Hotel Information: Families, couples, and singles come to Barcelo Punta Cana from all over the world for the beach and pool, the unique set of day-and-night activities, and the dining choices offered by six restaurants.

Amenity highlights: A lagoon-style pool sprawls through the resort's center. Nearby are a children’s pool and three six-person spa tubs. A 400-yard beach features thatched shades. Use of snorkeling gear, kayaks, windsurfers, sailboats, and boogie boards is part of the All Inclusive Plan, with other water sports, including scuba diving, available for surcharges. Land sports feature flying-trapeze clinics and rock climbing.

Insider tip: An independent beachfront operator located at an adjacent resort 300 yards away offers guided ATV excursions on the beach, which extends for miles along the Dominican Republic's east coast.

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Rooms

Barcelo Punta Cana offers 798 guestrooms in a five-story sand-and-white building with peaked red-tile roofs that extend along the oceanfront like a Mediterranean seaside village.

Rooms feature balconies and compact refrigerators stocked with soft drinks and bottled water. CD players, and TVs offering international and national channels supply entertainment. Decor and furnishings include cream-colored walls, rattan furniture, and muted fabrics in bronze, tan, and yellow tones.

Rooms are available only in the All-Inclusive Plan.

All Inclusive Plan - Rate includes the following:

• Room accommodations
• Unlimited food and local- and premium-brand drink
• In-room refrigerator with soft drinks, bottled water, and beer
• All resort fitness and recreation facilities
• All resort activities and entertainments
• Non-motorized watersports
• Introductory scuba-diving lesson in pool
• Supervised children's activities (age 4-12)
• Wedding with champagne, cake, flowers, music (minimum three-night stay; government fee, photos, video not included) or vow-renewal with cake, champagne, music (government fee, photos, video not included)
• Taxes and gratuities

Not included: Champagne by the bottle; motorized watersports; massage; spa services; beauty services; hair braiding; henna tattoos; child care; Internet access; laundry; telephone and fax; medical services; video-game consoles; outside tours and excursions.

Room Amenities

• Cable/satellite TV
• Premium TV channel(s)
• CD player
• Balcony
• Climate control
• Air conditioning
• Blackout drapes/curtains
• Telephone
• Internet access - dial-up
• Voice mail
• Bottled water in room (complimentary)
• Refrigerator

• Coffee/tea maker
• Wake-up calls
• Housekeeping (daily)
• Private bathroom
• Complimentary toiletries
• Hair dryer
• Child care (in room, surcharge)
• Iron/ironing board
• In-room safe
• Television
• Smoking rooms
• Rollaway beds

Recreation

A lagoon-style pool featuring a swim-up bar sprawls through Barcelo Punta Cana's center and includes one section with a beach entry for children. Children also enjoy their own 15-meter-long (50-foot-long) freeform pool. Three six-person spa tubs with ocean views are situated on a raised wooden deck.

The resort's 400-yard beach frontage includes thatched shades and palm trees, and the sand extends 55 meters (60 yards) deep, providing ample sunbathing space even when the resort is fully occupied. Use of snorkeling gear, kayaks, windsurfers, sailboats, and boogie boards is part of the All Inclusive Plan.

Water sports available (surcharges) include parasailing, snorkeling, fishing, wakeboarding, tubing, and waterskiing. The All Inclusive Plan covers introductory scuba-diving instruction in the pool. Beginner's and certification diving classes are available for surcharges, as are wreck, reef, and night dives. At a resort next door, a different beachfront watersports center offers kite surfing and rental speedboats.

Barcelo's land sports feature clinics on a trapeze and circus trampoline, rock climbing on a 10.5-meter (35-foot) artificial tower, tennis on two lighted courts, and beach volleyball.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.

