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Old Feb 10, 2010, 6:49 am
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vuittonsofstyle
 
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Originally Posted by deer
Stayed at Amanpulo.

Loved the island, the facitlities, the service, the individual buggy, the water and the underwater. Fabolous, uncompareable!!!

The only thing we really did not like was the food:
Only the little vietnamese restaurant on the airport side was good.
The other outlets were visually romantic, but foodwise very mediocre indeed - no refined tastes, you feel that everything comes out of the freezer, much items overoiled...

And the prices for fresh fish courses (Hello, we are on an island!!!) were absolutely absurd (around 80 USD for a ordinary grouper-maincourse, around 120 USD for a lobster main course). Did not experience such disaster in all the other Amans we stayed.

So Amanpulo is maybe the best beach resort in the world - beach, building and servicewise. But they really have to change their master chef, their food concept and their fresh-food-pricing!!!
Sad to hear about the food. Joint GM, Christine Juett has been an Aman F&B person for many years and normally ensures a really good experience. No idea what has happened here. Food was certainly not frozen when I was last there - very fresh, in fact. Did you let them know?
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