Нормальный отель с бассейном по пояс Average hotel with waist-high pool

The hotel is huge, three hotels in one area plus golf courses and lakes. The beach is very long - beautiful and the shore is cleaned daily from algae. There are many buildings with numbers, now the load is not full during the pandemic, and there are a lot of people, there are not enough sunbeds, tables and dishes, I can’t imagine what’s going on here at 100% load. The service is now, as in the distribution in Soviet times, now it is the same in all hotels around the world, the locals are very slow - so you can wait a long time to get a portion of the product, and so on at each counter, as a result, until you bring everything cold to the table.
The choice of food is not too wide, but you will not stay hungry, without frills. There are seafood.
Rooms: we have a junior suite, they are all the same - two beds, two sofas, a table, two washbasins in the room, shower and toilet plus a terrace with a jacuzzi. We were lucky - you can see the sea a little from the side.
Weather

We have a rest in January, we arrived on December 30, it has been windy for 4 days, yesterday it was raining, not hot. The sea is cool, loners swim, it’s dirty from the sand near the shore, and then it’s a beautiful turquoise color / we saw turtles from the shore there.
The biggest disappointment, except for the cold sea, is the pools: all of them are waist-deep, about a meter, and they are even colder than the sea, they have not heard about heating. Arrived as a result, basking in the jacuzzi in the room on the terrace overlooking the palm trees - a shame.
In connection with the lockdown in the Dominican Republic, the ban on leaving the house after 17 on weekdays and on weekends is NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE HOUSE after 12 - the entire wealthy population has filled hotels, color is guaranteed, with locals also in priority in serving at a bar or restaurant.
If we knew these nuances, especially for the cold sea and the pool, we would choose a hotel with a heated pool, or all the same, Sri Lanka or Egypt from the countries available now for Ukraine. They are also much cheaper in cost.