Casa Bonita Tropical Lodge

Beautiful location with a lot of space to explore. The villa was marvelous and meticulously decorated. All staff were attentive and gracious.

We stayed in the exceptional Shaman riverside suite. The room was spacious, well-appointed and luxurious. The outdoor shower room with its tree canopy ceiling was extraordinary. Coupled with the helpful friendly staff and its forest location we had a very memorable stay.

It was an amazing experience to stay in this jungle resort. Everything was awesome. We felt like at home. The stuff was very friendly. The only negative thing was the driveway. It was very damaged and if you don’t have suv, you will have a problem to get there.

Hermoso lugar, contacto con la naturaleza, Buena comida en el restaurante.

It was such a pleasure staying there. The service, the way we were welcome and treated while we were there was fantastic. The customer service was just out of this world. The hotel was awesome, the view. Everything was just marvelous. The owner approached our table the night we arrived and thanked us for being there. I definitely recommend this place.

excellent

Todo el personal del staff muy amable y cuidadoso

Wonderful time with my fiance and excellent service. Specially for our waitress Yorkendy. He enjoy his job and very please with his costumers. We will definitely return .

I love this place I strongly recommend it if your looking for a peaceful get away or vacation place this is it, the food is amazing the drinks are perfect the staff are amazing people very helpful and very friendly they treated us like family and the VIEW IS BEAUTIFUL defiantly going back soon 🙌

Amazing place and amazing staff

Very good place

Malgré toute la bonne volonté du directeur,il. ne peut pas empêcher que : L hôtel est complètement obsolète ,les chambres à refaire entièrement, et le personnel a revoir totalement . Quand vous payez 400$ la nuit .... vous vous attendez à autre chose !!! Dommage.....

Rooms need renovations and exterminating. A bit overpriced for the conditions.

Everything at this facility was great! Everything was clean, staff was great! I will most likely come back

Excellent hospitality ocean view good food the private pool in my room is nice

I have been to casa Bonita before and loved it this time I was not so happy with everything :/

Muy acogedor....para mí fue sólo una parada de descanso luego de un largo día de trabajo y camino a Bahia Las Aguilas y resultó ser una inesperada y excelente experiencia. Tendré que volver un fin de semana a disfrutar de todo lo que ofrecen.

Peaceful, relaxing, accommodating, great restaurant and service is extremely friendly

Casa Bonita is a lovely boutique hotel with a laid-back vibe in a gorgeous setting. The staff is really friendly and helpful. The food is local and fresh, nicely prepared, with meals served in a lovely outdoor setting. Highly recommend getting a river massage. The area is untouristy, with pebble peaches nearby for ocean swimming and other attractions including some hiking, and farther away is a gorgeous sand beach in a national park that is well worth the time it takes to get there.

It is a very nice hotel. The view is amazing. The staff was super friendly and made our stay unforgettable.

Roaches in the room and the check in area Lamp didn’t work Pool tiles fallen at the front fascia Too expensive for what they offer Ran out of champagne

Loved the quiet and peaceful serenity. Did not like the prices for food or drinks, a bit expensive.

Very beautiful and clean hotel, excellent customer service.

So pretty

It’s a perfect spot, perfect view, delicious food, the spa in the river its the best. You have to go!

Very clean and easy to get in, rooms are vey organize, and personal ate very friendly.

The landscape, natural beauty, the river... a complete dream!

Beautiful hotel excellent location love the view u can relax in this hotel. They don’t have cool beer

Everything was perfect and the service was good too

Nice place to splurge on. Wish they had mosquito nets set up over the beds- lots of mosquitos. Food was good and necessary because going elsewhere at night was difficult.

We went there for our anniversary in February 2019 and were very pleased with the hotel and especially our tour to Bahia de las Aguilas that we arranged thru the hotel. Highly recommend doing this if you are in the Barahona area. It is a pristine, undeveloped beach that will probably not stay that way for long. Regarding our room, There were steps to get to our room which are like individual bungalows. Not sure if they have some that do not have this. Highly recommend booking a massage by the river. It was very relaxing and a beautiful area which is part of the resort.

