We just finished a week-long stay at the W. Couple of comments:

- eating and drinking was surprisingly... well not cheap, but not really much more expensive then going out in our home town. Lots of promos and discounts every night, two for one drinks every nite, -25% for all food. we ate and drank in the restaurants every nite and spent around 1000 usd between the two of us in a week, including breakfast buffet every morning. Then again we’re not big drinkers nor eaters.

- what was annoying was that the service was bit of a mess. I think we got the correct restaurant bill once or twice during the whole week! We had a confirmed reservation to Fire restaurant for my wife’s birthday evening but nobody remembered to tell us that Fire was closed that evening. I guess I should have studied the restaurant schedule myself.

- the snorkeling and the house reef is amazing. We saw tens of rays in all colors and sizes, half a dozen turtles, octopus, lots of sharks in many sizes and of course more fish you can shake a stick at. There are more alive corals than at Conrad, for example.

We had a great time, all and all.