Bahia Principe Grand Bavaro - All Inclusive

“Nope!”

Booked here as I’ve been before and liked it. Never again, My main complaint was beach. TOOO CROWDED. , ppl had to sit on chairs on sand as no chaise longues avail. You are literally sitting on top each other. Not relaxing at all Also food was meh, buffet was minimal. Rooms were ok but… more

Booked here as I’ve been before and liked it. Never again, My main complaint was beach. TOOO CROWDED. , ppl had to sit on chairs on sand as no chaise longues avail. You are literally sitting on top each other. Not relaxing at all Also food was meh, buffet was minimal. Rooms were ok but I tipped to get room closer to beach

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“Nice Place but….”

Visited Bahia Principe Ambar a few years ago and loved it so returned and stayed at Grand this time Firstly, the positives Staff - generally very good, very friendly, very helpful, no issues at all Room - clean, spacious, well furnished, again, no issues at all Buffet restaurants - went every… more

Visited Bahia Principe Ambar a few years ago and loved it so returned and stayed at Grand this time Firstly, the positives Staff - generally very good, very friendly, very helpful, no issues at all Room - clean, spacious, well furnished, again, no issues at all Buffet restaurants - went every breakfast time, every lunchtime and some evenings. Food was varied, good quality, and never had a problem finding something good to eat. Only had two issues. At lunchtime, it was often very difficult to find someone to get you a glass of water which contrasted massively with breakfast when you could barely take a sip of coffee before someone was offering to top you up. Other issue is that the smaller of the two (can’t remember the individual names) did often smell of the drains as others have said A la carte restaurants - the ones we visited were very, very good. Tip - make all your bookings on the first day and amend as you go along. The teppanyaki restaurant was amazing - both table service and sat around the hot plate - so good that we cancelled a booking in another a la carte and rebooked there. Did the same with El Olivo - very good food. The other one we visited was the Asian fusion restaurant which, again, was very good The train - it’s such a big site that the train is a godsend. Don’t worry if a full one passes you by, another one will soon be along Now. The negatives. Sadly, they were quite impactful for us Mosquitos - dear god they were horrific. Never experienced anything like it. So many people covered in so many bites. I’ve been to other resorts around the world where they spray the greenery at dusk and have citronella candles burning and the mosquitoes are not a problem. Here? Nothing. Add to the fact all the greenery in the lobbies and one of them basically had a swamp by the side of the buffet restaurant. There was absolutely no escape from them. Sunbeds - absolute and utter joke. The main pool down by the beach is the major attraction and it’s brilliant during the day. Signs posted everywhere saying that you can’t reserve sunbeds. Forget it. If you’re not down there by 7.30am you have no chance of a bed. Now, that is fine if people actually turn up but you’ll find that some people won’t then turn up until mid afternoon. What do the staff do? The square root of absolutely f*ck all. Nada. Nothing. Not interested. So many arguments. If towels are still on sunbeds at 10am and nobody has appeared the staff should remove them. Ask them and absolutely nothing happens. Overall. Enjoyed the holiday because the place and the weather were good. Will I go back? No!! Until they do something about the mosquitoes and the sunbed issue it’s just not worth the hassle or the money. Such a shame that simple things can spoil it

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