The 40-room hotel featuring a central courtyard with pool serves as a sort of annex to the 500-room Barcelo Capella Beach Resort across the street, to which guests have full access, and where they take their All-Inclusive plan meals. http://www.caribbeanmag.com/search/hotels/Dominican_Republic/barcelo_colonia/hotel/1820/22/ en-us Copyright 1998 e-TravelMedia.com/CaribbeanMag.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:04:27 EST The Barceló Colonia Tropical is a small colonial-style hotel with 40 spacious rooms and suites located just a few meters away from the beach, in the Dominican Republic. Amenity highlights: A 15-m (50-ft), irregularly shaped pool and six-person spa tub lie within this hotel's courtyard. Other recreation facilities/equipment are located across the street in a companion property, Barcelo Capella Beach Resort, which has two pools with swim-up bars and a children's pool. This hotel's guests access the beach through Barcelo Capella and have use of a variety of water-sports equipment there. The hotel offers 40 spacious, high-ceilinged, air-conditioned guestrooms in six two- and three-story buildings (no elevators) arrayed around a central courtyard. Rooms include furnished balconies or ground-floor terraces with street or courtyard views, wet bars and refrigerators, safes, and 19-inch televisions offering U.S./European cable channels. Decor and furnishings include rattan furniture, dining sets, tile floors, and tile bathrooms with shower/tub combinations. 40 Rooms (21 Studios, 8 Superior Studio and 11 Standard Double). Each of them features: * Internet Connection * Terrace or Balcony * Air Conditioning * Telephone * TV-SAT * Fridge* * Minibar * Shower * Hairdryer * Coffee Making Facilities * Radio * Kitchenete* * Safe * Fridge: not available in Standard Double * Kitchenette: not available in Standard Double Across a narrow street, Barcelo Capella Beach Resort, to which guests of this hotel have full access, includes an air-conditioned slot-machine room open from late afternoon to early morning, flamingo ponds, and dense gardens. Barcelo Capella Beach Resort also includes a massage/beauty salon (surcharges), an air-conditioned fitness center, and a children's club. Separated by a little garden waterfall, a 15-m (50-ft), irregularly shaped pool and six-person spa tub lie within this hotel's central flagstone courtyard, which is furnished with cushioned lounge chairs. All other recreation facilities and equipment available to hotel guests are located across the street in a companion property, Barcelo Capella Beach Resort, to which hotel guests have full access as part of the All-Inclusive plan. Barcelo Capella includes two bi-level, irregularly shaped pools (one in a garden, the other near the beach) with swim-up bars and a 3.75-m (12-ft) children's pool. The garden pool's upper section measures 12m (40 ft) wide and the lower 32m (105 ft) long, with a 4.5m (15-ft) water slide between them. The beachfront pool's upper section measures 15m (50 ft) wide and the lower 12m (40 ft) wide. This hotel's guests do not have direct access to the beach but must walk through Barcelo Capella. That resort's Caribbean Sea beach frontage extends 400m (437 yds), with rocks lining the beach's center and sand access at both ends. Coral heads and reefs lie close to shore for snorkeling. Barcelo Capella supplies snorkeling gear, windsurfers, kayaks, small sailboats, and pedal boats as part of this hotel's All-Inclusive plan. Land sports at Barcelo Capella available to this hotel's guests as part of the All-Inclusive plan include miniature golf, tennis (surcharges for play under lights), and volleyball. The majority of meals and beverages, plus all gratuities, at the following restaurants, snack spots, and bars at this hotel and a companion property, Barcelo Capella Beach Resort (across the street) are included in the room rate for this resort. El Batey de la Costa - Open-air poolside restaurant with high ceilings, thatched roofs serving breakfast, lunch, themed-dinner buffets. Afternoon snack foods such as hamburgers, hot dogs. El Pescador - Open-air beachfront restaurant with high ceilings, thatched roofs serving breakfast, lunch, themed-dinner buffets. Late-night snack foods such as hamburgers, hot dogs. Las Olas Grill - Open-air restaurant serving à la carte lunch, dinner. (Lobster, shrimp, fine cuts of meat available for surcharges.) Dinner reservation required. Dinner dress code: long pants, sleeved shirts for men. Open late night for disco dancing on two levels, one under thatched roof and the other on wood deck overlooking sea. Bohío Dominicano - Open-air restaurant serving à la carte dinner. (Lobster with creole sauce available for surcharge.) Reservation required. Dinner dress code: long pants, sleeved shirts for men Las Palmeras - Open-air dining room and street and pool terrace tables located at this hotel. À la carte breakfast as part of All-Inclusive plan. À la carte lunch and dinner not part of All-Inclusive plan. Chez Fontaine - (Note: Meals here are not part of the All-Inclusive plan.) Intimate, candlelit restaurant offering à la carte choices such as crab gratinéed in the shell and lobster prepared various ways. Type: All Inclusive No. of Rooms: 40 Beach Location: Beach Front (Directly on Beach/Water Front) http://www.caribbeanmag.com/search/hotels/Dominican_Republic/barcelo_colonia/hotel/1820/22/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:04:27 EST