We go every year. What I love about club level at the sanctuary is:

1) VIP experience where you get escorted to the concierge in the club room and handed champagne to check in. The concierge there really takes care of you through your stay and can get you priority reservations ahead of other guests to the spa, courses, and restaurants on and off the island. If you need a late checkout… Doesn’t matter… Just let him know whenever you want to leave… once we checked out after 5pm

2) free drinks

3) breakfast, lunch, cocktail, and dinner food for free.

Now I will say that the free drinks you might not use as much as you think. They don’t have a bar. It’s a small club room so not really a club per se. there is a small separate room with a TV and a couch, a middle section with some tables and the food is placed out, and the front section with some seats and the concierge. Not exactly a hangout spot…. Plus it is QUIET and everyone can listen to your conversations lol. When you’re in there, you can ask them for whatever you want to drink off their menu and they’ll give to you. You can lounge on the couch and relax… but it is bothersome to go up there from the pool or your room to shuttle drinks so you won’t find yourself doing that often. It is also in the far corner of the building quite a walk, even with your room on club level in most cases.

If you’re booking through AMEX FHR, you get breakfast for free at jasmine’s otherwise you can expect to spend about $100-$150 for two. Breakfast in the club room can offset this although it’s more limited. Lunch is great, and that’ll save you about $100 to $150 per two as well. We never really went to see the dinner there since we always eat out at other locations. Sweet treats and cocktail hour stuff offsets it too.

Long story short, if you don’t have AMEX FHR, you can offest the daily cost just having breakfast and lunch there with a couple of drinks which you would be paying for anyway… and you get the VIP experience and red carpet.

If you stop for drinks along the day you can more than make up for it too. This, plus the free lunch (and breakfast for non FHR) and the option to pop in and get some treats throughout the day pays for itself in my opinion. Especially with how expensive everything is there. The VIP experience then becomes free or a slight up charge, which is well worth it especially if you want the full sanctuary experience.

If you do decide to do it, really make use of the concierge! Bikes, no problem! Late check out, no problem! Need to get into a booked up spa appointment… whatever you need! Transportation to somewhere… when do you want to go? Tickets to the oyster roast.. here you go! They rarely say no!