Originally Posted by platbrownguy

Currently here, arrived 2 days ago for a 9-night stay with wife and 22-month-old kid. I haven't seen any mosquitos, but a little girl at breakfast yesterday was covered in bites so they must be somewhere (or maybe she went galumphing in the woods at dusk).

Hard product is still fabulous. We are staying on points and were upgraded to a Beach Pool Villa--incidentally the same one we had in 2018, which I loved and still love. Plenty of beach between us and the water. Sand is like cotton candy, water like a postcard, reef is healthy.

Our butler is a little invisible but still responsive on WhatsApp and that's good enough for me. They proactively brought stuff like baby slippers and a bag full of toys for playing in the sand. Butler said the kids activities tend to be for older kids (scavenger hunt, cooking class, etc.) but he'd try to set up an ice cream tasting. We don't really need it: mornings are for ocean and sandcastles, afternoons are for glass bottom kayak or our plunge pool. Everyone is adoring as can be to our kid and he loves it. There certainly aren't many babies that come here, and no others are here now; a few families have some kids in the ~4-14 range but mostly it's just couples, very peaceful.

Manager's reception is no more. Globalist happy hour is still a thing. Waiting to see if there's still a 15% discount on cocktails, I'll report back.

The only negative is the food quality, outside of breakfast, seems lower than what we're accustomed to. The prices are oppressive, definitely way up from before (chicken club sandwich on the room service menu is $47++, so $59.97 after tax and service), and the quality just isn't there... the "brioche" looks like simple white bread, for instance, the chicken is overcooked. The small portion of accompanying fries seemed like CostCo frozen at best. It's something I would be offended to receive for $12 in the US, although I recognize that's a poor metric. Tuna curry ($53++) was a tiny portion and the tuna tasted quite fishy. Tuna mashuni seems to be missing the usual coconut. There are some really good items (everything at breakfast but the steak so far has been great, and the roasted beet salad was 5 star), so we'll keep eating big breakfasts, but overall the lunch and dinner menu is not aspirational. And I wouldn't mind the prices if the quality were better (at least it encourages us to share dishes, which is good for the waist line).

Happy to answer any other questions, though I have mostly been hiding my phone away while here!

Current view of the arrival jetty, no filter: