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Hotel Policies & Fees
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
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Property Amenities
The Puntacana Hotel has 6 restaurants, many with open-air dining and ocean views. Complimentary supervised children's activities are provided for ages 4–12, and children can also plant coconut trees. Complimentary family activities include dance and Spanish lessons, games, and sports.
An Internet center contains computers with high-speed connections (surcharge). Complimentary wireless Internet access is available in the lobby, pool area, and on the beach.
Six Senses Spa, located at the La Cana Golf and Beach Club, provides guests customized treatments (surcharge) using patented holistic techniques to rejuvenate mind and body.
Use of the fitness center is complimentary. During winter and summer high seasons, the resort hosts evening concerts and folkloric shows.
Rooms
This Puntacana Hotel offers 160 guestrooms and villas (casitas). Full breakfasts, including taxes and gratuities, are included in room, suite, and villa rates. (For more information, see Dining section.)
Two-bedroom villas have open-air living rooms with ceiling fans facing private garden-courtyards and, on courtyards' opposite sides, individual (unconnected) air-conditioned bedrooms, each with a bathroom and a locked door.
Three-bedroom villas also have open-air living rooms with ceiling fans facing private garden-courtyards and individual (unconnected) air-conditioned bedrooms, each with a locked door and bathroom. Some three-bedroom villas have all three bedrooms on their courtyards. Others have one bedroom on their courtyards and two bedrooms on second floors above living rooms.
Decor and furnishings for all rooms, suites, and villas include mahogany and rattan furniture, marble floors, and marble bathrooms with freestanding marble/wood vanities and shower/tub combinations.
Room Amenities
Dining
A complimentary buffet breakfast is provided each morning in La Cana restaurant with fresh smoothies, juices, tea, coffee, milk and water (not bottled).
La Cana - Beachfront, open-air restaurant with vaulted ceilings. Complimentary American/international breakfast buffets daily.
Playa Blanca - Beachfront restaurant/bar with a tropical setting. Fresh, local seafood, grilled meat, and cocktails. Lunch and dinner daily. Live music by local Dominican musicians featured weekly.
La Choza - Casual, open-air lunch restaurant/bar on beach. Wooden floor, thatched roof. Rope-and-log swing-seats for children. Choices include organic salads, sandwiches, burgers, and grilled meats and seafood. Saturday-night Dominican Party with limbo contest, music, local-artisan market, local food. (Meals not included in room rates.)
Franco's Pizzeria - Casual poolside spot serving brick-oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, burgers, salads mid-day until early evening. (Meals not included in room rates.)
La Yola - Fine-dining, open-air restaurant with polished-wood floor, glass marine-view floor panels, thatched roof. Built above water adjacent to marina channel. Complimentary shuttle service from resort. Mediterranean-Asian-Caribbean cuisine. Choices like Spicy Tuna Tartare, Tempura Shrimp, sushi, Shrimp-Oyster Risotto, Lobster Lasagna, grilled lobster, Teriyaki Tenderloin. Open for lunch, dinner. Dinner reservations required. Dinner dress code: long pants, collared shirts for men, with dress shorts acceptable at lunch. (Meals not included in room rates.)
El Cocoloba - Fine-dining, air-conditioned restaurant/bar in beachfront golf clubhouse. Complimentary shuttle service from resort. New Caribbean cuisine such as Goat Loin with Porcini Sauce. Open for dinner; reservations required. Dress code: long pants, collared shirts for men. (Meals not included in room rates.)
The Grill - Ocean-view terrace with umbrella tables and bar in beachfront golf clubhouse. Meats, seafood, pasta, salads, sandwiches. Open for lunch. (Meals not included in room rates.)
Lobby Bar - Open early morning until after midnight for drinks, espresso. Live music in evenings.
Manantial Bar - Pool bar with swimup side. Open mid-morning until late night.
Lounge Bar - Air-conditioned bar/lounge with dance floor. Open late evening until after midnight. DJ or live music.
Recreation
The Puntacana Hotel offers three swimming pools. The 26m-by-26m (85-ft-by-85-ft) main pool features a swimup bar and an adjacent 15m (50-ft) children's pool fringed by a gentle shower. Surrounded by dense gardens within the Nature Villas area, a 19m (62-ft) "quiet" pool includes a coral-stone waterfall and separate children's section. A 23m-by-12m (75-ft-by-40-ft) sea-view pool is in front of the golf clubhouse.
A 5-km (3-mi) beach of light-colored sand runs past the resort, with an offshore protective reef ensuring child-friendly, calm-water swimming over a sand bottom in most weather conditions. The resort supplies complimentary kayaks, pedal-kayaks, Hobie Cat and Sunfish sailboats, windsurfers, and snorkeling gear for use on the coral heads just offshore.
Water skiing and fishing are available for surcharges. The resort's dive center offers resort-course instruction, a certification course, reef and wreck dive, and cave and underground-river dives beginning in the resort's freshwater lake (surcharges for all).
Designed by P.B. Dye, the resort's 18-hole La Cana Golf Course features 12 ocean-view holes, including four played on island greens directly along the sea. The par-5 finishing hole is patterned after the famed 18th at Pebble Beach in California. Guests receive discounts at the course. The large sea-view clubhouse 1.5 km (1 mi) from the resort contains a bar, a casual lunch restaurant, a fine-dining restaurant, and an open-air lounge with overstuffed seating and second-story veranda. Complimentary shuttle service is available to the clubhouse.
