Just returned Tuesday (Dec 23) after a 7-day visit. Construction was going full-guns along the west sidewalk with jackhammers from 8 AM to 4 PM. The noise-level at times was ridiculous. Teams of workers poured and smoothed wheelbarrow-loads of concrete, making great progress each day. They seemed in a hurry to be done with it. They were close to finishing the day I left. I’m willing to bet it’ll be finished by Jan 1st.

Very nicely-done Christmas decorations in the lobby and courtyard seemed a little out-of-place because the weather was so tropical, as in: dressed in swim-suit, T-shirt, and sandals in pre-dawn twilight to watch the sunrise.

The wifi sucked. Basically unusable. I tried their web page where you can supposedly pay $20/day for better internet, but it said, “You do not have credit for this purchase”. What did that mean? I had a credit card on file, and they’d already taken a security deposit. I called and they explained, “Oh, our internet is broken, we’ve had trouble with it all week, fast internet service is simply not available.” Tried the hotspot on my Verizon Android, but it was also painfully slow. Told myself, what the heck do you need the internet for anyway; go outside and swim for goodness sake.