Overall Ratings & Reviews Iberostar Selection Bávaro Suites - All Inclusive

Beautiful property, great location, great food. Wish we could have stayed longer.

We spent a nice week at this hotel and it was just fantastic. The grounds are green and luscious, very well taken care of. The villas are so close to the beach and the property is easily walkable. We always found many choices to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We do eat pretty healthy though, lots of fruit, vegetables and fish, the kids did find some fast food options too. We chose not to go to the restaurants and just use the buffet. The staff is so friendly, especially our servers Sofia and Yoselin, they made us feel welcomed and taken care of. The pools are clean and just beautiful, the kids spent majority of time there. The beach is just breathtaking, plenty of beach beds to choose from.

This is 5th time in Punta Cana and second time at this resort. It’s our favorite by far.

Quality of services has definitely declined in the last 3 stays at this resort. Absolutely horrendous.

Very nice place to pick for your vacation. Iberostar is the best. Looking forward to come back soon.

It is very clean and well organized. Food options were great.

What works for this resort is, hands down, it's staff. All are incredibly helpful and present; they want to help you have the best time on your holiday and will go above and beyond to make that happen. The hotel is located on one of the best beaches I have ever been on: white, fine, gorgeous sand that is tended to everyday. I noted on my morning beach walks that neighboring resorts don't do as thorough a job cleaning the seaweed off their patch of sand; Iberostar Selection Bavaro does this and more. The gym is amazing: clean, modern and filled with all the up-to-date equipment you never seem to be able to find at any hotel. Classes are offered to one and all, and are good fun (particularly the Zumba class). The tennis courts are in good shape too. Where the property slightly let's itself down is on the quality of food. It seems to be an almost Herculean task to maintain the quality given the number of people being fed. Some food was flavorless, too oily, etc. Having said that, there was plentiful fruit on offer and freshly made food, ie omelettes, etc offered if you want to avoid the fried food offering. Plates seemed to be an issue...sometimes there are plenty and other times quite a few people seemed to be waiting for plates to be brought out to the buffet. We dined at the Italian one evening: the steak was very good, but the cold roasted potato slices detracted from the overall enjoyment of the meal. Overall, recommend this resort. The staff make it special.

DO NOT use the casino. My son was given counterfit money after winning. He took that to the Hard Rock the next night and was nearly arrested when trying to use it on the Black Jack table. The resort is decent and they did a nice job decorating for Christmas. Our housekeeper was excellent. The other staff is not as friendly as they could be. Darlyn in check out was great and moved us thru very quickly and gave us an upgrade we wanted. The food is just ok but the French Restaraunt was awful. My husband got rancid meat and got sick. A group of 9 of us and all food was quite awful there. Leonardo the concierge comes across very friendly at arrival but once he realized we were not going to do a timeshare presentation he was no longer accomodating whatsoever when trying to make reservations etc. Not a great place for young adults. No entertainment for them in the evenings. We hoped for a beach party, Foam party, White party, anything! Nothing was provided for them to do so they went to that casino and were basically robbed. Geraldo at the beach was extremely friendly and the beach bar servers were also great. Probably would not go back here but would choose the Hard Rock for the young adults in our group.

Will never stay here again. Food is great. Cleaning staff is awful.

Most of the staff weee amazing, pool was great, swim up bar was always a vibe and the beach/ocean were very close, clean, and fun

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2nd time here with my husband and children and we loved it even more this time.

Be very careful when booking with teenagers When I got to the hotel they charged me 1200 dollars for my two 16 year old kids Booked through Expedia 15 and up it has to be booked s adults would never go back there again

My husband and I stayed there in October 11,2024. They need to have more Hispanic options for food ! Ocean and pools were clean and beautiful! They need authentic Latino food !!

We loved the beach accessibility from the beachfront suites. If there was one complaint it would be that the air conditioning seemed to get weaker as the week went on. Nobody ever came to fix it.

Its a beautiful place. The wayer is beautiful, lobby is nice. The rooms are a little "tired". Need a little updating and love. The food is a solid 5 out of 10. Its not bad but not geeat. The one main negative is, when i go on a vacation, i dont want to be bothered with sales pitches and people in the hotel, the beach and staff trying to sell me stuff. I just want to rest. Maybe its a cultural thing, but i didnt want to be bothered about sales pitches about their new hotels or folks selling arts or crafts on the grounds or beach . This hotel is not bad its just not what i would call a 5 star like its advertised as.

The food was amazing, sooo many choices and everything delicious. The staff were friendly and helpful.The grounds were immaculate, so well maintained. The golf cart transportation was very convenient and the drivers were so friendly and polite. One of the best vacations ever.

Great in general.

The whole property runs on an app. They don’t have any physical maps or anything. It was very frustrating to have to be on your phone all day to navigate. Additionally, we needed some thing from client services (toothbrush, robes, towels) little things but important. And we completed the in app request and nothing happened. We chatted with guest services through the app 3 times and still didn’t receive the items and complained once in the app because we didn’t get them and because of that it prompted a phone call and we explained we were just looking for some towels (literally only had 2 and no hand towels at all) and toothbrush, robes. And they said no problem we will send them now. And they never came. It became comical, thankfully it wasn’t something critical. We gave up after that. We never did receive the items. Other then that the staff were very nice , alothough a large percentage of them did not speak English and communication was quite hard.

Everything was very good