Iberostar Bavaro

Villa room size is very big with a beautiful layout that allows the sun to wake you up in your excessively big, very comfortable bed. Restaurant dinners were nice and service was Tom notch. Three honourable mentions here : Jose Espinal our concierge was extremely friendly and looked after us that we have all the activities we need and all evening dinners booked; he just made the whole stay wonderful. Two other staff that impressed us with both their English and good conversations and friendship are Alex and Santo at the Pool Bar. Amazing people with good banter and good secret recipe cocktail recipes - for the whole duration of our stay we always ended the days at the pool bar because of this, before retreating to our rooms to get ready for dinner. If you want a cocktail you never tried before ask Alex for the Alex special.

We had a bad start of our stay when we were stopped at the gate by the security as we drive to the resort and kept there for more or less 5 minutes for checks phone calls to reception etc, even though I showed the security guard my booking.com reservation on my phone - it felt more like a maximum security prison than a 5 star resort. This was raised with customer relations and handled very professionally and am happy how swiftly they tried to make things right.

The food was excellent the stuff very polite and helpfull - they enjoy their work.

US teenagers very drunk and loud...

The room was spacious and well laid out.

The lighting in the bathroom needed improvement