Tropical Princess Beach Resort And Spa

There is only 5% of employees that speak English, No service on the pool or beach, you have to go to the bar all the time to get drinks. Everything close early and opens late. If opening time is 9AM it will not open until 9:15. Ice cream place opens at 1PM. Resorts is cute but old (outdated). Overall cleanliness could be much better.

Pros: The beach is beautiful. There was a bar inside one of the pools. The food at the buffet was mostly good, lots of variety, great service. The cocktails are good. There’s a mini golf court. There’s lots if beautiful peacocks everywhere. There’s little trains that transport you around the resort. There’s a creperie that also offers ice cream and good frozen caramel drink. The room was nice, big enough. There’s workers offering pictures at the beach with cute little monkeys, iguanas and parrots. Cons: The lobby is too far away from the rooms. The alcohol is watered down like most all inclusives. The cleaning lady in our rooms did a poor job. We put the sign on the bed so she would change the sheets but she still didn’t. Eventually she changed the sheets but never changed the pillow covers. Also there were no clean towels available one of the days she cleaned the room so we had to wait to shower. The ac broke down one day but it was fixed quickly enough. The door to the room looks not safe enough. One of the locks on the balcony doors was broken so it would not lock. There is way too many employees of the hotel approaching you to sell excursion at the beach. They’re very persistant and some of them won’t leave you alone until you say no many times. We we’re approached by 3 of them in the span of 5 minutes which makes it very hard to relax. There is a company called Royal holidays in that resort. They made our experience annoying and frustrating for a whole 2 hours. They try to sell you a membership for their company that promotes a “cheaper” way to travel. It’s actual a scam in the end they offer you a very high yearly fee. They try to get you drunk pressuring you to make a sale. We only went to the meeting because we felt like it was the only way for them to stop approaching us the rest of the week. But we were wrong, they still bothered us everyday that we passed in front of their Royal Holidays building. The first approach I had with Royal Holiday made me feel unsafe. I was walking alone in the day time, my boyfriend was sleeping in the room. I passed by a group of Royal Holidays employees. One of them looked at me up and down and asked me if i was alone. I said no and i kept walking. Another employee asked me the same question and i said i came with my boyfriend and he was sleeping in the room. The employee then said “oh it’s okay you can say you’re single”. Then he grabbed me by the shoulder, said “Come we’ll go find your boyfriend” and was bringing me the opposite way of my room. I had not told him where my room was. I said no and left. In that moment i thought about all the girls traveling on their on to Dominican Republic and I felt scared for them and myself. All this happened inside the resort where you are supposed to feel the safest. Our experience at the Bresilian a la carte restaurant Rodizzio was just disappointing. First they sat us at a table and we waited for about 15 minutes with no menu and no information about how it works. There seemed to be some food, it looked like a buffet and we were confused. Eventually the other guests got up to serve themselves some food. I had to ask the waitress about what was going on and she informed me that we could go get sides and that they would pass and serve the meat. My boyfriend asked for a drink but they never brought it. I was offered wine, I picked white but was never told what i was drinking. The wine tasted horrible. The first meat we got was good. Then we got chicken and it was very dry, the third meat was dry as well. The waitress took forever to give use the next meat passing everywhere except our table. The service was not personalized. We had enough so we got up and walked in the rain to the buffet... One day we wanted to return our beach towels to get new clean ones but there was none. There is a lot of trash laying on the beach on the sand and some plastic cups in one of the pools. Overall we had a great time at the beach. We went to Saona island it was gorgeous. Santo domingo was nice too. But we wished we would had the chance to truly relax and unwind at the beach without being bothered every 5 minutes. Also the Royal Holidays should not even be inside the resort and im amazed that the Tropical princess hotel allows it to be. We will not be back...