wonderful honeymoon wedding 8/22 wife spent 8/23-8/30 secrets excellence, overall recommend hotel honeymooners, noted great time bad time depending weather assigned room knowledge spanish open mind, not expensive place stay week, alot money, no way 5 star resort like ritz carlton plaza hotel far island resorts rated appropriately rated 5 star resort, flew usa 3000 newark punta cana, charter flight fine, in-and-out airport w/in hour, used prieto tours transrportation to-and-from hotel, good idea far people using apple people meant chaos, whisked away air-conditioned minivan 2 people van, no problems, arrival hotel approximately 11pm saturday night met hotel staff no problem getting room course 11pm, honeymoon package supposed king bed didnt, told request room change following day, assigned building 12 not good, furthest buildings away main hotel area beach, 1st floor garden view disappointed location view, room appointed, package came robes wine/fruit/flowers, received room nothing impressive dont robes nice oversized, safe worked fine wet bar stocked water soda juice beer, room clean sheets clean thread count not impressive 5 star hotel excellent sheets pillows, important patio doors terrible locks not secure, basis successful room upgrade, basically simply slide door open slightest effort door locked position, valuable items jewelry laptop digital camera sporting equipment none safe sliding patio doors insecure, immediately contacted hotel desk 11:40am complaint, having ability speak spanish helps alot, basic working knowledge spanish staff appreciates attempt language, course complaint went unresolved night given time evening, ordered room service delivered half hour, sunday morning approached desk laptop hand explained disappointment room security sure explain room beautiful happy, complain location not going far explaining fear safety stronger argument, worked, upgraded floor pool/ocean view cathedral ceiling 4 post-bed, patio lock course terrible not concerned scaling wall rob, grounds immaculate maintained, absolutely beautiful, nicer ritz carltons 4 season resorts, sprawling layout beautiful beach combed early morning, sand clean small shells nothing cut feet, water rough times sand water smooth wade water pretty far water waist, restaurants restaurant good, salmon fresh steak prepared bottle wine fine, service excellent, wait staff really tries, mexican restaurant good states mexico, restaurants average japanese italian seafood/mediteranean steakhouse, knowing spanish restaurants does help busboys little knowledge english, waiters/waitresses host/hostesses knew english perform jobs, casino blackjack baby, love game, make customary trips casinos states pleasure play low stakes tables 5 100 bucks, wife played fun, mind guests young not strict card players, saw stupid players lose money b/c didnt know play game splitting 10s, not taking hits, gambler bothered playing dont know play valium sitting table, said, sports plenty non-motorized activities, tennis courts good outdoor sports bar mounted televisions pool tables foosball ping-pong daily tournaments, days rain spending plenty time playing ping pong, archery shooting squash racquetball, spa know spanish wont speaking masseuse/masseur huge language barrier, spa nice affordable, unfortunately manicure/pedicure tools not sanitized shared tools wife i. fortunately know hands feet, nightly entertainment average live music, nice disco opens 11:30pm, bars pina coladas fine dont hesitate aks rum choice rum, like malibu rum asked, no problem, pina coladas frozen ordered pool early day guess pina colada machine not froze 11, bugs, bugs, didnt entire week, did rain day maybe kept bugs away, no idea, tips brought 100 dollars 5 dollar bills various tips throught stay, came useful tipping room service getting extra towels having staff pictures horses, did not tip bartenders wait staff nor did expecting tips, brought 200 dollars 20 dollar bills purposes spa staff, massage tipped 20 bucks, hotel photographers staff, various packages 36 pictures honey sell portraits, 60 bucks got 12 5 7 shots, instead offered guy 60 bucks undeveloped roll film deal, came states film developed disc, nice pictures, finally think hotel 1/3 capacity, pool problem getting lounge chair float, pictures prove, needed reservation restaurant, obviously went time hotel booked understand service/wait staff not doing good job did, getting long, feel free email specific questions want pictures hotel,  
