Sandals LaSource Grenada

Sandals always has nice locations and caters to a couples orientated crowd. This Sandals has the great food and lovely location you would expect but the people make a huge difference in making the experience extra memorable. In the restaurants, Genel at Butches us a bright spot and makes sure the customer is taken care of. Christy at Kimonos is amazing. She couples impeccable customer service with exemplary leadership. Sandals would do well to keep track of this young woman and ensure she has the opportunity to train its new managers and leaders. Need vacation pictures? Find Diron, he is engaging, talented and expedient. At the water sports area Boota manages to keep the environment friendly and relaxed while being safe and organized. In the scuba shop and dive boat James, Anne Marie, Dennie, Curtis, and Captain Shaun will all go the extra mile to take care of your needs. The returning guest program at Sandals is known for adding a special touch to a visitors experience. Subrina and Rabinar both anticipate the customers needs and go the extra mile to take care of you. For our beach dinner we were lucky enough to have Kelcey as our waitress. Fun, efficient and polished. If you can request her for your special meal. Usually the entertainment folks at Sandals are lively and do a great job of making merry for younger folks. This time we experienced Shamak and Shana were also conscience of being entertaining and fun for those of us in the slightly grayer haired set. Shana was great to hang with during carnival and both greatly instructional in soca! Who does not love a good bartender? Jennifer and Davy are both treats above and beyond. Jennifer is patient and fun. Davy was our bartender on the carnival cruise and went out of his way to help everyone even when things got a bit crazy. At the spa there are so many choices of things to get gone to help you relax. At different times Andy, Claudian, and Sue made my wife feel like a queen. Happy wife happy life!

Sandals just isn't for us. We cannot fault the Resort, it does what it says; many places to eat, nice rooms, great bathrooms, immaculate grounds etc, ( although beach not the best, it is nice and sandy but the beautiful Caribbean turquoise sea we are used to was missing and, as you are swimming within the stone groynes, it feels a little like a pond). On the resort we felt we could be anywhere, we got no sense of Grenada, even the Caribbean food lacked spice, it wasn't bad, just lack lustre. The Japanese restaurant was good, the French restaurant too, but we were looking forward to jerk chicken etc and that just wasn't good, was bland. We do understand they are catering for all tastes but surely one spicy Caribbean dish would be possible.The holiday was rather like a stationary cruise. If you like a big, American type, resort then this would be great for you, just not for us. One thing we actively disliked was constantly, and I mean at least ten times a day, being asked if we were having a great holiday, even staff who had seen us and said the same thing ten minutes before, it became annoying, especially when you are deep in conversation. Want to go back to a real Caribbean experience.

This was our 5th Sandals resort we have stayed in over the past 15 years. The best choice is the week of Carnival, but book your flights WAY in advance! The second week of August is when the 2 day Carnival is held in Grenada (don’t miss if you can!) and this is also when the hundreds/thousands of students return to school. This takes up all the seats on the flights and may make getting to the island hard or expensive. We had is great because the property was only 35% occupied. The downside is there are far less people to attend the evening events. Sandals Grenada is a hidden gem. Some people may ask if you can go running outside the resort. Simple answer is yes. It is a nice 10K run into St. Georges and back…but take lots of water as it is VERY hot and humid. Very safe and plenty of room on the side of the roads for running. I posted the route on my personal travel blog site. If you do come during the Carnival time, be prepared to join – it costs only a few dollars to take a boat or a trip into town. Fun, inclusive and a once in a lifetime experience. We captured some video and posted some pictures on our travel blog to highlight the sights and sounds that experienced when joining the parade. Overall, it is a great resort on a very friendly island. The resort is a maximum of 450 people and is less than 5 minutes from the airport…but it is on the other side of the hill, so you never hear or see the airplanes. The beach is small, but we chose to spend our time at the pool and enjoyed the daily pool volleyball. We really liked the waterfall walkout rooms that are private, but so close to the pool and restaurants. Best value for the money from our observation. We were a little surprised on how many rooms were butler assigned rooms…but it is not clear the higher priced butler services are really a best choice for their costs compared to the lower costs rooms. But if you want an ocean view…be prepared to pay top dollar. All the restaurants were good, no complaints at all. Butch’s the most popular and for some people, the sushi at Soy is their top choice. The best drink surprise is the Samurai which is a bartender special there. The French restaurant was also excellent and high recommended. The Italian restaurant was OK for dinner, but their meatballs were so-so. The osso buco was quite tasty though and the tiramisu dessert was world class. Everyone’s favorite late night snack place was the Tipsy Turtle pub which has late night pub food and some different beer choices. The best highlight in the pub is Ricardo who is a very humble bartender that is becoming a very good magician and will demonstrate some great tricks if you ask. The evening events were fun, but nothing too special. It is a little harder to get participation when the resort is not fully occupied. But the crew does a great job on making people feel welcome and safe to have fun. One disappointment was the charity casino activity…the crew dealers kept cheating and stacking the cards in the favor of the dealer and this was simply poor form. We are not gambling and all the money is going to charity, but it felt immature and pointless to “rig� the games when the whole purpose is to have fun and donate to a good cause. The diving. Sandals has a great modern dive food and friendly crew. The positives is the large number of dive sites that are less than 10 minutes boat ride away. The negatives is a lot of the free rental dive gear is becoming quite worn and although fully functional, its state is starting to look concerning. We appreciated the help and support of the crew in getting fun dive adventures, but would like to have more efficient check in and departure times. Waiting for 1 hour to depart is really not needed or desired for certified divers. We were also disappointed that we asked several times to have and pay for Nitrox tanks, but they never arrived. Overall a great resort with great staff. Highly recommended unless you prefer much larger beach and report areas.

We had been to a Sandals resort last year and enjoyed the holiday so thought we would do a similar holiday this year. It our 40th wedding anniversary year. The venue is superb and the transfer is all of 5 minutes from the Airport. Food was good and the staff were very nice as well. Only small point is that the excellent Saxophone player was on at 20:00 till 21:00 when almost everyone was at dinner so we missed a great atmosphere for a pre dinner drink. He should start at 19:00 when guests are going for evening dinner. Everything else was great

We stayed in the Italian village Swim up Bi-level 1 Br. Butler Suite w/Patio Tranquility Soaking Tub.... Not only was this room so amazing it was so clean. As soon as we drove up it was instant relaxation. The service that this place offers is second to none! The food is amazing as well. I never had a bad meal. Our butlers Leanna, Brent, and Kerry went out of their way to make our honeymoon perfect. They payed attention to every detail. Leanna (one of our butlers) is an extremely hard worker. She sincerely cares that you are having a good time. You can tell she loves what she does because she is extremely good at it. Brent (another one of our butlers) is also a hard worker and made sure our drinks were always full. Kerry was also great as well. They bent over backwards to make sure our stay was perfect. They succeeded! If you decide to go visit this resort do yourself a favor and make sure that you request them to be your butlers. You will not be disappointed! We can wait to come back to Grenada and see Brent, Leanna and Kerry again! This resort is unreal! We also had a great experience booking out next sandals resort with Robinar... She was so knowledgable about all the resorts and was extremely helpful. You will not be disappointed if you come here.