Bahia Principe Luxury Ambar reviews
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10 Days at Ambar
Marc T (Ottawa, Canada) on Feb 08, 2025
My wife and I spent 10 days at this resort in mid-January. It was our first time at this resort although we had stayed at the Grand Aquamarine resort twice before. We decided to try the Ambar for its proximity to the beach. Our room was well located, mid-way between the reception area with the buffet and bar and the pool and beach area. Our room was a second floor corner unit and was spacious and well appointed with a large balcony, sitting area with a free-standing soaker tub, king bed, well-stocked fridge and large shower area. Housekeeping was pretty good, although we had to make a couple of requests for facecloths and towels, ran out of shower gel and tissues, had a problem with the room safe and water pressure one day. Each issue was very quickly resolved after speaking to the concierge located in our building. We ate breakfast at the buffet and the food selection has something for everyone. Tables are plentiful and service is very good. We usually had lunch at the beach/pool buffet restaurant, Las Brisas, which had lots of choice and was quite good. We split our dinners between the buffet which had an excellent selection and several of the speciality restaurants. We ate at El Olivo and Mashua Nikkei which are located at Grand Aquamarine. Service and food were very good. We ate at Naan which was at Esmeralda. This was a six-course tasting menu which was really good, service was well timed and very pleasant. We also ate at Portofino, M.E.A.T and Limbo which were at Luxury Ambar. M.E.A.T was quite good, Limbo was excellent and although service was fine at all the restaurants, unfortunately, our meal at Portofino was very disappointing. There was entertainment every evening, either located in the main lobby area, pool or beach. There are also kayaks and catamarans available for guests and we enjoyed sailing almost every day. The staff at the water sports location were great to deal with. There were a couple of things we did notice from our previous trips to this resort, mainly the cat population has grown considerably since we were there a year ago. We also got rain almost every night or very early morning. Although we had great weather during the day, the rain resulted in lots of mosquitoes and no-see-ems which we had never been troubled by before, so while we came home with a tan, we also had lots of bug bites. All staff were very pleasant and helpful. The grounds are very well maintained and very pretty. We had a great vacation and would certainly return.
Ambar hotel excellent,
Steve B (Horsham, United Kingdom) on Feb 08, 2025
The hotel is right on the beach, the rooms are large and airy, so many staff keeping the place clean and well kept the bars are good and staff keep us filled up ?? house keeping very good our maid Janet was excellent always smiling and welcoming, the buffet was great plenty of choice 4 grill stations, Staff very attentive, entertainment was very good there was always something going on. But if you want a good spot on the beach get up early!!!
A quality Adults-only, all-inclusive resort with good value.
G M (Cambridge, Ohio) on Feb 08, 2025
This is a quality Adults-only all-inclusive resort. The service, selections, amenities, food & beverage, entertainment, spa, and landscaping are all, very good. The only addition would be a "quite" pool. There was only one pool, and it was always crowded, noisy, and chaotic.
Worth going back over and over!
Nicoleta O (Ottawa, Canada) on Feb 08, 2025
Beautiful resort, very lush, lots of trees and flowers, grounds are well kept and clean. Room was best we ever had, swim-up suite, very clean, spacious, large shower, beautiful terrace. Bed was comfortable, pillows ok. Loved the food, lots of choices of a la carte, the French Limbo is the best of them. Personally loved the buffet the most, lots of choices for food. Beach was nice, lots of palm trees, although very crowded this time of year. Didn't use the pool but it looked nice with lots of activities. A resort that I would go back for sure.
5 times and not disappointed.
RosieB2242 (Kingston, Canada) on Feb 07, 2025
Over the years, we have traveled to the Dominican Republic 30 times. This is our fifth time at the Ambar - the first post-Covid and likely our go-to resort this fall. We are 4 senior citizens who aren't terribly technologically literate so navigating the app, checking in, and reserving restaurants didn't come naturally. And I'm afraid we requested hard copy menus in all the restaurants because we weren't about to scan the QR code. Otherwise, our week away was perfect. The sun was out, the lounge chairs were comfortable, the beach was clean, the buffet was varied and plentiful, and we didn't have one bad meal at any of the restaurants. We ate at El Olivo twice because we remembered it to be our favourite when we were here in the past. There wasn't one cranky staffer - and I include the gardeners. Everyone smiled when passing. The husbands golfed at Punta Blanca and the pro at the shop remembered them from 2020. They got 3 rounds in and were impressed with the state-of-the-art carts and the rental clubs. This is the first time they didn't bring their own clubs so we packed only carry-on and didn't have to wait for luggage to be unloaded. I strongly suggest that, is you can afford it, spend the $40.00 US for a taxi to the resort. After a long flight, there's nothing worse than having to wait for an hour for all passengers to get to the bus and then go from resort to resort dropping folk off. My ONLY complaint would be our room locations. I'd specifically requested two ground floor rooms close together since two of us have mobility issues. I realize these rooms are swim up and cost slightly more but I did think that as multiple times repeat guests this might be accommodated. Instead we got one room on the 2nd floor and one room on the 3rd in completely separate buildings. It made for slow-going. But the rooms were large and the housekeeping staff always had the room clean and restocked by the time we headed for our afternoon siestas before dinner. All in all, you won't be disappointed if you book the Ambar.