Got back on Saturday from a 3 night stay at Dolphin, May 9 - 12. I sent an email to concierge before I left requesting early check in and a balcony room is possible. I figured it didn't hurt to ask about the balcony even though I didn't pay for an upgrade. We were on the second leg of a split stay with ASSp so drove over to Dolphin around 8:30 on Wens. morning figuring our room wouldn't be ready, and it wasn't so we just stored our bags and went to AK. We got a text around 1:00 that our room was ready. It was on the 8th floor east wing and I got my balcony. The room was clean and no complaints except that our safe didn't work. Since we were only there for 3 nights I didn't want to deal with maintenance so I didn't report it and forgot to do so before we checked out since we did the text express check out. The thermostat was not great, hot as heck at night but I'm assuming that is the usual motion sensor issue. We don't use the boat between HS and the Dolphin, we always walk it so the fact that it wasn't running wasn't a big deal for us. Part of the main pool at the Dolphin was closed on Thursday, we got a phone call about that Wens. night. We like to use the hot tub area so we just went over to the Swan and used the one there, the only problem with that is they have removed all the chairs in the hot tub area so we had to put our stuff on the ground. We ate breakfast at Picabu one morning and they gave us the AAA discount, also got it at Med. Market and at Fuel. We stopped at the new bar one night for a late supper and some drinks and I have to say they were the rudest bartenders we have ever seen. They didn't crack a smile the entire time we were there and when we asked for the bill a book was sort of tossed at us. Seems they put the bills in books, a fact we weren't told so I guess they were insulted we asked for it instead of picking up the book in front of us. I got a deconstructed ham sandwich and the toast slices were burnt black. I was shocked, I don't think a line cook would have sent something like that out much less a chef. I just ate the other ingredients on the pretzels that are provided because I was afraid if I said something to the bartender I would get tossed out or something. Other than the bar, we had good service and enjoyed our stay as usual.
