We are back (exactly one week
) from our first CL stay. We were at AKL. Savannah view studio.
Thoughts and experiences...
- Check in was great. There was a CM with an ipad waiting to greet us. I noticed throughout the week the same lady or another gentleman were always out there waiting on someone.
- We got our room request, that we submitted through DSS. Bunks, close to lobby, kudu trail.
- Breakfast they had out plain croissants, guava danish, blueberry or lemon muffins. The blueberry were delicious! They also had out some meats and cheeses and good assortment of fruit. Oh...and oatmeal and quinoa with some toppings.
- The afternoon snacks were fun, although not elaborate. They had some spiced nuts (amazing), yogurt covered pretzels, gold fish, gummies, that sort if thing. They also had oatmeal and sugar cookies with sprinkles.
- Afternoon tea. They had 3 desserts. Scones, rice krispie treats and the most delicious little pb chocolate brownies. I'd go back for the brownies
One day they had no scones, so you were down to 2 choices.
- Dinner time-2 hot apps being plated by chef. The two nights we stopped in...one night it was a curried seafood dish and corn soup. The other was a the butter chicken and a tomato based soup. On the counter, they had breads/crackers with different types of hummus. Olives. Cold asparagus. Another plated app, one night it was a couscous, the other night they were gone. Chicken nuggets both nights. One night they had watermelon, ds loved that. Another fruit the other night.
- Desserts-They had 2 desserts made up. I only recall making it in there one night. There was only 1 chocolate dessert left and then a mango based one. Both were good. They never replenished while we were there. They had the same cookies as earlier. Also, the cordial liqueurs were out, couldn't tell you what they were, but there were four.
- CL Staff. They were pleasant enough. If you asked for something, most were happy to oblige. However, no one ever asked or offered anything. DH and I both noticed they seemed to avoid making eye contact, so it was hard to get their attention if you needed something. There seemed to be plenty at all times, then at least one CM at the desk, two or three around lounge.
- Booze: so this is where the avoiding eye contact became a problem, haha. Besides the dinner time offering, no beer or wine were out. (Dinner wine was out). So...if you needed a beer, you had to seek a CM out. This became a bit of a challenge, since you literally had to chase someone down. Also, I was told the beer rules there, as I had requested a beer with the cap on. Was told, they have to open the bottle and it was a limit of 2 (only asked for 1 anyway). This was a little bit of an inconvenience, but I can understand, maybe people were hoarding them or something.
- They are very serious about the times. About 5 min before they were to stop that particular service, they would start putting up plates and stuff like that. If it was dinner, the chef with apps would start cleaning up. Then right at the set time they would all swoop in and it would all gone in just a few minutes time.
- Turn down service. We had it both nights we were out of the room. The nights we were around the resort we had privacy sign up.
- Overall, it was a nice splurge. We wanted to hang around resort mostly for more of a real vacation. However, nothing was so fantastic that we would regret future non-cl stays. Which is good for the pocketbook...but then again I'd like to try cl at our favorite resorts, Poly and BW, so we'll see
to share the fun with! 
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for the Poly pics and review! I'm glad you took pics of the July 4th food because I was too busy eating! 
Yes that about sums up how I feel about needing to go back to Poly CL! I think that was DH's plate that I quickly said WAIT don't eat anything yet because I need to take a picture, lol.
