Originally Posted by gores95
Hello. I just booked a premium oceanview 2 double bed room at the Marriott this April for 5 nights. Booked "Total Escape Package" which includes 3 daily meals and drinks all day (alcoholic & non-alcoholic) for my wife, myself and my two daughters (6 & 2). It looks like the Kids Club is also included. I am paying $389 a night which includes taxes, service charges and gratuities.
Providing we don't mind eating all (most) of our meals at the hotel (which we do not mind) does this rate sound almost to good to be true? Does anyone have any info on this package? Also there were no King rooms available when we called but we can request one at check-in. Do these rooms have pull out sofas?
Also can we use the JW Marriott pool & facilities next door as well? Any other info you can share regarding this resort would be appreciated. Lots of questions never been to this hotel but it looks great!
Thanks,
Marc
Don't know if I can really tell you whether the package is a good deal or not, but this is what my wife and I did.
We (my wife and I) booked there for $99 dollars a night last year for the last week of April/first week of May (was a prepay rate through Marriott.com). We took a bundle of $100 bonus bucks which paid for the majority of our food (bought off ebay for $20 each). They allowed us to use 5 bonus bucks instead of the four we should have been able to use. You can charge stuff to your room from the JW and have them covered by bonus bucks.
We spent 8 nights there and our total including hotel was about $1100--not bad for eight nights and a lot of expensive hotel food. The restaurants there and at the JW are all pretty good. There were several nights that our dinner alone cost us $100 for the two of us (at the two nicer place...an argentinian steakhouse and some place at the JW). And we don't drink anything alcoholic, so your dinners would probably be more expensive.
Hope this helps. If you have any other questions, ask. This is a great property with great staff. Tip the housemaids everyday and they will keep your room sparkling and leave you some extras (some chocolates, or do your towels up into animal shapes, etc.)