Dreams Dominicus La Romana

We spent two wonderful weeks at Secrets La Romana and genuinely loved our holiday. The resort is beautiful, the beach stunning, the infinity pool gorgeous, and the grounds immaculate and exceptionally well maintained. The staff are lovely, hardworking and welcoming. There is so much to recommend here, and overall we’d rate our experience 8/10. So why not 10/10? One word: inconsistency. Food ranged from excellent to distinctly average, sometimes in the same restaurant. Our first visit to the Peruvian restaurant was fantastic, yet ordering the same dishes on our second visit was disappointing. This was a recurring theme across restaurants, with the exception of Noor, which was excellent on both visits. Entertainment was similarly hit and miss. The resort app frequently displayed different entertainment times from the screens around the resort or what was actually happening, making planning frustrating. We upgraded on arrival to Preferred Club and a swim-up room. We’d recommend Preferred primarily for access to Mare and The Grill for breakfast and lunch, providing welcome alternatives to the buffet. The ocean views from The Grill are spectacular! However, we barely used our swim-up pool as it received sunshine only in the afternoon, and room service options were surprisingly limited. Some smaller details also detracted from the luxury experience: plastic glasses in bars, even during the evening, and having to retain cutlery between courses in restaurants. Our biggest disappointment was the $119-per-person romantic pier dinner, where children’s music, including Baby Shark, played loudly in the background from Dreams side for a considerable period. Hardly the romantic, premium experience advertised! We’ve previously stayed at Secrets The Vine Cancun, where the quality and attention to detail, even as standard guests, exceeded what we experienced here with Preferred Club. Would we recommend Secrets La Romana? Yes if you manage your expectations for a Secrets. We had a fantastic holiday, and an 8/10 is a very good score in our eyes. However, the difference between a very good resort and an exceptional one is consistency and attention to detail. This is undoubtedly a beautiful five-star resort, but for us, it’s not quite delivering the Secrets standard yet. The team clearly work hard and are striving to improve. We genuinely hope that within the next year or two it reaches its full potential, because it has everything needed to be exceptional. A lovely holiday, a beautiful resort, and somewhere we’d happily consider returning to. Just not quite five out of five… yet!

Samuel - Chinola Eczema Stayed for 2 weeks in September for my partners birthday and couldn't have imagined a better holiday. The preferred club bar, lounge and pool were all perfect. Wendi, Junior and Adolfina always took such good care of us and gave us some of the best drinks ever. The guest were so nice we made a group of friend and Louis gave us an amazing teppanyaki experience for 8. He got us all involved in it and made it very fun for everyone. For my partners birthday we had dinner on the pier. The surf and turf was absolutely incredible and an insane amount of food in the most magical spot in the hotel. Jorge sold us the table and greeted us on the evening. The constant joy and kindness from him was infectious, was a pleasure talking to him. All the restaurants at the hotel are phenomenal and it's hard to pick which ones to go to but every time we were served by samuel we were well looked after. I would have no hesitation in coming back to this hotel or any other secrets hotel and hope to come back soon.

Very good….. at the top end of the resorts we have visited on the island Will be back… where there was shortfall in expectation, immediately rectified

This Hotel surpass our expectations. The beach is absolutely perfect and look like a postcard. The cabanas both on the beach in the pool were amazing the Service, the The overall experience was exceptional. My wife, and I felt like we were waking up from an entire day at the spa. Every single day. Wewoke up in the room. Slept like a baby and enjoyed every minute.

Awesome experience. Make sure to go to the sports bar and ask Yescania Badio. She makes the best drinks and is super friendly !