Hotel Zapata is a "Home away, from home...On the beach" (Oct.,2010, Lyfsguds, Tripadviosr.com) The staff is very helpful and service oriented. Our staff does a wonderful job at making you feel like one of the family, yet keeping a great balance between professionalism and a familiar

atmosphere. "This hotel is well-maintained and professionally run."

(Dec. 2010, doug0077, Tripadvisor.com) "The confidence of a family, the professionalism of a great hotel" (Nov., 2010, AntoeCle, Tripadvisor.com) "The staff and owners are very warm and friendly. They have a way of making you feel that you are coming home to visit your family." (Oct, 2010,Wayfayer, Tripadvisor.com) Hotel Zapata is dedicated to offering a home oriented atmosphere. In Hotel Zapata we are all family, and when serving our customers we treat them as family members as well.

Hotel Zapata has outstanding service! At Hotel Zapata our number one priority is serving our customers, by personalizing our service to the guest's needs. We understand that people have different needs and we try our best to accommodate those individual needs. As long as it is something we can do, you will get it. Our personalized service goes as far as allowing guest to order food out of the menu.

If we can cook it, than you are eating it! "The rooms are clean, drinks come strong and the food is wonderful just be careful of Marta's HOT sauce." (Oct.2010, JERSEYBOYZ, Tripadvisor.com) "The staff is Amazing; they are attentive to your every need." (Dec. 2010, B. Alexander, Tripadvisor.com) If there is something that we don't have in storage we will buy it exclusively for you! "they were attentive and accommodating to each and every special need." (Dec. 2010, knightriderNYC, tripadvisor.com)

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Boca Chica Beach

The Dominican Republic’s Boca Chica Beach is truly unique.·Lined with hotels, all-inclusive resorts, shops, restaurants, bars and cafeterias, its waters form a cove approximately 1 mile wide.· About 1/4 mile out, is a reef in the shape of a giant semi-circle that extends from end to end and just protrudes beyond the water's surface. The reef completely surrounds the cove, forming a giant natural salt-water swimming pool with depths averaging 3-4 feet.· Nevertheless, the reef has two openings: on the East side is the Boca (mouth) of Boca Chica where the cove waters meet the deep blue sea. This is where the water enters. The current flows from East to West. The west side is where the two yacht Clubs are located, also where the reef parts to enter the Caribbean Sea. The reef acts as a natural water break to the Caribbean Sea, so the cove is usually glass calm.· Inside the reef, the water is crystal clear, continuously filtered and fed by a series of natural underground springs.··It is this "swimming pool in the sea" that provides some very beautiful and distinct views because you have the deep azure blue of the Caribbean beyond the reef, contrasting with the shallow bay, which varies between a deep sky-blue and an intense blue-green, depending on the angle of the sun.”

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The water starts at the beach about ankle deep and reaches a depth of just few feet about 100 yards out, with nothing but smooth clean sand underfoot.· As one approaches the middle of the cove, there may be a short distance of 10 yards or so where the water depth reaches 6 feet but it quickly returns to just a few feet in depth and slowly shallows again until it is again ankle deep as one approaches the natural reef.

This naturally calm, clear, and shallow water makes it ideal for all sorts of water sports and swimming.· It is great for paddle boats, kayaks, water skiing and banana boat rides. Jet skis are restricted to the far end of the beach, away from the hotels and swimmers.· It is especially good and safe for small children.· The sand along the shore varies in appearance from a light colored tan to white, depending on the angle of the sun.· It is flat for easy walking and the beach varies from 40 to 100 yards wide.· One can easily find room on the beach to throw a Frisbee around any day of the week, any time of the day. There is lots of open space.

On Sundays, the Boca Chica is busier, as many Dominican families come from Santo Domingo to enjoy the beach, but by Monday morning the beach is empty and cleaned of any debris left from the Sunday crowds.· The rest of the week is generally quiet until Saturday, when the beach does see more visitors.

 This small coastal town boasts the largest natural, calm, crystal clear reef-protected bay in the Caribbean. Hotel Zapata sits directly on the wonderful white sandy beaches of Boca Chica and the glistening turquoise waters of the Caribbean. A small, quiet, family owned hotel, the Zapata is world renowned as one of the best Value Holidays in the Caribbean!

Our hotel is equipped with 22 well-furnished, air-conditioned, cable TV rooms. All of them are outfitted with their own security deposit box, some with balconies some without. The rooms are divided into seven categories:

Main Building: 1) Two Bedroom Apartment, 2) Studio Suite, 3) Standard Beach Front, 4) Standard Two Single, 5) Standard double & single, 6) Standard Double and, Beachside Building: 7) Beachside Suite

The restaurant specializes in typical Dominican Creole cuisine as well as numerous sea foods. For those who are tired of being constrained to eating indoors because of bad weather, this restaurant offers you the chance to sample its specialties and other International dishes, served in a relaxed outdoor atmosphere; where you can literally hand feed the local birds.

On the property right before the actual beach there is a typical palm leaf roof bar, where most guests relax sipping on tropical cocktails before and after enjoying the water or just sunbathing on the sand. In the vicinity of the bar there are several natural palm leaf umbrellas with numerous lounge chairs for sun tanning and stress releasing. Professional beach masseuses make their rounds in this area.

A Barbecue Grill is available for any private barbecues or activities that our guests may be interested in. This can be arranged and serviced by our Hotel Zapata attendant or the guest could also use it as a self serve option. For our fit conscious guests looking to stay toned while on vacation, the Zapata offers Hatha Yoga, focusing more the physical and body strengthening attributes of the exercise. For a schedule of classes, click here.