Excellent staff secure location by the action and reasonable price.
great hotel ..no complaints.cinder block walls keeps room cool.great a/c and ceiling fan. excellent service and location. you cant go wrong here
good place to stay. clean and friendly.
Decent location. Good management. Relatively high priced for location and what's provided.
Clean, convenient and short walk to the beach.
Clean room and pretty quiet. Short walk to the beach. Even has hot water. I would stay here again.
Clean, safe, great location, great staff - minutes from the beach, waterfront restaurants and souvenir shops
Best for your moneyexcellent condition
I stay for 3 days in that hotel. It was a great experience, they came daily cleaning the room, bathroom was clean room was nice and had a refrigerator inside.
Nice budget hotel near the beach. Safe location
I am an American, fluent in Spanish who has been either living in or visiting the Dominican Republic for 43 years. I import hand-made rocking chairs. Very many of the reviews for the Garant are excellent, but keep in mind that this is a 2½ star hotel and it is being rated in that context. I rated the Garant as excellent in overall experience, hotel service, hotel condition, room cleanliness and room comfort. There is a clean, small pool, but we never saw anyone using it. There are also a couple of exercise machines.
The Garant is a no frills hotel. It offers very little in the way of services. The rooms did have new 32" flat screen TVs. Many international cable channels were available.
The neighborhood I rated as 2 out of 5. If you leave out the middle and upper classes, it is very typical Dominican neighborhood. It is a bit dirty, broken sidewalks, etc. My sister accompanpied me on this trip and we never felt in danger or afraid. Pretty much all of Boca Chica is the same. Boca Chica a a beach for the common person in the D.R. But if you like a beach with sand as fine as sugar and as calm as a swinning pool (and I do), Boca Chica is super.
The hotel restuarant only serves a limited breakfast. There are good restantants on the water like Neptuno's and the Boca Marina that are within walking or short taxi distance.
The rooms are spotlessly clean and large with a standard size refrigerator in each room. The bath is a separate room. I have usually three minimum requirements for a Dominican hotel, clean, air conditioning and hot water. The Garant failed in one of these-air conditioning. Our rooms were not air conditioned, but the hotel does have other rooms with it. The water temperature in the shower varied, but always was warm enough and it was often so hot that I had to add some of the cold water. Now about the air conditioning: Every other hotel room that I have stayed in while in the D.R., the first thing I do when returning to my room is turn on the air conditioning, however it really was not necessary. We both used the fan set on the 2nd speed of 5 possible. It was fine with out air conditioning. I was quite surprised! The country is so humid I don't actually understand why the fan was enough, but it was.
The hotel was hard to find because many locals don't know it. We did do the Saona Island tour (just fabulous) and the tour operator knew it well. Here are some directions to find the hotel easily. (If you get lost, ask where the Hotel Hamaca is and you are no more than 600-700 feet {200-230 meters} away.)If you are renting a car at Las Americas airport, turn right when you get out to thehighway RD3. There are on the highway two Shell gas stations, both on the right side. At the second Shell station turn right. There is a Burger King beside the Shell on the same side of the street. At the fifth intersection turn right. There a white palace on the left that occupies half of the first block then on the right side of the street in the second block is a school surrounded by a wall. Turn left onto Calle Sanchez across from the middle of the school property. It is the second building on the left in the middle of the block.