Sandals Regency La Toc

Charles has been nothing but amazing during our stay so far!!! He surprised us this morning with a private breakfast on our patio and brought us drinks before heading out to lunch ❤️ He has been making this honeymoon amazing

This was our first visit to Regency La Toc, but we are seasoned visitors to St Lucia. It was also our opportunity to have a look at it with an eye to one of our daughters getting married there, so we brought the whole family! This opened up Sandals to our adult children, for them to see and experience the brand. The journey to the resort was quick, taking 56 minutes, but resulted in one of the party throwing up. The drive was on the verge of being reckless/ dangerous. We’ve done the journey numerous times, quickly and slowly but it was too quick. Check -in was very quick and we were soon in our room, with Malaika taking our choice of restaurant bookings for the week. She confirmed everything by typed note the following day- outstanding service. We initially booked 3 Luxury Pool View rooms, but upgraded our own to a WJST club room (extra £400). The rooms were nearly identical, but ours had a patio area with a tub, plus we had room service and spirits. Our room was a downgrade in reality in my opinion and a waste of money. We looked out over a lush garden with a tub, but the noise was pretty loud coming from a water plant next to our fence and the building A/C units right next to the building. When I say lush, this was the only place on the resort we found biting bugs, which quickly put an end to the romantic notion of bathing outside. The Guest Services Director, Jacintha and the Club Manager did their best and worked options, coming to a solution just as one of the party went sick, requiring a nurse and eventually 3 doctors to get my daughter back on her feet after 3.5 days. Moving rooms was not an option, my wife was sleeping on a couch next to my daughter, so to think about packing and carrying bags drew an abrupt end to dealing with Sandals on what was becoming an irrelevant moan. The resort is fabulous, the staff are the best motivated and friendliest we have come across on any holiday and the food was amazing. Staff members we note are Lerry for his attentiveness and kindness trying to cheer up the family when we couldn’t even consider getting home with a party member knocked out. The other staff member is John the barman at the main pool who always had a smile and a cheeky joke with us. The gym near the main pool is satisfactory with 2 of the CV machines not working. It is a basic gym, but as an adult male I was happy enough with the free weights. It is a hilly resort, but not too hilly that you couldn’t walk up to the higher restaurants; plus there is ample onsite transportation constantly running. To note, in a morning on the beach you cannot walk along the beach without vendors approaching you day after day, but they’re easily told if you don’t want a trip or a smoke! The resort watersports are great, and it’s a quick process to get you onto or into the water. Entertainment wise, there were some great events, which were noisy and then quieter nights. Our room was on the resort side next to the Beach Party, and whilst it was still loud when we retired it was nice to fall asleep to great music and a party atmosphere. Some of the family got to go to the Grande, which is an hour away, for a meal and a look around the facility; that resort has a knockout factor when you visit! Sun lounger war is a thing, with butlers up and out early to reserve with guest items placed on the better beds. Get up early to beat them at their game, it’s fun beating them and saved me from a second coffee in bed. Hopefully you won’t need medical assistance when you are there, but the resort nurse was second to none, being firm when my daughter was not helping herself, and the private doctors were all excellent; it isn’t cheap though! Check-out was simple and Mervin was able to assist us keeping hold of one of our rooms for a few extra hours; that was a nice touch. So, would we go back? I don’t think so. Whilst events overcame us, I don’t think we achieved VFM on the £400 upgrade, but to be fair to Sandals the room was as advertised, a walk out club room with tub. The location and reality didn’t really marry up to the idea that we had an upgraded room. Had we not upgraded and took a pool view room then we would hold it as high as Halcyon, the next resort we will visit for the 3rd time.

Loved it! Love Yasmin in the piano bar! She makes the best drinks and is so kind! We had a great time on our honeymoon!

Jean Claud at Kimonos was awesome and fun. Great Dad jokes. Also the food prep was top notch.

Chef Myers was amazing at Kimonos. Sandles La Toc has been top notch.