What an overrated hotel chain the Sandals hotels are. You see those tv commercials and thinking, wow what a nice hotel….but it’s absolutely NOT what you see in the commercials. We stayed for a week in both Sandals in St.Lucia and Grenada. It was terrible services on both resorts. You can feel the staff are fed up with the tourists…In Sandals Grande in St.Lucia you could get drinks at the beach or pool, but NOT a bottle of water… You had to go all the way to reception at the hotel lobby to get water. And one day they were out of bottled water even at the reception… they were keep telling us to come back in 30 minutes for the water…..and when we start to questioning how could a hotel charging so much per night can be without any water…..the feeling we got from the people in front desk was like “it is what it is”…..after few hours waiting we approached the hotel manager at Sandals Grande in St.Lucia…nice person…he had to go to his office to get us bottled water (this story is not a joke…this really happened at very expensive hotel). As I mentioned in beginning, Sandals are overrated hotel, specially the one in St.Lucia….terrible service, rude staff, average hotel rooms. The hotel had 2 nicer restaurants, but you had to be lucky if you could dine there since you have to make reservations early in the morning and they gave whatever dinner time they had for yo…not so much choice you have. I have been in many all inclusive hotels…this was BAD experience.
