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What makes a resort work for fifteen people
Room blocks, one bill, and whether the restaurant can actually seat you together. Most of them can't.
A resort that is wonderful for two people can be quietly hostile to fifteen. The brochure never says so. You find out at dinner, when the restaurant seats your crew as three tables of five with forty minutes between them.
We are choosing a resort for a fifteen-person trip right now, so this is not theory. Here is what we ask before a property makes the shortlist.
The three questions that filter fastest
One: can the rooms sit near each other, and is there a real room block with a hold date, or just a promise? Two: can the group get one bill, or will checkout be an hour of receipt archaeology? Three: will the main restaurant seat the whole crew at once, and does it take a reservation for that?
Every one of these is a phone call, not a search. Calling and asking is apparently novel.
The property below is the current front-runner, mostly on the strength of adjoining suites and a straight answer about the bill.
The rest of the shortlist, honestly compared, lands in its own piece once the crew has voted.