SECRETS CAP CANA All Inclusive 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic ❰ Resort Tour & Review ❱ BEST Beach in DR!

SECRETS CAP CANA All Inclusive 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic ❰ Resort Tour & Review ❱ BEST Beach in DR!

Secrets Cap Cana in many ways is the very 
definition of idyllic. The location and specifically that beach and the scale of 
it blew me away. The only major thing going against it is that the resort next door, owned 
by the same company for around the same price is better in too many ways to ignore.
By the way, did you know that the price that I paid for this specific stay- 
and any flight or hotel I review- is always listed in the description below?
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out my hundreds of videos, scan the QR code or Unlike most of my videos, there isn’t really any 
driving footage to lead into the arrival since I was arriving from the Hyatt Zilara just next door.
But then there’s also no walk through the lobby because if you take a look up there you’ll 
notice the lobby is naked at the moment. It was undergoing major renovations while I was here. I 
didn’t get any notification about this in advance, but I’ve seen online some people did- either way, 
it is now reopened so I’m not going to dwell on it- besides of course showing off this lovely 
arrival and departure point and the wedding tent that served as the temporary lobby bar.
My check in actually took place at the Preferred Club which gives you access to the preferred 
club lounge, which is tiny, the preferred club pool and the Rosewater restaurant.
But you’re here for views like this anyway, so, let’s get into the meat 
and potatoes of the review. Secrets Cap Cana opened in November 2016 and 
was at the time owned by Apple Leisure Group, the same owner as other brands such as Dreams 
and Breathless Resorts. Hyatt bought the group in 2021 and now Secrets is one of their 
adults only all inclusive brands, one of many. Secrets, it would seem, is being spun as a more 
romantic adults only option versus the, I don’t know, less romantic Hyatt Zilara? In my experience 
the biggest difference was the crowd and the food. The resort has 457 rooms, suites and villas and 
truly has one of the more interesting layouts that I’ve seen in a while. Housing rooms in small 
blocks spread across the property is nothing new, but here it just feels like there’s no dead space. 
There’s no weird corner that never gets sun, no areas which clearly aren’t first rate- all 
facilities are just really well integrated. I give the designers a lot of credit for that.
The resort has two primary pools, the one we are looking around now is the larger 
of the two and is open for all guests, the other which we’ll see in a bit is reserved 
for the Preferred Club guests, but in reality, no one was actually checking anything.
Here around the larger pool were a bunch of venues including a swim up bar, a regular bar and the 
Barefoot Grill which served up casual lunch fare. You know one of my deep loves in life 
are spotlessly clean lounger cushions so this place had me falling pretty 
hard pretty quickly. I’ll let you have a bit of a walk around before 
we take a look at where we are. can also help the channel continue to grow by 
liking this video and subscribing to the channel So Punta Cana is on the far east 
coast of the Dominican Republic. Cap Cana is the most exclusive enclave in the 
area- a gated community of sorts and one with enough natural beauty to deserve the designation.
Here you can see the resort, with Hyatt Ziva and Zilara just below it. Now, funny thing about this 
image is the beach, the beach is so large that it almost makes the resort look smaller. As you 
will very soon see, this is one of the if not the largest beach I’ve ever seen for a single resort.
In total, Secrets has just over 30000 square meters or 324k Square feet of sand. None of us 
know how big that is though, right? So let me put it in easier terms. The beach is as large 
as a FIFA standard soccer or football pitch. Oh wait no, I got that wrong, I meant 4 ¼ football 
fields. Four ¼ football fields for 457 rooms, those are numbers that are speaking my language.
This is Juanillo Beach and over the next couple of minutes as we tour this beach and all it has 
to offer, please just know that none of these clips are repeated and I did my best to make sure 
I’m not continuously showing you the same areas. If you like sun, if you like shade, if you like 
umbrellas or trees or a bar in the middle of the beach or a hammock or powder fine bright 
white sand. Well this is the beach for you. Now, keep in mind that this is the exact same 
beach as Hyatt Zilara and Ziva, but this one is simply larger on a per room basis and has more 
personality with the variety of trees and plants. With it’s 34000 square meters of beach, the 
combined Hyatt properties give each of their 700 rooms around 49sq meters of space. That a 
decent sized studio apartment. At Secrets, it’s 66 square meters per room or a decent sized one 
bedroom apartment. Do these numbers matter? No, not at all, but sometimes cameras don’t do locales 
justice so I figured those numbers would help things a bit. Like many beaches in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf 
of Mexico, seaweed can at times be a problem, but it was clearly taken care 
of on a daily basis here. At first glance, a lot of these swim up rooms 
or villas may not seem all of that private, but since everything is so spread 
out, they really are great options. Beach side near the primary pool there’s another 
bar. So that’s one bar on each side of this pool, plus the swim up bar, plus the bar in the 
middle of the beach. You won’t be thirsty. One of the restaurants open for lunch and dinner 
is Seaside Grill which also shares space, kinda, with Oceana which is just open for dinner. 
As with my last review, I’m not going to post menus because there are simply too many and 
it’s very easy to access them. Simply download the Hyatt Inclusive Collection app on your 
phone, with the icon you see here- it’s not the standard Hyatt app- and then you can access 
the resort and see every restaurant and menus, maps, activity calendars and a lot more.
Now we are on the north side of the resort, this is the Preferred Club area, with Rosewater, 
the preferred club restaurant in the middle. I had access to the Preferred Club due to 
Hyatt Globalist status. Globalists beware, access to the club could very well be the 
only benefit you have while here- not that it’s a bad thing, but just saying, don’t 
expect best available room upgrades. Even the cheapest rooms are considered junior 
