The Ocean Blue is fantastic. We were in villa 10 room 10215, it had an amazing view of the pool and the ocean. Walk down the stairs and you are right at the pool bar. Which was great. Domingo took great care of my husband all week. They are the nicest people, and very accomodating. Do not listen to the bad reviews, we had no problems at all. Unless laying on the beach, and by the pool for 8 days is a problem.

Will be back next year. We have been to Punta Cana 4 times in the last 5 years and this has been the best so far.

Sorry if this is a bit long, but I tend to be a very wordy person.

We stayed from July 4 – July 11th and had an awesome time. It is a lovely resort and I would recommend it to everyone.

Check in went very smooth. We’ve been to many all inclusive resorts so I pretty much know the routine, but didn’t think much about the lack of information until later for someone that has never been. They took our luggage off the bus and left it up front with the bellboy. I was shocked at the number of bags sitting there yet to be delivered to the rooms. In the past we were given a card to hand the bellboy so he would know what bags went to what rooms. The front desk didn’t say a thing to us. We just went back and pointed out our bags and had the guys write our room number on the luggage tags already attached from the flight. They also didn’t bother to tell us where the room was located, but again we just figured it out on our own. Not to worry I’m on vacation and had 7 days to find it. Luckily it only took about 10 mins. Our bags found their way to our room by the time we took our own little tour around the resort and had a bite to eat.

As we were leaving the check in area someone ran up behind us saying "Wait, wait please come sit and let me tell you all about the resort and invite you to a special breakfast". Thank goodness I read up on the forums before going because I knew to avoid this timeshare sales pitch at all cost. I just turned and smiled and told him we were headed to the bar to get a drink and we’ll see him later. He said he would wait for us. Well, he waited a long time because we didn’t go back. I actually saw several poor souls sitting at breakfast and walking around the resort area giving up there vacation time getting stuck in the sales pitch thing.

We stayed in Bldg 4, room 4126 which was on the end, bottom floor. Each of the buildings are shaped liked rectangles with a courtyard cut through the center. Our room was on the back side facing LTI resort (behind the trees). I was a little disappointed about that at first but later was glad because it was so quite and I could sit out back in the mornings drinking my coffee in my gown with no one looking back at me. We didn’t have ANY water pressure. When I say ANY I mean ANY. We really should have asked for another room, but I really liked our location as it was in the center halfway to the lobby and restaurants and halfway to the beach. As I said before we’ve been to lots of all inclusives so I just dealt with it and didn’t get upset. I didn’t hear of anyone else having the water problem so it’s not like that everywhere. We just got unlucky on the water part. And, it wasn’t because of the early evening showers; it never changed even at 11:00 at night.

The resort has two really large pools, The first one has yellow umbrellas all around and another, just as large, has blue umbrellas all around. The blue pool is the closest to the beach. Both have swim up bars. It seems that the blue pool is the loudest and had the most activity. This is where the water volleyball net was set up. The yellow was less crowded and quieter.


The front of the resort is the lobby with a small lake right behind it and a walkway going through it. As you go over the walkway there is a row of restaurants. The Steakhouse (which you must pay for), the Italian, Route 66 (set up like a 50s/60s American diner), The Sports bar, Mike’s Coffee, The Mexican, followed by The Dominican restaurant. On the right of the lake is the Casino and on the left of the lake is Strike, the bowling alley. Right beside the lobby is the theatre. There are tables and chairs set up outside on Restaurant row. In the evenings this is where all the activity was. There is live music in the lobby every evening and it stops when the show in the theatre is on and starts back again once that is over. Oh yeah I forgot to mention on the right of the lobby is also The Wave, which is the disco. There is a sign out front that says no one under 16 allowed. My 15 year old went in a few times with no problem at all. She didn’t say long because most of the people in there were 17 – 20s age group and she felt to funny being there.
Strike in the early evening was full of younger kids around 6 -9 age. They would play on one of the 2 pools tables, the ping pong table or the fooseball table. It was very hard to ever get to one of these. It was my understanding that in 2 weeks the upstairs part of Strike was going to open. It was for the mid teens, with more pool tables, video games etc. This would have been perfect for us as we have a 13 and 15 year old. In the sportsbar was another pool table. We brought some cards and played cards in the sportsbar at night before it got too crowed.

