Guest User
February 29, 2024
The island is beautiful, this hotel is horrible. You will pay the St. Regis price but will barely get the Marriott experience, it is absurd. I came here with my family for 4 nights, it was the worst experience at a luxury resort. I travel often and i don’t mind paying a premium for service, hospitality and convenience..this St Regis provides NONE of the above yet charges for it. First of all, this hotel is at the remote end of the island, it’s very limited on what you can do (offers no water sports, no spa, 1 restaurant) and the staff are NOT helpful to arrange travel/ book excursions for you. They don’t even care to get a taxi for you in a timely fashion. Nothing in life is perfect but with a $1000 nightly price tag needs to comes with a commitment to deliver excellence. It’s not about the money but I’ve never felt so ripped off. It was inconvenient and constant frustration dealing with the staff.. i ended up arranging everything myself. When we arrived, we waited almost an hour to check-in and had the worst experience at lunch shortly after. Our waiter ripped up our signed check in front of us and scolded us for circling the service charge, i was beyond baffled. The staff are not trained, not passionate, incompetent and not problem solvers (the only person helpful was the food and beverage manager- Naveem). First of all, this hotel is at the remote end of the island, its not convenient to get anywhere and the staff does nothing to even ensure a taxi. We’d call the conceirge to arrange for a car 30 minutes before departure, we’d get downstairs, there is no taxi. There are two doormen, 1 is nelson (not helpful), other is chris (who is empathetic and helpful). Either way you will wait another 20 minutes for them to get a taxi. They do not take any accountability for the mishaps, the manager would blame the taxi driver (Brandon, who claims he’s visiting from Miami’s hotel and is obvious that he wants nothing to do with this hotel). After getting to know the drivers, we learn that the hotel has a bad relationship with the drivers and they don’t like to go there for pickups. Your best bet is to get a driver’s phone # and arrange transport yourself, if you depend on the conceirge or hotel, you will be stranded. Do not depend on the concierge recommendation for food/ water sports/booking: Just want to reiterate, the conceirge is incompetent. They are untrained and not passionate about their jobs. They forgot to make reservations for us and when they finally did, they made it for the wrong date!!! They continuously recommend 2 mediocre pubs for dinner to all the guests (wahoo and white horse- we walked out of one immediately because it was so bad). We learned from our taxi driver that there are so many beautiful restaurants on island, we went to them thanks to our driver (ie: loran pink sand beach club, rustico are delicious ). The hotels food is mediocre and very misleading, they claim to have 2 restaurants but there is only 1, they change th