Dec 30th to Jan 11th 05. We transferred to this hotel from the awful punta Goleta in caberete, and well glad we did. This hotel is superb. The staff are the friendliest I have experienced. The entertainment in the daytime is excellent with games like darts, horse racing (with a twist), shuffle board etc. The evening entertainment is located in a big outdoor staging area with nice seating and a good bar. Mainly dancing and not that good, but they have a disco in the beach bar from 11pm to 3am. Foos is excellent with a good choice and the buffet restaurant is spotless, with high back upholstered seating, waiter service for drinks. There are 3 other restaurants that have to be booked (Italian, Chinese, Brazilian and Mexican). The grounds are beautiful and well kept. The beach is OK with loads of watersports. There are lots of beach vendors though, but a polite No Thanks does the trick. There is also a beach bar. Just opposite the hotel is a shopping plaza, but bear in mind this is very expensive, lots of souvenirs, but a little pricey. Lots of trips to do, we did the Quad Bikes (wouldn't recommend) very poor condition and not road worthy, one bike actually lost a wheel while riding, and the rider hurt his arm. Loads of them kept breaking down. The other trip was the jeep safari, if you do this, do the Outback one. You do through villages and see the real dominican rep. You also go to the waterfalls, but only jump if you are a very good swimmer as a little boy age 11 died 2 days previous, bring swept away by the current. Back to the hotel, the rooms are quite basic, although clean. Our room flooded 3 times wheile we were there, but so did lots of others as we had very bad weather for 1 week (after Tsunami). Torrential rains.