My husband and I stayed at the Edenh June 10-16. We booked our trip through Funjet vacations. It was our first time going to the D.R. but we have done all inclusive resorts before. I of course read every review about the resort. I really was not too concerned about the hotel. I have found that most people who say "I'm really not that picky" are really picky!

The airport:
This was the easiest experience we have ever had in an airport. Super fast! We were one of the first people to get out luggage and as soon as we walked out our driver was waiting for us. He led us to a nice air conditioned van. It took about 20 minutes to get to the resort.

The hotel:
Very nice. It is clean. I didn't care for the incense smell but I realize it is a spa type feel but could do without the smell. It was even in the elevators. We went right into the Paradise Club lounge, we were the only ones on the bus staying at the resort. We had welcome drinks and then we were taken on a tour of the hotel and then to our room.

The room:
We had a great room. I think it was room 2475. It had a huge balcony overlooking the ocean. We did have a view of the empty lot but since the balcony was L shaped you could look straight out at the water. The only bad thing is that our AC didn't work. It was 83 degrees. We called for someone to check it out. They came quickly, said it just needed freon and it would be cool in 5 minutes. So we left for dinner and returned to 83 degrees. We called and asked for a new room and we were moved that night to room 2465, right across the hall. The balcony and view were not as great but the AC was working and that was most important to me! We actually met the people who got our old room with the AC still broken but they loved the view so much they decided to suffer through it!!

The pools:
We spent most of our time at the VIP pool. Carlos and Ramon were tons of fun! They were always bringing us drinks and buckets of beers! The resort was not full so there we no problems with chairs or umbrellas.

The beach:
The beach was beautiful. The sand is so white and soft. The water was warm. We never had a problems finding a place at the beach.

The food:
We ate at the Italian the first night. It was pretty good. I had pasta and my husband had lamb chops, his was really good! We ate at the Asian twice, once doing the hibachi. It was good. We did the buffet twice, I was not impressed with the dinner buffet but there was always something to eat. I am a very picky eater and I didn't go hungry! The lunch buffet at the pool was really good especially the pizza and chicken. I'm not a big breakfast person but my husband said the omlets are great. Overall the food was pretty good, better than some of the all inclusives we have been to. The beach party was fun, lots of good food to try.

Now I usually get sick at some point on a vacation whether we are in the US or in another country. We had antibiotics on hand just in case but never needed them. I did make sure that I drank a lot of bottled water. We never brush our teeth with the tap water. So this was my first vacation in a long time without getting sick.

We didn't really have any issues with mosquitoes in our room. We packed 3 citronella candles for the balcony, I brought a fly swatter for the room, bug spray with 30% Deet, bite MD, and caladryl. I did get bites in the evening but the bite MD worked better than the caladryl. I think I had 5 bites and my husband had 1 on his ankle. Nothing that could ruin the trip. It seems like people on the first floor had more issues with mosquitoes. ?But we read reviews and new what to bring so we didn't spend a fortune in the gift shop on sprays and meds! We also took Malarone since the CDC recommends anti-malaria meds. We had no side effects from the meds.

We went parasailing. It was $70 for the two of us. We went way down the beach to almost where the ship wreck is ( I think nears Dreams??) to parasail. It was fun, we took our water camera and got some good pics. We didn't do any other excursions.

I would definitely recommend this resort to a friend. But you have to keep in mind it is more of a relaxing spa type resort. So if you are looking to stay up late and party this is not the place for you, there is nothing to do late night.

Check In - Arrived at Edenh Approx 2am and were quickly checked in and taken to our rooms. Staff at check in were very nice and informative.

Rooms - Rooms were beautiful...A Little different as we all know, but myself and Boyfriend really didn't care about the hole in the wall. We were in our rooms only to sleep and get ready for our evenings out. Travelled with 3 other couples to Edenh and they also had great rooms with great veiws.

Beach - ABSOLUTLEY AMAZING!!! So Clean and beautiful. The staff keeps the beach super super clean. There is always someone going around each and everyday collecting Garbage until the sun goes down...

Beach Chairs - Never really had a problem getting one. There were 8 of us in our group and we all managed to get 8 everyday for our 2 week stay. Some days we never got to the beach until around 11ish and had no problems at all. Loungers were always available by the pool as well.

Food - the Food was great...Especially liked the Shore Grill and Hibachi bar. Again, Never had any trouble getting in at the resturants...had to wait 5 mins one night but it was no big deal. Rafael at the breakfast buffett was Fantastic..He is the coffee guy and was an absolute delight in the mornings. At the end of our stay , he brought 8 of us a little ornament from his hometown of Huigey to remember him by. He was truly amazing!!

