If you're trying to make the best of a vacation you planned months in advanced, and listened to the friends or yours or locals about still coming to the keys for a good time during all this Covid craziness.. please pick another place to stay!
Our group was so excited to stay here with the layout of the rooms surrounding a pool in different little styled buildings, we had 7 rooms booked total for our large group in hopes of spending quality time together since we haven't seen most of each-other in a year. We all got there around the same time and met at the pool once all were settled. Then the harassment started. We all were surrounded in the pool as a circle (due to Covid didn't want to be as close as we usually would be and we're trying to be respectful) and had music playing on a boom box during the day as there was no music or anything like that playing by the hotel, the staff then came out and told us no music was allowed and to turn it off. Understandable. The person playing the music turned it low thinking okay we were just playing it too loud that the office could hear it and it was distracting. Again they came out and we were then told to just turn it off completely so we did so. We didn't want problems or to give staff problems.
And then again for a 3rd time staff came out, my group was then told that the OWNER was watching us on the cameras and that this hotel is not a "party hotel", that we need to wear mask in the pool, and that you cannot have a glass at the pool. Fine no glass we understand. But the mask in the pool? There was a sign in our rooms, and on the wall saying in the pool area mask was not needed in the pool.. we made sure of it. And being told not a party hotel, left us all thinking what? We had just gotten there within the hour and having our first drink by the pool all together??
It doesn't stop there. Finally we felt so uncomfortable after all of this, and went back to our rooms to just go get ready and head out to Duval Street. We wore our mask everywhere, took all the precautions due to the new norm for the Covid-19 especially for such a small place dealing with rising numbers, and still tried to make it a good weekend. The very next day now the staff was calling my cell phone asking how many people were staying in my room, and SOME (2 others) of the other people in our group the same question about their rooms. I was told "the owner saw there was more people then accounted for on the reservations and he was watching us on the cameras". Again feeling uncomfortable with this I didn't really question much.. or get why they kept pushing this and told them me and the girl on my reservation, plus our husbands. Nothing else was said and all was fine and dandy, but again confused as to WHY we are now being called during our vacation the next day about our group?! As we're getting on an excursion for the day?!
The rest of the 3 night 4 day stay we stayed away from the hotel as much as we could, as we all felt uncomfortable with how we were being treated.
When checkout came 2 in my group were harassed about the number of people again per room. Asking how many people were in everyone's room but seemed to have missed the other 4 rooms booked.. apparently they didn't even realize they were in our group as well or think to "watch" them on the cameras! I was then charged more money for our husbands not being accounted for which I didn't know was a problem since they said nothing about it on the phone call prior? Or that them staying in our same bed was a problem so be aware to have your exact number of people if you do stay here, so you're not harassed and being "watched" your whole vacation. Or heaven forbid you are single and you met someone and brought them back to your room for the night you'd be charged for that extra "body" LOL.
I know this is long, but really wanted to get the point across if you're a group of more than 4 stay somewhere else, or are single and plan on having a good time with someone for the weekend in your room. If I could take back picking this place I would. I was embarrassed more than anything picking this spot for our get together for a 30th birthday, and it really put a damper on our visit.
If it wasn't for the treatment we received this would have been a no brainer place for us to stay again! We visit the keys at least twice a year but my whole group won't be back here and was extremely disappointed with this treatment as a "party group".
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