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  This hotel is a perfect place to unwind and recharge.

  After a week on a cruise ship, we had a dreamy stay at this place. The food was great, but the quality and variety of the buffet started to decline from the middle of our stay. The pools were nice, but there weren’t enough sunbeds around the main pool. However, there were plenty at the relax pool, so it wasn’t as relaxing as it could have been!! The beach was super clean, and the room was spotless. Spa services were being asked for repeatedly, but they weren’t too pushy, understood no and moved on. Overall, it was a great place to rest and recharge after our cruise.

  Feb 18, 2025
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  The Good, Bad and the Ugly...

  We have visited many Hyatt 'Dreams' hotels so knew what to expect and this delivers on this standards like most do. 👍 Good points: • Room was excellent & clean (air con worked well), great & friendly & regular house keeping (they fixed safe within 10mins of a call) • Good choice of food in the buffet restaurant (nice sitting outside for breakfast & lunch) and a good number of A la carte options without the needing to book (you didn’t need to wait long) • A number of water sports & activities available but you don’t have to get involved if you don’t want • 4 main pools (if you include the preferred club at the top of the hotel), so you can find a quiet pool if you like • When the hotel was nearly full, you may have an issue getting a sun bed (at certain pools) with shade due to people saving them before 7am! • People generally come around to get you drinks when you are at the pools (which was nice but bars aren’t far away) • No wrist bands or limited to 1 beach towel • Beach was very clean and lovely • Evening entertainment was varied, in our opinion very good (sometimes can be impacted by the weather if it rains) • Staff both friendly and helpful across the hotel • Close enough to get to the Capital city from here, which we did on a day tour. • A few shops of site and generally reasonable prices (unless its sun cream!) • Cleaned the pool regularly Bad: As stated on the AI summary as well…. • Service could be great or bad….waited in swim up pool bar 15mins to get served as nobody was pool side. • Lunch times in the buffet, often ended up with just water, as my soft drink never arrived by time we had eaten our meal. • Got asked constantly if we wanted to go to the spa, increased Q throughout our stay! • They say you can’t reserve beds but people did from very early and often not using them until late afternoon. • Some of the sun beds weren’t the most comfy to lie down on • Mozzies got us around our swim up pool area so be warned! Ugly (well illness): This was a concern from Facebook groups we had read before we came out so we were aware, however we were both very ill (on separate occasions 5 days apart) after eating at the Italian restaurant and neither of us had eaten anything risky like fish. This ruined parts of our holiday for both of us for a few days each and meant we didn’t enjoy the full holiday/food and drink. Hotel in fairness were good when we flagged to them but we weren’t the only ones to experience these issues. Overall, a good location and hotel but the illness impacted our enjoyment here (we have been to Dom Rep previously without issue) hence only giving them a 3 rating otherwise it would have been a 4 score.

  Feb 17, 2025
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  Beautiful beach and resort

  This was my first time visiting this part of the island as I usually go to Punta Cana and have been to Puerto Plata in the past. First off, the airport was the best experience as it is smaller and not busy. The resort is only about a 20 minute or so drive from the airport which also is a perk. The resort itself is beautiful. Several Spanish hacienda style buildings within easy walking distance to the pools, beach and restaurants. Excellent service from all of the staff who really are genuinely nice and go out of their way to help you. The beach is stunning and far nicer than Bavaro beach in my opinion. Soft powdery sand and clear, calm water. Great for kids and families. There are alot of activities during the day and evening and entertainment. We did the spa and it was wonderful. Beautiful hydrotherapy area with outdoor pools. Having pointed out all of the positives of this resort, my only issue was the food and drinks. This is why I can't give it 5 stars. Overall I found the food to be bland and underseasoned. I did enjoy Portofino and Bordeaux restaurants as they were the highlights with respect to the food. The main buffetsl was nothing special and Seaside Grill was just awful. The buffet in the Flying Fish restaurant in the Preferred section across the road was much better than the main buffet restaurant. Some of the drinks lacked flavour and the wine was not drinkable except for the red wine in Bordeaux. Also, I normally enjoy mimosas when I travel south but the orange juice was not fresh and tasted like a mix. I know I sound picky but I travel fairly often and have been to many resorts throughout the Caribbean and the food was just not good. It also upset my stomach as well as my friends all week. I don't know if it's something they use in their cooking but it definitely didn't agree with me. Having said all of this, I would recommend the resort as it's great for families and truly is beautiful. If they improve the food, I would go back.

  Feb 16, 2025
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  You will literally be sick!!!!

  After 28 years of marriage my husband and I decided to take a vacation just the two of us without the kids. This was not a good idea. Thoughts of Dreams Dominicas La Romana filled our heads and then reality set in. Cockroaches at the omelette station walking around. February 11th my husband got food poisoning and a bacterial infection to the point he was septic and we were in the hospital for 12 hours. Then last night food poisoning hit me something fierce. No time to rest because we had to leave and head home. Don’t go to this resort. I will never go back and I’m heading to bed now.

  Feb 16, 2025
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  Excellent hotel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  Amazing stay, I am pleased to share my wonderful experience at this wonderful hotel. An amazing and fun week with a beautiful beach. The hotel has very fun entertainment in which I had to participate in everything and obviously my children too. The hotel is very interesting as they also have a Club for children where you can leave them during the day And so we can do adult activities while the kids are away. I did aerobics, cycling, zumba, dance class, I was able to learn a little Spanish, I also participated in darts, volleyball, etc. The animation was excellent. My kids also had an amazing time, they were busy all day doing activities with the sweet Cherry🍒🌺 from the kids club, she was great and very nice with our kids and we are so grateful. We hope to see her on our next trip here to Dreams. Excellent hotel 10/10 ⭐️

  Feb 16, 2025