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Hotel Paradise Punta Cana Cuisine: International Location: Playa Bavaro, Punta Cana
An Amazing place to visit:
All my family and I went to this Resort and had a magnific time, the best experience.
The service was unsurpassable. Waiters, waitress, animators, guest service, cooks, all of them were efficient, helpful. All you need it, they provided you. We had aN important problem with the electricity, and they were very effcient, because they looked for an adaptor for the current. (My father need to use a oxygen concentrator, and it wasn’t working with low power).
The food was excellent. In the morning, you could go to several self-services, all of them were fresh, diverse and with tasty food. At the night, we chose a tematic restaurant, where you had a special service, very careful, quickly and the food was tasty and delicious.
I think one of the best things to remember was the environment. The Resort is enormous, then, everyday you chose a new different place, all of them were magnific.
The price was not cheap, but if you know the excellent service, magnific food, amazing atmosphere, romantic places, and the cosiest hotel, we paid a good price for a high quality, VERY REASONABLE.
CONS: Nothing to say, only it is a far place and one week to spend, it is not enough.
PROS: A funny place, with the best service because they were always friendly, helpful, efficient, lovely. They never had a bad day, if they had, you don’t realize. The food was very varied, fresh, and you could taste Italian, Mexican, Spanish, Dominican cousin. The atmosphere was magic, every day you visit a new place, and every place was so different!!
OVERALL OPINION: I would like to come back again, because it is a place with the best food, a great service and a wonderfull atmosphere.
Last week, on Saturday, I went to "Los Patios de Beatas" with my wife and a couple of good friends. In fact, we had planned to go to La Cervezoteca in Plaza de la Merced, but my friend suddenly remembered this beautifull establishment and came in. It was crowded, so the waitress that attended us(at once) noted down for a table in the first Patio, prepared for tapas and light meals. The food was completely original and savoury, I had a piece of delicious black spicy cod that I had never eaten before. My friends ordered an appetizing portion of parfumed goose paté that I also tasted, even when I hadn't eaten foie for more than twenty years. It was superb, smoothy and silky, spreaded on a piece of toasted bread. The service was also good and polite; the headwaiter recommended us a good balearic syrah wine that we had chosen before and the atmosphere was calmly, peaceful and quietly. All the customers seemed to be posh people, and the environment had luxurious decoration of wood and ceramic bricks where hundreds of wine bottles were resting to be sold. The price was a bit expensive, but this is not a place to go every day, only from time to time. Nevertheless, I would probably go back in a pair of weeks, we enjoy it a lot!
A RESTAURANT REVIEW Last weekend, my friends, my husband and I decided to go and see a medieval market which was organized in our town for just this last weekend. They sold so different things like aromatic candles, earrings, bracelets and rings made of metal and leather, toys like swords, or dummies, or food like Spanish cheese, ham, sausages, traditional cakes, homemade sweets… they were dressed like medieval people and all the streets were decorated like that time. We were hungry so we decided to have dinner in a traditional canteen where you could see the meet in a wheel spinning round in the barbecue, and all the waiters were dressed like in a canteen. The atmosphere was like five hundred years ago. We sat in a table so quickly because of the time; it was eight thirty so people were walking around the market. The table was so nice at first because it was like in a medieval film, but when the dishes were on it, it was so small for four people. Our waiter didn´t write all the courses we ordered (like in the medieval time, we thought he was able to remember them) but immediately he forgot them and he ordered to kitchen courses that we hadn´t ordered. We said to him five times that we hadn´t ordered the courses that he said! However, all the right courses came quickly so we started our dinner very fast. We had big toasts with tomato and Spanish ham, potatoes with onions, green peppers and one egg, spicy sausages with potatoes, pork chops, blood sausages and some croquettes. Our dinner was fine although our blood sausages were a bit burned. They were so typical from those days. But when we asked for the bill, our heart stopped. It was so pricey; I could say if we have had dinner in a good restaurant, we would have paid less than we paid there. In conclusion, I think we had to ask for the prices before ordering our meal and probably we didn´t have the dinner there.
A GOOD WEEKEND From my pont of view, a restaurant, cafe, pub, or a hotel is more than just a list a food with prices. The customer service is important, too. I’m writing about the Riu Chiclana Hotel, where I went with my husband and friends last summer. I saw this Hotel on the Internet, which was advertised as one of the best hotels in the town. In addition, the price was really reasonable. The facilities of the hotel included a spa, two swimming pools, a gym, a disco and two restaurants, where you can choose many differente dishes, all of them are delicious and tasty. Although the rooms were small, they were clean and confortable. Furthemore, each room has a TV a free wireless Internet connection. Also, you can enjoy dancing in the disco at night. If you prefer having a relaxed time, you can go for a walk on the beach, which is near the hotel and it’s a beautiful beach. We booked all inclusive service. However, if you wanted to drink champagne, you had to pay it. But, we told the waiter thatt it was our friend’s birthday (one of the member of the group). So, the waiter tod us taht we could drink all the beverages that we wanted (to be honest, it wasn’t his birthday). Well, I’m beginning to have itchy feet and I’d like to go back there tihis year. “Riu Chiclana Hotel”, seems well worth a visit, I recommend you
Rules is a restaurant located in Covent Garden, Central London. It's the oldest restaurant in London, founded in 1798.
