superb, spent 2 weeks 13/03-27/03 hotel absolutely loved, really excellent value money guy plane home spent 2 weeks said easily comparable sandals resorts usually went half price, apologies disjointed review just mentioning think useful went choice decided pay extra premier service, definitely worth doing, especially not particularly keen flier, no queue special check-in desk plane pre take-off drink real glass, free drinks flight better food leg room comfier seats ability stop/start/rewind programs/films wanted priority baggage unloading, definitely flying long haul.the hotel general pretty place extremely kept, grounds imaculate, larger expected, 46 villas think 24 rooms ground/first/second floors 8 hidden thousands palm trees n't realise big place, room villa 3 nice away noise main area not particularly noisy close beach pool, bit walk hotel centre cadge lift golf trolley passing, bed huge comfy, living area spacious, nicely furnished/decorated, hammock balcony nice touch, bath amazing, certainly n't expecting, bathroom excellent seperate shower perfectly adequate size bit odd having toilet, room clean maid did good job cleaning/tidying, definitely worth leaving tip left 2 3 days ensure fridge kept stocked, water beer selection fanta sprite coke, tv not english channels did n't expect, cnn news channel does n't english info fine holiday, got setanta sports showed lot football games shown home, plus fx, oh golf channel kept bloke quiet whilst getting ready evenings, spanish channel showed gp spanish, people not care tv lot people like like certain sporting events, beach lovely yes slightly spoiled seaweed not bad, worse certain times year, staff try best clear beach, not really problem unless real seaweed phobia easter spare sunbeds beach struggle palm hut unless got early, shade palm trees though.the pool area great filled quicker bit crowded beds quite close not room sun/shade, tended grass bit archery area room spread plus sun shade times, nice pool plenty room jacuzzi nice, day pool bar coconuts filled coconut milk rum definitely nice n't english time year mainly canadians americans relatively europeans.the main buffet restaurant excellent loads choice, wine nice, beach buffet good smaller not quite choice, pool snack food pretty good nice sunbed, drinks machines good idea soft drinks just refills when.we used steak house french restaurants definitely recommend, food lovely recommend seafood cocktail starter steak house lobster main course french, use bar going japanese/french restaurants nice change.the main bar good wait long waitress service, entertainment pretty expect sort place not outstanding certainly reasonably enjoyable, sit bar watch entertainment stage suited better, problem getting suitable table despite hotel pretty full.the entertainment team nice amused daily activities interested archery volleyball dance lessons pool table tennis competitions mixed age group hotel not children despite easter, mainly couples families definitely not young single person resort suit couples ages.if smoke buy way unless missed place buy 2 small vending machines hotel needed 5 1 dollar notes 5 dollars packet, change bank hotel n't needed shops reluctant change.we took dollars accepted preferred dominican peso.shops hotel ok not brilliant n't really expected better expected, unless missed n't really outside resort apart stalls beach n't expect able walk hotel shops restaurants, knew n't going n't disappointed.one thing did n't hotel buy read english big reader holiday make sure books, staff hotel thousands, general helpful friendly, gardeners make effort say walk past, quite surprised lack english known apoke lot, yes know spanish speaking country guess just expected basics quite wildly known n't meant resorting pointing things, major problem quite amusing trying explain things like cigarette machine ate money, temperature pretty high 20's/30ish day days sunny time usually blue skies odd fully white cloud, couple rain showers lasted 5 mins, n't notice weather forecast daily hotel right, did trip 1/2 day outback safari defintely recommend, real laugh, quite possibly best excursion, wish trips saona island supposed good relaxing pool/beach just enjoyable airport way home strict luggage weight, got charged 30 3kgs got home weighed bags n't, n't expect choice duty free shop newer terminal main brands things, rum tended cheaper hotel/on trips, excellent hotel definitely recommend long like idea inclusive holiday, fantastic value money, catalonia really lovely hotel, really ca n't understand bad review oh got face cloths,