the hotel on various days of the week, the men on the stalls are very demanding, do often tend to drag you in. I understand they are just trying to earn money but are slightly over friendly when it comes to trying to sell you things. It would be much better if they were only one or two evenings per week and you could choose when to go over to them instead of being physically pulled towards the stalls. ~ Service in some of the restaurants really was slow, on one night in the Italian we waited 35 minutes to order a drink, we asked waiters walking passed if they would get us something but were often passed off to someone else who then also forgot. It appears that drinks aren’t very important there, food service didnt take long at all but drinks were always asked for never offered. ~ There are far too many wild animals being handed around the beach, I’m not a fan of monkeys on leads. I’m sure children appreciate the photos but in my opinion it is wrong. ~ Some of the men walking round and trying to sell the inflatable beach activities were lovely but did tend to overstay their welcome near our sunbeds, you wont however have the same issue by the pool.