10 days here from 5/7 thru 5/16 weren't quite enough. What a beautiful place! Everything was up to our expectations. The staff will bend over backwards to meet your every wish. We will be going back soon.

My wife and I were at Caribe during the first week of April celebrating our anniversary. We are both in our mid-thirties. It was our first clothing optional and our first vacation to the Caribbean. The service and food were fantastic! The staff worked hard every minute to cater to everyone’s needs and did so with happy attitudes and constant genuine friendliness. The groundkeepers worked like ants daily to keep the landscape looking impeccable and security was always vigilant but never imposing.

Our room was enormous and then some. We stayed in a Seacliff room, which are the hotel structures on the beautiful cliffs by the beach. We had a beautiful beach view from our balcony. Everything looked newly remodeled in our room and we had no problems at all with it. The room safe was large enough to fit our cameras, travel dvd player and more.

All meals were ordered by menu and the menu changed everyday. The food was awesome. Delicious and prepared or portioned in anyway you like. In fact, whatever you request at the resort, the staff will go to any length to accommodate you. Our special anniversary dinner with massages by the beach was fantastic!

My wife loves horseback riding and so we went on only one excursion and it was do to just that. We rode 2 hours along the nearby mountainside, through the countryside overlooking the resort and through small DR villages. Even the excursion tour staff was genuinly friendly and takes all the pictures for you while you ride. For a fee they will make a very nice dvd presentation with these pictures. We took snorkel gear with us, but the beach during our stay was unfortunately a bit to rough to swim in. The pools and hot tubs, constantly kept cleaned, made up for not being able to swim the beach though.

As far as clothing, anyone can do whatever he or she would like. Most everyone went nude or was nude at one point or another. Sometimes we put on clothes for meals or dinner, and sometimes we did not. Some couples were completely nude every minute everywhere around the resort. Nudity was the norm for sunbathing and hanging around the beachclub area. At one of our fun afternoon volleyball sessions, everyone in the game was completely nude. My wife had taken two new skimpy bikinis and was in and out of those from time to time depending on her mood or comfort level. The night parties were fun with costume themes. After the parties, many of us stripped off whatever party clothes we had for a night time dip in the pool or hot tub. Watching the stars and moon from the beachside hot tub was one of our most memorable moments. When it comes to clothes whatever you desire..do it :)

My wife and I felt like we were part of a close family during our stay at Caliente and will definitely return!

This trip involved 2 firsts for us - our first "all inclusive" and our first "clothing optional" resort. The verdict? FANTASTIC! The resort was clean and very well maintained, the staff were terrific and very friendly, even fun, the food was better than average (and there was way too much of it!), and we met lots of interesting people that we hope to continue to stay in touch with. We also spent 4 days in Las Terrenas prior to Caliente and fell in love with the DR. I know this sounds like I work at the DR tourist bureau but other than a bit of a sunburn I really have nothing to complain about! We would go back in a heartbeat. (PS - it is a very romantic location; we especially enjoyed sitting in the lower hot tub right on the ocean with moonlight streaming across the bay)

Caliente Caribe hasn't changed much at all in a year. There's pretty much the same staff, with a few notable exceptions. Because of the greatly increased number of guests, this had a negative impact on service. But as several guests pointed out - we had no place to go and all day to get there. In fact, the staff are great - they really make the place.

Maintenance issues continue to be addressed. All the old complaints about pools, hot tubs, air conditioners, hair dryers, etc. have all been corrected. There were no power or water problems this year at all, unlike in the past. The grounds are extremely well kept. They've even started taking the rocks out of the ocean, albeit by hand!

Our only complaint concerned cigarette smoke. Smoking is permitted everywhere except the guest rooms. And it seemed many more guests smoked this year than last. If there's one thing they could do to most improve the resort, it would be to ban smoking in the bar, restaurant, and pool areas.