We just heard from people at the resort that the new owners of Breezes Grand Negril announced last night that they are NOT turning the resort into a family friendly Memories Resort, but that they will be keeping the adult only format and turning it back into Grand Lido Negril, with the C/O beach and scuba & snorkeling included.
This is very confusing because on Tuesday night they announced to the guests that they are now a Memories resort since the ownership officially changed from Breezes to family-friendly Memories yesterday.
There seems to be a lot of confusion going on there. I think the new owners finally realized what we all have known, that they will lose all of their repeater business (which accounted to about 30%) by changing the format and amenities at the resort. I wonder if the statement about going back to Grand Lido was an attempt to get some of the lost business back. I wonder if they will keep their word this time or change their minds once again and go back to family friendly Memories, or worse yet close the resort in June due to low occupancy.
We were booked at Breezes at the beginning of June. All the guests holding reservations received an email last Friday announcing the ownership change and the format change to a family friendly resort, effective June 1st. We were all given an option to keep our reservation under the new resort format, to cancel or to move to Hedonism II. We chose to cancel, and according to reservations department most of the people booked in June either cancelled or moved to Hedonism. The occupancy was very low to begin with; we assume that it’s next to 0% at this point for early June. We were expecting to hear that they will close for renovations in June.
If any of you were booked at the resort in early June, did you keep your reservation or did you cancel or move to Hedonism? If you cancelled or moved, are you going to try to get your reservation reinstated if in fact this will be a Grand Lido Resort again? If enough people reinstate, the new owners may guarantee to stay open. Please share with the group. Hopefully we can bring back the best resort on the island!