Beach walk:
Pros- freebee shuttle was convenient and reliable, pool was clean and big enough for the crowd, great location to beach and restaurants, great outdoor waiting area with benches to sit on while waiting for Ubers or shuttle, can leave bags with security if you arrive before check in or want to stay after check out, nice balconies, AC worked well until it needed building wide maintenance
Cons- shuttle didn’t drop us by the free chairs/umbrella, umbrella was not an option due to wind, pool runs out of chairs before 10am on nice days and people save with towels for hours without staff clearing towels for other people, front desk is often frazzled and took three tries to make keys that actually worked for our room, front desk was in the lobby that is not near our room so going back to get correct keys 3 times was so far, elevators truly take 15 min or more so people smash into them because they’ve already waited so long, housekeeping was knocking on our door BEFORE our scheduled check out time making us rush, there was a leak in the building so someone came to check our AC unit and knocked once quickly before giving us a chance to respond and then were already barging into the room (we used the locks after that)
Host:
Yoni was not great with communication. We asked for early check in and we weren’t told that it was not an option until we arrived. Okay, we just made ourselves busy and at 3pm she said we could check in. So that was nice but still would have liked her to be able to have a set plan. Then we asked for late check out a few days before the end of our stay to have a set plan and she said she would let us know. She didn’t so we asked again and she said yes but an hour less than we had asked for. Fine, we were still happy for the $75 late check out option. Until our keys were deactivated because Yoni did not inform the front desk that we had late check out. So we had to wait for 15-20 min for everything to get sorted out and get Yoni to contact the front desk. When it was finally corrected, we rushed back to pack and leave with much less time than we anticipated. Like mentioned earlier, housekeeping was knocking before our late check out time was even up. It was not restful as we hoped and we believe it would have been a nonissue had Yoni let the desk know when we sent her the extra money for the check out. Also of note, there was no hair dryer in the room, so luckily one of us had brought one that we shared.