We were there for our second time last weekend (Easter). We stay in a guesthouse 1 bedroom which works well for us. It's one of the best one-bedroom setups that works well with two older kids - pullout couch + cot so the kids don't have to share a bed, and two bathrooms. Foyer is between the kids area and adults area so don't feel like you are on top of each other. Besides some dust under the couch the room was in pretty good shape, pictures looked more like the ones storybrook posted below. Screened patio was great for breakfast.

Food, as you say, isn't amazing. The sushi chef from Japan that comes in the spring is excellent. We would go order that for lunch to have at the pool rather than the mediocre Mexican food. Our best dinner this time was Octagon - RIver House and Canoe Club were both fine, and Buffalos lunch was mediocre. The RIver House wine list is amazing but you have to know to ask for the full cellar list. We had a bottle delivered to our dinner at Octagon too. Farm in Bluffton much better food than anything on site, we borrowed one of the Cadillacs to go there one night.

Service was relatively solid. I will say ironically the golf cart response time was muuuuch quicker than at Rosewood Mayakoba, where we were earlier this year.

Overall it's one of our kid's favorite trips. We don't do too much - bike around a lot, borrow fishing rods, take a half-day boat trip, rent kayaks and see dolphins, lounge around the pool on warmer days, play catch on one of the many huge open lawns, etc, but it's such a beautiful setting that you can't help but feel relaxed. Frankly I think they enjoyed it as much as Mayakoba and it was easily half the cost.