I want to start by saying that if you have a rich taste for "The Best" this is not the hotel for you. I loved the hotel and the price was nice at a little less than $1,000 per. We stayed for a week and enjoyed ourselves.

The food was okay, my husband and I are vegetarians so the choice was minimal although more of the meat dishes looked like they tried to be common Americanish food but fell a little short and look strange to me but hey it could have tasted great! After a week of eating the sides it got kinda boring. The ala carte's are a nice change we didn't do the steak house for obvious reasons. The Japanese I though was the best, the Mexican was second and if i were to go back to this resort i don't think i would go to the Italian again. I ordered pasta with marinara which was terrible the sauce tasted like Barbecue sauce and we went to the buffet after our meal. One last thing about he food every desert i tried was awful EXCEPT the crape shop which was AWESOME we went almost every night for ice cream. also the food by the pool is good we ate there for lunch everyday the pizza was awesome and fries and chips were good.

The beach was beautiful if you plan to swim a lot i would bring some boat shoes, I didn't and there are some rocks and a piece of one got stuck in my foot, it hurt. I was also playin around and scraped my back on one of the rocks which also stings in the salt water so be careful. We did have to get up at 6 to get a palapa which was painful but we liked to have it. The couple of days we slept in it wasn't hard to find shade. The bartender at the beach bar was awesome!!!!!!!!!!

The pool was nice but too warm, and too many people since it was June there were some 18 yr olds who just grad high school partying to we were happy to hang at the beach. The service at the pool bar was pretty poor.


The service other than the pool bar everyone was super nice and always grateful for tips. They work really hard and it is really hot for those who work outside. Most speak okay English but i prefer to try and speak Spanish as much as i can to me it's part of the experience.

The rooms were nice and cool. maid service was lacking but i'd rather no one come in my room anyway. The wouldn't come till after 4 and sometimes we would be already having a nap wen they would come.

I will be going back to PC but would like to stay somewhere else just for the experience. This is a great hotel and would recommend it to my friends!

A clean resort with a great staff. The entertainment staff works so hard and are really enjoyable to watch. ALL of the employees were really nice. Great people. the rooms are really big with a nice sized patio. The beach is beautiful and clean. The pool is huge and nice, but we prefer the beach and spent most of our time there. Our only complaint is the food. The specialty restaurants are good, but nothing great. We did not really like the buffets. There is a grill at the pool that always has hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza. The pizza is really good. We ate at the grill everyday for lunch.

We would go back. It was really nice and we had a great time. The food was not great, but we were not there for the food.

First off i went down with my girlfriend from Aug 11-18 from Toronto. Mon-Mon. Although it was supposed to be storm season, we only had rain 1 day (all day). We flew with sky service, and that airline was terrible, the plane was freezing, and the flight there and back was delayed. Nolitours was our operator. They had a rep at the resort, she was ok, nothing special. Saw her only one day. If you want to go on excursions, book with nolitours, dont book with other tour companies, we booked one with nolitours and everything went perfectly, we booked 2 with tourinter b/c they were cheaper and on both occasions the bus never came to pick us up, we complained and for our troubles they gave us a "free hat". Spend the few extra dollars and go with a reputable company.

Catalonia, was ranked as a 4+ hotel, and it's just that, first off, the hotel is HUGE. I mean, wow, lots of land, lots of beautiful places on the resort to take pictures. Many ponds with fish in them, a huge fountain in the main lobby. The reception area is nice, tons of comfy couches. The staff there speak english well enough to communicate with. The rest of the staff on the resort dont speak very much english, but hey YOUR in their country, why should they speak OUR language. They understand the basic which is all we needed. At the time of check-in we requested a villa close to the beach, and they gave us villa 3, the second villa from the beach, this was nice except other than the beach, everything else was a pretty long walk to get to. So if your intending to spend little time on the beach dont ask for a villa by the beach. A room in the middle would be perfect. The room was pretty big, with a living room area, a mini bar fridge with 2 bottles of water, 2 brahma beers, 7up and pepsi. The bed was a king size bed, the room had a big tub which had no jets so that was kinda pointless and took forever to fill but it looked really pretty. The shower was ok, but like all the other reviews, the pressure is really low, the toilet didn't flush all the time. But other than that the room was nice, AC worked perfectly. The balcony was big with two rocking chairs and hamock, that was a nice touch. We tipped the maid $1 a day, and left her small gifts.

If you go, take lots of singles to tip everyone, they appreciate it, and you do get better service and they remember you more. The food was AMAZING. I love spicey food and they had hot sauce bottles everywhere. They had 2 buffet restaurants one by the pool that was open for breakfast and lunch and the grand caribe which was open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They also had a pool snack bar, and YES THE PIZZA IS THE BEST PIZZA I have ever tasted IN MY LIFE. Everyone waited in lines for pizza. I swear the guy couldn't turn out as many pizza's as the demand for them. The Pool was clean but closed at 7pm which i found was kinda silly. Back to the food, the grand buffet was amazing, they had soo much food there, i swear the size of the room must of at least been 2000sq feet. There was such a selection. I eat a lot and i enjoyed everything there. They even had a restaurant that made crepes from 6:30pm -11:00pm. I read a lot of reviews that said the food was bad, THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEIR TALKING ABOUT. Your going on vacation so you have to keep an open mind when your there. The staff work hard, 11 days straight then they get 3 off. We both loved our stay there, Michael was a bartender by the pool and then he worked the bar by the stage with his brother eddy and richard, they were all amazing, Michael actually goes to New York to compete in bartending competitions. My drink of choice was Banana Mama.

The Nightly shows were nice, the DISCO was another story, i mean resort disco's arent normally supposed to be good,but this was pretty bad. The DJ played mainly spanish music even though the crowd wanted hip hop, but again, we're in their country. The ANIMATION team was great, always trying to get u to do something, archery competitions, darts, pool, table tennis, beach volleyball, water aerobics.

The beach had a lot of seaweed, if there was a downfall to the resort, it was this, lots of seaweed, they did their best to clean it, and after storm (FAY) hit, the water had even more seaweed. But we spoke to other people from other resorts, and this was a common problem. So i can't really fault the resort. Check out time was early. (12:00) and we left at 6pm but they allowed us to lock up our bags and evengave us a courtesy room for us to shower in.

If women are travelling alone or in a group, this resort is soo safe, there was security everywhere. I mean everywhere. The beach, by the villa's, the front.

In conclusion, if your looking for a resort that is safe, clean, has a nice beach, great food then this resort is the best, I will definitely go back to this resort.

I LOVED CATALONIA Bavaro Beach

First of all I got to stay to tis resort because our flight was canceled and they sent us 2 more days until a different flight, to stay at Catalonia Resort. The first 5 days of the vacation, before flight was canceled was at Barcello Premium Punta Cana, and let me say that I cannot even compare the two resorts, Catalonia Resort was absolutely wonderful and regretted i didnt book my whole vacation there. Food great, birds yes but people you are going on an exotic vacation, you do not want to see vegetation, and birds then you should just stay home and pull the shades. I loved the birds flying in the morning and having my breakfast with a nice breeze of outdoors. Air Conditioning was fine as well. Beach was beautiful. Staff very friendly. If there is one issue that I had was the indeed outdated room, It was not dirty, it was cleaned but the furniture and TV just look very outdated. A little improvements on the rooms and this resort is a 10 star if I may say so. And i think my opinion is very informed I stayed in Punta Cana at 5 resorts on different times when I was in vacation there, and I would like to say that Catalonia and Melia were the best. Barcelo resorts are dirty and I would def stay away from any Barcelo iPunta Cana!