A review from our 1st time at SMB: Arrival via Club Mobay is 100% worth the money, we saved at least ~2 hours in lineups, the airport was packed, chaotic, and disorganised - as it usually is at MBJ. (I'm using the King's English / Oxford dictionary spelling Mr. Facebook, stop putting squiggly lines under the correct spelling of words). Only carry-on bags meant we were in the Sandals lounge within 15mins after getting off of the plane. Transported to SMB 10 mins after check in at Sandals lounge - didn't even have time to finish my Red *****e. Driver was lovely and was tipped accordingly as he does not work for Sandals. Arrival at SMB, nice greeting...5 mins and we were on our way to our room - they took pity on us and upgraded from DL room type (above Oleander building - I had no idea when booking as it was my 1st trip to SMB) upgraded to room 101 (I don't know what the room type is for #101). Even though 101 was opposite Tokyo Joe's (noisy, dishes and pots banging, staff talking/yelling loudly + housekeeping / carts rolling by all the time)...we were very happy not to be in a DL room with a tiny Romeo & Juliet balcony - they looked awful and the location, ya - no thanks. Room 101 was clean, nicely appointed, very short staggering distance from the lobby bar which we loved. No privacy on the patio but we didn't come to a beachfront resort to sit around a pool or on a patio. Made a b-line to the **** shack for lunch, pork and chicken highly recommended. No patties at the shack though (odd?) but they had them at the Mariner next door. They were out of 'fish-in-foil'...for 3 days...my wife was not impressed...maybe bad timing on our part? There's fish everywhere else so ***? Looked for a couple chairs with shade...everyday...as expected, it was futile unless you had a butler reserve them...no butler service for us peons. Never seen it this bad at other 5* on the island we have been to. Later in the afternoon (3pm +) and again on day 2 + 3 we finally found 2 chairs with shade all the way at the end past the Lattitude's bar. By day 4, we just gave up and sat in the bars near the beach...not a great beach experience at all. People just leave stuff on them all day, no one gives a F, no staff come by to clear the stuff sitting there >90 mins or even all day left by ignorant / inconsiderate guests. I don't want to play the chairs game at $1000++ per day. This is a major issue for us and deal-breaker - we would go to another Sandals to try, but not SMB. If we had more time, maybe checking out SRC beach may have been more our style...but we shouldn't have to take a bus to get a spot on a beach. SMB is limited by the square footage on the very narrow beach is what seems to be the issue. The SMB beach is very long...but extremely narrow. This makes for a congested area most of the day, not the best experience nor the best beach area compared to IGRH or others TBH. Lattitude's (overwater) bar was a big highlight...although it was hit / miss
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