Occidental Gran Flamenco Punta Cana

An April 2003 trip to Punta Cana by avila1

The beach at the Occidental Gran Flamenco Punta Cana was just beautiful. The resort had lots of activities, good nightly entertainment, great food to suit any palate, and a spacious timeshare unit.

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Best Things Nearby:
Resort is situated on the beautiful soft white sand beach of Punta Cana. The market place just a two minute walk from the main entrance of the resort. It has everything, even an internet cafe.

Best Things About the Resort:
Call it luck, but we had a beautiful two- bedroom suite unit that faced the beach. The unit was excellent, even had a CD/DVD player in the second bedroom!

Resort Experience:
The entrance is open and palacial. The bar in the lobby was always busy, but not busy enough to give us the pina coladas, banana mamas, and cold bottle water. They were just great. Margarida at the guest services desk has customer service skills we would all just love to have in our own businesses/place of work. She was very prompt and attentive to everything we could possibly need to make our vacation wonderful.

The breakfast buffet was excellent. It had fresh fruit (including mangos), Mexican omeletes, pastries and rolls, cereals, etc. . .you couldn't go away hungry.

We ate lunch at the buffet place on the beach. Once again it had salads, fruits, and Mexican and North American dishes as well. Our kids hung out at the sports bar for their fill of hot dogs, hamburgers, fries, pizza, ice cream, etc.

We also ate our evening dinners at the specialty restaurants. They were great meals. And just before midnight, if our teenagers got hungry, they were once again eating at the pizza bar.

The entertainment staff were great getting people to participate in the exercise, Spanish, and dance classes. I did learn some Spanish for my next trip there while my husband participated in the archery competition and had fun winning. Our kids hung out at the pools/beach/basketball court/sportsbar and the room to watch TV.

There was a spa that my husband and I spent an afternoon at just being pampered at a reasonable price in clean surroundings.

There is also a disco on the premises, which we did not go to as there was way too much cigarette smoke for us to handle. Checkout was fast and efficient.

  • Unit Type: 2 Bedroom
  • Activities: Excellent
  • Amenities: Excellent
  • Unit Satisfaction: Excellent
  • Family Friendliness: Excellent
  • Service: Excellent
  • Member Rating 4 out of 5 by avila1 on December 7, 2003

Occidental Gran Flamenco Punta Cana
Bavaro Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
+809 221-8787

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

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