Entertainment - Never really saw alot of the entertainment in the Evenings as we usually sat on our Balcony until the wee hours of the morning having drinks and just having fun. What I did see of the entertainment, it was great. The costumes are just spectacular. The sports Bar was always fun as well with Karaoke night...The Best Night was the Beach Party. What a Great time we had. The only thing lacking in the Entertainment world at Edenh in not having a Disco.

Staff- Super super Nice....No problems with the language barrier at all. Most spoke very good english.

So my overall review of this resort is a huge thumbs up...our group enoyed every miniute of a our 2 week stay and would go back in a heartbeat. Hope you all have a great experience as we did. Go and have a good time and relax...Its the perfect place for it....CHEERS!!!!!

How do I begin...Bad, no it wasn't too bad, frankly it is a beautiful place, Let me list the pros and the cons...if you are going soon, read, this is a very HONEST opinion , with no exagerations..truly

1. Rooms - Excellent - Big enough, modern flat screen TV. If traveling with family (adolescant, teens) you might want to ask for rooms with privacy, the bath area is open leaving you literally no where to change clothes when you want to change, or to get dressed after a shower. It was fine for us, it was just my hubby and me. The elevator are not air conditioned so you will roast in there and the bldg on the left as you look the beach, those elevators never worked. My friends had to be moved to a ground floor due she is very pregnant and could not climb stairs.

2. Mosquitos, yes, quite a few, my hubby never got bit, but I did. They do spray, you can smell it in the evenings when they spray. But first day I was eaten alive, I learned , every time I took a shower I put Avon Skin so soft - bug repellent cream, and that did the trick ! No more bites ! Not one...they were in the room but stayed away from us !

3. Internet - Great Service - Nelson the internet/business office guy was awesome young guy. You buy internet for your laptop and you have wireless WIFI in your room or pool area, for 25 dollars you get 25 hours, you can break up the hours, so we had internet all week, it was awesome, stayed in touch with the kids.
And we used SKYPE to call home for 2 cents a min, awesome !
We took a headphone, laptop and talked away on skype.com.

4. Beach - AWESOME beach, no chair games, plenty of chairs and huts to pick from. The front ones were usually taken by early birds, but there were 2nd row plenty of them. Nice huts and chairs and beach was awesome. Activities on beach, was 15 dollars for bannana boat ride (too much !!) The vendors on the beach were annoying, altough the police did a good job of keeping them away, a distance, the minute you walked over the "line" they swarmed you.

5. Pool - was nice...

6. Bar service - lacked big time, not that friendly, although Ramon
from the VIP bar on the right as you face the beach is awesome. He will accomodate you. (even though I was NOT vip, he was awesome. And Alexis from the pool bar was nice. The rest were fake and not very friendly. Regardless what they say, my rum and cokes were NOT watered down, they were toooo strong ! lol Hello, no water bottles at regular bars to the beach, only VIP !!! No water bottles, that is NUTS !

7. Food by the pool - same food over and over, boring !!!! but, listen to me, at no extra charge , they will make Chicharron de pollo with tostones (chicken chunks with plantains) just for you and your party, also, they make fish, and pork chunks, which are chicarron de puerco. See Marisela at that restaurant called Olas, she is awesome, tell her Nilda from Miami said hi !

8.Food at restaurants - A la carte - awesome (when open) they only had 2 out of 4 open on each nite, which did not make it very easy for us. You didn't have much of a choice and sometimes even the buffet would close and only the pool snack bar/buffet was open !!! CRAZY, they said it was because the hotel was not full to capacity and did not warrant opening up the entire eating facilities !!! CRAZY...made it where you HAD to eat by 630/7pm or you would not eat by 845 and then they ran out of half the stuff !!! Crazy is the word here ! Maria the Asian/French romantic restaurant was awesome, made you feel so special !! And do did Eddy at the italian. We managed to get wine bottles to the room too, don't ask how , we just did :)~ Portions were fine, really, we were stuffed every nite...you can ask for seconds if the portion is too small, they do cater to you there. They are great at the restaurants. But the buffet, get ready to wait for EVEN water...terrible. Not at the beach one, the main buffet.

9. Now here is the BAD BAD BAD part - Animation !!!!! NONE, NONE, NONE, the music by the bars at the pool/beach were very quiet, at nite by 8 pool closed, bar closed at 6, so it was very quiet/lonely and very very dark by the pool once it all closed down. Horrible, no action after 600 , none ! This is a very very boring hotel, no action, they advertize a bowling alley, I have yet to find it, they have not built it yet. They have not finished construction so nothing to do, the disco only rave music, yuk, they should have a variety of all types not just RAVE stuff. Empty most of the nites..And bartenders need to know when to stop serving some people, even kids !!!!

