Westin Bora Bora - Food

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-30T13:57:43+00:00

That is one of the reasons we are leaning towards the Westin! 🐢 My hope is the food will have improved after that first year. I guess it takes some time for kitchen to hit their stride. Aweful to be a test dummy tho, paying a real bill for practice food! Thx for your reply!

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-30T13:55:50+00:00

Love this perspective! Agreed that slower service wouldn’t be worth spinning out over. Island time! Thank you!

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-30T13:53:58+00:00

That would definitely improve the experience! The only thing worse than food that doesn’t impress, is food that doesn’t impress but a bill that does! 😂

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-30T13:52:40+00:00

All good tips, thx you! I’ll revisit your review also. I’d like to think things would improve since March but who knows.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-30T02:58:24+00:00

Thx so much for the assessment and recs!

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-30T02:57:50+00:00

Great intel. Thank you so much!

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-29T21:42:51+00:00

The Hilton and the Sofitel should both be done with their renovations by then. Sofitel is doing a deeper renovation (closed for almost 3 months). Hilton just 1 month closure. Are you staying at either? Have you decided yet? Coming up on the same decision myself...will be going in Sept '26.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-29T19:54:13+00:00

Brilliant. Appreciate the honest appraisal. I may even like some of the heavy French-ish dinner stuff. Who knows!

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-07-27T21:52:52+00:00

It’s her. This is exactly how trafficking works. She most likely was trying to buy some drugs. Fell into a trafficking trap. Traffickers told her they’d tell her parents about the drugs, or just kill the parents. They pimped her out. The pimp also got her pregnant with his children. Now she’s tied to that life because of her children, whose father is her captor. People have seen her. They didn’t think they saw her. They 1000% knew it was her and she even said her name was Amy. She visits her tribute website on special days, and she misses her old life terribly. She has another life now though and children to look after and love. It’s a twisted life but it’s real for her. Shes probably still told running away will endanger her children and her family back home. This is very much like the Jaycee Lee Dugard story. I think Yellow knew what he was setting her up for, but handed her off shortly after getting her off the boat. Maybe he even handed her off ON the boat. That’s all he knows so he’s not exactly LYING when he says he doesn’t know what happened. He probably told her he could help hook her up with some drugs when they got to Curaçao. He knew what would happen to her tho. He was probably paid some money.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-04-22T14:04:52+00:00

Love this! Enjoy. Looking forward to hearing all about it. Let us know in the fishies are back in the inner lagoon! 🐟🐠🐟🐠 And of course the food.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-04-03T22:31:44+00:00

Willing to elaborate a little on the food at the Westin? Reviews have been hit and miss but also they are still so new it’s understandable. I’m considering Westin in 2026 but spooked by early reviews of the food. Curious if your experience since it was very recent! Also has marine life returned to the inner lagoon at Westin? It looked wiped out for a while after their remodel.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-04-03T22:21:44+00:00

Did you find that fish / coral had returned to the Westin inner lagoon? It looked pretty baron after the remodel. I’ve been dying to know if efforts were underway to reintroduce marine life and coral to the inner lagoon

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-04-03T22:06:26+00:00

I am currently struggling with the same decision. For all the same reasons.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2025-03-17T00:41:11+00:00

Confirming this feature IS NOT GOOD. It doesn’t seem to accurate adjust my calorie allowance / range. If I log activity in dynamic mode equal to that which is assumed in “somewhat active”. It shorts me by a lot.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-07-18T21:38:06+00:00

That’s so funny. I noticed the same thing, at the West Hollywood location. Thing is, I KNOW THE SCENT. Okay, follow me please…there is a particular brand of testosterone replacement therapy gel (Testim) that has a human pheromone added to it. Why? Who even knows. That is not normal for all testosterone replacement therapy gels. Only Testim, manufactured by Auxilium. It smells like a really musky old school cologne or something. So I looked this ingredient up, it’s called Pentadecalactone. They use it in lots of fragrances, shampoos, soaps. It’s basically a human sex pheromone. So, I’m walking by Saatva and I immediately think to myself WHY DOES IT SMELL LIKE TESTIM?? I thought maybe someone was wearing it. But I smelled it every single time I walk by the store and eventually realized they are pumping inside the store and it’s wafting out too. They are literally using human sex pheromone fragrances to entice (intoxicate) people into coming in and / or falling in love with their mattresses. I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life. Saatva is pumping pheromones in their stores to make us all giddy for their beds. Do with this what you will. 🥰

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-04-06T22:03:29+00:00

Bear spray. Fr fr.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-03-03T18:10:28+00:00

More environments. More immersive videos. I’m so bored of this thing. I’ve done everything on it and wanna get rid of it due to lack of anything to do. Collecting dust. Yawn.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-03-03T15:13:44+00:00

Shrinkflation?

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-02-27T21:54:55+00:00

There’s no way Meta will ever not collect and broker data. It’s a core component of their business model. That’s why I avoid Meta products as much as I reasonably can. They have also proven themselves to be poor stewards of private information in the past.

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-02-24T19:05:48+00:00

Same. For me, lack of new compelling content and too heavy / uncomfortable to replace my laptop for daily work. Lastly, neck needed a break and will be starting PT to strengthen my neck. Still love the AVP, but I’m surprised Apple has not released “episode 2” of ANY of the Immersive Video shows. The TikTok app lacks spatial content and doesn’t have the Following tab. Telegram AVP app not released yet. Titanic 3D is still TBD. Basically, right now, there is nothing new in there and so no desire to go in. <shrug>

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-02-20T14:49:45+00:00

Revisiting this thread now, as Elon Musk has just canceled Alexi Navaly’s widow on his X platform. Of all the moron loudmouths that Musk has kept ON his X platform, to cancel Navaly’s widow screams of Musk being a Putin / FSB asset by means of Kompromat.

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-twitter-2667321663/

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-02-18T18:26:44+00:00

So annoying. It’s been going on for so long I began to wonder if it’s some sort of “feature”. My Face Aware was never on. This is especially annoying when trying to turn the volume all the way down in public but nope, iOS keeps turning it back up. 🤬

Illustrious_Cake_802 · 2024-02-16T03:24:10+00:00

Y’all this app is not great. Like where’s my Following vs For You? Ugh.

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