Encuentro Beach

5 days, July 2026. We loved the property. Beautiful, clean. Spacious rooms. Super windy every day and even had so much sand blowing on us, we couldn’t lay out one day. Beach had lots of seaweed. Water had even more of it, so we didn’t swim for more than 10 mins in the ocean the entire time. We picked wrong time of year I guess. Pools were great but close at 6pm. Fun foam parties. Food was good and bad. Sadly, the buffet was better than the fancy restaurants. Lots of kids at buffets. Italian was one room, super noisy and my husband knew to wear pants and closed toe shoes, but women were wearing booty shorts with middle skin showing and sandals. Didn’t seem fair. All the restaurants close at same time except Mar House on beach and coffee shop, so we ate there a lot. Bring an inflatable noodle float, glad I had it. Leave it for the next guests. I read great reviews on butlers, but was not impressed with ours. He didn’t check on us every day and he failed to make my birthday reservation even with 3 days notice. Golf was great, 5 minute golf cart ride, beautiful course. The sports bar and shopping center were closed, so no outside things to do except casino which is super small, so we passed. We never left resort except for golf. Highly recommend elegance club if only adults. And upgrade to the swim up, ground floor, so worth it! We had majestic jr. room and loved it. Overall, we liked it a lot. May try adults only resort next time. Food kept me from 5 stars.

The beach is beautiful. The food was ok, but there were lots of flies around the buffet at times. The quality of the Dominican Salami and cheese were not good. Dominican food option weren’t as tasty as expected unfortunately. Overall it was a nice stay.

This resort was beautiful.