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Marriott Grande Vista
Marriott Harbour Lake
Sheraton Vistana Villages
Club Wyndham CWA
I will be sure to write a TUG review and also post some videos from the resort. We checked in this afternoon after a long day of traveling. Getting up at 4:00am was rough, but we got to Barbados by 3:00pm. Picking up our rental car was a fairly long process and driving to the resort was a little harrowing. DW does the driving and in Barbados they drive on the left with the steering wheel on the right. We got lost and drove the wrong way and missed our resort, after we turned around and got back on the right path, it wasn't too hard to find.
Checkin was pretty painless. They take you to the lounge/bar area abnd bring everything to you. THey also bring you cold towels and a welcome beverage. So that was a nice touch.
The room is pretty good, but first impressions were not the best. The washer and dryer unit in the room is "out of order". That is a HUGE downer. We called and they don't have any units that they could have moved us to today, but will check to see if we can be moved tomorrow. They will do your laundry complementary, but we don't really want someone else doing our laundry and washing/exchanging towels becomes a challenge also. We will see what they have tomorrow morning. It just means we can't unpack much of anything in the hopes that they can move us.
We walked up toward St Lawrence Gap for dinner and had a pretty good meal at Pronto. So far, Barbados isn't quite what we expected. The ocean on the south coast is brown from sea weed. Something that we had read about on Trip Advisor and it seems to be common this time of year. The good thing is we have a car rental and will get out to explore.
There will be more to come as we are in Barbados for twelve nights.
Checkin was pretty painless. They take you to the lounge/bar area abnd bring everything to you. THey also bring you cold towels and a welcome beverage. So that was a nice touch.
The room is pretty good, but first impressions were not the best. The washer and dryer unit in the room is "out of order". That is a HUGE downer. We called and they don't have any units that they could have moved us to today, but will check to see if we can be moved tomorrow. They will do your laundry complementary, but we don't really want someone else doing our laundry and washing/exchanging towels becomes a challenge also. We will see what they have tomorrow morning. It just means we can't unpack much of anything in the hopes that they can move us.
We walked up toward St Lawrence Gap for dinner and had a pretty good meal at Pronto. So far, Barbados isn't quite what we expected. The ocean on the south coast is brown from sea weed. Something that we had read about on Trip Advisor and it seems to be common this time of year. The good thing is we have a car rental and will get out to explore.
There will be more to come as we are in Barbados for twelve nights.