Betsy G.
The Unit: one bedroom, sleeps 4 with privacy for 2.||||The unit is pretty and was clean. The room faces the ocean and looks down on the pool. The bed is a king and comfortable. However, the partial kitchen has only a coffee maker, microwave, toaster and refrigerator. There are no stove top burners. We could have asked for a single burner and pan but after putting down two cups to fill with coffee, there was no counter space left. There is no dishwasher. Thereâs no place to hang the wet dishcloth or dish towel. So, with the exception of the toaster, the kitchen was no more than that offered at a Hampton Inn. Clearly, youâre not expected to cook. ||||The bathroom has a full tub and pedestal sink. There is one 2 foot towel bar which wouldnât hold both of our facecloths and hand towels. The bath towels had to be draped over the dining room chairs to dry. The towel bar was a new installation and the holes in the wall from the old bar hadnât been completely repaired. There was no handle on the window mechanism to crank it open. ||||The dresser is an old analog tv cabinet which smelled of either spilt perfume or freshener. We didnât use it. ||||There is a small hot tub in the front so you can sit in the hot tub, look at the pool and the ocean. Because it takes up nearly half of what would be called the âdining room,â the dining table was a small, round table that would seat only two people for a meal...and the legs were lose so it wobbled. Other than the coffee table, it was the only place to do computer work. ||||Some of the blinds didnât work and I needed to climb into the hot tub to close one of them. ||||The wifi is 10 mbps or 15 mbps if you want to pay an extra charge. ||||Our experience: ||When we arrived, we were told that The Breakers was under renovation and that we would need to park at The Soundings. We were not told of the renovations beforehand so we could make our own choice of whether to come to stay. ||||The entire outside of The Breakers, including the roof, was being worked on....shingles removed, roofing removed, with heavy equipment and active workers. ||||We were told to go to The Breakers and find the blue door and look for room 104 to get into the building. There was no one on site at The Breakers. All the doors are blue so that left us moving through the construction site looking for room 104, only to find out that our entrance was between room 106 and 107. Not a good start. ||||We were not given a drawing or schematic of the room plan and amenities at The Breakers despite there being no staff at the site so we had to scout things out on our own.||||Although we did receive information about restaurants and shopping in the area, we werenât told of the municipal paths near the buildings which we might have used.||||Despite the inconvenience of the construction at the site which I will explain shortly, we werenât offered the use of any of the facilities at The Soundings other than the parking lot. I asked why we werenât offered any empty rooms at The Soundings or any of the other buildings, because we werenât notified of the construction ahead of time, and was told that it wasnât possible to move people from one complex to another. But, it is the same corporation. ||||The grills for cooking outside were now encumbered with construction materials so unusable. The platform leading to the beach stairs was taken up and not replaced so the only way to use those stairs would be to walk on the joists which we didnât think was a safe idea. ||||As I mentioned, the site was being actively worked on. There were several large machines and a number of active workers. We sat down to enjoy our breakfast and look at the ocean when the workers began to work on our windows, literally 2 feet from our breakfast table. We had to shut the blinds to get any privacy. There went to view of the ocean. ||||When we left or returned to The Breakers from 9-5 pm, (except Sunday) we had to walk through the construction site, the debris, the machines and the people working. Roofing materials were being thrown down onto the area where we were walking, vehicles were backing up or moving around. Lifts were moving workers up to the windows or onto the roof. We found it very unusual that a construction company would allow âciviliansâ to walk all over the construction site. It seemed dangerous to us. ||||We stayed less than half of our weekâs time. This experience not only cost us the relaxation that we needed, but value of the points (albeit small for this time of the year), the cost of the timeshare exchange, the value of RCI membership and the value of our own timeshare annual fee. So, despite being a small points transaction, the eventual cost of the trip was considerable. ||||Several pictures are attached of the construction at The Breakers.