Marquis Villas Resort

Blue Bay Villas Doradas in Dominican Republic Peurta Plata..!?

I know its an adult only Resort im 19 Turning 20 and i will be there for my 20th birthday and my girlfirends that are coming are the same age as me 19-20 were going in May will the weather be nice and since its an adult only place will young adults like us enjoy ourselves and is there bars or clubs/discos and is the food really good and do they have a spa because on my birthday i will treat myself to everything including a nice good resteraunt ?!?! ( ps. im Dominican by the way i have a house in santo domingo but i chose to stay in a resort for the main reason its ALL INCLUSIVE XD ) Thanks in Advance people.

Public Comments

1. Overall the resort and the holiday were good, mainly because the food was great and the sun paid us a visit enough times for us to end up with a good tan. It could have been a lot better, but when you see how bad the surrounding resorts are (compared to Blue Bay Villas Doradas that is) you must appreciate that it could have been a lot worse. As with all holidays, we must start with the good, and this resort has many. The food is very good, and had we not experienced 2 days on a better resort (the number 1 on this website for Puerto Plata in fact) due to weather-related departure delays, we would have most certainly rate it as the highest possible. The only minor detail that might make you regard it as less satisfactory is the insistence on taking people to tables with some cutlery missing, and the lack of a self-service coffee dispenser, which at breakfast can sometimes mean you end up having to wait for the coffee long after finishing eating... We aren't a common family at all. We privilege quietness and relaxation above everything else, and that is the high focus on sales. The last thing we want, when on holiday, is to feel that constantly we are faced with a position were we are led to believe we only bought half a holiday. "There are better rooms", "there is better service", "there is greater savings", "there are better facilities", etc. The last thing you want on an all inclusive holiday is to be made to believe that what you paid doesn't entitle you to full enjoyment of the resort. Overall I could actually say that the sales pitch is very aggressive and sometimes makes you feel that you will be treated differently if you say no. I had a particularly bad impression from a financial director, who blatantly lied about exchange rates to make us feel pressured on taking such a great offer, and when we said no he just looked on us as if we were dirt stuck to a shoe, even passing on remarks to others (not knowing we are fluent Spanish speakers). This leads us to believe that most excessively high reviews are from those that fell on the trap and count on high ratings here to get friends to minimize their loss by paying them for their time-share. This is particularly irritating when, like ourselves, you already paid an extra fee upon booking to get a balcony or terrace and you end up finding that if you are on the ground floor the table and chairs is not included About the rooms, like most of the resort, the design/space/look is excellent from a distance, but once you see things closer you realize BIG flaws. We too had to endure the same bed linen for the whole two weeks, and the horrendous pillows (the most sorry excuse for a bag of foam balls I have ever seen, and just as uncomfortable as a bag of bricks) had indeed brown spots on them. I can honestly say that this resort has a very big problem regarding spare items. Instead of having a spare set of linen for every room, it seems as they prefer to juggle an outsourced laundry service twice a day at strategic times, leading the poor housecleaning staff to have to work until 11pm delivering washed towels brought by the laundry van, ending up having to wake those less interested in night entertainment activities. It's also weird to see housekeeping staff only taking the tips you leave on the table if it's above a certain amount, especially when you always end up finding a new personal item of yours they broken by them every odd day. The beach is quite appalling, especially if you have seen what a normal beach looks like. Most people end up walking to the beach front of other resorts 10/20 minutes west, since the beach front of this resort is a peculiar small bay that in effect stores all the organic debris that the natural mangrove spurns out. If you go past the mangrove "river" you see an immediate difference. I guess that there is not much the resort can do to prevent this, but the appallingly looking sun loungers on the beach certainly don't help (and the sea side beds are only for those that bought a time-share, thus empty all the time).
2. once you turn 18 you are an official adultt in domiinican republic after you 18 you could do what ever you want including drinking its not like here in the U.S. you got to be 21 to get intto clubs and drink over there its 18 so you good, and in D.R. laws are not enforced so theres nothing that the power of money can't do
3. Bring money for the spas. Resorts usually offer it at the one you stay at. The weather will be HOT. It is also the rain season. So could rain everyday or not at all. It will be like summer here but 10x hotter! Thats why people usually go in the winter because it is still hot there. No one really travels to the islands in the summer because it can be too hot. Plus hurricanes. It says there are only 244 rooms..that is a pretty small resort! better to go to a bigger one. Can meet more people rather than the few hundred at that resort Have fun!