9. Customer Service - lacking customer service, the phone operators were like, WHATEVER, the only ones I really enjoyed their service i mentioned on this review.

10. Shows - The only show we liked was the first one we saw, very good , the rest was karaoke, yuk, drunk silly people

11. Shopping - we went to Bavaro plaza for shopping, all the same junk but , whatever, we just went ! Don't let them give you a price, whatever they say , talk them down, my purchase started by them at 75 dollars, i ended up at 21 dollars for 3 items.

12. Security Guards - I left money with a security guard to give to a waitress when she came back from her day off, he gave me his name in honor and he swore he would give it to her, I had my doubts, so I called her when I got home and asked her , he stole the money, I called the manager of security and she got it back and he was almost fired if it wasn't for the waitress begging for him not to get fired cuz he needed the job. So do not trust everyone !

13. The hotel said they had alot of noise/animation/music but for some reason the Europeans did not like this and asked for the loud latin music to cease, and it seems they are targeting more the European clientele, which is fine, but do not , advertise in Miami, if you want Europeans to rule your hotel. Latins like music, dancing, noise, (most of us) and even the FRENCH CANADIANS said this was the most BORING hotel they had EVER been tooooo and they were an OLDER FRENCH CANADIAN Couple.



Ok overall - if they fix their minor issues, they WILL be a 5 Star, right now Service is a 2 star, and the hotel facility itself I would give it a 4.5 star !

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We stayed at the EdenH from June 13-19 2008. We are a married couple in our early thirties, no children, took this trip as a celebration of our first anniversary. We had the green bracelets. Overall, we had a good experience.
Our main frustration was the room we were initially placed in - Room 2360 - was full of mosquitoes, we killed about 30 before going down to the desk to ask (nicely) for a room switch, which they did accomodate. Room 2360 also had a rather large hole in the bathroom ceiling, presumably from others trying to kill mosquitoes before us - there were several smashed on the ceiling. Our new room, #2415, was much nicer - no bug guts anywhere, no holes in the ceiling, and not one mosquito in the room the entire remainder of our trip. I will say one thing we didn't like was that the rooms (either one that we were in) never seemed to get really cool no matter what you had the thermostat set at.
The beach was really beautiful, and there seemed to be plenty of palapas and chairs - after reading previous reviews, we always got up early (on the beach around 6:45 or 7:00) and we always got one right in the very front row on the water - we noticed there was still availability of palapas/chairs as late as 9:30 or so.
The pool does have a different color, kind of green, but it really is very clean, those guys do a great job keeping everything on the grounds pristine.
The restaurants for the most part were very good, we thought. You definitely have to get an omelet made by Felix while you are there - he is great!! We weren't huge fans of the restaurant at the pool area, we found the lunch fare to be much better inside at the Festival Buffet, plus you can get out of the heat for a bit. We ate at the Asian for both the Hibachi and the a la carte - if you like sushi, get the sushi boat - we didn't actually get one, we had a sushi plate at the Hibachi and it was good, the boat was on a table next to ours and looked amazing and the people seemed to enjoy. The steak we had at the American Grill was very good, as was the Mahi Mahi at the Gourmet Senses and the pasta at the Italian - also try the mushroom risotto as an appetizer - very good! We did not notice any issues with food temperature whatsoever.
One issue that could turn into a real problem if they are not careful - on June 14 it rained almost the entire day and into the night - that evening, we went to the buffet for a late dessert and noticed a few rather large leaks in the ceiling, there was also a large leak that night in the sports bar where we were playing pool, water was actually dripping from the recess lights and running down the wall. The next morning in the buffet, we noticed that one of the areas that had been leaking the night before actually had a large section of ceiling missing where it had caved it - they did get it patched up quickly, and it didn't really rain anymore, but I wonder how it will hold up if a bigger storm or more prolonged rain hits?
The staff overall nice and friendly, there is a big language barrier with some of them though - I don't know any Spanish, and that was a little tough, luckily my husband knows the basics. The biggest issue with language and communication we had was with the maids - we left them money everyday and asked for 4 waters, and there were a few days when we got none - our fridge wasn't even restocked! We would just track them down in the hallway though and ask. Also, at the bars you can ask for water and you actually get a cold bottle of water, which is great. One last thing ladies - they apparently don't use washcloths at this hotel - there weren't any, just hand towels, which get really heavy when you get them wet and are kind of rough - I have to have one to at least wash my face - this was kind of weird to me.
Overall, I think we would definitely go back, and I agree with others who say better go now before prices get higher!!!