wonderful honeymoon wedding 8/22 wife spent 8/23-8/30 secrets excellence, overall recommend hotel honeymooners, noted great time bad time depending weather assigned room knowledge spanish open mind, not expensive place stay week, alot money, no way 5 star resort like ritz carlton plaza hotel far island resorts rated appropriately rated 5 star resort, flew usa 3000 newark punta cana, charter flight fine, in-and-out airport w/in hour, used prieto tours transrportation to-and-from hotel, good idea far people using apple people meant chaos, whisked away air-conditioned minivan 2 people van, no problems, arrival hotel approximately 11pm saturday night met hotel staff no problem getting room course 11pm, honeymoon package supposed king bed didnt, told request room change following day, assigned building 12 not good, furthest buildings away main hotel area beach, 1st floor garden view disappointed location view, room appointed, package came robes wine/fruit/flowers, received room nothing impressive dont robes nice oversized, safe worked fine wet bar stocked water soda juice beer, room clean sheets clean thread count not impressive 5 star hotel excellent sheets pillows, important patio doors terrible locks not secure, basis successful room upgrade, basically simply slide door open slightest effort door locked position, valuable items jewelry laptop digital camera sporting equipment none safe sliding patio doors insecure, immediately contacted hotel desk 11:40am complaint, having ability speak spanish helps alot, basic working knowledge spanish staff appreciates attempt language, course complaint went unresolved night given time evening, ordered room service delivered half hour, sunday morning approached desk laptop hand explained disappointment room security sure explain room beautiful happy, complain location not going far explaining fear safety stronger argument, worked, upgraded floor pool/ocean view cathedral ceiling 4 post-bed, patio lock course terrible not concerned scaling wall rob, grounds immaculate maintained, absolutely beautiful, nicer ritz carltons 4 season resorts, sprawling layout beautiful beach combed early morning, sand clean small shells nothing cut feet, water rough times sand water smooth wade water pretty far water waist, restaurants restaurant good, salmon fresh steak prepared bottle wine fine, service excellent, wait staff really tries, mexican restaurant good states mexico, restaurants average japanese italian seafood/mediteranean steakhouse, knowing spanish restaurants does help busboys little knowledge english, waiters/waitresses host/hostesses knew english perform jobs, casino blackjack baby, love game, make customary trips casinos states pleasure play low stakes tables 5 100 bucks, wife played fun, mind guests young not strict card players, saw stupid players lose money b/c didnt know play game splitting 10s, not taking hits, gambler bothered playing dont know play valium sitting table, said, sports plenty non-motorized activities, tennis courts good outdoor sports bar mounted televisions pool tables foosball ping-pong daily tournaments, days rain spending plenty time playing ping pong, archery shooting squash racquetball, spa know spanish wont speaking masseuse/masseur huge language barrier, spa nice affordable, unfortunately manicure/pedicure tools not sanitized shared tools wife i. fortunately know hands feet, nightly entertainment average live music, nice disco opens 11:30pm, bars pina coladas fine dont hesitate aks rum choice rum, like malibu rum asked, no problem, pina coladas frozen ordered pool early day guess pina colada machine not froze 11, bugs, bugs, didnt entire week, did rain day maybe kept bugs away, no idea, tips brought 100 dollars 5 dollar bills various tips throught stay, came useful tipping room service getting extra towels having staff pictures horses, did not tip bartenders wait staff nor did expecting tips, brought 200 dollars 20 dollar bills purposes spa staff, massage tipped 20 bucks, hotel photographers staff, various packages 36 pictures honey sell portraits, 60 bucks got 12 5 7 shots, instead offered guy 60 bucks undeveloped roll film deal, came states film developed disc, nice pictures, finally think hotel 1/3 capacity, pool problem getting lounge chair float, pictures prove, needed reservation restaurant, obviously went time hotel booked understand service/wait staff not doing good job did, getting long, feel free email specific questions want pictures hotel,  