Resort Details

Dining
OnSite Dining
  • Various onsite Restaurants

    Palmira – Main buffet restaurant offering International cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dress code applies. 

    Las Brisas – Alternate International buffet for late breakfast and lunch by the beach area.

    Limbo – A la carte Gourmet Molecular restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies.

    M.E.A.T. – A la carte Steakhouse restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies.

    Portofino – A la carte Italian cuisine restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies. 

    Total: 26 restaurants, 27 bars and 10 swimming pools.

OffSite Dining
  • Various Offsite Restaurants
    Also, access to the following restaurants located at:

    Bahia Principe Luxury Esmeralda:
    Bella Italia – A la carte Italian restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies.
    Takara – A la carte Asian restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies. 
    Arrecife – A la carte Brazilian Rodizio restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies.

    Bahia Principe Grand Aquamarine – ADULTS ONLY:
    El Olivo – A la carte Gourmet restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies.
    Mashua – A la carte Nikkei restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies. 

    Bahia Principe Grand Punta Cana
    Garden Grill – A la carte Steakhouse cuisine restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies.
    Santa Fe – A la carte Tex-Mex cuisine restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies. 
    Mikado Japanese – A la carte Tepanyaki restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies. 
    El Pescador - A la carte Mediterranean and Seafood cuisines restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies.

    Bahia Principe Grand Bavaro:
    Il Capriccio – A la carte Italian cuisine restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies. 
    Maiko – A la carte Japanese restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies. 

    Bahia Principe Grand Turquesa:
    Los Corales – A la carte Dominican cuisine restaurant for dinner. Reservations required and dress code applies.

    Plus, access to the restaurants in our new Las Olas (Restaurants building):
    Thali – A la carte Indian cuisine restaurant. Reservations and dress code applies.
    The Greek – A la carte Mediterranean cuisine restaurant. Reservations and dress code applies.
    Tequila – A la carte Mexican cuisine restaurant. Reservations and dress code applies.
    Rodizio – A la carte Brazilian rodizio steakhouse. Reservations and dress code applies.

    Consult the hotel for hours of operation, reservation policies and dress codes (info.ambar@bahia-principe.com)

Customer Ratings & Reviews

TripAdvisor Traveler Rating

TRI_LOGO_ANCILLARY_4.5 13983 reviews
  • TRI_LOGO_ANCILLARY_ 3.0 star tripadvisor rating
    Just Ok

    Staff great. Food great. Drinks watered down. Room horrible: mold odor - my unused clothing still reeks of odor 6 days later, not sure if those were supposed to be pillows under my head with foul odor as well, and bed was missing mattress felt like laying on a box spring. Won’t be back.

    Mar 28, 2025
  • TRI_LOGO_ANCILLARY_ 5.0 star tripadvisor rating
    Bahia Principe Luxury Ambar

    Great 2 week stay at Bahia Principe Luxury Ambar, this place never fails to give us everything we need to enjoy our holiday. Great rooms, comfortable beds, amazing food and drinks, spotlessly clean everywhere there’s always someone cleaning public spaces and grooming the garden areas. All staff very friendly, professional and some go out of their way to ensure you have a great stay. This visit there was more cats and kittens than we’ve seen on previous visits but if you love cats they won’t be a problem but if you don’t please don’t be horrible to them, we saw one man who obviously didn’t care to watch the kittens play and went out of his way to splash them whilst in his swim out room. Beach always kept seaweed free early in the morning and we were always able to get a sun lounger, if you want one with shade you’ll need to join the very very early towel reserving mob who then don’t appear for hours. Didn’t use the swimming pool this visit as we had a swim out room. Can’t wait to return again very soon. Please don’t let the bad reviews put you off, it’s your holiday and we all have different opinions and tastes but we enjoy it and will keep returning.

    Mar 27, 2025
  • TRI_LOGO_ANCILLARY_ 5.0 star tripadvisor rating
    Couples visit

    Beautiful stay, location is perfect, private beach with waiter service, food and drink excellent, only slight pain was people reserving umbrellas on the beach and not using them. Entertainment great, I would recommend booking the A La Carte dining soon as you arrive as we struggled to get into them

    Mar 27, 2025
  • TRI_LOGO_ANCILLARY_ 3.0 star tripadvisor rating
    Just ok

    This is not a 5 star hotel like they advertise. My room smelled like mold. Ceiling in shower was all cracked. My pillow smelled dirty. The beach is super nice but you cannot relax for one minute without a random lady pulling your leg and start massaging you without even asking you. It is person after person bothering you with unwanted offers. I did my research before going and was generous with my tips so I got a great service. Employees remember you when you are a good tipper. They hug you when they see you and give you a faster service. The food was good at the buffet. Overall it was an ok experience. I wont be back.

    Mar 26, 2025
  • TRI_LOGO_ANCILLARY_ 5.0 star tripadvisor rating
    Worth going to, but some small improvements could be made

    This is a beautiful resort, and the staff goes out of their way to be friendly and accommodating. I was quite pleased with both of those facts. For the most part, the à la carte restaurants are fantastic. At Portofino, we had an incredible buratta appetizer, and the best octopus I’ve ever eaten in my life. M.E.A.T was very good also, but not quite as good as what other people have been saying about it. Taíno was outstanding, and they had a very good presentation of the food and it really helped immerse you in the Dominican culture. We also ate at one of the neighboring hotel’s Rodizio restaurants, and that was as expected. About the same that you will find at any other Brazilian steakhouse. The only à la carte restaurant we ate at that we didn’t care for was Limbo. The food was under-seasoned and overcooked. We couldn’t even finish any of our food, and when the waiter realized that we didn’t care for it, he brought us their “best” dish, which was equally as inedible. Other reviewer’s assessments of the pool situation were accurate; there is not very much seating available, and the amount of shade options leaves a lot to be desired. You have to walk around for a while to find a seat. Same deal with the beach, although we had a little bit more success there. Overall, not bad enough to get angry about, but it would make things better if these issues were corrected. Also, the beach itself was one of the best beaches I have been to (and I go to A LOT of different beaches). One other thing that turned me off was the fact that the bartenders severely lacked training in how to make basic drinks. I would say that they specialize in resort style drink drinks: the sugary, frozen, mixed drink variety. If you want any sort of drink outside of that, good luck. For a resort that caters to adults only, this is a major oversight. Adults who book a vacation here and pay a premium price are not the type of people who only care about getting drunk on whatever they can find. Premium quality drinks are important. Finally, the evening entertainment was very good. We attended the fire show, which was fantastic, and several of the other dance themed evening shows. The daytime entertainment became a little bit repetitive and we could take it or leave it.

    Mar 26, 2025
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