Had a brief but lovely stay at GDT last week. Club still looks to be in great shape, plenty of seating, good breakfast and interesting alcohol selections. They even had a hard seltzer (Truly I think?) which was handy to take down to the pool. There were pre-packaged cookies (DO NOT EAT THE COOKIES- they were definitely the most disgusting thing I have tried in some time) and pre-packaged mickey rice crispy bars (not good either but if you have a kid that wants one save the dough in the park and get it free here!) in the afternoons and nights. Evening offerings were meh to me but even back in 2019 when I stayed I only really liked one night (shrimp paella- definitely gone now lol). In the Guests-Behaving-Questionably area I saw someone bring a couple gallon ziplock bags in one day and straight up dump a couple trays of breakfast pastries in them, so that was a little different. I liked that they had mini water bottles, missed the full size ones but maybe with the mini ones people don't go so crazy? The wine pours were small as reported here previously. Felt like I must look like a straight up lush when I went to ask for a 3rd glass of wine but the CM didn't even bat an eye.
I was impressed with the concierge team. I had little reason to interact with them until the last 10 mins before club closure of my last night when something happened (not my fault and not the hotels fault) making it not possible for me to spend the night in my room. I told the CMs, they immediately set about addressing the situation, calling the necessary back of the house people and found a solution for me. I was so happy they dealt with it instead of me having to explain it to 3 levels of CMs after waiting my turn at the front desk. I know even the CL CMs can only do what management allows them to do & in this case management was quick to respond. I felt they literally did the best they could for me, something I haven't really encountered anywhere since covid. Their response looked even better in hindsight after I had issues at YC that were the hotels fault (I won't go into that here, wasn't a CL stay). Couple days of rough luck room wise lol.
Will I return to GDT CL? Yep! I knew going in evening apps are apps at best and veggies and drinks at the worst, that they had a nice breakfast and a nice club setting. They fulfilled that and when things went south they fixed it. I'll be returning with my parents and sister this Spring.