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We stayed at CBR the first week of April 2008. We were close to the Aruba pool and the bus stop but we were very far away from the food court area.

Although the resort is lovely, I think the island feel could be stronger. It really felt like an all inclusive resort that could be anywhere.

The main problem we had was that we were traveling without our DH's ( which really is not a big deal except...) we didn't have anyone to handle the vast quantities of luggage we seemed to have. The problem was we had a late flight and were not being picked up by ME until 4pm but had to check out by 11am. We didn't have a choice but to call bell services and wait for them since the luggage drop off area is so very far out of the hotel 's main loop. We saw many people lugging their luggage onto the busses and getting off at the nearest stop to the custom house and then walking the luggage the rest of the way. This process wouldn't be a big deal for 2 adults or a family of self sufficient travellers ( which we were NOT)

Overall we enjoyed our time but we will not go back and would return to our other favourite moderates POR and POFQ.