Villa Yellow Bear
Description
The air becomes calm, salted, and leisurely as you pass the palm trees of PUNTACANA RESORT & CLUB. Then, Villa Yellow Bear emerges, glowing against a sweeping expanse of private gardens and a fairway.
The house immediately establishes its tone as soon as you walk through the high-ceilinged foyer: a great room that combines art-nouveau silhouettes with easy Caribbean textures and opens wide to an evergreen lawn; modern, sober lines warmed by colorful art; an avant-garde chandelier catching the light. A large dining area to the right leads to a chef’s kitchen designed for actual cooking, complete with long countertops, serious refrigeration, and a central island with burners where breakfast chats take place before the day fades outside.
Travelers envision this type of address when they think of the best Punta Cana villas: sophisticated without being pretentious, minimalist without being cold, and designed for long, leisurely days that alternate between the sea, pool, and shade.
Outside, a long, deep gallery serves as your second living room and is open all day. Coffee is served under the palapa in the mornings as the garden awakens; midday is spent in the pool washing off the beach and the golf course breeze; and evenings are spent at the alfresco table as the sky turns from gold to indigo and the fairway becomes silent.
Glass opens, fans agitate the air, and the music shifts back to palms and water, suggesting that the boundary between inside and outside is a suggestion rather than a wall. The house offers areas for a book, a phone call, or a quiet glass after dark, as well as spaces for a larger group to enjoy the moment without disturbing one another’s rhythm.
Suites designed for true rest are where people sleep. A king-bed bedroom on the ground floor has access to the pool terrace, a spa-bright bath, and a walk-in closet; two adjacent guest rooms with two queens and en-suite bathrooms provide space for couples and older children. A large primary suite with a king bed, a walk-in closet, and a calm bathroom is located upstairs. The six-bedroom layout is completed by a fifth bedroom with two queen beds and another king suite.
Closets suck luggage so the rooms feel like yours by day two; international cable and Smart TVs behave and then disappear behind the gentle silence of the garden; and ceiling fans and quiet climate control work together throughout the villa. The house appears minimalist in photographs, but when viewed in person, it feels cozy and livable—every room has flattering light, textures that are chosen for touch, and artwork at eye level.
Villa Yellow Bear’s ability to seamlessly blend sanctuary and coastline is what makes it stand out. Golfers split their mornings between Tom Fazio’s PGA-hosted Corales and P.B. Dye’s oceanfront La Cana; the Six Senses Spa adds hydrotherapy circuits and leisurely rituals to slow afternoons; tennis, padel, pickleball, sailing, windsurfing, kites, snorkeling, and scuba all take advantage of the afternoon breeze; and La Cana Beach Club, which offers calm, swimmable water and seaside lunches, is just a short drive away by golf cart.
In order to make arrival feel like the continuation of a plan rather than the beginning of logistics, concierge coordination can pre-stock groceries, set up golf carts, organize chef nights, reef guides, horseback rides, or a celebration under the palapa.
Three simple pleasures that fit the rhythm of the villa are: a swim and espresso at La Cana Beach Club in the morning before the shoreline wakes up; a freshwater plunge and shaded walk in the spring-fed lagoons at Ojos Indígenas; and a golden-hour nine at La Cana followed by a barefoot dinner on the sand of Playa Blanca.
Realistic and door-to-door travel times and distances: The average travel time from Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ) to Villa Yellow Bear is 8–12 minutes during off-peak hours and 12–18 minutes during peak hours. About five to ten minutes by golf cart are La Cana Beach Club and Golf; eight to twelve minutes by cart are Playa Blanca; ten to fifteen minutes are Corales Golf Course; seven to twelve minutes are the Oscar de la Renta Tennis Center; eight to twelve minutes by car is PUNTACANA Village, which has a full-service supermarket, pharmacy, ATM, cafés, and boutiques; and twelve to eighteen minutes is BlueMall Puntacana.
Place the house in the Hacienda/Arrecife belt close to La Cana on the southeast coast of the resort, roughly at 18.51° N, 68.38° W, for map orientation. The last one to two kilometers are level, well-kept estate lanes that are suitable for all vehicle classes; the approach roads are completely paved.
By design, arrival and logistics are straightforward: fly into PUJ, board a private SUV or resort shuttle for a brief, signed transfer, and check into the villa while your concierge (if requested) arranges golf carts, menus, spa hours, and a first beach setup. An SUV works well for grocery runs or village off-property evenings, while a golf cart is the convenient mode of transportation for beaches, golf, spas, and dinners on a daily basis.
Villa Yellow Bear’s gallery-cool, pop-art-kissed minimalism, family-first six-suite layout, and deep, palapa-framed outdoor gallery are what set it apart from other Punta Cana villas. It offers contemporary design, genuine golf-view tranquility, and celebration-ready living that is hard to find in the area.
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Payment Policy: 50% is due upon booking and the remaining 50% is due 60 days prior to the travel date.
