Keep your valuables in your carry on when you leave Punta Cana, that is if you want to keep them. My fault for having faith in people.

Within a few short minutes of our hotel bus's arrival at the Punta Cana airport, our luggage was unloaded and placed neatly on the sidewalk, next to the bus. A porter politely asked us which airline we were travelling on (Air Transat) carefully placed our luggage on a handcart and then quickly disappeared in the absolute chaos of thousands of other travellers waiting in the 10-12 lines for all the flights that were also scheduled to leave within the same hour. I immediately contacted the airport's security and told them that our luggage was taken by a porter. About 20 minutes later, they found this uniformed porter rifling through our luggage in a bathroom stall. We were concerned not only with what he may have taken FROM our luggage, but also what he may have put INTO our luggage for us to perhaps smuggle for him. For this reason, I STRONGLY urge all travellers NEVER to lose sight of their luggage in this or any airport in any city.

I had my laptop stolen out of my suitcase after it was checked at the desk. It is amazing it lasted a week at a resort where they warn you on the staff yet when it arrives at a secure airport it is stolen out of a locked suitcase. Another passenger made it through security with a pocket full of change and 2 lighters, 1 was metal.

Terrible. Horrible. The worst airport I have ever been to.Thatched Roof. I went there, and I was in
gate 7. We had to walk half a mile to get to our plane and we could of been at gate 4 because the
others were empty.

Pretty sure our bag was stolen at PUJ upon arrival, no one told us where to pick up our bags from 7 baggage claim areas, complete madness and confusion for all the travellers. Filled out a baggage claim report and no one has been able to track it since. Most certainly partly Air Canada´s fault but how does a tracked bag just disappear? Very unhelpful airport staff.