Let's start with the positive. God certainly did a great job with the grounds, the beach etc. Nature really did her thing. The sea breezes were amazing, the view -... read more spectacular. That's it. Service The parts of the experience that strawberry fields staff/owner contributed were not so great! ***Before I rant, I'd like to note that Vydia was very welcoming. We were late for check-in and she made sure to call us to check up on us multiple times and she made our dinner available in our rooms upon arrival. Now on with it - Note that no one will ever come to clean your room. We had dinner in our room on our first night and up to the next evening, we had to call the staff (it seemed to be just one lady working throughout the day) to come and take the plates. Bear in mind, we had fish for dinner, and they didn't take the garbage with the plates, so the room was super funky. In the morning they completely ignored my breakfast order and just gave me what everyone else was eating. I told them it was okay and ignored that because the server started to impress upon us how much it would take to redo my breakfast. Later that morning, the room had sand because we had just come from the beach, so I asked Vydia to have someone sweep the room. I was given... Let's start with the positive. God certainly did a great job with the grounds, the beach etc. Nature really did her thing. The sea breezes were amazing, the view - spectacular. That's it.
Service
The parts of the experience that strawberry fields staff/owner contributed were not so great!
***Before I rant, I'd like to note that Vydia was very welcoming. We were late for check-in and she made sure to call us to check up on us multiple times and she made our dinner available in our rooms upon arrival.
Now on with it - Note that no one will ever come to clean your room. We had dinner in our room on our first night and up to the next evening, we had to call the staff (it seemed to be just one lady working throughout the day) to come and take the plates. Bear in mind, we had fish for dinner, and they didn't take the garbage with the plates, so the room was super funky. In the morning they completely ignored my breakfast order and just gave me what everyone else was eating. I told them it was okay and ignored that because the server started to impress upon us how much it would take to redo my breakfast.
Later that morning, the room had sand because we had just come from the beach, so I asked Vydia to have someone sweep the room. I was given an old broom instead lol. I swear this had to be a joke! The owner or manager, whoever the lady was, was sitting right there and said nothing! I'm not sure if me being a local had anything to do with our treatment, but I highly doubt they would've given the foreigners a broom instead of sweeping it for them. The foreigner theory really was proven at breakfast the next morning when we were given a medicine-cup-sized container of maple syrup to share between the two of us for our dry coconut pancakes. The foreigners got an entire bottle of maple syrup. After requesting more syrup, the foreign guests offered to come and give us their bottle, I guess they felt sorry for us lol
Upon leaving the property, the same owner/manager lady just asked if we paid all of our bill. No question about how we felt about the service, the rooms, nothing. she only cared to know about the money.
Room
The room was "rustic" but not on purpose lol everything's rather dated. Not sure why they had two pairs of bunk beds along with the full-size bed that we slept on. I wonder if that's why the accommodation was relatively expensive, because the room could house 6 persons. I've been to smaller hotels that cost WAY less and are more updated and cleaner. The dish cloths were very stained and old. The room's kitchenette didn't give me the urge to use even the electric kettle, as it looked old and calcified. Note that there is no AC. The bathrooms, though clean, looked like any old person's bathroom. The hot water in the shower was one of those that you attach atop the pipe. They do have mosquito netting and mesh on all windows, which was good. The room was generally underwhelming. There was no option to upgrade because all the other rooms were booked. We spent most of the time there on the patio or exploring the grounds/beach.
All in all, this proved to be a disappointing birthday trip. A significant lack of planning for this mini getaway took us to strawberry fields -i.e. the other places we called were booked for the weekend. We won't be going back. More
