Pre-Irma - we'd spend a couple of weeks in an apartment just behind Kontiki - happily paid the 30 bucks per day for chairs and usually had lunch and a couple of bottles of wine per day... it was the cost of going on vacation... most years, the staff would give us our last day's chairs 'free' which was appreciated but not necessary. To us, the 'extra' ten bucks per day was worth it - we got two nice chairs with cushions - our chosen spot reserved for us - chairs spaced well apart - staff that knew us and knew what we wanted (two rose champagnes to start the morning...) We generally spent a couple hundred bucks per day on Orient - when I compare that to other vacations we've taken, it's really not that bad...