Yikes! Sorry to hear this. We're leaving Saturday for 2 weeks in Orient Village. Last year the beach was littered with sargassum but all you can do is make the best of it. We enjoyed Friar's Bay and plan to go there several days of our vacation but it's so easy just to walk down to orient beach. How's the breezes? We enjoy it most when there's a nice breeze coming in from the ocean. Are the sand flies bad as well?