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? Breezes Bahamas - Trip Report
Hal, Can you please submit my posting for me. I'm having the toughest time getting it to work. Thanks, John Rosenbaum We visited Breezes Super Club in Bahamas for 4 days at the end of December. We got a great deal (last minute) and found the club to be worth the limited expense if you understand its deficiencies. Facilities ========== The facilities are Breezes are overstated. Five pools is a gross error. In reality, there is 1 pool and 1 hot tub. The others are interconnected and are much smaller than pictured. The beach is quite small compared to the surrounding hotels property. The gym is tiny, but usable. It can hold 5 or 6 people comfortably. Rooms are clean, but not big. Hot water was not existent during our stay. Water out of the shower was luke-warm at best-- the hot tub is much, much warmer. Activities ========== The biggest disappointment of our trip were the activities. We found many to be unavailable or too crowded to join. A schedule of activities is put out each evening at 11pm featuring the next day's activities. During our stay, the list stayed mostly the same throughout although the typeface changed to make it look like there were different activities. Breezes offers a wealth of activities: Sailing, Wind Surfing, Roller Blading, Ice Skating, Tennis, Water Skiing, Scuba Lessons, etc. However, even though many activities are listed on the daily schedule, either no staff shows up for the activity or it is cancelled for reasons unbeknownst to the guests. During our stay, we were able to go Sailing and Waterskiing for only 1 day. For the others, the staff stated that the weather was inclement. The temperature for the days in question hovered around 77 degrees with a light wind. Just the type of weather a beginning sailor would long for. This meant no water activities at all-- except for the pool. Access to pool tables, ping-pong is virtually impossible. Only at 7am could we find a free table. The staff does a good job of putting on daily activities around the pool (bikini contests, boxing, aerobics). Activities at night feature karaoke, bands, and lip-sync contests. Luckily, board games are available to stem your boredom from the lack of accessibility to all other activities. The Food ======== The food at the resort is lackluster, comparable to what you might find in a college cafeteria, but you can eat all day long. Four restaurants are located on premise: Pastafari, Garden of Eden, the poolside grill, and a buffet. The buffet contains many different choices and the food is decent. The restaurants are a step above the buffet-- cooking your food to order, but the quality of the food is the same. Some looks like it could have been taken straight from the buffet. While there seemed to be plenty of room in the restaurants, Breezes seemed to limit occupancy-- either to make it more exclusive or because they were short-staffed. This made it difficult to get reservations since we were competing with the 600 other guests staying on premise. The one shining star on the food front was the grill located near the pool. The food seemed slightly better than the rest and the staff was very efficient. Try the conch fritters or the Greek salad. The resort did a great good job with alcohol. Drinks were plentiful, strong, made with top notch liquor, and available 24 hours a day. Staff was very efficient at getting drinks out fast. I would especially recommend getting your drinks at the piano bar. There is never a wait and they seem to put out better drinks (could have just been the staff). Service ======= In general, service was excellent and the staff extremely friendly! The hotel does a good job catering to everyone's needs and trying to keep them happy. |
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? Breezes Bahamas - Trip Report
Just my 2 cents on Breezes. It is a joke.
My wife and I (both in our mid-thirties) have been on numerous trips to Mexico and a couple throughout the Caribbean. We were so disappointed with this resort. We went last Feb hoping it would be a fun party spot for a few days. The pool water was filthy. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY was in the pool our entire 4 night stay. The food was nothing to write home about, although Pastafaries Restaurant was pretty good. Activities were pretty lame during the day. Every person working there had a chip on their shoulder. No smiles, no "good morning" or "can I help you", this includes the bartenders. The bathroom in our room had ants of which we complained about our entire stay. Anyway, for the extra money you are paying to stay there, skip it! Just let me add, my wife and I are a fun loving couple who can laugh and have fun just about anywhere. However, it ticks me off to pay good money to go to a "great" resort and to have it be a dump! Gregory and Mary Kelly |
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