The BLAU Costa Verde Robyn & Paul's Review

The BLAU Costa Verde, Holguin, Cuba

The good the bad the ugly:

+++Positives:

• Uh you are in Cuba and not in the snow
• Staff is very friendly and kind and patient
• Clean
• The grounds are well kept
• Bars bars and more bars
• The Italian restaurant is the absolute best, use one of your restaurant a la cartes to go there. We also ate lunch there everyday! Chef's pasta of the day, Pizza bolognese or chicken or vegetarian and also the calzone yummy in the tummy
• Snorkelling!!! But bring your own mask and snorkel
• The lemonade, orange, strawberry slush
• Green eyed "adult" beverage
• Walking on the beach
• At the buffet there is always something you will like, just might need to look for it
• Beach, soft sand, lots of sea shells and plenty of shade/sun depending on which you desire.

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---Cons:

• Must pay for Wifi and the government can control it meaning when you can access it.  We lost it for a day and a half.
• Two tier resort...they have an upgrade scheme. If you pay you get a newer room, access to other a la carte restaurants, another pool
• Entertainment could be upgraded. More variation
• Water temp changes frequently in the shower, from your chosen temp to extreme hot
• Snorkel entry is rocky but if you take a few steps down the beach it is gorgeous sand
• Signage not super clear
• In room fridge water is replaced but not the two pops or beers (but in the upgrade rms they would be replaced)
• No wash cloth in the bathroom
• Beach is a little tight.

Redo Robyn's Room

So as mentioned before redoing my bedroom is on my list of things to do for my house.  As you can see I have started to pull off the wainscotting panels.  I hope to reuse most of them in the laundry room/mudroom just to make it look nicer.  

The colours I was leaning towards were gray and yellow (a la National Geographics) or coral and gray but now I saw cream with a dark teal and really like it...

I will, no matter what use the chair rail to divide the two chosen colours but I plan to move it up; so it is just placed above the light switch height, 4ft approx?

The ceilings are high so although the bottom colour (gray or dark teal) will be mostly what you see when you initially walk in, the other colours (yellow/coral/cream) will be carried up quite high.

Can anyone say painting party?