Originally Posted by
friedablass
That does sound like one fun adventure
. I very highly doubt that STR would currently allow guests to arrive or depart by anything other than the seaplane arranged by them. Although I always wonder what they would do if guests just pulled up to the dock on a boat they arranged on their own or through another resort, would they just not accept them 🤔? However, being that they contact guests prior to arrival to arrange the sea plane I'm guessing this wouldn't really be able to happen anyway because if you tell them in advance you're self arranging transfer they will respond that it's against policy and not allowed.
It costs them nothing to allow for private transfer, well apart of loosing some profit on the sea plane transfer. On the following trips I used their sea planes and I really liked the experience, with the welcome lounge in both directions and even managed to ride twice their Bentley. But if you want to do two resorts then it is a pain to have to pay for transfer two times. I understand that there will be new Edition hotel relativelly nearby St. Regis, it would be nice to be able to combine both hotels without having to connect in Male.