angiepgh

Hi All-I just got back from my Wedding @ the Palladium on May 23, 2011. First let me begin by saying I picked Punta Cana as my wedding destination after our first visit last year, we stayed at the Melia Caribe and it was nicer. Our checkin wasn't that great, the guy at the front desk was quite rude and just condesending. I couldn't believe how our expereince was, after traveling a long time, I expect to be greated professionaly and properly helped by the first person that give me the impression of the resort. We stayed at the Romanace Suites, and they were OK, but a little dated. But we don't spend too much time in our room, so I'm not going to rate this as a deal breaker, we walked right out our room and we were on the beach. The beach, the reson we go to Punta Cana, this is why we go. Lovely, beautiful and wonderful. The resort wasn't full capacity since we go into the rainy season, we did this last year and didn't have any problems, it rained all day the day we arrived, but afterwards it would rain at night or during the day, but not enough to make us run from the beach. Kenia was our wedding coordinator, what a lovely, wonderful girl. I had communicated with Caroleine a few times leading up to the trip but I was overall pleased with Kenia. This was my 2nd marriage, so I didn't worry about the stuff like colors, didn't take any wedding stuff with us, there was only 6 of us all together. But Kenia had a lot of colors to choose from and I seen her actually taking a couple around in a cart to show them around the resort. We had a 1:30pm wedding, so we couldn't have our reception until 6:00pm and by that time, I was in the water with my wedding dress that I wore a different dress to the reception to where our cake was. Didn't matter to me, there was only 6 of us, we didn't have a large group of people. Wedding day was amazing, I got my hair and makeup done at the Spa, It was $184.00, which I expected it to be that expensive reading the forum. My mom had her's done and it was $100.00. The makeup was beautiful and not too much, it looks perfect in my pictures and It was well worth the money... now on to my photographer. I used HDC-I would recommend A++++ perfect vendor. Miljan arrived on time to take our pictures and he was lovely, a perfect gentleman and you can tell he loves what he does. We enjoyed our time with him and he is a memorable person. Arnuad came to our hotel a few days later to show us the shots Miljan took and we picked our pictures and he had them dropped off a few hours later, we got a disc with all the pictures and we will be getting a bound book in a few weeks. I would recommend HDC to anybody. A few items of mention.... I did tip Kenia, $120.00 and Miljan $75.00. I know I've seen talk on her about tipping and is it necessary and I was on the fence with this one, but the service we received was well deserved of the tip and I was happy to do it. We did the manarium excursion booked through apple and LOVED IT. The staff made the trip wonderufl and fun on the Catamaran.

I've been waiting for her to reply to me also just to confirm my date and time.

I was just there May 15th and it rained a few times but usually in the evening and once during the day for a short time. The locals say April and May are the rainy season but we pretty much had perfect weather. I actually booked my wedding there for next May.

I was there in May for the first time. We were looking for a place to get married. The resort is really big. We stayed in Royal Service and it was nice. I wasn't too pleased with the rooms compared to all other AI's I have stayed at. Just keep a head's up for the people that bug you for timeshare sales. All in all the resort grew on us when we found our way around. The beach is beautiful!! Although I did decide not to book my wedding there, I'm going to the Grand Palladium. Feel free to contact me with any questions, I did see a lot of weddings there at the wedding pavillion. Lol... I just realized you are from Pittsburgh too!!!

I was at the Melia Tropical last month for vacation. I did witness a lot of weddings. The resort is very big and had a good time. If you have any questions about the resort feel free to message me.