suites and all rooms from pool view and higher have the “This is a standard suite” 
line written into the room description. Let me talk a bit about crowds for a 
moment. This is not meant to offend- don’t come at me- but my eyes told me that 
the crowd here skews a bit older than Zilara and perhaps slightly more suburban. Suburban 
is not a bad thing, just saying what I saw. I had lunch at Rosewater and 
frankly it was wholly disappointing. I started off with the chilled 
melon soup with ham. I mean, it was certainly chilled. It was certainly 
melon and the was a micro dusting of bacon bits, but it wasn’t more than that. I did honestly 
think it was just blended up cantaloupe with zero additions or seasoning. 2/10
For the main dish, yes this is written as a main course, I had the Caramelized Scallops 
with roasted red peppers and creamy avocado. Let’s move past the artwork and just focus on the 
scallops which were so overcooked they were almost crunchy like way overcooked prawns. Another 
2/10. Not a great start on the food front. Let’s get back on a more positive 
track and go visit my room. I booked the standard king room was was upgraded 
to the Preferred Club Pool View Junior Suite. They are obviously fast and loose 
with the suite terminology but that seems to be the trend du jour.
The room itself though I did really like. I thought it was a nice 
balance of form and function. I’ll give you a look around 
as I put up the extra bits. The mini bar is inclusive 
and restocked once a day. Let me talk a bit about service. It wasn’t what 
I was expecting. The exception to this were the staff inside the Preferred Club Lounge and 
my server at dinner. Everyone else was either ironically in a rush or couldn’t be bothered. My 
butler, as you may have while here for example. When he was bringing me to my room and showing 
me around he was speaking so fast that he would ask questions and he would start speaking 
again before I finished my answers. I can understand they might have a steep work load, 
but I can assure you most guests would rather just see themselves to their room than to feel 
like you’re taking up someone’s precious time. The other side of the spectrum where most 
service staff fell was just a lot of immaturity, both in actions- screaming across the pool to 
one another, for example- and in experience, not understanding how to keep track 
of guests at a not busy at all bar. If this was a $300 per night resort, nearly none 
of these comments would apply. But I paid around $500 and depending on the season you can 
easily see standard rooms for $1000 per night. They need to do better with service.
The bathrooms were a nice size with some Ian Schreager vibes and featured Le 
Labo products, which were much appreciated. Last but not least, the balcony 
overlooking the pool with a smidge of ocean view. Considering this is 
a resort geared towards romance, I do think the dividers between 
balconies could be a bit more private. Ok, let’s go check out some of 
the options for dinner- many of the a la carte restaurants are in a 
row at the base of the lobby area. First up we have El Patio, 
where you’ll find Mexican fare. Portofino has you covered if 
you’re looking for Italian. Himitsu is your choice for Teppinyaki. Last up, we have Bordeaux which is the 
French Restaruant and where I had dinner. The service was very good, perhaps 
a bit over the top but good. I started out with the Onion Soup. It was a bit 
disappointing. When I have French Onion Soup, I want my mouth to burn for days. In this case, 
it was a crouton with broiled cheese placed on top of not that hot onion soup. 5/10.
For the main dish, they fully redeemed themselves with the Confit beef rib served 
with mushroom and onion tempura risotto. Tempura covered in sauce kind of defeats the 
purpose, but otherwise, this was a rich and flavorful as you could possibly expect, I 
just wish there was a bit more of it. 9/10. Last up, the Chocolate Fondant simply because 
the dessert menu was very basic. It was okay, but nothing over the top and the lumpy 
creme anglaise wasn’t too appealing, 6/10. Sorry, sunlight, but I just wanted to be able 
to show you the theater before any shows. The next morning I headed to Coco Cafe as 
I was waiting for the Market Cafe buffet to open. This is a temporary location for Coco 
Cafe, it is not in the lobby as it should be. Market Cafe was a nice venue 
with a nice selection on offer. Their fruit selection in particular was 
fantastic. I’ve never seen Passion Fruit, Granadillo and Sugarcane all on the same 
buffet before. Bravo for keeping it local. I also liked that they devoted an 
entire corner of the buffet to that leg. The selection of hot dishes on offer was almost 
endless and I love how many local dishes they had as well- I just wish things were actually hot.
I think the quality and spread on offer is a seven but the fact that so much of it wasn’t 
heated properly means we will settle for a six. I should mention I tried to visit the 
gym which was just around the corner from my room multiple times but it was always 
busy, so we will settle for this quick photo. Overall, this is a stunning resort and if 
it wasn’t all inclusive- for a lower price of course- I likely would have scored it higher. 
But food is such an important piece of the puzzle when choosing the correct all inclusive resort. 
Online there are endless forums and articles about which to choose, Secrets or Zilara when 
visiting Cap Cana. There was no definitive answer and that’s why I decided to visit both.
The styles of the resort itself between the two are very different. Zilara is more modern, Secrets 
more hacienda- I like both with a slight edge towards Secrets for it’s fantastic layout. Secrets 
also takes the cake for the beach for just the scale of it. But fact of the matter is, Zilara 
is just next door and still has a massive chunk of it all things considered. So let’s say 
for design and locale, Secrets has the edge. The breakfast buffets at both were comparable. 
But when it comes to lunch venues and service, Zilara wins hands down. So overall, Zilara would 
be my choice, but I can definitely see why someone would still choose- and have a great time at- 
Secrets after watching both of these videos. So I really do hope you enjoyed 
this resort tour today. If you did, most surprising flight of the year on Iberia. 
As always, thanks for watching until the end.

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↪ Video Chapters ↩
0:00 Resort Preview & Arrival
01:45 Primary Pool Area
05:14 Location & Beach
10:50 Preferred Club Pool
13:07 Full Junior Suite Tour
17:15 Dinner Options
20:02 Breakfast Buffet
24:00 The Flip Flop Score

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