If this is a 5 star resort, it is certainly misrated!!! The hotel's airport transfer was certainly not of 5-star standards with seats meant for one, seating two. It was really uncomfortable especially if the person you're sharing a seat with is large in size. In addition, the airport van a/c was not working so on a full bus for an hour long ride in hot weather is certainly not a nice introduction to the "resort"! By the time, we made it to the "resort", we were hot, hungry and irritable. On arrival, we disembarked from the van, no directions were given to where the check-in counter was located. We were actually dropped off at the check-out floor. After asking around, we were then led to the first floor to check in. There was some redemption as the Front of House staff saw us waiting and came up to check us in. The rooms were pretty decent and clean. Room service food was good, except for our last night and morning. We think we may have gotten food poisoning as two of us had diarrhoea and vomiting on the morning we were to check out. It was so bad that we had to pay for extended checkout til 2pm for one room so that they could rest. We informed the Front desk at around 7.30am that we wanted to have late checkout coz two of our friends were really sick but no medical help was offered till the end when we were arranging for a private airport transfer (no way our friends would be able to endure the hot and uncomfortable ride to the airport in the "resort" airport transfer van. Kudos to Md Nurul Haque one of the Sr. Guest Service Agent who helped us arrange for the private airport transfer which arrived in time to take us to the airport and who offered the assistance of their in-house nurse. But by then, a little too late....The buffet breakfast only redeeming factor was their selection of breads. The buffet spread consisted of mostly spicy food, certainly not international standards. On the last morning, we were not allowed to enter the breakfast cafe and instead was redirected to the banquet room as it seemed the cafe was full. There was a long line of people waiting to get into the banquet room so we called room service. Admittedly it was a long weekend, so the "resort" was full. But if you're a "resort" with over 300 rooms AND fully booked out because of the long weekend, you would think that more staff would be on board to manage the crowd and other stuff. "LUXURY DEFINED, UNWIND INDULGE - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD WITH LOCAL FLAVOURS" That is certainly NOT what the Sea pearl is !!
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