After Several Stays, Our Thoughts On: West Bay Honeymoon Oceanview One Bedroom Butler Suite (WS)
Sandals Royal Bahamian
Susie C. has stayed at Sandals Royal Bahamian four times, and she stayed in this exact suite. Below is her review of the West Bay Honeymoon Oceanview One Bedroom Butler Suite, code WS. Watch her walkthrough video here, then read her full review below. If you have a question she doesn’t answer, you can ask her directly!
The WS is a one-bedroom butler suite in the West Bay building at Sandals Royal Bahamian, and its highlight is the layout: a **separate bedroom + living room**, so if one of you sleeps in and the other is an early riser, or one wants the TV on late, you each have your own space. It sits on the 2nd to 5th floors with an ocean-view balcony, a stocked minibar plus any premium liquor from the resort you want which your butler brings up, and a roomy bathroom with double sinks. It all starts with a VIP Rolls-Royce or Mercedes airport transfer. The resort is only about 30 minutes from Miami and a short ride from the Nassau airport. You’re there before you know it…in the West Bay pool, on the beach, or on the pier heading to the private island.
Working with us at Creative Travel Brands costs you nothing. You book at the same price as going direct, with a dedicated advisor who has been to this resort many times and knows it inside and out. A $98 refundable deposit locks your rate, and after you book we can watch the price and try to apply any drop or new promotion for you. Read on for Susie’s full review.
West Bay Honeymoon Oceanview One Bedroom Butler Suite: At a Glance
- Resort: Sandals Royal Bahamian, Nassau, Bahamas
- Room Code: WS
- Location: 2nd to 5th floors of the West Bay building, on the active-pool side. Elevator down to the West Bay pool, a few steps to the beach, and a short walk to the pier for the private island. Ask us to request the best view.
- View: Ocean
- Service Level: Butler Elite.
- Room Service: 24 hours
- Standout Features: Separate bedroom plus living room, so each of you has space when you want it. Ocean-view balcony. VIP Rolls-Royce or Mercedes airport transfer.
- Resort Access: Private offshore island by boat, with a beach, restaurant, bar, Zen garden, and an open-air Red Lane Spa. 12 restaurants, an active West Bay pool and a quiet East Bay pool, pickleball and tennis, a conference center, and watersports including unlimited SCUBA.
- Bonus Inclusions: VIP Rolls-Royce or Mercedes private airport transfer, both ways. Butler service.
- Deposit: $98 refundable locks in your rate.
- Price Range: $1,035 to $1,865 per night, per couple. Most dates $1,495 to $1,660.* Tell us when you can travel and we’ll find the best-priced dates in that window.
- How it Ranks: One of the more popular butler suites at Sandals Royal Bahamian, thanks to the separate bedroom and living room, priced above the ocean-view club rooms and below the swim-up and overwater categories.
- Room Price Promotions: At the time we’re publishing this, a few dates on this room do have a Last Minute Deal in place: a free first night on an eligible 3 or 4-night stay. These change weekly. Tell us your dates and, if you book with us, we can watch the price and try to apply any drop or new promotion. See current Sandals last minute deals.
- Best For: Couples who want a separate bedroom and living room with butler service. Note it’s on the active West Bay pool side, lively by day. Not for those who want the quietest possible setting.
- Accessibility: Elevator access in the building, close to the pool and beach, but not an oficially designated accessible category. Ask us and we can help find the best fit for you.
*Pricing reflects available 3-night stays for two adults at the time this page was published. Rates, promotions, and availability are subject to change until deposit is placed.
Honest Review: West Bay Honeymoon Oceanview One Bedroom Butler Suite (WS)
All-Inclusive Expert Susie Christensen has personally visited every Sandals and Beaches resort including Sandals Royal Bahamian (multiple times). She knows the resort inside and out. She has stayed in this exact suite and here is her honest review of the West Bay Honeymoon Oceanview One Bedroom Butler Suite. You can ask her questions directly below.
Tell us about the WS suite itself.
Susie C: There are two main buildings at this resort, the West Bay and the East Bay, and this room is in the West Bay building, on the second through fifth floors. The cool thing about this one is it’s got a separate bedroom with doors that you can shut, and a separate living room area. It’s really popular with couples, I’ve got a lot of clients where one likes to sleep in and the other is an early riser, or one likes to watch TV late and the other goes to bed early, and with the two separate areas you can each do your own thing. It has a nice balcony, and I always recommend, and can request, the highest floor possible and the closest room to the beach for the best views, it’s not guaranteed but Sandals is good about honoring our requests, and the higher up you are in the Bahamas, where that water is the most beautiful turquoise blue, the better the view. The patio has a little table and two chairs, we like to have our butlers bring breakfast up in the morning and sit out there where it’s cooler, looking out over the ocean, peace and quiet, then they come get the tray. The bathroom is really nice too, double sinks with a long counter so you can each have your own space and spread out, with little shelves underneath.
How does the VIP transfer and arrival work?
