We normally stay on the Dutch side - the past couple of years, GEBE has had some issues and, it appears, that a lot of hotels and restaurants have invested in generators. This is wonderful but we checked into Flamingo last month and the ONLY building that wasn't provided generator power was ours - the 7000 building. No biggie, though. We unpacked in the dark (only messed up a couple things)and walked down the hill to Topper's where there was generator power and all was well. I guess as long as you don't have medical issues that NEED power or food that can spoil, the power issues aren't too bad. That said, I don't think we ever had power outage issues on the French side in all the years we stayed there.....