Thought I would share our experience at CBR. I requested Martinique 22, 23 and Jamaica 45 in that order, and I was happy that we got Martinique 23. And we also got a first floor room, which I also requested.
I did online check in and spent all of maybe 1 minute waiting for someone to check us in and 1 minute checking in. And that is at most, it might have taken even less time. It was awesome.
We were super happy that our room was ready at 10am. We got there and it looked nice. Alot of storage and my DH loved the tv. My DM did not like no coffee maker, it was missing. But she found a mousekeeper close by and asked for one and we got a brand new one just handed to us. Which was great, but then the box never got thrown away from our room. It was still there even on our last day.
Along that same line, our mousekeeping wasn't that good at all. Not one towel animal, I know not a requirement, but one would have been nice. We never got 4 washcloths, even though there were 4 of us in the room. And back to the trash, not only did they never get rid of the coffee maker box, but they wouldn't get rid of obvious trash on the nightstand. Like empty wrappers. Now most of the times, we did put things in the trash, but sometimes, stuff was left on the nightstand or other table and low and behold it stayed there. Now I can see not throwing away my half a bag of cracker jacks, I might still want it. But an empty wrapper or a tissue.
We also had a stain on our blanket and on the dust ruffle, we didn't notice it until half way through the trip. We didn't say anything, because it was at the bottom, so it was not a real issue, but others might have a problem.
We went without a lightbulb in one of our lights for most of the trip. Again we didn't report it, it didn't bother us, but you would have thought that someone would have noticed it when cleaning the room.
I think all that our mousekeeper did was make the beds, take out trash (that was in the can), take out towels (from the floor only of course), and give us new towels and a few times new soaps and shampoo, but never alot. And as far as the towels, one time we left one on the sink area over the ice bucket. Which actually needed to be replaced, but we forgot to put it on the ground. So of course she didn't move it and didn't do anything to the ice bucket at all. It wasn't emptied and no new bag was given for it.
So all in all I was not impressed by mousekeeping at all. And we typically stay at the value resorts, never at a deluxe, so we aren't comparing it to say mousekeeping at the poly or something like that. One last thing about that, one time the bed was so messy that my DM commented on it and it looked like something I would do, and I rarely make my bed. It was not good at all.
The buses were okay. We were typically the first stop on and off, so that was nice, but it also meant alot of waiting on the bus as it goes to every stop. We typically waited 5-10 minutes. Maybe 15 at most, but then you add 10 min for the bus to finally leave the resort.
The walk wasn't that bad, but we kept getting lost for some reason. First time swimming we meant to go to our pool and ended up at Barbados I think. Of course without towels, because I hadn't read that you need towels at the smaller village pools. My mistake. I loved the big pool area, but after a long day, even the 10 minute walk just seemed too far (we walk slowly). So we actually drove.
All in all it's a nice resort. Loved the hot tub, zero entry pool and the kid's pirate pool area. But this resort is not my fav. In fact my DH and I both have liked our stay at ASMovies the best. We have stayed at all 4 values and CBR and CSR.
Hope I haven't left anything off. If you have any questions, just ask away.