Catalonia Royal Bavaro Reviews

Gorgeous course. Food is very average. Rooms are fabulous. Far from beach. Not much to do at night. Service is excellent. Very little English is spoken but you get by. Try to meet people. It'll help you make your own fun. Especially at the pool bar. Excursions are enjoyable.

I thoroughly enjoyed the resort and my time at Catalonia. I stayed on the adult only side, but had complete access to the entire property, which was absolutely beautiful. There are a lot of activites, food and drinks to enjoy! I didn't have to leave the resort for my complete enjoyment. The service was excellent and the people there are so nice. I would recomment it to anyone

This resort was all that was pictured & more. Being at this resort afforded the quiet of being at an adult resort, fabulous dining, service, rooms, beaches, pools as well as the entertainment/additional dining afforded through the sister resort right on the same property. The nightly shows were fabulous and quite professional. While others on the plane home complained about other resorts not meeting their expectations, I was quite pleased with this resort. Tipping was NOT expected as it was included in the package price & the staff did not alter their service if you did not tip, although I did simply due to the fact that I was so pleased with all the smiling/genuine/great service.

Let me start with all the positives of this place. The grounds are beautiful and so are the pools. The beach is white sand that is beautiful and cleaned a few times a day. The workers are fantastic as well. The down side is the food. Average at best. Breakfast was always great but it is hard to mess up breakfast. But all the fish that I had was terrible. Meat and chicken was always overdone. The only specialty restaurant that we enjoyed was the Mexican restaurant we had the fajitias. The japanese restaurant was good. They serve everyone the same thing so you don't get a choice. The italian restaurant was so HOT that we sat down to eat and were sweating so bad that we got up and left. The tapas place was good but small portions. And I don't know what i had but I got sick for 8 days when I got home. Don't drink the water, eat the ice or have fruit or salads.

I have NEVER had to send a poor review on a resort, until this one. This resort was absolutely beautiful, however, the lighting at night and the drainage was terrible. It was raining several nights as my wife and I walked to dinner, the lighting was so bad that we could not see the puddles of water covering the walk ways. We tried several different routes to get to our restaurant to make our reservation and each route was completely covered with water. We attempted to walk through the grass as a last resort leaving my wife and I, (as well as others) with muddy shoes with the bottom of her dress and my pants being muddy as well. When we left the restaurant, I used my iphone light to see where we were walking to avoid the water. There was NOT enough huts at the beach, so if you want to get one, you better be there before 7:00 a.m. Beach towels were to be changed out each day (WHICH THEY WERE NOT). We received beach towels 3 out of the 8 days that we stayed and they were delivered after 10:30 p.m. We booked an excursion in which we were going to be picked up at 6:15 a.m. The night before, we called room service in an attempt to get beach towels to take with us. We were told that they would bring them to us in a few minutes. Needless to say, we never received them. We got up early the next morning hoping that the front desk could provide us with some, however, we were told that laundry did not open until 7:00 a.m. The desk clerk gave me a key to 2 unfinished rooms at the other end of the resort to see if those rooms had beach towels. My wife had to hold up the taxi while I was running from room to room looking for beach towels. We never received our towels and had to go on our excursion without any. We had to also call the front desk daily for bath towels and wash clothes as well. Our bathroom sink would not drain out properly and as a result stayed full of nasty water. The airconditioner did not work properly and was very noisy. We complained to the front desk and they assured us that they would check it. It was never fixed. On the day that we were to check out, the resort offered us a room to shower in before we were picked up at 2:00 p.m. Our luggage was taken to the room and they told us to call the front desk when we were ready and they would pickup our luggage and take us to the lobby so that the taxi could pick us up. We called the front deak and waited over 30 minutes and no one ever showed up. We finally decided to take our luggage ourselves. Luckily we did, because when we arrived at the front lobby, the taxi was pulling away and we had to flag him down. Again, the resort was absolutely beautiful and not all of the service was bad. This truly could be a 5 star resort if they would work on the service from the front desk, the lighting at night and housekeeping/laundry.

My husband and I love the all inclusive. The pools and beach are amazing. The food is okay the other hotel had much better options. The service was awful no one cared about anything very different then our other Caribbean vacations. We had a good time but would not come back or recommend to friends.

The resort was beautiful, but that was about the only good thing. Disappointed with the food, there were no fresh vegetables, fruit or juices. There was also not a lot of seafood, which I thought would be plentiful. The bed was Horrible - it was like sleeping on a bare boxspring, both of us woke up with a back ache every day. Most of the common areas are not air-conditioned so it was very hot unless you were in your swimsuit. We also did not realize there would be limited English speaking staff so that took a little getting used to. It was hard to relax when there were people coming up to you every hour trying to sell you something.

Just returned from 6 days at the Royal Catalonia Bavaro and have nothing but good things to say. The staff is friendly and attentive, the food and drink excellent, and the pools and beach relaxing. This resort is adullts only and is small and quaint. Vacationers included newlyweds, Americans, Brits, Germans, and French. This resort is calm, quiet, and classy in its feel and services. Staying here gives you rights at the sister property next door, and we did go over there to eat at the Japanese restaurant (very good) as well as an American steakhouse ( good food and service- a little rushed). This property is 3-4 times larger than the one that we stayed at, and attracted more singles, young people, and families. While a nice property, I would not stay here and much preferred the Royal Catalonia. I would definitely go back.

Hotel Grounds are beautiful and well kept. Staff is extremely accommodating. There is only activity at the Catalonia Bavaro that shares the same grounds. That hotel is too big and has many families. I preferred the Catalonia Royal Bavaro because it is adults only. I wish there were some activities on the Royal side-day and night. Also, was disappointed with the room. Not at all as the picture showed. The beach has a problem with seaweed. Some days were worse than others. If you're a beach person, this may affect your stay. The pools are great.

The hotel grounds and rooms were well maintained. There was constantly people working on keeping the property clean and in good condition. The rooms were clean and modernized. The only complaint was the matress - it was more like a box spring. There were numerous food options and some of the meals were hit or miss. We usually wound up in th buffet for the variety. The other resteraunts tried to be gormet, but, usually had average food. The water depth for the beach was shallower than we like but the beached were clean, water sparkling and always being cleared of seaweed. The staff was very fiendly and helpful. We had a great time.