It was amazing!!!! this hotel is beautiful even though the place needs a little tender loving care regarding renovation for the rooms and building structure. The service was very good and the staff super friendly.

Pros: staff is amazing, food is some of the best I’ve had, views are breathtaking and pool is beautiful Cons: getting there and back will take 4hrs each way and you’ll pay $260 each way if you use the hotel transportation, no beach access, area around the hotel is not for tourists so you are in the hotel all the time, room was basic wish it at least had a mini bar

The most beautiful location. The service was excellent.

The River Suite doesnt have a bathroom door to the patio so we have lizards and a frog in our bathroom

Very friendly staff, courteous and efficient service. Excellent fresh food made a la carte. We definitely recommend and plan to visit again.

Property is shown beach front and does not exist . The beach is a few miles away Parking is limited . Driveway,entrance is in bad shape , not paved and not maintained , it's really bad , so bad don't drive your pregnant wife there , unless you want her to give birth there . Charged me $70 plus 28% tax for extra child. Staff starts selling shore excursion at check in after a long drive wh n we just wanted to settle . The place overhaul is nice , the staff is good but the need to fine time their ways and take care of that driveway .

Beautiful bello bello Bella bello bello hermoso hermoso hermoso

I loved the view and the service was awesome. Very friendly and professional staff. The food was good and we really enjoyed our time there.

Excellent hotel! We stayed in the ocean suite, our view was incredible! The staff and service was amazing! Thank you for the hospitality, definitely will be returning.

The property is quite nice, view is incredible. The only disappointment was that the beach apparently is "not accesible" from their property.

Excellent, Great Staff, very clean and the best food

Beatiful hotel, amazing infinite pool, excellent service and food.

Excellent stay! Dominican Republic is beautiful, if your looking for nice views, Casa Bonita has it all, close to the best beach in the country (bahia de las Aguilas) views to the mountain, river, food, etc.. we will be back.

I travel to DR for business 4 to 5 times a year. I had never been out of Santo Domingo or Punta Cana. I heard about this place from a friend and decided to spend my vacation there. I’m so glad I did! I can literally say nothing bad about the place. From check in being effortless, to the superb service by everyone. I will seek out more small hotels in unique locals, all because of casa Bonita. There were maybe 30 guests besides me and my friend and it felt like we had the place to ourselves most of the time. Food was the best I have had in Dominican Republic. French toast and the margaritas were the best I’ve ever had, PERIOD. The views are better in person than in the pictures. Do yourself a favor and plan a vacation here whenever you can. Your future self will thank you!

There was no hot water. They came to fix it and then it went out again. At check in they asked us what time we would like to have our complimentary coffe, juice and toast delivered we said 8am no one came. I called to ask about it, it didn’t show till 9:30 am. The room I stayed in required someone to pick us up to take us to and from the lobby/restaurant area so when the service is slow it ruins the experience. We had cold showers, we called for ice which never came, the room service coffe was served late, we requested towels it took forever. Hotel is spectacular but the service is lacking and the water issue made it a terrible experience. They didn’t even comp our meals or give us a discount for our terrible experience. The manager offered as a complimentary lunch at the hotel thand next day once we returned from a tour and he wasn’t even there that day nor did he leave a note with the staff. We came back and wasted our time they knew nothing about what he had offered us so we left even more upset. The service is super slow and the river suites are far from the main part which with slow service made it worse. To pay all this money to take cold showers you might as well stay at a cheaper hotel.

the rooms need upkeep.

Enjoyed our stay wit personal care, friendly staff who went above and beyond to make us comfortable

Excellent,great food,good price, I would like to recommended to family and friend.

