Paradise Point lives up to it's name! (Paradise Point)

Member Name: janeh

Product:	Paradise Point
Date:	29/07/02 (267 review reads)
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Advantages: Beautiful setting, Fantastic rooms, Everything else

Disadvantages: Absolutely nothing

This resort really is paradise. It is located on an island a mile or so north of Seaworld. You access it via a road bridge and then turn into the resort itself.

The first thing you notice is the greenery, there are trees, plants and flowers everywhere. You have to keep your eyes open for the signs to the lobby for check-in because it is so well camouflaged that you could miss it. The lobby is large and spacious, with a great feel about it. There are plants inside and trees and shrubs surrounding the outside, blending it into the surroundings. The staff are very friendly and helpful and on check-in you are given a map of the resort so you can find your way around – you will need it! The receptionist allocates you a man in a trolley cart to escort you to your room. If you have a car you just follow him, otherwise you hop on his cart and he takes you personally.

There are several levels of accommodation here, you can have a normal room which has the usual bed, en-suite, TV etc all nicely decorated and located in the centre of the resort, or as we did a suite. The suites (bungalows) are located either in the garden area of on the edge of the island with a beach view. You can go one better and get a Presidential Suite, but these are amazingly expensive.

Our suite was located in a beautiful area, with gardens to the rear and beach to the front. It had a huge king size bed with wardrobe, dresser, sofa, chairs, coffee table, dining table & chairs and a TV with cable, movies etc. We also had a fridge, coffee maker, iron and ironing board. The bathroom was lovely with a separate vanity area with two basins, large mirror, marble surfaces and hairdryer. The bathroom was very large with bath, shower and of course a toilet. We had the biggest, fluffiest white towels we had ever had in a hotel room and little things like supplying cotton wool balls, cotton buds and body gel etc made it even better. We also had a small private patio area outside
with table & chairs and by walking across the grass in front of the bungalow, we were on the beach – beautiful.

The resort has many facilities including restaurants – Baleen, a beautiful restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating. We ate breakfast here every morning and there was plenty of choice and the staff were lovely. We paid approx $35 for two. If you eat here in the evening you are expected to be slightly more formal and dress accordingly, but at breakfast anything goes. The other restaurant on site is the Barefoot Bar & Grill which is much less formal and offers a variety of menus for all tastes. You can of course also have room service, which on the couple of occasions when we used it was prompt and delicious, if a little expensive.

There is a spa, which not having used I cannot comment on, but it looked very nice. There are several swimming pools, both for kids and adults located throughout the resort, the main one located near the lobby. One of the other great features of the place is that there is lots of wildlife about, they have many ponds and lakes which are inhabited by lots of ducks and other birds etc. The whole place has a very tropical feel, with the abundance of trees, plants etc. There are lots of beautiful flowers everywhere and all the buildings are surrounded by them. It is a very beautiful resort.

The other thing of course, being an island is it is surrounded by water and therefore has about 2 miles of private beach. It is lovely clean, white sand and you can also hire boats etc at the private marina and go sailing in the bay.

There is nothing I can fault about this resort, the rooms are beautiful, facilities are fabulous, food is great, location is wonderful, it really is paradise!

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