Royalton Bavaro Resort & Spa

I travel to all-inclusive resorts twice a year with family and friends. I don't expect to be treated differently and always take extra money to tip the employees for their efforts. On this trip, I had multiple terrible experiences with management. The first started with my scheduling a massage. The massage was $135.00 for 50 minutes. I was at the spa ahead of time for my appointment. Short story is that the masseuse let me into the room and started the massage more 15 than minutes late and stopped almost 15 minutes early. This was a very expensive massage. Next was the poor treatment we received at 3 of the restaurants. We had 14 people in our group and were happy to divide up to accomadate the needs of the different restaurants. I was met with responses of either eating at 5:30 or after 9. Example, on my arrival management asked that I be patient with the restaurants as they try to accommodate a large group and asked that I go to restaurants very early at meal time to secure later seating. At Brazilian restaurant the manager said 5:30 or 9, no in-between and did it in a very terse manner. His assistant said if we show up at 8:30 they will try to get us in a little earlier if possible. I took the reservation. At 8 my family members were ready to eat so we decided to go to the buffet. I walked back to the restaurant to cancel our reservation. Upon arrival, the restaurant was mostly empty. I canceled without incident. The following night we experienced a similar incident at the italian restaurant. After being told we had a 2 hour wait with 20 tables ahead of us we went to the bar. After an hour and 15 of waitng my sister went to inquire about progress on our wait. She was told there were still 20 tables ahead of us and to expect at least 2 hours more hours. She asked the hostess if that was correct and was told, "for you there are now 21 tables ahead of you". I made an appointment with the manager, Dario Perez, to vent some of my frustrations with the experiences we were having. His response was that he wanted to make my experience better and insisted on doing something for me. I was clear and thanked him for his time and listening to me but did not need anything in return. I did not feel our trip was destroyed and did not need anything extra. He stopped me the following day and said he was going to credit the cost of my massage but I would need to sign a paper as a receipt. The paper was a non-disclosure with the threat of financial damages if I discussed my experiences with anyone. Next up was checkout which was a storm of bad behavior and extra charges that they tried to give my nephews. The manager was there and would not acknowledge me or look my direction. I assume this is because I didn't sign his disclosure. We had money taken from a room, charges for a broken remote (a second remote) found in the couch cushions and an attempt to collect an additional $180.00 for a broken room bracelet when the manager refused to check out my nephews for not paying for the second remote found in their room. Lesson learned. Iberostar here I come in February!

Could not have picked a better location. The resort, the people, the food, the beach all so enjoyable. Family vacation with something for all ages.

We are a family of four that took our daughter to the Royalton Bavaro for her 16th birthday. The resort is brand new, clean, and modern. Beautiful pool and beach areas… The staff were pleasant and genuinely happy. Our butler, Felix, was kind and attentive, cocktail server Maria Patricia was happy and bubbly, pool server Kendry, friendly and helpful. Only negative was the rooms smelling a bit mildewy, but that can happen in a humid environment. Just a wonderful overall experience!

great resort with great service to be improved the quality of food. Unfortunately a bit too much seaweed on the beach