L Belsick Review of Fripp Island Beach and Golf Re...
My family and I have just spent 7 days at Fripp. T...
My family and I have just spent 7 days at Fripp. There are definitely nice things about our week here. The pools are nice and the easy ocean access from our condo is very convenient. The beaches are are very family friendly and not overly crowded. We also loved that deer are everywhere. That was great fun. Sadly our condo was dirty and had roaches. The furniture is very old and dirty. The seat cushions on the glass top table set are repulsive they are so nasty. Same with the sectional. The deck is nice but has so much junk stacked on it we had a hard time sitting out there. That includes a huge cooler with old wet cardboard/trash and even old beer cans laying around it. . The deck table and chairs were very dirty. The kitchen cupboards are dirty! The carpet is old and filthy to the point of being hard in places. We spent the first day cleaning so we felt a little better after that. The biggest disappointment was the attitudes of the employees. We found the restaurant employees very unfriendly. There is an attitude of annoyance for being bothered by guests (my family anyway). Not just once but every where we went to eat on Fripp. We went to Bonito first and found the food pretty good but the hostess seemed annoyed that because we were a bigger family we had to sit separately due to Covid. I m not sure why that was such a bother. They treated us as if we were asking for special treatment. We told them we didn t mind and asked for the porch area. After much discussion and putting their heads together they agreed to give us tables. There were no other people at the tables on the porch at that time. Amazing... They did ultimately serve us but we felt uncomfortable. We were pretty stunned. The cabana had decent burgers but boy you had to deal with BIG attitude to get it. The woman who appeared to be manager did what was expected of her but she took her time and you knew she was in charge. Plenty of attitude! The 2 other servers were completely nonverbal the entire time. They would not respond in any way. Again they brought your food,etc. but that was it. No communication. We were so happy to get out of there. I have never had an experience like that. The last time we tried to have dinner out at fripp we went to the Mexican restaurant at 5:30 which was the time it opened. My daughter went in ahead of our group to get us in (since Covid we try not to all pile in even with masks)... when the hostess found out how many were in our group she got aggravated. She condescendingly explained the rules to my daughter. My daughter told her we understood and had no problem sitting at separate tables. After a tense moment my daughter asked if we could have 3 tables on the porch.?to which the hostess replied, Ahh No! A lady who appeared to be in charge overheard the conversation and asked what was going on. My daughter repeated the gist of it and she said of course we can get you 3 tables. By this time though things had gotten so unpleasant we just left and got meals out off the island for the rest of our stay. By the way we were the first customers to enter the restaurant since we got there when they opened. Every single table inside and outside were available. . We do not plan to vacation at Fripp Island again.
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