diverrex
Contributor
We're booked for a week mid June at the Evergreen Hotel. Was really looking forward to staying there (in the Sea View Hut) then we came upon this recent review in Trip Advisor (and copied below) about a new and very loud all night Reggae club right next door. I don't mind people having fun but when I'm on vaaction I really don't want to listen to loud music all night long, particularly when I'm getting up early each day to dive. Anyone have any recent experience or knowledge about this? I'm looking for some unbiased feedback before I contact the hotel directly to ask about it.
From Trip advisor:
Next door to the nightclub from hell. Expect to get no sleep.
Evergreen Hotel
Stoat71
New York
Mar 7, 2009
1/1 found this review helpful
For three days of my stay, I was very pleased with the Evergreen hotel and my opinion concurs with some of the other reviews on Trip Advisor. This is a pleasant hotel with nice views of the bay, friendly staff and a good restaurant. However, the experience of the fourth day ruined our stay.
Whilst normally a quiet, tranquil place, Evergreen is located next door to the Island's largest outdoor Reggae Club. We live in New York City and are used to a dealing with some noise, especially on the weekend; however this level of noise here was something completely different. The deafening music started at 8pm and continued to 6.30am in the morning. The bass was so loud. the windows in the room started vibrating. I tried to block out the sounds from the club by putting on my Bose noise cancelling headphones and turning on some some more mellow tunes on my ipod. Even with ipod on maximium volume I could still hear the music from the night club. Most of the guests in the hotel left during the night, I think we were possibly the only people who made in through till morning.
If you're staying here when the club is open (Fridays and some Wednesdays) then you can expect to get absolutely no sleep. We were so tired the next day we had to cancel our divings plans for the next day and basically lost a day of our vacation.
I did try and complain to management of the hotel but they were unresponsive. Initially the assistant manager suggested we would be compensated but at check-out, the manager told us the noise wasn't there fault and there would be compensation.
Its completely incompatible to have an all-night club next door to a supposedly quiet hotel. One of them has to go. Unfortunately for Evergreen Hotel, it looks like to club is winning and is going to send the Evergreen hotel out of business.
Until the club next door is closed, I can only recommend AVOID THIS HOTEL AT ALL COSTS. Such as shame as the hotel was potential to be a delightful place to stay.
From Trip advisor:
Next door to the nightclub from hell. Expect to get no sleep.
Evergreen Hotel
Stoat71
New York
Mar 7, 2009
1/1 found this review helpful
For three days of my stay, I was very pleased with the Evergreen hotel and my opinion concurs with some of the other reviews on Trip Advisor. This is a pleasant hotel with nice views of the bay, friendly staff and a good restaurant. However, the experience of the fourth day ruined our stay.
Whilst normally a quiet, tranquil place, Evergreen is located next door to the Island's largest outdoor Reggae Club. We live in New York City and are used to a dealing with some noise, especially on the weekend; however this level of noise here was something completely different. The deafening music started at 8pm and continued to 6.30am in the morning. The bass was so loud. the windows in the room started vibrating. I tried to block out the sounds from the club by putting on my Bose noise cancelling headphones and turning on some some more mellow tunes on my ipod. Even with ipod on maximium volume I could still hear the music from the night club. Most of the guests in the hotel left during the night, I think we were possibly the only people who made in through till morning.
If you're staying here when the club is open (Fridays and some Wednesdays) then you can expect to get absolutely no sleep. We were so tired the next day we had to cancel our divings plans for the next day and basically lost a day of our vacation.
I did try and complain to management of the hotel but they were unresponsive. Initially the assistant manager suggested we would be compensated but at check-out, the manager told us the noise wasn't there fault and there would be compensation.
Its completely incompatible to have an all-night club next door to a supposedly quiet hotel. One of them has to go. Unfortunately for Evergreen Hotel, it looks like to club is winning and is going to send the Evergreen hotel out of business.
Until the club next door is closed, I can only recommend AVOID THIS HOTEL AT ALL COSTS. Such as shame as the hotel was potential to be a delightful place to stay.