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My review of
The Seastar Inn
Arrived to a nice hey hello how you doing and was given my room key in a flash.
Ordered some food for everyone at the bar, We were understood clearly greeted with a smile our order was wrote down in a second and sent to the kitchen.
Food came on time every time.The rooms we were given this time were number 6 and 4 downstairs rooms.Spacious clean everything you need.
We were given a mobile phone to use which came in very useful and there was no charge , there is a guest computer with free wifi which my girls took over from the moment we arrived again good to keep the kids happy.
Free breakfast GREAT!
It has all been refurbished in the bar / stage area
The place looks fab and I hear Francine the lady owner Chris's wife helped out a lot , she carved some animals and things into the wooden beams they look superb and she even knocked up a frame with a guy and covered it and made the V.I.P sofa! She is very creative and she plants lots of plants and flowers and does landscaping the flowers are beautiful if you spend time to go look at them.
The room had a tv with cable a bathroom with soap clean towels lots of them all the time and toilet tissue.
The maids are absolutely excellent I need to find some cash to give them.
Bar staff infact ALL staff are incredible they respect the owners and their job and are very nice with us tourists.
My favourite bar staff are clarol and barbara they are so much fun and so genuine there are quite a few others but I have forgotten their names clarol and barbara are my dancing ladies they know all of my favourite tunes and they can dance and will give you a wiggle and a sing and a good laugh when they have a spare minute LOL they are great fun to be around and really care about their job and do it well.So do the others the men too it is just I saw those two ladies the most and bond with them.
I did not have any cash to give clarol and felt really mean but she liked a dress I had so I gave her a dress and a purse which was empty unfortunately so if you have some money to put in it and you go up there and she serves you well tell her tictoc said hi and stick something in it!
You know one reason why I love the staff at seastar is because they will treat ALL of my family really well and nicely whether we have cash for them or not.We can still hang have fun and feel welcome whether we have cash to splash or we want a chat over a free glass of water.
I bet you are thinking yeah I bet they call you names later but I believe they do not I believe they are genuine people and they understand and because of that I love them and when I get some cash those are going to be the first people I go to , to take care of.
Some people in Jamaica will give you really bad service kiss their teeth or just stare through you if you cant dont or wont tip no matter how polite you are to them.
Seastar staff treat everybody the same regardless of race , class, religion or your bank balance.
Chris was excellent with the whole family, always on hand if we needed him or help with something, transferring credit on to my phone, bringing famous people down to visit , putting on shows working hard and just generally being the lovely person he is.
The little christmas tree lights on the palm trees were very cute and I could wake up to it every day!
Security is the absolute best I would not leave my eldest to babysit just anywhere but we frequent seastar and I know how tight security is plus the locks on the doors also we have mobile phones internet access 24/7 guard there and I am never more than 5 minutes away and can get about 10-15 people to my kids room in about 20 seconds so I have no qualms with letting my oldest stay there for a few hours.Not saying I would do that everywhere because I most definately would not, We used to pay for a room for a family member to stay and she would babysit when they were younger or we hired onsite nanny services but the girls are old enough now for a few hours if the place is mega safe and there is a lot of security plus good communication.
I know how good security is this trip as I got told off twice LOL
Once we came back late and we were having a bit of an arguement and security said straight up be quiet dont make me make a complaint about you.So we shut up but it shows he cares about the place and others peace and quiet.
The next time I wanted a piece of chicken I saw a lot of food coming from the kitchen so a guy who works there said I will see whats left I was going to pay he was not stealing he was just seeing if anything left as a lot of food was coming from the kitchen but it was late and security sent him out and said he did not have authority to do that.We had all been drinking he was doing no harm but again top notch for security for watching and protecting the rules!
You do not even realise they are there but trust me THEY ARE and they are very very good.
I do not trust my kids to stay just anywhere like my first week at shields I partied with bert and my husband stayed with them as we do not know that place.
You can also hire babysitting at seastar if required if you have little ones.
The only downside I found was that I got bit a lot by mosquitos because of the lushness of thegrounds but I did not help the situation as i bought no lotion as i can not be bothered applying it so prob half my fault too.We bought bug spray for the room but they still got in mine.Minor matter I think they were getting in through kitchen door a 2 dollar draught excluder may sort that situation out again minor issue.Everything was clean safe and secure.
Oh while I am telling you about secureness,One night my son was going crazy he thought he had lost or someone had stolen his handheld computer console, I said dont worry his little friend probably had it in her room anyway over a day later we found it safe and sound behind a cushion in the lobby I have no idea if he left it there or what happened but thing is it was STILL there.
After the concert there one night I went to bed and had left my handbag on the bar
It was returned to me the next morning.
This is why I love this place, it is safe secure no thefts no violence no harassment and everybody treats you a* all the time every time.
We never really made use of the beach shuttle this time but it is there and is free if you want to use it.
The food had changed a little since last time I was there I did not really have money for the bigger nicer meals just simple things with fries but I hear there are two chefs
and I know they are just fries but they were not consistent.Some days they were absolutely delicious just like I make at home-we all eat a lot of homemade fries
but other days we left them all and they never got eaten and the only reason I can think of for this is that they are either using different kinds of potatoes on different days, or they are half frying them and then when an order comes through just lowering them back in the basket.Or perhaps they just taste different as the two chefs may cook them different.I don't know who was on when as I did not enter the kitchen but that was my only very minor complaint get the fries consistent!
I do not know what the reason was behind the fries somedays perfect some days really not.The good fries chef needs to show the other one the fries situation.All other food we had was excellent reasonable priced cooked and served in a timely manner christmas dinner was lovely the buffet was lovely and well worth it.
We all loved our stay and will definately be back as soon as possible with more money to try out more of the menu.
I will probably add more to this but my battery is running out so I will have to recharge and continue tomorrow.I am at travellers beach right now if you want me or later across the street at westport cottages come say hi!