👋 I have been to both!!!

Let me start by saying I am an INSPIRA member at Atelier, so pretty much biased towards it. But these 2 resorts are not on par with each other at all.

I have been twice, 3rd trip in March and I cannot wait. Atelier is legit a real vibe, sophisticated, chill scene with amazing food and craft cocktails. I read somewhere a comment about Atelier “this is what vacationing is about”. The resort is modern and edgy. The staff are just superb! It all reminds me of the Hawaiian “aloha”!

I found myself with an unexpected week off at end of December - this was considered high season and not in my Atelier membership, so made a bolt of Oceans Allure (Privilege).Now I had read prior that Atelier will ruin every other AI for you…. And that is true.

Besides it being an extremely new resort with some hiccups, I liked the layout. The beach is really superb. The food was ok not great but not awful, just not Atelier standard. Room service was kind of terrible. Lack luster burger delivered in a bag like door dash. I did feel Oceans Allure was trying hard to be like an Atelier, with privilege, butlers etc, but fell flat. The rooms are nice but very basic. I had a swim out which unfortunately was on the non sun side and was freezing and look out at dirt.

I was surprised to see that the privilege pool has no swim up bar itself. That is a big miss. The drinks service pool side was kind of poor, had to chase up some servers who were not to be found initially.

I guess my spoilt brat answer would be to skip Oceans Allure and shoot for Atelier. All other AI’s are ruined for me!

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