Playa Dorada, Golden Beach Holiday Village Reviews

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Good Points: For a family holiday you really can't go wrong here. There's plenty to keep the kids occupied with, the facilities on site are great and the beach fantastic. The first choice staff were first class and the entertainment surprisingly professional. We spent most of our time on the beach mucking about in the shore break.

Bad Points: The watersports equipment is shockingly poor - so if you're a windsurfer for example take you're own gear. I wouldn't recommend this resort for couples. Watch out for the currency conversion - I'd take US dollar travelers cheques next time, not sterling.

General comments: Playa Dorada, Golden Beach Holiday Village. we hired a car for a couple of days and I'd recommend that. It would be easy to remain on site for the whole holiday, but it's worth getting out there and seeing what the island is about. (check out Encuentro - a surf beach between Sosua and Cabarete). We went on one organised trip, the Outback Safari which was good but expensive ( £200 for all of us when you work out the double exchange rate ). our guide was very good, but we felt the trip was a bit salesy, leaning on profits going to the local community - it was difficult to totally buy into that one and slightly annoying to be asked in front of everyone what t-shirt we'd like to order. We politely declined - but it is embarrassing. The beach was where we spent most of our time (I have no idea why anyone would prefer the pool areas but they do!?) - best to do the old towel on the deckchairs before breakfast routine if you want a place under the palm shades. Food - nothing special and expect to get a table unlaid - but it was varied and perfectly edible.In2active and entertainment staff - very good. There's a couple of real stars on the team and they all make a huge effort to make sure everyone has a good time. Our kids did a few of the activities, raft building, top rope challenge and canoeing - it's as low key as you want it to be - no pressure.Value - we paid £3500 for the four of us for 2 weeks all inclusive and I'd have to say that was very good value. Summary - no hesitation in recommending this holiday destination to families looking for sun, beach and plenty to keep the kids occupied on site.

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Best holiday we have ever had, we have just booked to go back for the 3rd year running.
Great place for all ages, we have teenagers and they felt safe and entertained for the whole of the holiday, the pool's were excellent and the food was always freshly prepared.
The restaurants were first class and the service could not have been better. The dominican people are very friendly and go out of their way to make you feel welcome and enjoy your holiday.

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I loved the holiday, best holiday I have been on and I think it will the best ever holiday I will ever go on. It was amazing if I could I would be back on the plane tomorrow coming back to the same place, Holiday Village, golden beach, Playa Dorada, Dominican Republic. The people are so nice and friendly the holiday was a fantastic experience I am going to come back there one day.

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Good points of the Golden Beach Holiday Village, fantastic buffet restaurant, friendly bar staff, proximity to the beach. Rooms are adequate with air conditioning. Bad points, lousy butlinesque entertainment, over crowded swimming pool. Not a great place to be for a romantic getaway.

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I have just returned back from the resort and can honestly say its one of the best for families with children of all ages. The entertainment group and first choice reps are great with everyone. The food in the buffet restaurant catered for everyone and was brilliant. We went to the Italian restaurant twice and enjoyed the food but they need to slow down a bit and let customers enjoy the food. The Japanese restaurant "The Lotus" was exceptional and really good food. Please go along the the A ...

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The bar staff and staff working in the restaurant/s were absolutely brilliant. They could not do enough for you. The food was fantastic, plenty of choice of hot and cold foods. Catering for meat eaters, vegetarians etc.
The beach was no more than 3 minutes (yes 3 minutes) from our room. It was cleaned every morning where a tractor and three operatives made sure all the rubbish left over from the previous night was cleared away as well any seaweed which had washed on to the beach overnight.
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I went in May it was fantastic staff were excellent very friendly there lots to do rooms were fine, food was alright not great.
Put it this way I had such a great experience I'm going back in October its fantastic!

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We arrived back from the Holiday village Golden Beach on the 9th March 2008. I can honestly say it was the worst holiday experience we have had. The brochure states it is 4* rated, we have been to the Dominican twice before and compared to other 4* accommodation I would say that this is more like a 2*. The food was either undercooked or overcooked, very bland, not a great deal of choice. When you had food from what was supposed to be the Hot counter it was cold. Once you had obtained the fo ...

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We have just returned from a two week trip with 21 of our friends and family and this resort was fantastic. The resort was very clean, the activities plentiful and fun. The entertainment is family based and not everyone's cup of tea, but I thought the staff were great and worked extremely hard. The best thing about the resort were the staff who are fantastic - especially the bar staff and their legendary cocktails! I would recommend this place to anyone - despite some previous problems I had no ...

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Having read some bad reviews of Golden Beach Holiday Village on other sites before we went we were all gob-smacked as to the standard of service we received during our stay.
This resort is absolutely beautiful!
We have done several of the Holiday Villages - all were disappointing to various degrees.
I can honestly say we really had to struggle to find anything to complain about - and we do complain when needed.
The resort is beautiful, well maintained and immaculately clean. Staff are consta ...

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Food, room, locations and all the English reps at the Golden Beach were excellent.

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Room was satisfactory and clean but they were not brand new, as we were lead to believe. We had to change rooms because of the roof leaking, which had been patched up. In all, it is a good place for families, we needed an English rep for complaints, we all spoke good English in general but it was difficult to explain the leak over the bed!