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Apr 9, 2022 | 6:19 am

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Originally Posted by rvlcr

hi - can someone who has been to both waldorf + a natural island please comment on just how bad the sand quality is at waldorf?

are there any areas where the resorts has made an effort to make it soft? how is it by the ocean entrance?

im just hoping it doesn’t feel like walking on concrete. the pictures don’t really look amazing and it does look very grainy and very hard, but i haven’t read too much on this anywhere…

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Originally Posted by jphripjah

I've been to CMRI 3 times and WA once.

I didn't notice anything unusual about the WA sand or observe that it felt like walking on concrete.

But I'm probably a "sand is sand" kind of guy.

My comparison would be WA vs St R, and I'd say pretty much same same. Truth is probably that the beaches at most newer resorts are highly engineered whether there was an island there to begin with or not. I did find the WA beaches fairly nice, but I am probably pretty low maintenance on the topic....

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