I stayed at the GP Punta Cana from June 21-28 and I traveled with Apple Vacations. The Apple rep was readily available and very helpful and honest with information on tours, etc. The resort has spectacular grounds! The resort is very clean and beaches are fabulous. The rooms are nice but I would agree with other travellers that the air conditioning is not like central air at home. It was very hot and muggy in the room on some nights. I had a room in the 2000 bldg. on the first floor facing the pool. As far as the food, the buffets were plentiful but I preferred the sit down restaurants. The Spanish and Italian restaurants are the best! Try the shrimp and calamari at the Spanish restaurant and the lasagna at the Italian. The service overall from the front desk to housekeeping was above average. A guy at the front desk made me a CD of the local music which I thought was nice. The nightly shows were awesome! The dancing and costumes were amazing. The Michael Jackson show was my favorite. The guy has all of MJ's moves down. I liked that they invite the audience up on stage after the show to learn dances as well. I did the the Bavaro Runners Safari tour and my tour guide was Mimi. I would highly recommend this tour and ask for Mimi if you are from the US or English is your first language. Overall, I had a great vacation in Punta Cana and enjoyed the resort. As others mentioned, there are many Europeans at this resort and English is not the first language so make sure you know some basic Spanish.

My girlfriend and I stayed at the Grand Palladium, Punta Canna Resort and Spa for 7 nights. We booked our trip through Apple Vacations, which we highly recommend. Their all inclusive prices were great, their on site representatives made sure we were happy and well informed about tours, and a variety of general information. We had a great time and enjoyed our stay in this beautiful resort. What we loved the most we had access to all three Grand Palladium Resorts, all within walking distance. These resorts sit in 80 acres of beautiful grounds.The rooms were incredible, and let's see, the beach, the pools, the variety of restaurants on the premises, the service the people could not do enough for us. Of course you always find a few people complaining about this and that, but they are usually people that are miserable anywhere they go. Please when you visit this incredilbe island, be respectful to the locals. They don't all speak english, but they make sure they accomodate you at 120%. You get service with a wonderful smile. Some speak English, German, French and their native language which is Spanish. They are simple, happy and wonderful people to be around. If you are the type that likes to venture on your own to explore the island, this is not a good idea. The hotels offer many incredible daily escorted tours that you can explore and feel very safe. The Grand Palladium resorts accomodate Europeans, Canadians, Latin Americans and Americans. You will meet may people from these countries who bring their entire families at this resort from 4 years old to 75 years old. This resort is recommended for family vacations, honeymooners, singles, single parents and anyone who is looking to have a really fun, relaxing vacation by the sea. Neither one of us got sick. The weather in this island is in the mid 80's every day, year round. The hottest month is August (will not recommend you go then). It is sunny every day, it rains two times a day, for approximately 10-15 minutes every day (to water the beautiful flowers and trees and grounds), and then the beautiful sun shines again. If you do not want to get sick on this island, here are some suggestions. Do not drink their water, or use ice on your drinks (the water bottles are FREE all day long for you), do not use regular sink water in your coffee in your room (bottled water available for you in your mini bars and regular bars), avoid excessive all inclusive alcohol during the day especially the delicious fruity drinks. We only took one all day tour, The Bavaro Runners tour,which was incredible and a great eye opener as to how the locals live. We visited villages, people making coffee, cigars, sugar cane fields, a local gorgeous beach, horseback riding (optional ride),you will see plenty of local life. Bring the children crayons, coloring books, clothes, plenty of candy, or toys.The local children do not have any of these products available to them. The tour guides, ask if you are interested in sharing anything with the children (they do not recommend $$), and if you have to give, they make stops at the villages and bring the little kids on the buses to visit you and say "Ola" to you and "Mucho Gracias with great smiling faces" when you offer them anything. It is an awesome experience if you have the opportunity to do so. But enjoy what you have in your life and enjoy this beautiful country for a relaxing, fun and incredible vacation.

We stayed at the Punta cana from 12th-26th June. The hotel is fantastic.I was slightly concerned about food issues reading the reviews but there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Neither of us had any stomach problems. There is so much food choice you never get bored and the quality is very good. The a la cartes were good also, I highly recomend the Bamboo, and The Mexican but were less impressed with the italian.

The grounds are just amazing, spotlessly clean as are the rooms. We stayed in the 2000 building which is very close to the beach and the pools as are the 3000 and 4000 buildings. The rooms are not out of this world but as I mentioned really clean and comfortable with tea/coffee making facilities a mini bar which is stocked regularly with water, soft drinks and beer. Good air con and fans. The balcony was a little small though.

Service in the restaurants and bars is fantastic, the cocktails wine and beer are all good. (we can recommend the mojitos and the g & t's, beware though their idea of measures is a lot bigger than ours!!!)You never hang around waiting for a drink they are always ready to get you another.

The spa is fantastic, great treatments and beautiful inside, we had an ocean massage for two which lasted 50 mins and was very reasonably priced. The gym is also really well equipped.

The shows on an evening are good fun too, we were not really into that kind of thing at first but found them to be really entertaining and a good laugh and soon found ourselves getting involved. The animation team work so hard to put on a good show, the ones we went to were The Michael Jackson, Mr Palladium, Couples show (very funny) the more you join in the funnier it is trust me!!!!

The beach is beautiful and you can walk for miles. There are people on the beach asking about trips and selling bits and bobs but if you say no thankyou they are very good and just leave you too it. The same with the animation team they always try to get you invloved but just saying no thankyou and they leave you to carry on relaxing. We went to the disco a couple of nights which is good but didnt play too much in the way of English music, good if you fancy a bit of a boogie though.

Trips....... Always worth taking some extra cash for these as there is so much to do. We did the Bavaro Splash (drive your own speed boat to a platform in the middle of the sea followed by snorkelling) really great half a day, Reef Explorer, again brill, you are taken out by boat to a platform where you are given nibbles and drinks follwed by swimming with Nurse sharks, stingrays, snorkelling over a reef and massages, Ocean world a little expensive as you have to get a plane there but agin a really good day out swimming with dolphons etc and a really lovely park with loads to do.


Overall we had an amazing time, the people are so friendly and always like to say hello, I would so recommend this hotel, the time we went was also a really good time to go as it is a little quieter but we still had good weather with the exception of 1 days rain.

Please contact me if you need to ask any questions.

Just got back from a 7 day stay with my 14 year old daughter and we had a fantastic time! The grounds are beautiful and the beach.... breathtaking!