Hello, fellow travelers! We spent 24 hours at the Grand Palladium Punta Cana but had access to the Grand Palladium Bavaro and the Grand Palladium Palace; this is what we thought about them.
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Price
For your reference, we paid 272 US dollars for two adults, one night, in a newly renovated junior suite with a garden view at the Grand Palladium Punta Cana.
The rooms at the Grand Palladium Palace are more expensive than the ones at Punta Cana, and the rooms at the Grand Palladium Bavaro are the cheapest.
Overview
They are three different hotels, but I want you to consider them one colossal hotel divided into three lobbies. All the amenities are located in each one, making one huge hotel.
For instance, if you want to go to the disco at night, you will have to go to the Bavaro grounds, but if you want to go to the spa or the gym, you have to head over to the Palace, and if you fancy Italian for dinner you’ll have to visit the Palladium Punta Cana grounds.
Since this is a vast hotel, there will be a lot of walking involved, or you can take one of the little trains that take you around from one hotel to the other, but you’ll have to wait for them whenever you want to get on them.
These resorts are located in Bavaro, about 25 minutes away from the Punta Cana airport, and smack dab in the middle of el Cortecito, which is one of the best areas to stay if you want to get out of the resort and don’t have a car almost everything is available within walking distance.
The Beach
El Cortecito Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in all of Punta Cana, at least in my opinion, but since we visited in July 2022 and Summer is the high season for seaweed; the beach was covered in seaweed.
The hotel does a pretty good job of picking it up; they even have tractors, but in summer, particularly this summer of 2022, we expect a record amount of seaweed during summer; even though they try to pick it up daily, it just keeps coming and coming.
Early in the morning, the beach was covered in seaweed, and they pick it up, and the next day it’s the same over and over again.
All three hotels are right next to each other, so they share the same stretch of beach.
Pools
There are six pools in total located around all three resorts, one pool in the Bavaro which is the oldest one; three pools in the Palladium Punta Cana; it has a smaller pool which was always crowded, a bigger pool which for some reason, was less crowded and it also has a kid’s pool with a pirate ship a really cute little area for small kids.
There are also two other pools in the Palace; the biggest one is like the two pools in the Punta Cana but combined into one design in the center of the Palace resort.
There is also a pool that is only for adults and opens until midnight; we visited it at night, and it was super dark pretty colors like psychedelic, had an open bar.
It was very cool, so if you’re an adult. If you want a deeper pool than the others, you have to visit the one called The Secret.
Sports Amenities
There are a lot of sports amenities in these resorts, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot! They have tennis courts, paddle tennis, basketball, a full-size soccer field, and a smaller one.
