dianar,
I know this might not be of much help to you, but it seems to me that all of us that are concerned about the mixed signals and information we're getting about all these resorts will just have to wait and see.
When people who go to the resorts this week and hopefully post on this messageboard and others like it, then we will get a clearer picture of the real damage and whether these places are back to near-prehurricane status.
I've seen everything from "resorts all around Punta Cana suffered severe damage....several of them nearly destroyed" to "minor damage....mostly water and sand....can be cleaned up in a matter of days or a week"
It's tough to tell whether the truth is one extreme or the other....or whether it's in the middle