They gave us the wrong rooms. Room are not as same in pictures. Found cockroach in my BED. Wall light broken reported it and their answer were we know is broken. We paid for a king bed got a double . Food was bad. Very disappointed

It was a very beautiful experience, it made me feel in touch with nature

Lovely, small hotel with stunning views! Very comfortable rooms and beautiful pool...a really relaxing time! Thank you Casa Bonita!

This is a very unique hotel with amazing views and great staff. However there are several things that left us pretty unhappy. When we went to book on Expedia the price showed with 2 adults and 2 kids. When we got the bill it was almost double that. They charged 28% tax and large per person extra fees on top of the rate so BEWARE!!!!!!. I think the post was very deceiving and would NOT have paid what we were charged for this hotel. It is in a very beautiful location but there are no safe restaurant alternatives nearby so you must eat at the resort. Food is good but not spectacular and tends to be delivered cold often. The little town next to the Hotel is definitely not a place for tourists. The river and beach downhill from the resort are amazing but the resort is NOT on the beach. You must go down the hill to get there. If you surf, the waves are excellent.The rooms are nice and the AC is spectacular but the water is never more than lukewarm in the shower. The balcony view is beautiful but the rails looked pretty questionable and in need of repair and reinforcement. The staff is great and very helpful. The hotel has a very personal feel but there is very little to do at night so if you are looking for a quiet getaway, this is it.

It is one of the best hotels we stayed. the service is amazing, food is excellent and you can relax a lot in mountains and beach view. Try to visit Bahia las Aguilas, it is the bet excursion !!!

Our stay was amazing except for the service with the restaurant where the food took way too long and once we even left after eating because our juice was taking too long. Other than that everything was great. Great staff very accommodating, very friendly. They got us help to get around. Check-Out was also a headache as they charged the whole group's food on one card instead of per room. Make sure you pay attention to every detail during check-out just to make sure your aren't being overcharged but that's anywhere. Great Canopy, relaxing spa especially with the river running would be better if the riverside villas weren't in construction. Amazing yet rough beaches with great spectacular views. The Staff was great as it is a small hotel they get familiar quick.

The staff couldnt be more nice. Extremely helpful, attentive, and willing. The spa in the hotel is AMAZING, a total must, a complete experience. The room is clean and comfy, the food although expensive was good as well.

The common area is "WOW!" The view is spectacular. The cabins are somewhat dated. Staff are pleasant but speak little English. Most of the other guests seemed to be native Dominicans taking a local holiday. The food was the best we had in the Dominican Republic.

Bahia de Aguilas is very far but the trip was pleasant with the driver from Casa Bonita. Carlos is a gentleman and speaks different languages enough to provide some local information en route. The level of relaxation and the massage were wonderful for anyone needing a place to check out of the hustle and bustle, this is the place.

The view is amazing and very tough to beat. The rooms are nice but small, bathrooms are modern but again small, shower only. The infinity pool is beautiful. The grounds are nice, the road to the hotel is scary and in fact is falling down the hill in one place. The food is mediocre at best and the prices way out of line. Plantain is served with everything and being Barahona grows some of the best in the country a very cheap starch. 3 dollars American for a bottle of water is crazy. Our daughter-in-law lives in area and has eaten here previously, she could not believe how much the quality of the food had changed. We were very disappointed and felt ripped off, if the food is amazing the prices are warranted, in a 2 night stay for 4 we spent over a $1000, and the quality was just not there.

It was great. The hotel is very pleasant and we enjoyed every minute of our stay. Definitely will recommend to others.

Casa Bonita has changed the way I would vacation from now on. Small place with huge setting wonderful food, great, accommodations, spectacular views and five star staff service.

My wife and I spent four nights at Casa Bonita, and we loved it. It is a small resort, with service that is probably equal to or better than the big resorts in the east. The staff was friendly, and always willing to help. The food was fantastic, and was available at the open-air, poolside restaurant with a perfect view of the Caribbean sea, or delivered to our room. Ñoño washed the car each morning. We took excursions to see beautiful sites of Oviedo lagoon and Bahia de las Aguilas, and a hike to the Cueva de la Virgen. Great value for the room rate, and if/when we return to the Dominican Republic (we want to) we will stay again at Casa Bonita. Note that the Wi-Fi is slow, and was not accessible from our room. But we enjoyed disconnecting from the digital world, so to us it was not a disadvantage. We did have mobile phone service (voice and data).