I have been there with my husband, my daughter and my stepson, last June, in our visit to London.
I visited this restaurant because my stepson, who worked in London, knew the place and the waiters. The bar where he worked is opposite to Rules. My stepson invited us.
The food is very traditional, puddings, roastbeef and bushmeat. The service is very refined and the waiters are dressed vintage.
The atmosphere is very British and really, really posh. The cutlery are made from silver. We didn't pay , but the prices are a bit high, about 35 or 40 pounds p.p. I probably wouldn't go back, because it's a place to know but not to enjoy more times.
I'm going to write about an Italian restaurant called: ZENA 2.0 It's located in Fuengirola, on the Boliches Promenade, near Yaramay Hotel. I visited this restaurant one month ago with my husband, and we liked it very much. Although it's an Italian restaurant, they don't serve pizza, but pasta and rice "risotto". They are excellent. The cook is from the north of Italy and the way to cook the rice there, is famous. The place is very comfortable, and you can sit out, at the terrace, just on the Promenade, the views are fabulous. The price is reasonable for the quality of the food, you can spend about 20€/person plus drink. The service is excellent, the waiter takes the order quickly, and you do not have to wait long for the meal. I remember that we ordered a goat cheese salad, and the risotto for my husband and pasta for me. The desserts are also fabulous: tiramisu, cheese-cake.
Hotel Paradise Punta Cana
ReplyDeleteCuisine: International
Location: Playa Bavaro, Punta Cana
An Amazing place to visit:
All my family and I went to this Resort and had a magnific time, the best experience.
The service was unsurpassable. Waiters, waitress, animators, guest service, cooks, all of them were efficient, helpful. All you need it, they provided you. We had aN important problem with the electricity, and they were very effcient, because they looked for an adaptor for the current. (My father need to use a oxygen concentrator, and it wasn’t working with low power).
The food was excellent. In the morning, you could go to several self-services, all of them were fresh, diverse and with tasty food.
At the night, we chose a tematic restaurant, where you had a special service, very careful, quickly and the food was tasty and delicious.
I think one of the best things to remember was the environment. The Resort is enormous, then, everyday you chose a new different place, all of them were magnific.
The price was not cheap, but if you know the excellent service, magnific food, amazing atmosphere, romantic places, and the cosiest hotel, we paid a good price for a high quality, VERY REASONABLE.
CONS: Nothing to say, only it is a far place and one week to spend, it is not enough.
PROS: A funny place, with the best service because they were always friendly, helpful, efficient, lovely. They never had a bad day, if they had, you don’t realize.
The food was very varied, fresh, and you could taste Italian, Mexican, Spanish, Dominican cousin.
The atmosphere was magic, every day you visit a new place, and every place was so different!!
OVERALL OPINION: I would like to come back again, because it is a place with the best food, a great service and a wonderfull atmosphere.
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DeleteA POSH PLACE TO HAVE A BITE TO EAT
ReplyDeleteLast week, on Saturday, I went to "Los Patios de Beatas" with my wife and a couple of good friends.
In fact, we had planned to go to La Cervezoteca in Plaza de la Merced, but my friend suddenly remembered this beautifull establishment and came in.
It was crowded, so the waitress that attended us(at once) noted down for a table in the first Patio, prepared for tapas and light meals.
The food was completely original and savoury, I had a piece of delicious black spicy cod that I had never eaten before.
My friends ordered an appetizing portion of parfumed goose paté that I also tasted, even when I hadn't eaten foie for more than twenty years. It was superb, smoothy and silky, spreaded on a piece of toasted bread.
The service was also good and polite; the headwaiter recommended us a good balearic syrah wine that we had chosen before and the atmosphere was calmly, peaceful and quietly. All the customers seemed to be posh people, and the environment had luxurious decoration of wood and ceramic bricks where hundreds of wine bottles were resting to be sold.
The price was a bit expensive, but this is not a place to go every day, only from time to time. Nevertheless, I would probably go back in a pair of weeks, we enjoy it a lot!
MY OWN REVIEW OF VADEPIZZA
ReplyDeleteThis weekend I have visited a new restaurant that has been opened in our country, the name of this new restaurant is called Vadepizza.
I was with my family, we decided to go there because it has a playground inside, and we could eat quietly meanwhile my daughter was playing.
The food is fastfood, pizza and so, it is not a healthy place but the atmosphere was quiet, there were few people at that time.
The prices were reasonable, the staff was quiet, kind but too slow to serve the food.
