If you have ever stayed in any Marriott Vacation Club 2 BR properties in Orlando, this is on par. Rooms are good size with quality furnishings. In Orlando, the unit might rent for $300 a night before taxes. I know it has Ritz in the name, but there isn’t really much difference form this to Marriott Grande Vista or others like it in Orlando. So at $1,000-plus a night, these are very expensive. But as you will see when you get on island, there are not many really nice resorts - you need to rent a house or villa to get something pretty nice - so they get away with the prices.
Food at the resort is pretty good but expensive, like New York City prices.
Whole resort quiets down around 10. This is not the place for partiers. But it gets dark around 7, so it does not seem too odd.
Now for the only bad news. Every part of St. Thomas facing east has a seaweed problem. If there is a bay facing east, it is likely full of seaweed. My guess is that all the weather comes from the east and pushes the seaweed in. And if you read any reviews about Margaritaville, they have a massive problem. Most of these resorts like the Ritz have small bobcats and guys out there raking it up and toting it away to dump trucks near the end of the beach. This is true at the Ritz Carlton residences as well as at Margaritaville. Today is August 2 and this morning there were bobcats and guys on the beach cleaning the seaweed up. If you don’t remove it and it gets up on shore and starts to dry out, it starts to release a terrible gas that smells like sulfur dioxide or rotten eggs. We were over on Saint John yesterday near Coral Bay, and they had the same problem. But beaches like Magens Bay on Saint Thomas and most of the beaches on the western shore of Saint John don’t have the seaweed problem. At least not during late July early August when we visited.
Oh that’s sad