Stone Harbor Vacation Summer Porch

What a delight our stay was. The Windrift is certainly one of the premier places to stay at the jersey shore. With their exclusive beach front location, you can't go wrong. They've updated the hotel to such a high standard. The guest room was very comfortable, exquisitely decorated and very, very up to date. The bathroom, wow....absolutely state of art. There were four of us, all adults, staying in the room. Of course we were at the beach, not really expecting to spend much time in the room. But, sadly we had a very cold rainy day during our short stay. I'm delighted to say, having to spend a little more time than we wanted in our room was not a problem at all! The staff was great. While we did not eat in the dining room, we did have coffee one morning after a cold, wet stroll on the beach. It was very nice. We also had a few drinks and an appetizer at the bar in the afternoon. That was a great place to sit and catch some golf on TV. The morning we were to check out after our short two night stay dawned clear, bright, sunny and warm. The staff was very accommodating allowing us to hang on to our room keys and beach tags. The room key (actually an elastic wristband with an RFID thingy in it which you scanned and, voila, your door would unlock! got us fabulous beach lounge chairs and allowed us to use a changing room near the hotel office when we left. I wish we would've been able to stay longer. Hopefully we'll be back next year!!

The customer service here is wonderful. The front desk, the vallets, the restaurant staff. My biggest qualm is the cost for the accomodation. This hotel is a motel with some high-end finishes. There is no proper lobby and the restaurant feels like a cafeteria. The food options are nice but limited esp after 7p.

Spent a little under an hour at ICONA at one of their indoor bars (I believe it was level1) on Friday September 8th (weekend after Labor Day weekend). This was choice number 2 as our first choice didn't work out due to the bar being over-crowded during a wedding. We arrived a little after 6pm and got street parking along the athletic fields. The parking lot was busy, as was the rooftop bar and one of the inside bars (another wedding being hosted). The property is very nice and enormous. I'd get lost inside if I weren't with someone who has been here before (was my first time). The 3rd bar we came to inside of the property was virtually empty. We chose our seats based on what was playing on each tv which ended up being right next to the bar top lift gate. Bad idea on our part as the employees were constantly walking in and out of the bar letting it slam on the way down (again, our fault as we could've chose different seats). We had a classic vodka martini and a Manhattan. The glasses were small and felt kind of cheap in the hand, but my Manhattan tasted good. The bartender gave us a glass with ice for the remainder of the drink that didn't fit into the martini glasses which was nice, however the same glass was used with the same watered down ice for our 2nd drink. The total for 2 Manhattans and 2 martinis came to around $60 which is kind of what I was expecting for the area. The bar did the job (we were waiting for a few others who had prior obligations before our dinner reservations) but I wasn't blown away by the bar itself or the experience. A few of the other bars looked nicer on the property but we got what we came for. Hopefully if I'm back I can sit at the rooftop bar that overlooks the beach on a nice night.

I am so over the restaurants on this island. My cousin posted pictures of their sushi which looked good, so I went for some. The sushi may be photogenic, but it is very sad. The tuna and yellowtail sashimi is frozen and waterlogged it has no flavor. The shrimp sashimi is over cooked. None of the sushi is good. This is just another tourist island restaurant that has location. Seriously, if you're on this island, stick to pizza and hoagies, as I've been really disappointed in the majority of the restaurants here. I always say, would I go back here? No. A definite no.

Service was ok, but it was despicable how long it took for the food to come out by the pool. Do not want to come back to this hotel.