BOCA BEACH

  Absolutely beautiful hotel & service. My partner & I stayed one night in this hotel & we will be spending New Years Eve here for a 3 night stay, just... read more 4 weeks later. It’s very modern & sleek with minimal design touches. I completely understand why a high traffic Hotel in a caribbean setting would be decorated as minimally as this. It’s not stuffy and it’s very freeing. Your balcony Caribbean Sea View is all the decor you’ll ever need. The Pool area is gorgeous and gated with tough security. The front desk staff is incredibly helpful & kind. A very special mention to Browny for his professionalism & attentiveness. I can’t wait to go back in just 2 days ️ More

  We stayed three nights and were very pleased with the hotel. The rooms were neat and clean. Great location with many shops to visit. Staff was very... read more accommodating and the food was good. We will be returning to this hotel next year.

  A very pleasant alternative to the all inclusive resorts close by.
A new modern suite hotel with private pool and beach access. Also good security so you’re not constantly... read more harassed by vendors.
On-site Italian restaurant is great!!
Plus a complimentary breakfast.
All the staff I have experienced are helpful and friendly.
I will return for sure!!

  A very pleasant alternative to the all inclusive resorts close by.
A new modern suite hotel with private pool and beach access. Also good security so you’re not constantly... read more harassed by vendors.
On-site Italian restaurant is great!!
Plus a complimentary breakfast.
All the staff I have experienced are helpful and friendly.
I will return for sure!!

  Beautiful place in Boca Chica. Its nice has Private pool with a walk out beach access. (With security) Great restaurant food and drinks were awesome! polite and courteous staff. Will... read more definitely be going back.

  Me And my wife where exploring Boca Chica untill we saw an Amazing place So called Boca Beach Residence. We went directly to the reception And asked if we could... read more eat her. The friendly girl of the reception advised us to take the daypass. What an wonderfull idea. We booked every day a daypass. Wonderfull. The food was excellent. Shame I did not see this before.
One minor detaille was the staf of the restaurant. The girls wit read hair. Unfriendly And iT seems that They dont now How to laugh.
Boca Beach Residence see you soon. Amazing place. You Guy’s shine in this neighberhood.

  I recently stayed here to attend a destination wedding where the bridal hotel did not have the greatest reviews. We decided to try our luck here and we were... read more very pleased overall. The LOCATION of this place is a diamond in the rough - it isn't in the safest or nicest area of DR, however for the choices it is the best one. The facility was the most modern, clean, overall comfortable room and bed, nice shower and helpful staff. There is one restaurant downstairs and though I never got to try the complimentary breakfast, we were able to order anything on the menu (or created off the menu) at all other times and I must say the food was DELICIOUS. the pool was very clean and quiet, light music is played for guests. The beach is noisy with a lot of vendors that will bother you all day. The ocean water was nice - very shallow and blocked off with man made parameters so it is not rough seas at all. I wasn't crazy about this location of DR in general, but this hotel is definitely one of the better options.

  I really, really wish I could give a better review. I booked a room 2 days ago for $62. New hotel, free breakfast, great reviews, what could go... read more wrong? Well some things were my fault. I thought I'd just show up before the 3:00 check-in time because at many hotels, it is possible to get a room early. Nothing doing. The receptionists very sternly told me that I had to wait until 3:00. They were rather unfriendly in general. I finally got a room at 3:10. No ocean view, with a balcony off to the side of the building next to a very loud bar. I then asked for an ocean-facing room and would have happily paid for it, but too late. That's my bad. The room was clean but the noise from the bar combined with the bed that's not really a bed (its a pull-out sofa!) was annoying as was the fact that there were no directions for operating the safe (doesn't work like most of them). At least the wifi worked.

The beach is just okay. I arrived on Sunday and so it was extremely busy and there was plastic trash in the water. Boca Chica is a small bay behind a reef, so it is more like a lake. I can see why families come here. It's safe for young children. There are barely waves at all and the water is very shallow. I saw 2 police details and between them and everyone's good behavior, I felt completely safe. Most of Boca Chica beach is public (as it should be, in my opinion), so I'm not going to complain about "locals" on the beach. They have a right to be there. It's just that crowds, blaring music, and bars were not the beach experience I'd hoped for. The hotel's pool is very nice but it closed at 6pm even though it was still light out. Why? No idea.

The next morning (Monday) was fantastic because at 9:00am (after the pretty good breakfast that comes included) I had the pool to myself and nearly had the ocean to myself as well. The water was clearer because there weren't all of those people to stir it up. I swam out to the "reef," something that was possible because of the lack of boat traffic at that time. Its not clear to me whether the reef is natural or man-made. The water was shallow and gentle the whole way but I only saw a few fish and a little bit of dead coral. It was a nice swimming experience but not a good one in terms of nature. There is nothing to see underwater at Boca Chica.

In sum, this hotel is okay but not great. It is probably much better than most of the other hotels I saw because they were older. The pool is quite nice, especially when deafening music is not being played. Training front desk personnel in modern customer service manners would be a welcome investment. The hotel is in a bit of a scary neighborhood. Well, not so much scary as poor, ugly, and trashy (literally, there were piles of overflowing trash). I knew that Boca Chica was a depressed town and it looked the part. My advice is to skip Boca Chica all together if you possibly can and go at least as far as Juan Dolio. If that's not possible, try to go during the week, definitely not on the weekend.

  So the hotel is extremely nice. The rooms are large and great. I felt very safe. The only reason this got rated a 3 instead of a... read more 5 is because the WiFi did not work. I went to the desk multiple times. They kept saying it will work again soon. It was because of the rain the previous day. Well the restaurant next doors WiFi worked just fine. It never worked during anytime of my stay. Which is quite disappointing as WiFi is essential if you are traveling from another country. The only other slight problem is the few staff that do speak English it is not very good so it’s a struggle communicating, which I don’t mind that’s why we have google translate. But if you want a fluent English speaking place I would go to another hotel. So overall this place is breath taking and beautiful. Would of been 5 stars if there WiFi was working but it was not for days and I can’t live without my WiFi.