Susie C: With this room you get a VIP Rolls-Royce or Mercedes airport transfer, it’s a private transfer, they pick you up in one of the luxury cars and take you back to the airport in one at the end too. When you get off the plane you look for the Sandals signs, they tag and take your luggage, set up your transfer, and you can grab a cold beer or a snack in the small lounge while you wait, then they call you when your car arrives. It’s a very short trip to the resort. When the car pulls up they’re there to welcome you with cold towels to refresh, we like to wash our face since we’re hot and tired from traveling, then a welcome drink, and you meet your butlers for the first time. They’ll be with you the whole trip.
What’s the butler service like?
Susie C: The butlers are wonderful. I send all my clients a butler preference form two weeks before the trip and help them fill it out, but if you don’t get to it, the butlers sit down with you and go over your vacation goals. They reserve your pool and beach chairs, make and walk you to your restaurant reservations each night, seat you at the best tables, and get your first drink. The minibar is stocked with beer, wine, water, juice, and soft drinks, and because it’s a butler room you can have anything the resort has, if you want premium liquor, or something unusual like rum cream or coconut rum, they’ll stock it, we’ve even had port to sip on the balcony after dinner. They’ll bring snacks and drinks anytime, anywhere, we like coconut shrimp or cocktail shrimp at 4 o’clock with a chilled bottle of champagne for a little happy hour on the patio before the sunset, and some people like cookies and milk at night or a charcuterie board, they’ll bring it. The butlers are there until 8 at night, and after that you have 24-hour room service. Honestly, even if you feel funny about calling a butler, they just show up, ours learned our favorite drinks and would appear about every hour and a half with a new one, we finally had to tell him to slow us down.
Do you really not tip at Sandals Resorts?
Susie C: On the resort, no, it’s a no-tipping resort, that’s all taken care of, the only exceptions are the butlers and the spa if you use it. The one off-resort exception is your transfer driver, since the drivers don’t actually work for Sandals, so they can accept tips. They’re usually very accommodating, we’ve had a driver stop at a store on the way to grab something we forgot, and we once had a driver who did excursions on the side and took us around to see a few things and out to the golf course. They probably won’t take the Rolls-Royce too far, but they might come back and pick you up in a different car. It never hurts to ask.
Is Sandals Royal Bahamian a good resort?
Susie C: Yes, I really like this resort, I’ve been three or four times. Location-wise this room is great, you come down the elevator and you’re right at the West Bay pool, which is the active one with music and entertainment, and the restaurants are centrally located a short walk away. If you want quiet, the East Bay pool across the resort is the calm one for reading a book, so you can do a day at each. There’s a fun area called the Coconut Grove, shady and relaxing under the palms during the day with comfortable couches, and at night it comes alive with rotating entertainment, fire dancers one night, singers or dancers another, and the silent disco, where everyone wears headphones tuned to three music channels and you take them off and watch everyone dance to something different, is so fun. There are two food trucks near this room too, Sweets and Tings for crepes, specialty coffees, and pastries, and Coco Queen for Caribbean bites. One more thing I love, on the top floor of the East Bay building there’s an amazing gym with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the ocean, the workout flies by, and there are little alcoves on either side where we’ve gone to watch the sunset, totally alone, beautiful. It’s also a great resort for groups, the conference center is connected to this very building, and it’s popular for pickleball, there are four courts with lights and a pickleball pro, and people organize games through the Facebook groups.
Which Sandals resort has the clearest water?
Susie C: Sandals Royal Bahamian is one of my top picks for the clearest water, the Bahamas are known for that crystal-clear turquoise blue, and it’s a big reason to be here. The private island is a must, just a short boat ride off the pier by this building, we go every visit, and the snorkeling on the back side is excellent, plus there’s a beach, a pool, a bar, a restaurant, cabanas, a Zen garden, and an open-air Red Lane Spa. All the watersports come with the package, snorkeling with the boat going out a few times a day, paddleboards, kayaks, and sailboats, right from the Water Sports Desk at the base of this building, and scuba is free if you’re PADI certified, or you can take a short class to get started. There are 20 to 30 excursions too, we’ve swum with the sharks, seen the swimming pigs, and snorkeled the Thunderball Grotto where a James Bond movie was filmed. And it’s so easy to get to, about 30 minutes from Miami, and you clear U.S. customs before you fly home, so you skip the line when you land. I can set up your excursions, spa, and tee times before you go.
Susie C: I’d be happy to request the highest floor close to the beach, set up your VIP transfer and excursions, and find the best-priced dates for your trip. Just give me a call.
The West Bay Honeymoon Oceanview One Bedroom Butler Suite is one of the most comfortable ways to stay at Sandals Royal Bahamian, a separate bedroom and living room with an ocean-view balcony and butler service, a VIP car from the airport, and that famous Bahamian water.
There is no cost to work with us at Creative Travel Brands. You pay the same price as booking direct, and you get a dedicated advisor who has been to this resort many times and knows every room category. We can request the highest floor near the beach, set up your VIP transfer, excursions, and spa, coordinate a group or conference block, and after you book we can watch the price and try to apply any drop or new promotion that comes up. If anything comes up before or during your stay, you can call or text your advisor any time, no call centers, no AI chatbots, we save you time and money.
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