Bahia Principe Grand Cayacoa

It was our first trip to Dominican Republic. Very happy to choose this place! Extremely peaceful, convenient and awesome views! We are very satisfied with food quality and choice! The resort has all necessary facilities, the staff is friendly, the beach is cleaned and the water is warm and shallow. 7 days just flew so fast, hope we will be able to return again once))

This has been a truly wonderful vacation. I bought the almost all inclusive and I can’t tell what is not included! The lobby bar is a peaceful place for pre-dinner cocktails, the pool always has chaises available. The breakfast and dinner restaurant has lots of choices and we have never gone hungry. The lunch restaurant serves huge meals and we have found that at midday all we really want is fruit and/or ice cream. Too hot for much more than that! The hotel is exceptionally clean (except the pool itself). The beach was very disappointing and it’s worth doing at least one or two excursions to other beaches in the area. We did two excursions: whale watching half day, and national park/caves/beach. Both tours were exceptional! We would like to thank Enmundo (air Canada rep), Maria at the front desk (an angel and a delight!), Victor who works at the restaurants (who is very professional, and attentive), the bar tenders (Esteban at the Lobby bar and someone whose name I didn’t catch at the pool bar) who are always smiling and make great banana mamas! The one thing I wish was that the tourists would tip more. I realize it’s not part of every other culture, and some others think that because it’s all-inclusive (or almost), tipping is not required. Given how hard the employees work, how little they get paid, it’s a nice token. We left $3 for our maid daily, $3 at breakfast and lunch, and $5 at dinner. $5 from each of us for half day excursion and $10 for full day. We always tipped the bartenders too. USD only. They can’t use Canadian coins.

BEWARE This hotel is closing and will reopen under a new brand. This rebuild is due to the creation of a new harbour which will accommodate cruise ships. Good for the economy, probably bad for the whales. In the interim, facilities at this hotel are minimal, rooms are tired, our jacuzzi bathtub was broken and only one cafeteria style restaurant is open.

Had a great time at Bahia Cayacoa! Splendid vistas, excellent service and great dinning! A special thanks to Maria (hotel manager) who was able to address a small issue related to my room expediently. Will definitely come back next year, this time with my wife!

We booked a room for 3 nights that included breakfast and dinner for an amazing price. The next morning we extended for 4 nights and then 4 more for a total of 11! In a country difficult to navigate without Spanish we appreciated all our needs attended to that included a beautiful hotel, room, delicious buffet meals and lovely staff who spoke some English. Here it is possible to have a REAL VACATION and there are many interesting tours from this otherwise underwhelming city in a gorgeous location. Guests are from all over the world. We were sad to discover that our great deal resulted from this place closing and changing hands within a few months )o: that said if can go now - do it!

We were fifth time at CayaCoa, so we can compare. It seems it is a good decision of owners to switch resort from all inclusive to half-board. With AirTransat we got very good price for our vacation and two meals, (cheaper if compare with old all inclusive). Excellent breakfast and dinner menu available at resort's buffet and restaurant was good enough for us, so we don't feel any discomfort with two meals option. Also bar has good menu of drinks, for additional charge. It seems that with "half board" CayaCoa resort don't have anymore problems with heavy drinking tourists (because they need to pay for drinks now!). Also known old problem with noisy and messy crowd (happened before on weekends when resort was on "all-inclusive") - DISAPPEARED now (!): no crowd anymore of annoying "one day weekend tourists" who arrived to hotel just for free lunch and free drinks. Resort now quiet and everything in order everywhere on all days of week. Definitely we will return to CayaCoa during summer. Thank you!