• Golf - driving range nearby
• Golfing nearby
• Snorkeling on site
• Surfing/boogie boarding on site
• Swimming on site
• Personal watercraft nearby
• Sailing on site
• Water skiing on site
• Windsurfing on site
• Motor boating nearby

• Volleyball on site
• Aerobics on site
• Tennis on site
• Basketball on site
• Bicycle rentals nearby
• Scooter/Moped Rentals nearby
• Parasailing nearby
• Helicopter/airplane sightseeing nearby
• Horse riding/rental on site
• Fishing on site
• Playground on site

Property Amenities

An air-conditioned casino open nightly at Barcelo Punta Cana offers slot machines, keno, blackjack, roulette, and three-card poker. A health-and-beauty spa provides massage, body treatments, facials, and hair and nail care and contains men's and women's saunas. (Surcharges for all services.) A spacious fitness center includes cardio and weight machines as well as free weights.

As part of the All Inclusive Plan, children ages 4-12 enjoy supervised activities in an air-conditioned clubhouse. Daytime adult activities include dance lessons and various games and athletic competitions. After-dark activities center on a theater, where an entertainment and activities staff presents nightly shows preceded by children's dancing; a disco for adults, and a game room containing televisions, pool tables, darts, and table tennis.

An Internet center contains 11 computers with high-speed Internet access (surcharges). Shops sell jewelry, cigars, resortwear, beachwear, and gifts. Local arts and crafts vendors set up tables twice weekly in a courtyard. The resort has an ATM machine in the lobby.

• Swimming pool - outdoor
• Poolside bar
• Swim-up bar
• Swimming pool - children's
• Spa tub
• Full-service health spa
• Sauna
• Concierge desk
• Fitness equipment
• Restaurant(s) in hotel
• Bar/lounge
• Nightclub
• Parking (free)
• Parking (secure)
• Meeting rooms (small groups)
• Conference room(s)
• Business services
• Internet access in public areas - surcharge
• Internet access in public areas - high speed

• Safe-deposit box - front desk
• Multilingual staff
• 24-hour front desk
• Porter/bellhop
• Security guard
• Number of rooms: 798
• Number of floors: 4
• Hair salon
• ATM/banking
• Gift shops or newsstand
• Shopping on site
• Medical assistance available
• Tour assistance
• Beauty services
• Casino on site
• Air-conditioned public areas
• Elevator/lift
• Supervised child care/activities
• Wedding services

Policies

Extra person charges apply.
Complimentary rollaway beds and cribs (infant beds) are available and should be requested at the time of booking.
Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests made via this Web site cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.

• Pets not allowed
• Check-in time is 3 PM
• Check-out time is Noon

Dining

Jimmy's Buffet at Alcazar - Open-air restaurant featuring Moorish arches, brick walls. Breakfast and lunch buffets and themed dinner buffets daily.

Paris - Air-conditioned à la carte dinner restaurant with dark-colored wood trim, blue-and-white table linens, blue-glass charger plates serving multi-course French meals, with starter choices such as crêpes with roasted vegetables and onion soup, salad, and main courses such as chicken with Camembert sauce, salmon with lemon sauce, beef medallions with red-wine sauce. Dress code: Long pants (no jeans), collared shirts, and closed-toe shoes for men.

Roma - Air-conditioned à la carte dinner restaurant with wood columns, café curtains serving multi-course Italian meals comprising antipasti, soup and salad choices, pasta choices, and main courses such as saltimbocca, crèpes stuffed with ham and cheese; grouper in pesto. Dress code: Long pants (no jeans), collared shirts, and closed-toe shoes for men.

Tokio - Air-conditioned à la carte dinner restaurant with brick walls, four 24-person teppanyaki tables. Dress code: Long pants (no jeans), collared shirts, and closed-toe shoes for men.

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El Mirador - Tex-Mex cuisine. Lunch à la carte and dinner. Dress code: Long pants (no jeans), collared shirts, and closed-toe shoes for men.

Marlin Beach Grill & Bar - Open 24 hours. Continental breakfast in mornings. Snack foods such as burgers, hot dogs in afternoons. Buffet and à la carte barbecue menu in evenings.

Disco Bar - Open nightly.

Lobby Bar I - Open-air. Open midmorning to late night. Live music nightly.

Lobby Bar II - Open-air. Open midmorning to late night. Televisions.

Address

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Playa Arena Gorda

Higuey,

Dominican Republic

Nearest major airport:

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (PUJ-Punta Cana Intl.)

Area:

El Macao, Dominican Republic