Advantages: This hotel offers a very good diving school. Disadvantages: The food in this hotel was good, but they had a problem keeping the food warm.
the eating areas in. Due to areas being rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina.
I had a good holiday here and I would differently recommend the Hotel Iberostar Cozumel.
Before I forget to mention the hotel is also All Inclusive. ...
I booked a two week holiday to Catalonia Bavaro for a surprise for my girlfriend's 21st birthday. I didn't tell her till the morning of her birthday (a week before we were departing) so I had to make sure all my bookings were right.
I booked through Instant Travel, who booked it under First Choice. It cost me around £2200 all inclusive, which was a bit steep but acceptable for this type of holiday.
The next day the holiday was reduced by £600, which put me on a bit of a downer but I soon forgot about this! Neither Instant Holidays nor First Choice would accept my complaint so I had to get on with it.
The flight over to the Dominican Republic was excellent. Lots of leg room on the flight and the staff were excellent. First Choice also provided you with a small travel pack (free of charge) with eye phones, tissues, toothbrush etc ...
Advantages: Beachfront Property Disadvantages: Its A Long Bus Ride into Varadero Centre
stamped and queued up to have our hand luggage surched. This is standard practice - the cubans can be quite suspicious, especially with mp3 players, camera mobile phones and anything that looks like it could be used for spying.
We finally arrive at the Iberostar Tainos about 18:00, and are greated by a Thomas Cook rep who will "assist" us on check-in, his assistance involves putting on our all-inclusive bands. I get checked in, and am really chuffed to find out my request for a bungalow style room has been confimed, and even better, i'm in the closest bungalow block to the beach.
I walk outside the reception/lobby bar area and get my first good look at the complex, the first thing I notice is the tropical gardens, which are beautiful, and well maintained by a small team of gardeners (if you see them in the morning say hi, you ...