The resort provides complimentary guided eco-tours of its ecological reserve, botanical gardens, petting zoo, and horse-and-pony ranch (surcharge for riding).
Use of six clay tennis courts is complimentary, but guests pay surcharges for play under lights. A jogging path through the resort has distance markers. Complimentary aerobics, stretching, Tai Chi, Tae Bo, and Tae Kwon Do classes are offered on the beach.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
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“de-light-ful!”
I liked it all! great room, very close to the beach, huge lawns and terrain, lovely landscaped, great service, great breakfast menu. I will go back. and I will stay there. Do reserve on line but indirectly (not with the hotel) if you want to save some money Do not pay the 40.00 for the transfers of airport if you use the bus. My sons were not happy because they wanted noise and disco and crowded bars, but I Enjoyed It Much with my books, beach for myself, and peaceful walks. Then we hopped on bus and visited Bavaro nearby for lunch at Captain Cook's (seafood beach restaurant), and we even hired motoconchos (motorcycle taxi) to get back. All part of the fun.
“beautiful surroundings”
Well I'll start by saying the hotel grounds were beautiful. The ocean and beaches were picture perfect. The service delightful, with very helpful staff. The rooms were spacious with comfortable beds and pillows. However the shower was not heated. I got terribly sick after eating their breakfast buffet. The coast of punta cana has only these resorts so if you want to get out of the resort area you will need to get a taxi (very expensive) or rent a car (very dangerous). If you want to lay on a beach in the most beautiful surroundings this place is for you. If you want to experince the dominican republic people and culture go further northwest!
“very nice hotel”
very nice a little bit old. the service was great.
“A very nice hotel for stay in Punta Cana”
It was a very nice hotel with natural character. Excellent quality and variety of breakfast. All hotel staff was very friendly, helpful and kind! It has an amazing beach. When we go to Punta Cana again, we will go back to this resort!!
“Perfect hotel for stay in Punta Cana! Very kind and professional staff!”
Very nice eco-hotel with natural character (please let the guest know more about all the hotel do for eco-friendliness, recycling, rebuild reefs, etc.!). Beautiful, quiet and clean palm beach with crystal water. Excellent quality and variety of breakfast. Several options for dinner with nice restaurants at resonable prices. All hotel staff was very skilled, helpful and kind! Very convenient distance from Punta Cana Airport- just 5 minutes to go. When we go to Punta Cana again, we will go back to this resort!
“Awful”
Do not go to this hotel. The rooms were damp to the point where I had to sleep in sweatpants in the caribbean to stay warm. The rooms were moldy which made me sick all week and I couldn't even open the door to let in fresh air because there were no screens on the door. The toilet didn't flush and the shower didn't drain. We had to line the floors with towels because the A/C leaked. The resort was dead - there was no nightlife at all. Even the village outside of the hotel had nothing going on. On top of that the staff was completely unhelpful. There was no point in even trying to get them to help.
“The best resort I've been on”
Staying at The Punta Cana Hotel & Resort one would never realize that the Dominican Republic was a poor country, its a very extravagant resort surrounded by very extravagant estates, exclusively design for foreigners no doubt. You would have to travel almost an hour away to Higuey to witness any poverty, or do some shopping at bargain prices, this is also where most of the hotel employees live. The cost of living on the resort can be very high, the meals alone can bankrupt you, but there are free shuttles to the near by Punta Cana Village where a person can cut there food prices in half. Definitely a sight to see, and the place to be, just bring plenty of money or you will go home with your pockets empty.
“Far away and Expensive.”
Pros: This is a nice looking hotel. It is fantastic in that sense. The beach as well as the whole place are so quiet. There is no too much action here. Great for couples to be alone of families to be away from noises and drunk youngsters. We took the breakfast package which was good. Cons: It is an exclusive place, private and far away from any part of the town. there are 4 or 5 restaurants that are really expensive, I mean really, and food is awful.. There is a gift shop with thins made of gold, it seems. Very expensive, the sunblock was 40 dollars!! Pringles and a juice 15!! There is a tour company inside the resort which offered tours to Saona Island $95 pp but transportation was not included and was $170 dollars apart from the cost of the tour. I got that from an online source later at $75 pp all included even food and drinks. If you want to experience the Rep Dom life style, this is not the place for you..it is too far away and everything expensive, just for rich people not for limited budget. WATCH the bathroom doors, my wife almost lost a fingernail there.The door is way too close to the sink so you can get it trap too easily. I hope it helps....
“Overall great”
This hotel was overall great. Everything was beautiful and convenient. The check in process was extremely frustrating because it took over 40 minutes to get to the front of the line with only 2 groups of people waiting to check in before us. A couple bartenders were rude too. The rooms were small but clean and nice. I would go back and would recommend the hotel to others but would warn them to bring their patience.
“Great”
It was great. beautiful location, friendly staff, amazing beach.
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Abraham Lincoln No. 960 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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The preferred airport for The PUNTACANA Hotel is Punta Cana (PUJ-Punta Cana Intl.) - 5.3 km / 3.3 mi.
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Bavaro Beach, Dominican Republic: On the eastern side of the Dominican Republic, the town of Bavaro was originally settled by those working in the nearby resorts on the beach. The town quickly became a center of services and also boasts 10 miles of seashore. Hundreds of hotels, as well as shopping centers, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and medical services, can be found here.
Abraham Lincoln No. 960 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
