The staff is awesome! Especially the front desk gi...

The staff is awesome! Especially the front desk girls - they could not be more friendly! Two problems though... The first is that not only do they charge for WiFi, but they charge heavy!!! I got around this by going to the local bluesky cell phone provider and getting a prepaid sim card for my Verizon phone which is not supported by Verizon on American Somoa. The WiFi hotspot on my phone worked flawless down there and the girls at bluesky must do this for a good number of people as they knew exactly what I was there for before I even finished my sentence and had me out the door in less than 10 minutes! (Cost $25 for 2gig data, plus my phone and texts were covered)

The second problem is that I went straight to Tradewinds from the airport when I landed and it happened to be around 7:30 am. Upon check in they had rooms that were clean because they were not booked the night before, so you would think they would be fine with me checking in early (I was just going to leave my bags in the room and then head to the national park). I've checked into hotels before check in time all over the world and as long as they were not sold out the night before I've never paid anything for this little convenience -EVER... Tradewinds wanted $80 for this!!!! (I said no and returned at 2pm).

To give Tradewinds some credit they did have a good shuttle service waiting for everyone upon landing at the airport. I guess they also have rental cars, but I did not know this ahead of time and I rented from Avis. Also the room was clean and I really liked the tile floor in the room.

I'm still in awe what they were charging for WiFi (see picture). People may say" it's hard to get internet on the island"... All I can say is that my sim card from bluesky worked PERFECT and fast (almost all ways 4g all over the island). Other peoples reviews said the hotel WiFi was slow and had problems cutting out.