I will come back but not everyday in order not to die soon because of that unhealthy but tasty food.
A RESTAURANT REVIEW
ReplyDeleteLast weekend, my friends, my husband and I decided to go and see a medieval market which was organized in our town for just this last weekend. They sold so different things like aromatic candles, earrings, bracelets and rings made of metal and leather, toys like swords, or dummies, or food like Spanish cheese, ham, sausages, traditional cakes, homemade sweets… they were dressed like medieval people and all the streets were decorated like that time.
We were hungry so we decided to have dinner in a traditional canteen where you could see the meet in a wheel spinning round in the barbecue, and all the waiters were dressed like in a canteen. The atmosphere was like five hundred years ago.
We sat in a table so quickly because of the time; it was eight thirty so people were walking around the market. The table was so nice at first because it was like in a medieval film, but when the dishes were on it, it was so small for four people. Our waiter didn´t write all the courses we ordered (like in the medieval time, we thought he was able to remember them) but immediately he forgot them and he ordered to kitchen courses that we hadn´t ordered. We said to him five times that we hadn´t ordered the courses that he said! However, all the right courses came quickly so we started our dinner very fast.
We had big toasts with tomato and Spanish ham, potatoes with onions, green peppers and one egg, spicy sausages with potatoes, pork chops, blood sausages and some croquettes. Our dinner was fine although our blood sausages were a bit burned. They were so typical from those days. But when we asked for the bill, our heart stopped. It was so pricey; I could say if we have had dinner in a good restaurant, we would have paid less than we paid there.
In conclusion, I think we had to ask for the prices before ordering our meal and probably we didn´t have the dinner there.
A GOOD WEEKEND
ReplyDeleteFrom my pont of view, a restaurant, cafe, pub, or a hotel is more than just a list a food with prices. The customer service is important, too.
I’m writing about the Riu Chiclana Hotel, where I went with my husband and friends last summer.
I saw this Hotel on the Internet, which was advertised as one of the best hotels in the town. In addition, the price was really reasonable.
The facilities of the hotel included a spa, two swimming pools, a gym, a disco and two restaurants, where you can choose many differente dishes, all of them are delicious and tasty.
Although the rooms were small, they were clean and confortable.
Furthemore, each room has a TV a free wireless Internet connection.
Also, you can enjoy dancing in the disco at night. If you prefer having a relaxed time, you can go for a walk on the beach, which is near the hotel and it’s a beautiful beach.
We booked all inclusive service. However, if you wanted to drink champagne, you had to pay it.
But, we told the waiter thatt it was our friend’s birthday (one of the member of the group). So, the waiter tod us taht we could drink all the beverages that we wanted (to be honest, it wasn’t his birthday).
Well, I’m beginning to have itchy feet and I’d like to go back there tihis year.
“Riu Chiclana Hotel”, seems well worth a visit, I recommend you
Mª Jose Ruiz Burgos
RULES, the oldest restaurant in London.
ReplyDeleteRules is a restaurant located in Covent Garden, Central London.
It's the oldest restaurant in London, founded in 1798.
I have been there with my husband, my daughter and my stepson, last June, in our visit to London.
I visited this restaurant because my stepson, who worked in London, knew the place and the waiters. The bar where he worked is opposite to Rules. My stepson invited us.
The food is very traditional, puddings, roastbeef and bushmeat. The service is very refined and the waiters are dressed vintage.
The atmosphere is very British and really, really posh. The cutlery are made from silver.
We didn't pay , but the prices are a bit high, about 35 or 40 pounds p.p.
I probably wouldn't go back, because it's a place to know but not to enjoy more times.
My Opinion about The Restaurant ``Paneque´´
ReplyDeleteI went with my parents and my sister, to celebrate my graduation.
The service is excellent, because they are always attentive to the diners and they serve the food very fast.
They also have a lot of dishes and types of food, but their specialty is meat.
The atmosphere is very calm, only you can listen the people chatting.
I think the prices are very good, because they have a lot of quality dishes.
I would go back again, because it is a restaurant with very good food, very good service and excellent waiters.
I'm going to write about an Italian restaurant called: ZENA 2.0
ReplyDeleteIt's located in Fuengirola, on the Boliches Promenade, near Yaramay Hotel.
I visited this restaurant one month ago with my husband, and we liked it very much.
Although it's an Italian restaurant, they don't serve pizza, but pasta and rice "risotto". They are excellent.
The cook is from the north of Italy and the way to cook the rice there, is famous.
The place is very comfortable, and you can sit out, at the terrace, just on the Promenade, the views are fabulous.
The price is reasonable for the quality of the food, you can spend about 20€/person plus drink. The service is excellent, the waiter takes the order quickly, and you do not have to wait long for the meal.
I remember that we ordered a goat cheese salad, and the risotto for my husband and pasta for me.
The desserts are also fabulous: tiramisu, cheese-cake.