Dirty Riu Naiboa

Written: 16 april 2019
Travel time: 5 — 15 march 2019
Your rating of this hotel:
2.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 1.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 1.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 1.0
• Hotel. The hotel is quite large, there is a swimming pool, water park, tennis court. Beautiful, well-groomed.
If you do not speak Spanish and English, the reception will still understand you - there are employees who understand and speak a little Russian. There is no hard language barrier unless you are going to talk about higher mathematics or nanoparticles.
• Number. Despite 4 *, there were cockroaches in the room. We asked several times to get rid of them or move us to another room. Only after the third request was the room sprayed.
The furniture and pictures are shabby.
Cleaning every day, but after it is as dirty as it was before: there were often stains on the “fresh” bed linen (foundation, pen ink, black shoe polish, etc. ), similarly on beach towels; after cleaning, other people's tufts of hair remained on the floor.

We do not know how the process of assigning stars takes place in the Dominican Republic, but this hotel is definitely not 4*. It was about the same dirty in a hotel in Italy, but with 2 *. And it's definitely not a tip - we regularly left them.
Also in the room did not leave bathroom accessories, except for soap. We had ours, we used them.
• Nutrition. Very, very good - the food is very tasty, a huge variety of dishes (Italian, American, Japanese and other cuisines), wines are not diluted (we have seen such reviews about other hotels). But… dirty tablecloths, dirty cups and glasses.
• Beach. Very beautiful beach. Sandy, you can always find free sunbeds. Right on the beach there is a bar where you can have a bite to eat. The hotel is located on the Atlantic Ocean, so the waves are almost always strong. We heard reviews from other tourists that it was not possible to swim. In fact, for an amateur - we swam every day, the waves were not a hindrance. Often there were algae on the beach and in the water, especially in windy weather, but this hardly interfered with swimming. In the ocean you need to be careful - there are corals, it is unpleasant to step on them. Of the beach activities, we tried snorkeling (there is nothing to see, there are no underwater animals) and kayaking (very cool, we recommend).
• Animation. We paid almost no attention to hotel entertainment. Every evening in the hotel bar there was live music, you could dance. Were in the Aquapark: 5 slides for adults + slides and a pool for children. Pretty extreme.
• Internet. There were no problems with the quality of the Internet.
• It is very difficult to get anywhere by public transport, but this is in Punta Cana in general. The bus to the shopping center from the hotel and back runs only 2 times a day. The explanation at the reception of the way towards the shopping center (they were going to go for souvenirs) was understood, but not back. Therefore, we bought part of the souvenirs after the tour, part - in small shops on the way to the beach (but the mark-up there is 4 times higher).
• The laptop adapter is sold in the souvenir shop to the left of the Cohiba Dining Room.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original