Royal Islander vs SBR

I am deciding on a late summer visit (on an II exchange) and have a couple of options.....SBR where I own and have stayed MANY times over 20 years..or a new experience..Royal Palm on Kim Sha....

I saw that RP charges $25/day fee and maybe also charges for wifi which sounds a bit lame since SBR only charges the $50/week TS tax/fee and zip for wifi....If both are correct I would book SBR and scrap the new experience. Comments?

Are you asking about Royal Islander as your heading indicates or Royal Palm that you refer to within your post?

As JD said, are you asking about Royal Islander or Royal Palm? As far as the $25 per day fee at RP, I THINK that applies if you rent as a hotel, not if you're doing an exchange. And before Irma, they didn't charge for wifi if you 're doing an exchange.

The 25 a day at Royal Palm is a resort fee that includes wifi and is charged to renters and guests that trade in. Same at Flamingo.

Scuba thanks....and my mistake with the thread title....I meant RP. Sorry

Just stayed at Royal Palm up to April 30th on an exchange, WIFI I think allowed up to 3 or 4 devices and was free. My total bill for the week was the $50 timeshare tax and that was it, just confirmed looking at the receipt.

Royal Palm is freshly remodeled, they did a nice job with the colors and some of what they did and some of the other items like the appliances probably won't last long but for now it is a pretty good place to stay. I probably would be a bit disappointed if I was an owner with some of the decisions but on an exchange it was a nice choice.

Cheers,
Todd

OK, thanks for the feedback.

Interesting....so no $25/day and free in room wifi..same as SBR....thanks. Conflicts with previous reports but I like it better

Just a pure guess here, maybe Diamond was told they couldn't charge those extra fees on exchanges by RCI or whoever it is?

If you get on the Diamond site they still state there are extra resort fees except for owners when booking a room. Since Todd was there during the soft opening it might have been an oversight. I'll to remember to ask tomorrow when I check into Flamingo.