Iberostar Costa Dorada

Enjoy Iberostar Costa Dorada's lush natural setting and award-winning beach along the unique Caribbean waters. This 5-star hotel offers endless activities for all members of the family, both within the resort and in the surrounding Caribbean town. Guests are sure to enjoy the hotel's wide array of facilities such as indoor pools, a fitness room, a tennis court, and much more.

Dive Overview

Get up close with the areas natural diversity, and enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime experience of diving in the crystal-clear waters of the Caribbean Sea. At the different dive sites, you will see magnificent coral formations, colorful marine life and may even encounter dolphins, sting-rays, nurse sharks and marine manatees.

[Read More: Dominican Republic Dive Travel Guide]

Accommodation Overview

Iberostar Costa Dorada offers guests a variety of accommodations tailor-fit to meet all their needs as they enjoy their Caribbean vacation. The Double room is perfect for those who want simple yet comfortable accommodations.The Double Pool View and Double Ocean View offer guests a mesmerizing view as well as close proximity to those parts of the hotel. For guests who want some extra space as well as a magnificent view, the Junior Suite Ocean Front is the accommodation. For guests traveling with family, the Family - Two Bedrooms offers 74m for the whole family and is perfect for traveling with kids.

Premium Room

Enjoy a comfortable room fitted with 1 king bed or 2 double beds, bathroom with shower, minibar, coffee maker, TV, and safe.

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$153 pp/pn

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Room price based on double occupancy

Food & Drinks

Iberostar Waves Costa Dorada offers all-inclusive dining with breakfast, lunch, and dinner served buffet-style in multiple restaurants. Guests can enjoy a mix of local Dominican and international cuisine, freshly prepared with diverse options for different tastes. Soft drinks, juices, coffee, and water are included with meals. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options are available, and special dietary requirements can be accommodated with advance notice. Guests may also enjoy a selection of included alcoholic beverages at the bars throughout the resort.

Dive Information

Scuba diving in the Dominican Republic can offer divers various exciting marine life encounters, deep wrecks, cavernous spaces and caves, stunning coral reefs, and even mangrove forests. Most of the dive sites are suitable for all levels of divers. The south coast with only mild currents is also a great place to try out scuba diving for the first time. Advanced divers can explore the deep wrecks and walls. The water temperatures stay warm throughout the year. The diving conditions depend on the seasons but always making one of the coasts diveable. Additionally, the country is not just a great dive destination but offers plenty of opportunities for snorkelers too.

Marine life & environment

The Dominican Republic offers a great variety of marine life. You will find different species of pelagic such as eagle rays, barracuda, nurse sharks, jacks, dolphins, and turtles. Numerous reef fish can be found swimming around the healthy reefs. The tropical waters are home to trumpet fish, butterflyfish, porcupine fish, parrotfish, clownfish, lionfish, angelfish, and many more. Around the coral reef, you can also see many sponges and sea urchins. If you are lucky, you can even spot some manatees.

Dive Center Information

Dressel Divers is the company chosen by the prestigious Iberostar Hotel chain for the last twenty years to run diving activities on the premise of its luxury hotels in the Caribbean, to ensure that this service has the same quality as the hotels. Dressel Divers have a dive center located directly on the beach of the Iberostar Costa Dorada.

Dive Center Features 

Dressel Divers has rental equipment that feels like it's every diver's own! The dive equipment is of premium quality, regularly maintained and replaced with new and innovative products over time. A wide variety of gear is offered so that persons of all statures and ages will find something that suits them.

The dive centers include state-of-the-art equipment rooms staffed by employees who wash, disinfect and store client's rental equipment. They also include a place to store personal dive equipment. Our cylinders, filling stations, and compressors are operated and maintained by well-trained qualified staff in strict compliance with the generally accepted industry standards and all instructions specific to the brands used.

The boats are exclusively designed and built for Dressel Diversunder the strict supervision of Javier Ibran, a lifelong diver and the company's founding President. Dive boats are tailored to provide ample space for equipment and clients, as well as an easy entry and exit into the water for divers.

Cylinders are provided on-board the boats, the majority of which are catamarans or trimarans (to limit movement due to waves and therefore seasickness).

Boats, furthermore, are equipped with a sunroof, fresh drinking water, a radio, a GPS device, oxygen, spare diving equipment, and everything else deemed mandatory by the United States Coast Guard. The engines, all top brands, are subject to ongoing monitoring and servicing by in-house mechanics. Boat captains, moreover, all have First Aid medical training. Last but not least, with very few exceptions all boats have double engines.

Almost all the staff obtained their professional diving qualifications with our own PADI Career Development Center.They are therefore trained within our own philosophy and in harmony with the objectives of Dressel Divers. They will give you not only a great dive but also a very safe one!