We stayed four nights at the resort. It was a very beautiful property with a lot to offer. While I wasn't able to enjoy any golf during this trip, the course itself looked great. The private beach area is very nice, and the pool area is fantastic. The room was large and the included hot breakfast buffett in the morning was good.

The hotel is beautiful and peaceful. The pool is very big although it was often full of kids. The beach is lovely and there are plenty of beach chairs for every one. The hotel lobby is typical Embassy Suites. The location is far from the hubub of San Juan which can be nice but really leaves you with only a few options for activity unless you want to deal with traffic and waste a good bit of time in your car. Also very limited choice of restaurants and no real shopping in the area. Great golf course though. The hotel has a three restaurants, one closes at 5:00pm, one isn't open on Mondays and Tuesdays, one has a pretty average menu--good but nothing to get excited about. There used to be some casinos in Dorado but they have long since closed--despite what some websites and guide books may tell you. If you stay here you will need a car or really want to just get away from everything.

We were there for 2 weeks in August and they were still filming the Chilean soap opera! Maybe it goes on forever! It was fun watching them set up the scenes and it did not interfere at all with our stay.

Lovely hotel, and the choices for restaurants in Dorado go on and on. We were a group of 7 and ate at a different place downtown every night. All restaurants in town were excellent offering the freshest seafood. Breakfast at Dorado is great, lunch by the pool is OK, dinner, eh, could do much better, go elsewhere. I don't golf, but the golf course is lovely and full of iquanas and birds. There is plenty resort area to walk around and see, they have children's activities and everyone is friendly. Only swim in the marked areas, or sea urchins can be underfoot. Bring your snorkel and some fish food to sprinkle and fish will swim all around you.

My only quibble is the location of the massage room -- they have tiny room stuck in the basement in the back of the icey, cold fitness room. The Embassy suites could surely afford to create a small spa area upstairs where you could soak and have a sunlit massage. It just seems cheesy to go for a massage in a dingy basement next to an underground garage & noisy game room. Come on, Embassy Suites, get with the Spa scene!

We just returned from a 10 day stay at the Embassy Suites with our two children, ages 9 and 6. Storms in the Northeast kept us there for three extra days and the hotel staff was very accomodating in extending our stay. When we arrived late at night we were told the Embassy Suites was overbooked and we were moved to the Aquarius/Golden Sands rooms that are adjacent to the main hotel. The rooms in this building are larger than the Embassy Suites with more substantial kitchens (full sized fridge, dishwasher and a two burner stove). As Embassy Suites guests, we were still able to go to the free breakfast each day and the hotel happy hour in the evening. We ended up preferring the larger room and quieter building. The only con was the housekeeping services were basic - I would have liked a more thorough cleaning each day - two days the housekeeper didn't even show up.
You need a car if you plan on doing anthing in Puerto Rico besides sitting at the hotel pool. We rented one at the airport when we arrived along with a GPS which was a godsend. We visited the rainforest (beautiful), the Arecibo Observatory (we could have skipped this ), Languillo Beach(dissapointing, crowded and dirty) El Morro and Old San Juan (great day) and took an all day catamaran trip on the Spread Eagle II (not a joke) to Icacos, an uninhabited island off Fajardo - the trip was beautiful, but if you have snorkeled before you will find the fish/reefs a dissapointment.
The other days we stayed at the hotel and used the pool which is perfect for kids. The beach sand is coarse and not white, but most of the beaches in Puerto Rico are like that except for the off islands.
There are very few places to eat in Dorado and the places that were recommended were lousy. The Italian restaurant at the hotel, Oregeno, was the worst. The food took nearly two hours to come out, and one hour into our wait they came out to tell my husband he couldn't have the pesto pasta because they were out of pesto. My sons chicken strips were RAW in the middle. The hotel restaurant in the main building was ok, but don't expect to eat well on this trip. Lots of fried food with very few options for children. The pool bar was perfect for a late lunch in our bathing suits and the waitstaff was terrific.
We saw them filming the soap opera at the hotel, but there were never any areas closed to guests.
Overall, the value of this hotel is good. The people were very nice and bingo every afternoon was a big hit with the kids! This trip was not as "pampering" as others I have taken, but a smart choice for our family especially having a suite rather than a single hotel room in a major resort. If you keep your expectations reasonable, you won't be dissapointed.