Name: Riviera Azul
Address: Playa Dorada, Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata, 57000, Dominican Republic
Rating: 8

Elevator/lift

Smoke-free property

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Terrace

Reception desk

General

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Wheelchair Accessible

Accessibility

Restaurant

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Tour assistance

Tourist services

Barbecue grill(s)

Barbeque

Recreation

Free parking

Parking

Fitness facilities

Sports

Pets allowed

Pets

Location

At the apartament hotel

Playa Dorada

Playa Dorada Golf Club

Long Beach

Amber Museum

Fort San Felipe

Gregorio Luperon International Airport

Los Mangos Golf Course

Playa Cofresi

Ocean World Adventure Park

Cabarete Beach

Cibao International Airport

Riviera Azul

Puerto Plata

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

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limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

Great Time Very Relaxing
DeYanira the manager of the hotel was most helpful and made it so enjoyable.
Ramon (Restaurant Manager) and Bryas (Asst Mgr) were very friendly and made our meals that much more enjoyable. Joygersy and Edilicia the servers were also very helpful. Already planning on returning since this stay was so enjoyable thanks to all those mentioned

May 2022

Riviera Azul is amazing.  We stayed for three months last winter.  Absolutely loved it.  The pools are clean and huge.  The beach is very spacious and always clean.  The office staff was so helpful and accommodating.  The restaurant on site has many delicious options.  The location is great, near the golf course and several other restaurants.

Fantastic!

We had a wonderful unit on the beach side with 6 bedrooms (2 master suites, 2 good-sized rooms with double beds + 2 other rooms with bunkbeds. Open floor plan. 5 star kitchen with island. Smart TVs throughout. This resort has 2 pools (one is adult-only and another is a family pool area). Both have lounge chairs and umbrellas. The beach is pristine and exclusive to residents only. Sand is groomed daily and groundskeepers are always maintaining property. Security is ample. Water activities and excursions are available yet expensive. Its best to bring your own food to cook. There are restaurants and clubs in mall 5 mins away. Atlantic Ocean beach waters are safe to swim in and calmer in morning. We would definitely stay here again when visiting Puerta Playa.

Serene, Exclusive Property, Adult Friendly, Family Friendly...

We have stayed here on 2 separate occasions and loved every minute of it. It is a very modern, clean, well groomed...paradise. Anything you can think of, they have it. Comfy beds on the beach, kayaks, a restaurant with amazing food and drinks that they will bring to you!  

They have 2 GIANT pools. One is adult only, and has a sweet swim up bar on multiple sides. While there isnt a bar there serving drinks, its all the more handy just to bring over your own beer and still drink and sit in the water :)

The larger of the 2 pools is super swallow in parts for kids, and gets to about 5ft deep. Lots of room to swim and not be crowded with other quests. 

The sizes of the rooms vary, but even with a one bedroom it has plenty of room and a great kitchen. 

They have amazing security, and parking. 

The beach is unreal! Nice to swim in the early morning when its a bit calmer. They have just beautiful everything! Central AC, REAL washers and dryers. <3 It is truly my place of heaven! <3

Stunning! Amazing! Can I stay forever?

They have 2-3 bedroom options that include kitchen and terrace. 2 pools that you can decide on and a beach that is the best on the playa Dorada coast. Early morning sims are awesome and the best time- they're barely any waves.

Best beach on the Play Dorada complex

A very attractive grouping of buildings with lots of activities. Things happening throughout the day and for those more into quiet time to yourself, they have spots for that, go upstairs to the bar area, very discrete area, away from the pool and the noise...

Beautiful, open layout...well designed

We’ve reserved a two bedroom but got a one bedroom apartment. There are mandatory surcharges for food $50/person with the same 6-7 dishes menu every single day. Alcohol and drinks other than coke are not included. Uh… in addition, breakfast IS NOT INCLUDED in those $50 per person per day. There is no grocery shopping anywhere close. We went to some bodega and bought 4 eggs for the price of golden eggs. 
There’s also mandatory surcharge for cleaning $75 per person a day! BUT! They only give you 2 towels. I had to come and scream at them to get more towels. There’s no shampoo, no body wash, no literally ANYTHING! There’s also a mandatory surcharge for electricity of $100. All and all, if you add up everything together it’s going to be a very expensive stay of over $1,000 per person. You can multiply it by the number of people in your group. 
In addition, there’s really nothing here at the Rivera Azul - no sports, no gym, no entertainment, no spa, really NOTHING. If you need anything you need to look elsewhere and it’s not easy - there’s literally no directions for anything. 
I didn’t give it a single star because I liked the ocean and the beach. Everything else leaves much to desire.

Not worth the money

I highly recommend having a spanish speaker with you! Change your money to pesos they overcharge if u dnt as a whole country. If you get the mandatory meal plan (lunch & dinner only.) here its only a small portion of food from the menu you can get but they do not tell you that! AND you only get 1 drink with dinner! They charged us when wen 1st go there for our meal plan and housekeeping fee, which they didnt clean 3 out of the 7 days we stayed smh. Then wen we were checking out they said we had to pay an additional almost $300 cause they didnt charge us for 1 night of meal plan and housekeeping. Since we told them they didnt even clean out room the day before they charged us $100 for the meal plan. Then at dinner 1 night me and my bf ordered food from our "special menu" as they put. I ordered steak and he ordered seafood paella both on our menu, they tried to make us pay $30 for the steak saying the paella was for 2 people! Room was nice but old, had mildew smell. Had full kitchen so we went to the local market for breakfast food, pool was decent. Resort was a lil crowDed over the weekend but during the week we had the pools and beach to ourself. No activities to do at this place either, its literally jus 2 pools, nice beach views and the rooms. TOTAL SCAM DO NOT DO IT!

AVOID AT ALL COST!!!

Reasons for my 1 star review: 

-This is not an all inclusive resort this is a time share/ apartment complex
-The wifi didn't work for 3 days and we had to call and follow-up repeadetly to get it fixed
-The room service menu was limited the only thing that tasted halfway decent were the chicken fingers and burgers. 
-House keeping kept coming at random times to clean the room it was never consistent and because they didn't have the keys we had to be present at the room form them to clean.
-At one point they turned the water off on us and we had to call and follow-up several times to get the water turned back on that day. Not to mention the water was never truly hot the entire time we were there.

Not a resort, not all inclusive, be warned.

This place is basically an apartment complex with a pool. You are renting an apartment. Every apartment is different depending on the owner. The room that we saw online must have been a model apartment but nothing like what we got. The meal plan is a joke! Lunch and dinner included but the same menu in one small restaurant. There are only 4 entrees on the menu. The pizza was the only thing that was edible. The “drink menu” was rum and coke only. Only one drink per meal. NO entertainment and no food drink music etc at the pool. Definitely not a place to go for a family vacation!  After 2 days of arguing with management about misrepresentation we left and went to an all inclusive resort and enjoyed the rest of our vacation.

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