Sandals Grande St. Lucian

Sending compliments to our butlers Shanne, Clynns, and Sabie. They were a fabulous team. We have visited more than a dozen Sandals resorts over the years. This has been the best set of butlers. Very professional! Efficient and attentive! They noticed I loved fresh mangoes and papayas and then provided an afternoon snack daily! We love seafood and the butlers offered a variety of shrimp cocktails for lunch and snacks in the room. They were exceptionally accommodating with restaurant reservations and special seating. All of the staff at the resort were friendly and playful. Beautiful rondoval room. The hot-tub was the perfect temperature- not too hot. Even though it is a bigger resort, we were able to sit by the beach in a quiet area.

Well as we sit here and finish our breakfast on our fly day, just wanted to take a couple minutes and thank a few people on property for making our trip fantastic! I do have one complaint but you will have to read until the end. First off the whole watersports team is fantastic! Special thanks to Natalia, Marcus, Kacey, Rusty & Kermit for leading 15 fantastic dives over our vacation. Fey for providing terrific drink service at the upper( quiet) pool. Yanni for the entertaining dinner at Kimonos. And finally Kea for fixing my one complaint of no chocolate chip cookies 😉! Really oatmeal is a breakfast cereal!

The team at Sandals Grande St. Lucian was awesome! Delia made our dinner under the stars experience so sweet with her dancing and singing happy birthday to my honey. GANIA and Cijay amplified his birthday dinner at Gordon’s by taking fun pics with us and we had the best table on the pier. The food was delicious! Sanjay took excellent care of all of our requests as we relaxed in our cabana on the beach. DRAVID set us up with the perfect itinerary when we arrived with excellent suggestions for a relaxing vacation. Thank you to Madonna for escorting us to Gordon’s and the great conversation on the way. Abby did a fantastic job taking us on our orientation tour. The snorkeling team ensured that we had a safe and fun snorkel trip. And I must shout out Dino’s for the tasty pizzas and the crepe restaurant for the yummy, hot chocolate chip crepe drenched in chocolate syrup with a side of vanilla ice cream!!

This resort is “all inclusive” and then some! Yes, there’s a pool …a clear, clean, well-appointed one that you can actually get a chair at without putting down a towel at 7am. Yes, all meals are included ….they are all very well done, especially at the three that you need to make reservations at. There’s a full array of choices for each meal and plenty of it. No waiting on long lines to sit down and relax. Yes, there’s a beach….spectacular! It has to be one of the most beautiful ones in the Caribbean- chairs galore, no crowding, no off property folks selling things, cabanas with full service at a reasonable rent fee. Yes, there’s a spa! It was run so efficiently and professionally. There are outdoor saunas, steam rooms and co-Ed relaxation areas in several locations. Yes, the rooms are spacious, clean and ours had a view of the ocean and the lagoon. Privacy is available and respected so there’s a serene, calm in most areas of the property. Of course there are the younger honeymooners who are there to enjoy the drinks, pool activities and new friends but nothing over the top loud - definitely nice to see! Yes, there’s something for everyone. All the staff says “ happy to have you here with us”, “good morning/evening” and the like. The management team on this property definitely takes pride in the little (as well as the big) things. Thank you for a wonderful stay and long lasting memories

We came here for our honeymoon and really wanted to love it. The grounds are genuinely beautiful, never felt crowded, and there’s plenty to do — the setting itself is great. But the room was a big miss. We booked a “honeymoon walkout suite with garden view,” and instead got a room right next to a busy walkway with almost no privacy. On top of that, gardening work started around 8am right outside our window, so we had to keep the curtains closed most of the time — which kind of defeats the whole point of a “garden view” honeymoon room. We raised this while we were there. At first we were told nothing was available, then a couple of options magically appeared, but none actually fixed the problem. The most frustrating part was the lack of follow-up — once we stopped pushing, it felt like they just moved on. Service overall was hit or miss. Some people were great, others felt very “by the book.” You often get a “no” first, and only get help if you keep asking. Drinks and food could also take a long time (30–45 min), and sometimes things were just forgotten. Food was okay at best — a few good dishes, but mostly pretty bland. We ended up going back to the same things just to get something decent. A few quick notes: Beach chairs are gone early (before 7am) The app is buggy — double check reservations We did see cockroaches in the buildings Expect early morning noise Biggest issue for us wasn’t just the room — it was how everything was handled. For a place positioned as a premium honeymoon resort, we expected a lot more effort to make things right. We tried to resolve it directly after the stay, but couldn’t get anywhere meaningful. Would still say it’s a beautiful place — just go in with the right expectations, especially around room choice.