Well, we arrived at the hotel at around 1pm to check into our room. When we had first arrived we were not acknowledged for about 15 minutes and there had not even been a line. We then approached a man named Orlando who did not smile and seemed rather in a bad mood. After finding our reservation, I explained to Orlando that it had been our anniversary and if we can have a room with at least somewhat of a view. Orlando promised us the world and then checked us into a DIRTY room (the tub was filthy with red liquid, the beds were slept in, and the mini bar has dirt all on the floor in front of it). We returned to the desk and kindly asked to be moved. We then moved into a room that had been a couple of doors down but literally in company of a nest of bugs coming out of the ceiling. At this point, our patience had worn thin and then after a THIRD room change, we received a standard accomodation.

Throughout the duration of our stay we experienced great tropical weather in Punta Cana, however, the all inclusive package they mention in the brochure did not specify that there would be several a various bugs in our food as well. To end it short before I become reminded of a terrible stay, PUNTA CANA IS BEAUTIFUL, but be very careful as to where you choose to spend your time there.

We were bumped from the Bavaro Beach to the Caribe. Check in horrible. No one at the desk spoke english. Majority of staff very unfriendly sometimes rude, with the exception of a few. Letting the locals in for a cheap day is a huge downfall. My niece went on the beach to take pictures of the sunrise just to find a bunch of locals passed out in the beach chairs. They would come into the buffets and using their hands would load shopping bages of groceries for the week. The food was horrible and each night the pool bar developed a very bad odor. Rooms were moldy. Bed bugs in two of the rooms we had 8 rooms between us (family reunion).

The beach was beautiful. The variety of excursions was good. Everything was $$$$$. Pack snacks and shampoo.

We were 'bumped' into the Caribe at 36hrs notice after the Sunscape decided to close so we arrived not in the best of moods. Check-in took ages. Room was incredibly smelly and musty and in dire need of refurbishment. The TV and the lamps were broken, we are news junkies, and the safe stopped working immediately. (The TV was replaced after the first week and the safe was sorted within hours.) The manager told us there were no mozzies(!!) but we were bitten to death from the moment we set foot there despite every gadget/lotion/potion/spray/candle known to mankind. There were holes in the curtains and the bedspreads were grubby. The main buffet restaurant was a real do-it-yourself affair...you often had to clear the table from the previous occupant and then find your own cutlery/napkins/glasses whilst all the time avoiding slipping on the food spilled on the floor. There were always long queues for the beachfront bar/restaurant. There was building work taking place at the Beach Hotel next door with resulting noise and dust. The evening entertainment in the theatre/bar was pretty dire and repetitive.
OK...the good bits...beautiful beach and gardens though the gardens could do with the litter removing! The room fridge was restocked daily without fail. The sheets and towels were changed daily tho the towels have seen better days. Plentiful supply of soap, shampoo and conditioner + shower caps, combs, sewing kits etc.. Proper coffee making machine with supply of coffee, creamer, sugar. Fruit platter and bottle of rum on arrival in room was nice. Food was plentiful and varied in the buffet restaurant, even for a vegetarian, tho it was a bit tired and picked-over if you left it towards the end of the service. We also ate in the Italian and Spanish Restaurants which were OK. No stomach upsets at all.
All in all, it was OK but not a place to return to in a hurry!

On just returning from what was meant to be the best day of any mothers life, i just thought i should warn anyone thinking of getting married or even just holidaying in this hell hole of a resort.
we went here for my sons wedding, the dream wedding everyone dreams of, white sand blue seas, oh yes lovely only to have it become our worst nightmare which is what happened to us from the day we booked it really, let me explain roughly.
My son and his fiance scanned many brouchures and decided to go with First Choice as their wedding package was the best by far and what they said about the resort it was worth the money.HaHa what a joke,all the wedding package that is in the brouchure no longer exists in Dominican Republic, infact it hasnt dont since before 2007, so everything the couple paid extra for they never got, ie chose of wedding cake, chose of flowers, chose of wedding date, they could only choose the colours and give 3 dates they would like but werent told of the actual date till they got there.
Was given the wrong email address if they needed to get hold of their wedding co-ordinator by First Choice.
The wedding parties flight tickets were lost in the post and 2 days before we flew the tickets were still not available and i have to pay to have them to be couriered to the shop,even then there was problems at check in which took 3 people and 2 check in desks to sort out all through the fault of First Choice.So do not believe their wedding brouchure at all,
also if you have or do book a wedding with this dreadful company please please do not use the solicitor they advise you to as when he done the couples translation he failed to legalise it thus causing the couple major problems and the loss of the original legal documents, ie birth certs which we are in the prossess of trying to get back with a big fight again through the fault of First Choice.
Now for the resort, if you have money that you can afford to waste then by all means go here, but otherwise dont go, its states in the brochure All Inclusive, never in a million years, the only food you can get throughout the day is pizza unless you want to fight the locals for the bread rolls and a slice of cake.
The brouchure also states its a four star, i would give it one what the other 3 are for god knows.The rooms are damp dull and dark.At the weekend be prepared to go out of your resort to one of the other hotels as you wont get a sunbed and the only way youll eat is by qeueing for ages or having what is left over.
the brochure says five hotels, this is true but you can only use three.
The carib is not equipped for weddings or large parties, it took us an hour to check in as they had not resrved the right number of rooms and could not understand english well enough to comprehend.
my son and his fiance had nothing but trouble due to the fact that they never saw a wedding co-ordinator for 6 days even though they were told they would see one on the day of arrival, but the annoying part was when they were seen it was by an office girl from the wedding office who had never done a wedding.
The hotel was putting things on their bill that should of been free due to the wedding package but that didnt exist.
They never got their honeymoon suite on arrival and the basket of fruit was just chooped up fruit from the buffet on a dinner plate wrapped in clingfilm, (wow thanks caribelast of the big spenders).
I could go on but i think you should have a rough idea now what this place is really like, so please to all you mothers and fathers whose daughters or sons are thinking of getting married here please sway them to somewhere else as i would not like anyone to go through what my son and his new wife went through along with the rest of their families as in one way or oanother we were all affected by this nightmare.
Thank you for taking the time to read this