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Arena Gorda Beach

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Arena Gorda Beach
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Detailed Reviews: Reviews order informed by descriptiveness of user-identified themes such as cleanliness, atmosphere, general tips and location information.
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4.5
316 reviews
Excellent
192
Very good
86
Average
26
Poor
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Terrible
2
Anick B
3 contributions
Beautiful Beach - big waves
Nov 2021
The waves are strong but once you pass the place where they break out you can just lie on top of the waves and let yourself go for hours.
Written 7 December 2021
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frannie33
Hamilton, Canada12 contributions
Beautiful Beach
Sep 2019
stunning white sandy beach, water very choppy lots of waves, that's the Atlantic ocean for u. You can't do any snorkeling in front of your hotel, u need to go on a tour to comer water, Can't say anything bad about the beach, wonderful
Written 9 November 2019
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busbylewis
Reading, UK148 contributions
Great beach
Oct 2019
Arena Gorda beach in Punta Cana is great. Soft white powder sand & warm sea when I visited in October 2019. I would recommend this 100%.
Written 17 October 2019
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Newton W
Port of Spain, Trinidad44 contributions
Very nice sand and long beach with lots to see as you stroll and take an eveing or morning walk
Sep 2019
Clean beach and sand was easy on your feet. No seaweed in the water and water was warm enough. Swimming was good as the waves were not high and the sea was calm.
Lots to see as you walk on the beach and nice activities, volley ball etc. Really nice beach for a long walk and the sand was soft to the feet.
Written 3 October 2019
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PauloMarinho
Brazil315 contributions
Seaweed but great
Jul 2019 • Family
Beatiful beach, excellent sea, but full of seaweed that the hotel tries to clean but in the sea it cannot be cleaned.
Written 3 August 2019
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Explore476081
3 contributions
Beautiful white sand beach
Jun 2019 • Family
If you want a beach by yourself visit this one I really loved it, the whole family enjoyed a quite and nice beach.
Written 6 July 2019
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chrisjam27
Bridgwater, UK124 contributions
Seaweed
Jun 2019 • Couples
What a fantastic beach but Mother Nature is having her say at the moment. Every morning you are greeted with tonnes of seaweed deposited on the beech.
Depending where you are on the beach you have anything from a band 6 feet deep up to 20 feet all along the beach.

What I find most interesting is the hotels attitude to clearing the seaweed for their customers, we have seen everything from a JCB clearing the beach, digging a hole then burying the seaweed before levelling to some hotels doing nothing meaning holidaymakers having to cross up to 20 feet of seaweed to get into the sea.
Inbetween are the manual efforts of hotel employed gardeners raking up seaweed then bagging it, raking it up then forking into a JCB bucket to take away or being forked into wheelbarrows to be dumped into holes manually dug.

To those walking the beach their hard work is appreciated, it’s a shame some hotels don’t give a damn
Written 25 June 2019
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SILVERSURFERSUK
Lincoln, UK815 contributions
This Beach stretches the full length of the majority of hotels in this area
Jun 2019 • Couples
The Soft Sandy Beach runs the full length and joins the other beaches in this area of Punta Cana enabling all to experience all its features with palm trees along its entirety please note this is a Public beach and used by all.
Written 20 June 2019
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Tallian G
Austria1,013 contributions
At Grand Bahia Principe :)
Apr 2019 • Couples
This part of beautiful sand beach was our most valuable summerbeach ever. It was cleaned thoroughly day by day. And it was not depend of the weather, but this beach is so great as right now as well.
Written 18 June 2019
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Hayley G
Crewe, UK121 contributions
Absolutely Beautiful
May 2019 • Couples
Beautiful clear blue sea. A little rocky in parts but easy to find a part without. Plenty of sunbeds. Usual beach sellers around but in the 10 days we were there I can honestly say none of them pestered us. They were all very polite and just said hello as they were passing. We left our belongings at the beach when we went for a walk and it was always safe. Water is lovely and clean and not too cold. Would love to go back again.
Written 3 June 2019
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