Absolutely amazing !!! He place is gorgeous 5 star secluded hidden gem. Coming back every year!!! Wish they would improve their food. But didn't come here for the food. Came here for the drop dead foliage !

Expectacular views in a relax and romantic environment!

My husband and i went for a romantic retreat and that is exactly what we got. There is nothing to do outside the hotel but the mountain views behind you and the ocean view in front you can not ask for more.

I enjoyed my time at Casa Bonita, set in a idyllic location between the mountains and the ocean it offered a nice retreat and a relaxing atmosphere in an eco-friendly package. Nicely laid out, with good service, lots of extras available and beautifully, locally-sourced food. I would recommend Casa Bonita as a quick weekend retreat of for longer stays in which to better explore the area.

This place was amazing! Every room has a beautiful view of the ocean. The room was very comfortable, the food was delicious and the staff was friendly, accommodating and just all-around really lovely. We would definitely stay here again the next time we are in the area and would recommend this place to anyone looking for a hotel in the Barahona area.

We arrived at Casa Bonita very late, to our surprise the hotel staff was waiting for us! We received a wonderful and friendly welcome by the Hotel Mgr, Antonio, and his staff. I think they checked us in quickly, took our bags to our room (very nice since there were a few stairs and were tired). I believe they kept the kitchen open late for us, which was wonderful because we had not eaten. The restaurant was very nice, quiet and we received great service, no rushing at all. It would have been helpful if we spoke some spanish, but we all managed. The next day, after breakfast, we were given a driven tour of the facilities, spa, garden, walking trails, etc. We also visited Villa Miram (?), for a few hours, the hotel provided transportation to and from, and even packed a cooler for us... which was very much appreciated. This is definitely a place to go to for decompressing! We enjoyed the pool, spa, food and hiking! Absolutely beautiful! Take a book and enjoy the views and the sounds of nature, even includes a Rooster in the morning to wake you from your deep sleep!

Everything was good. The food was perfect. The staff is awesome!

as a young couple celebrating aniversary we enjoyed our stay at the hotel . we where traveling around the area and used hotel for resting at night time , very nice , clean and pretty hotel

I stayed for 2 days, Hotel has amazing view. It is a small hotel, only 1 restaurant. a bit expensive but food is GREAT. The best thing of this hotel is the surroundings. Barahona has everything from the best beaches, mountains, natural caves, rivers ALL!! I recommend if you stay here explore the nature, you wont be disappointed.

Nice hotel to go with your partner, I recommend making the effort and stay in the suite, with private pool on the balcony. The price is quite expensive in all rooms. Have problems with internet connection, better forget about the computer and smart phones. There is also no phones in the rooms. The staff is very friendly and always try to help you. The hotel will be expanded and are working towards perfection. Antonio Fidel and Mayra are excellent hosts. Would return without hesitation.

We had a little trouble finding the hotel, but once there we did t want to leave. It's a great piece of property and the staff is happy to take you on a jeep tour. The zip line is great. The restaurant and pool area are lovely and relaxing. The staff was gracious and friendly. If you are looking for only a beach stay this is not the place, but you are looking for relaxation and a bit of adventure you hit the jackpot. The spa is fabulous as well. We will definitely return and have recommended it to friends.

I have a wonderful time in casa bonita tropical lounge the food was delicious, try a massage the SPA is fabulous

Nestled amongst the hills of Barahona sit's this wonderful spot. It's romantic, with stunning sea views and twinkling lights. The wait staff is wonderful as is the food served. Note you are paying more than the norm in these parts but worth every cent. I think an upgraded room is in order if you expect more. We did not and noticed some simple needed fixes. That said, I'd go back in a blink.