Heading back to OB this fall. Have not been there is a while.. IRMA arrived a week before our last scheduled trip. Are there still chairs and umbrellas for rent on OB and is the Perch still open Is there still a happy hour.
Thanks for any help and info

There are lots of chairs and umbrellas for rent all along Orient. If you are talking about specifically the Club O section of the beach, again, yes, for sure. The Perch is still open (although no Papagayo's), and yes, for happy hour. I think it is now 1:30 to 2:30.

When I was there, happy hour was announced with the ring of a bell. Thence follows a Pavlovian response, and a significant queue develops for 2-for-1 drinks.

Thanks for the info. Is there still parking available

There is parking all along Orient, yes. If you are talking about the Club O section, sometimes it gets a little full.

What is the going rate for two chairs and an umbrella at Club O?

Club O section of Orient: what kind of toilets and wash stations are there? Used to be some at the Perch.

$25 for 2 chairs and an umbrella

Is there a weekly rate?

Porta potty still there in container. It's cleaner than last year. Not pleasant experience.

No weekly rate, toilets are a big improvement from last year

Porta-potty better than nothing.

Not to be ungrateful, but after 6+ years, might it be possible to have more of a perch structure with some better potties going into a septic tank.

Shouldn’t cost more than the septic service they get now assuming someone actually empties the RV potty tank.

Again, not wishing to be ungrateful, but business has been steady since Perch lite arrived and could probably allow for an expansion of “the shack”.

With all the Club O non-progress and worn out excuses, it is time for some alternate progress with a New Papagayos with real electricity and French water plumbing. It could stay in place when/if ever any resort emerged from the ashes.

TJ--Sorry, due to the legalities, wanting real electricity and plumbing is a bridge too far, at this point.

Club O was never connected to the utilities, everything was generated on site

Yep, made their own

Seems silly that someone can’t trench some water pipe in sand and either do the same for electricity or put in a pole. Lisa and Oliver Douglas got electricity finally at the Haney Place…..so maybe the powers at be could allow that. Think of the pollutants that generator has caused over 6 years. Emmanuel Macron should make it happen.