The Caribbean's Most Expensive Resort Just Opened — and It's Unlike Anything the Region Has Seen
Moon Palace The Grand Punta Cana debuts with 2,171 rooms, a $1.5 billion price tag, and two 18-story towers that dwarf everything else in the Dominican Republic.
Palace Resorts has officially opened Moon Palace The Grand in Punta Cana, and the numbers alone tell you this isn't a typical Caribbean all-inclusive. The $1.5 billion property features 2,171 rooms spread across two 18-story towers — a dramatic departure from the low-rise resorts that define the Dominican Republic's hotel landscape.
About two-thirds of those rooms face the ocean directly, giving the resort the highest concentration of oceanfront accommodations in the country's history. The property sits on a 297-acre beachfront site in the Bávaro area and preserves over 228,000 square meters of natural vegetation, including nearly 400 meters of coastal mangrove.
What's Inside
The resort packs in 19 restaurants, eight snack venues, eight bars, an expansive water park, nine outdoor pools, and what Palace Resorts is calling the largest spa in the Dominican Republic. There's also an 18-hole Greg Norman Eco Signature Design golf course on the grounds.
For Palace Resorts, this is a major expansion beyond its established base in Cancun, where sister properties Moon Palace Cancun and Moon Palace The Grand Cancun have long anchored the brand. The Punta Cana property signals Palace's ambitions to compete head-to-head with the wave of new all-inclusives flooding the Dominican Republic from brands like Hyatt Ziva and Secrets.
One sustainability detail worth noting: from 2027 onward, the entire resort will run on renewable energy — solar by day, wind by night. For a property this size, that's a significant commitment.
