We stayed at Caribe Royale one night last year before we checked into our Beach Club room. We knew we were arriving late in the day, so we picked Caribe as our "transition" hotel, for lack of a better word. Let me just say that I was exceedingly happy that it was only for one night. The grounds of the hotel are quite nice, but the rooms are one step above dormitory style. In fact, I think I recognized some of the furniture as college campus pieces. All joking aside, it is not as nice at it appears to be on the website. The rooms do feel like dorms, or like cheap apartments. It lacked a vacation feel. We were so happy to check out and move on to our vacation room at the Beach Club. I would look around if I were you. We have also stayed at Bonnet Creek on these transition nights and felt that they had more of the vacation feel that we were looking for.