bavaro princess beautiful resort, husband stayed bavaro princess 26 april 3, resort breathtakingly beautiful wonderful vacation, booked sunwing book suites, leary rooms reading reviews tried upgrade prior departure, travel agent advised wait rooms like doing upgrade, took advice ended upgrading saw, junior suites located far beach room gave did not terrace balcony, upgraded immediately got beautiful suite close beach, yes little older musty smell spacious quite pretty kept clean extremely hard working staff, nice balcony sat morning coffee relaxed late afternoons evenings dinner, grounds restaurants beach beautiful, staff friendly helpful, did language bit barrier managed, saw no bugs not mosquitos, did n't need use bug spray, extremely hot humid, lot sunshine couple overcast days welcome getting sunburned, used spf 30 switch 45 30 did n't cut, poured rain couple times rain did n't came evening early morning, recommend carrying umbrella head dinner rain roll quickly, food pretty good, easy eat large selection restaurants food choices available, walked beach thought resort nicest saw, took festival excursion awesome, half day excursion snorkel coral reef swim sharks stingrays, entertainment snacks drinks provided boat, amazing time highly recommend experience, allows glimpse real dominican republic, eye-opener poverty slums garbage just outside gates, alot beach venders trying sell wares, cheapy, bought couple things just shake head pretty leave, left tip maid day tipped restaurants bars, people work hard deserve rewarded efforts, left gifts maid day time just leave money, reserved chairs beach did n't problem finding available ones looked, house band provided good entertainment lobby evenings drinks tasty liked coco locos pina coladas merengues, request alcohol varieties drinks ones n't, got infamous runs took meds carried, resort huge trolley available n't feel like walking, husband walked, took minutes walk beach lobby grounds beautiful walk day night, highly recommend resort, just mind foreign tropical country lifestyle climate different, thoroughly enjoyed dominican vacation, just embrace experience great time,