great hotel pools beach book play golf girlfriends teachers spent spring break ocean blue march 26 april 2. spent weeks trip reading reviews helpful, try focus areas not addressed.first say overall experience ocean blue excellent, staff efficient friendly pleasant smile, layout resort unique quite spread walking manageable, negative layou little view beautiful ocean, villa 4 floor facing pools order gorgeous turquoise water ocean stick head way balcony, advantage eating lunch beach buffet walking/sitting beach tropical views.golf basic requirements vacation great weather, sun sun sun lots food drink golf, travel agent recommended resort golf, yes located right street white sands golf course hotel guests offered discount course, not recommend playing, clubhouse beautiful actual course awful, layout fine place raggy looked like war zone, greens worst seen, did not feel safe course approached men asking handouts couple times, holes open time, option playing twice 70, hole price tolerate holes 49 driven course hotel cart attached wagon clubs, took minutes, looking proximity just want swat ball n't want spend lot want try white sands, going dominican play golf book hotel offers guest rates nearby course better quality.we booked round golf catalonia caribe golf club apple rep. better, course fairly new enjoyed 18 holes, no ocean views course good shape, 90 fee included cart 18 holes golf tax transportation course go-golf shuttle, bring bottles water charge course, white sands filled cooler spigot tap water placed bag ice suggest bringing bottled water, drive took 20 minutes.between ocean beach caribe golf club cocotal golf country club, did not play looked nice drove, fairways told wide forgiving fee not staying melia caribe pay 35 cart fee 130 p/p includes cart taxes 3 day package 330.weather guess umbrella room reason scoped internet weather sites forecast looked grim, actually scattered showers predicted daily basis, assured weather lovely occasional evening quick shower usa 3000 flight chicago arrived half hour early looking forward pool time, wrong, rained days rain second day torrential downpours, starting depressed lack sun luckily el sol appearance did end getting quite good tans, weather like chicago minutes changes wind outrageous joked gale force winds, did n't really hamper activities golf temperature lower 72 degrees bring jacket evening air-conditioned restaurants chilly casino disco bring additional small umbrella you.room honeymooning avoid room 4325, headboards not attached bedframe bed slid sat headboard crashing head jacuzzi no plug, yes bring light bulbs.food careful ate, did n't care buffets pizza croissants freshly fried donuts great, felt queasy couple times case think sun vino tinto red wine, loved macaroons mike coffe shop, la carte dinners good especially fish dominican italian mexican, n't miss trying mamajuana potent national drink italian shot concoction jug hostess end meal dominican.by way restaurants located right lobby area, not need reservations, long wait names come enjoyable dinner.a things blue pool quieter, bartender makes great margaritas, yellow pool closer ocean offers activities water aerobics dance lessons, towels obtained building near ocean n't miss photo op brenda monkey, definitely crack photos,