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So I’ve been doing some digging into this as well. We haven’t gone there yet but very interested. I’ve sent emails to the resort and reached out to some previous guests. So far I’ve found out it’s basically all-inclusive except the lobster and fancy steak dinners and fancy specialty drinks. Those excluded seem to be menu items that exceed $30. Some guests say they paid $10 upgrade to get those meals. No biggie. This sounds reasonable since many other all inclusive resorts charge extra for lobster. You get regular bar mix drinks and they use their standard brands. I checked out the bar list and it’s quite good even their low end stuff. Their house wine you get is around $20 a bottle at the LCBO. Not bad! They limit the specialty cocktails so you would have to pay for those but how many would you actually drink of the sweet drinks anyways….they didn’t look expensive. Buffet breakfast is included plus there are 3 menu lunch/dinner restaurant choices and their menus look good. All have the choice of indoor dining or outdoor patios which is nice. Just google Buenaventura Resort Panama menus. We’ve been to another resort Camino Real in Huatulco and it was the same set up. I find resorts that have part all inclusive guests and part paying customers for food and beverage in general are better quality. Like the kind of real drink you’d get if you went off resort. Also, I found out you don’t have to pay extra to use their private cabana shaded areas around their pools. Unless you’re paying preferred or VIP or extra $ most resorts don’t offer these for free. This is a big bonus for us. Hope this help. If you do end up going before us….come back and answer some questions since it seems not many people answer questions on here. I know many guests don’t speak English so that may be the issue with a lack of response to questions.