Altos de Chavon Village Adults Only Holidays

So leading up to our trip in early September, I read a ton of reviews to hear about the positives and negatives. Some of the negatives include the gym, the beach, people bugging you about buying stuff, hard beds, terrible food, etc. Here was our honest experience: The property was well maintained, even for what they consider the "low season". If you don't want to be bugged at check in with the time share people, simply say no thank you to any tours or breakfasts that they are offering for free. We booked a Junior Swim Up Suite, trust me, pay the extra money and book it, you will not regret it. The room was clean, well maintained and I slept great every night, no complaints with the AC or bed. Our butler, Norieles(Nori for short) was amazing, very responsive and took care of us during our stay. The food was mostly good, our only less than pleasant experience was the French Restaurant. Our favorite was definitely El Dorado Steak House, ate there twice. No problem with kids being on the adult side of the resort. The seaweed problem during our stay was minimal, they did a good job of cleaning it up and anything in the water didn't stop us from getting in. Take the beach vendors with a grain of salt, if they offer you tours, hair braiding, pics with iguana's or parrots, just politely say no thank you, it's that easy. Down the beach less than a hundred yards are some shops that sell souveniers, liquor, cigars, etc. It's cheaper than the resort shops. Overall a great stay.

Everyone made sure we were having a good experience, even made sent special gift for my birthday, I loved how dedicated they are

Clean and safe environment

The good: The resort and facility (Pool, Beach, Gym, Bars...) are amazing. Design and layout of the hotel is very charming and classy. The bars and cafe are great; the bartenders are very fun and friendly and they also don't skimp out on the drinks!. The bad: Room Service / Housekeeping and Food, however are a bit inconsistent. Room service can be really slow, or sometimes they don't even show up with your request. In regards to housekeeping, sometimes they clean my room really well and sometimes they did a really sketchy job. As for the restaurant, I've tried majority of the restaurants available (they had 11 sit-in restaurants, plus 1 buffet and a few food trucks) and some of the meals were hit or miss. Some were bland, while some were overly salty or overcooked. The ones that were good, in my opinion were Brass Steakhouse (better than Dommo in my opinion), Lizo, Shoji and Surf & Turf (Lobster for days). The French restaurant was only open for 1 day of the whole week...and we were unable to try it out. We went to Brass twice; the first time was amazing, steaks were great and they gave us good cuts. Second time, more than 1/3rd of our steaks were just fat caps and 1 of our steaks were well done when we asked for medium rare (we ordered 4 steaks for 4 people). Side note, I find it odd that the restaurant would give you salt/pepper in packets instead of shaker. The hotel definitely has potential, but quality and consistency of service / food needs to be improved.

Very nice , clean, staff was great and tended to our needs. Pool was clean, room was clean. The only problem I had was the bed was not comfortable at all, very hard made our backs hurt daily they should add memory foam or something

So leading up to our trip in early September, I read a ton of reviews to hear about the positives and negatives. Some of the negatives include the gym, the beach, people bugging you about buying stuff, hard beds, terrible food, etc. Here was our honest experience: The property was well maintained, even for what they consider the "low season". If you don't want to be bugged at check in with the time share people, simply say no thank you to any tours or breakfasts that they are offering for free. We booked a Junior Swim Up Suite, trust me, pay the extra money and book it, you will not regret it. The room was clean, well maintained and I slept great every night, no complaints with the AC or bed. Our butler, Norieles(Nori for short) was amazing, very responsive and took care of us during our stay. The food was mostly good, our only less than pleasant experience was the French Restaurant. Our favorite was definitely El Dorado Steak House, ate there twice. No problem with kids being on the adult side of the resort. The seaweed problem during our stay was minimal, they did a good job of cleaning it up and anything in the water didn't stop us from getting in. Take the beach vendors with a grain of salt, if they offer you tours, hair braiding, pics with iguana's or parrots, just politely say no thank you, it's that easy. Down the beach less than a hundred yards are some shops that sell souveniers, liquor, cigars, etc. It's cheaper than the resort shops. Overall a great stay.

Clean and safe environment

The good: The resort and facility (Pool, Beach, Gym, Bars...) are amazing. Design and layout of the hotel is very charming and classy. The bars and cafe are great; the bartenders are very fun and friendly and they also don't skimp out on the drinks!. The bad: Room Service / Housekeeping and Food, however are a bit inconsistent. Room service can be really slow, or sometimes they don't even show up with your request. In regards to housekeeping, sometimes they clean my room really well and sometimes they did a really sketchy job. As for the restaurant, I've tried majority of the restaurants available (they had 11 sit-in restaurants, plus 1 buffet and a few food trucks) and some of the meals were hit or miss. Some were bland, while some were overly salty or overcooked. The ones that were good, in my opinion were Brass Steakhouse (better than Dommo in my opinion), Lizo, Shoji and Surf & Turf (Lobster for days). The French restaurant was only open for 1 day of the whole week...and we were unable to try it out. We went to Brass twice; the first time was amazing, steaks were great and they gave us good cuts. Second time, more than 1/3rd of our steaks were just fat caps and 1 of our steaks were well done when we asked for medium rare (we ordered 4 steaks for 4 people). Side note, I find it odd that the restaurant would give you salt/pepper in packets instead of shaker. The hotel definitely has potential, but quality and consistency of service / food needs to be improved.