We mainly ate in the buffet which was behind all of the restaurants and also in Route 66. The steak was wonderful at Route 66, but don’t order it med rare. My daughter did this even though I told her not to and she ended up sick that evening. It only lasted that evening thank goodness. Mike’s coffee is a MUST. You’ll love it if you like Starbucks.

The beach was very nice. It was a bit wavy on some days and flatter water on others. All depends on the weather out at sea. There was a little seaweed, but who cares it is the ocean where else is it suppose to be? There is another buffet at the beach area for lunch (or you could go back up front for the other buffet). There is also a bar set up on the beach along with the beach volleyball net, a rock climbing wall and a trampoline with the bunge cords (this was $ 7).

I would say the resort does need to use all the money it is taking in for building repairs. There were missing tiles in the pool as I’ve seen others write about. But again so what, it didn’t bother us at all.

All in all I would say it was a wonderful resort and we had a great time. For all you lucky ones that are planning for your upcoming vacation I hope you have a blast!

Me and my boyfriend stayed here on 30/06 - 14/07 2008. I want to start of by saying don’t believe the bad reviews you read on this hotel - a holiday is what you make it and these people are clearly stuck up - especially to say the service is horrible?? there is nothing but smiles from the people who work there, nothing but great service - we couldn’t speak any Spanish except for "OLA" and we didn’t get different looks from them, they didn’t get funny with us like most of the comments say on here that they are funny if you cant speak their language - most of them can speak English. don’t worry if you cant speak Spanish.

Next there was a lot of moaning on here about only getting your drinks till after your mean in the main buffet - not true for us, first week as soon as we sat down water was being poured into our glasses and a drink of our choice. there was only one time it was extremely busy - which we had to wait, understandable however people may see this as being an inconvenience as they simply are not patient!

You don’t get treated differently if you don’t tip - where do people get all this from? we tipped our maid - and occasionally, only occasionally the waiters. but when we didn’t tip we was treated the same.

Beach is AMAZING but be careful of the annooyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyying people trying to sell you stuff - on evenings when going to the lobby part when there are men in green WALK THE OTHER WAY they stop you and ake you feel so guilty into buying something fro there stall!!!!

Room - basic enough nice bathroom, no problem with water, air con etc was in villa 9.

Weather - gorgggggggggggggggeous!!

the holiday is really what you make of it - we loved this place and had not one problem. Thought I’d leave a review as I was on this every single day before I was going so I know how fun it is to read a good review ;-)

We spent the week before Memorial Day at the Ocean Blue Golf and Beach Resort in Punta Cana. Food was wonderful! An endless amount of options, from the theme restaurants to the buffet. The buffet is changed daily, so while some food is the same, most is rotated. Even my vegetarian daughter could find multiple selections at each meal.

The service was wonderful. We were treated like rock stars. They fondly referred to my daughter and her friend (two 19 year olds) as the princesses, and they were treated as such. Our rooms were cleaned thoroughly with lots of bleach! (you could smell the clean) Note; they are a bit stingy with towels, and they don't always make your room up in the morning, however, this wasn't a huge deal. As we walked the property, we were greeted all the time, and the staff remembered our names and little details about us.

This was a great place to bring two teenagers. They could choose to be with us, or they could be on their own and stay on the property and be perfectly safe. There are fun activities every night, especially the bar scene, which they were legal for down there. (They are college students - I have no illusions that they don't drink) The other guests were friendly and they quickly made friends with other young people, and met up with them after dinner to hit the disco. There was nightly entertainment in the large lounge, and then a theater with shows. The theater was somewhat cheesy, but still fun. Don't expect NYC caliber, and you'll be ok!!

Here's a tip - if you plan on doing extras like para sailing, or Manatee Park (swimming with the dolphins - fantastic!), bring lots of cash. No one down here takes credit cards, and they price everything in American dollars. We were four people, and we did a couple of pricey day events and we were glad we had brought extra cash (we brought $800) in cash and I had about $80 in my wallet when I got home. You are not expected to tip, but we did some bar tipping because we were so impressed with the service, and the same waitress was attentive to us every night.

Believe them when they say watch the water you drink. My husband and I got a parasite the last day there, and arrived home very sick and had to go on antibiotics immediately. Of course the girls were fine! Perhaps we let our guard down - it's hard to say. I think we are the exception, not the rule. Don't let that stop you from going there. Great choice for the money!!