the Chic already opened. they celebrated their soft opening on dec 17th, 4 days ago, and have already the first guests on site.
AE, nice listing. Tortuga Bay is truely a Top gun, counts caribbeanwide to the upper class, you dont get the AAA 5 diamonds several years in a row for anything mediocre. the person who made the listing should have tried to get a bit of information about punta cana before writing it. as a simple example: it mentions the great view at Tortuga Bay on the Caribbean Sea. ouch, the Caribbean Sea is not anywhere not even near the Tortuga Bay or anything in Punta Cana, we are here located at the calm beautiful waters of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Paradisus is a good pick for a AI, it combines a tropical feel, good service, located on year around swimable calm waters, but they put specifically their Reserve section in the list, which is located way back/away from the beach, not a top runner location in my opinion for a Beach Resort.
the Secrets, come on, the Secrets is overpriced average mid class at best. they provide good services, but dining is very limited, for most you have to walk over to the family neighbour Now Larimar, and the foodies there are not of the best within the large AI family in PC.
i always like it to see that the DR gets positive mentioning like on the travel channel, but when do they start to let someone with knowledge make some rankings.
cant comment on the Samana Resort, never stayed at that one.
Mike