We booked for 10 days at Hideaway Island as it has its own scuba diving operation and that is what we wanted. Sadly my wife broke her toe the week before and couldn't go diving. Even more sadly, as a resort Hideaway has evidently declined drastically from the days of positive reviews in the past. One could accept that it's a tropical place so heat and humidity are expected. One could not accept that three out of the four overhead fans in the dining area were not working and had not been fixed for a long time. One could be a little disappointed that there is no air conditioned area anywhere in the resort that one could go to for some relief from the oppressive heat and humidity. One could accept that the resort does not advertise itself as a gourmet food destination. One could not accept that buffet breakfast each day (which is no longer included in the accommodation charge and costs 1000VT per person) consisted of stale white bread, frozen butter, peanut butter and apricot jam, a choice of corn flakes, wheat bix or oat crisps, reconstituted fruit juice and plunger coffee. Oh, and a fried egg if you specially begged and some segments of banana and papaya and grapefruit after we queried why there was no fruit. This is not the sort of breakfast you expect in a place that has the temerity to call itself a resort and certainly not at the price of 1000VT. Lunch and dinner choices were from an unchanging single small menu which had basically burgers, fish and chips, a coconut curry (which was delicious but how many times can you eat this in a ten day stay?) and a stir fried vegetables and rice choice. An adequate menu for day trippers but completely inadequate for people staying more than a day. When we asked one day for a salad we were told it wasn't available as the management couldn't obtain tomatoes! If there were lots of restaurants nearby the lack of reasonable meal choices would be bearable but in a resort on its own island where the only nearby restaurant is a short boat trip away (and serves pizzas which are good but not all that much else) and other restaurants are a twenty minute minibus ride away, the tiny choice of food is just not OK. The rooms (we had a beachside bungalow) are spacious but clearly in need of some maintenance (the dripping shower we notified to management was never fixed). The lack of wifi in the rooms was surprising in this day and age, particularly as there were no fans in the open reception area where wifi was available. The staff on the whole were friendly as was Stella at reception but there was a distinct feeling that management didn't care and that the resort under its new (since June 2023 apparently) owners was on a downhill slide to oblivion. The scuba diving operation at Hideaway on the other hand was good. Lulu, Kevin and Edwin were helpful and good dive guides. The rental equipment was OK except for one chewed through mouthpiece. The short boat trips to each dive site (I dived ten out of the 15 sites availabl
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