This is unlike most of resorts you will find in the Wyndham portfolio, or anyone else's. Here are what to expect.
1) Parking on site for 2 cars. Parking is very difficult in Newport, esp. during peak summer season. You can walk to almost everything, except the mansions and the ocean cliff walk.
2) The 4 separate buildings are vertically organised, such that there is an elevator n a pair of stairs for every cluster of units. Pro, your unit has windows on both ends, so there is ready cross ventilation and every unit can see the water. Con, there is an elevator room on the top floor and if your unit is next to it, you hear it working every time someone calls for it. Ask for a room NOT adjacent to the machine room.
3) It's spacious and oblong, overtly so, the layout didn't make great use of the space with proper furniture; the designer was stuck doing the standard and older Wyndham style, might as well be in Williamsburg, absolutely no nautical references. For heaven's sake, it's on the water at the marina! The full-kitchen isn't up to par with newer properties. My wife would hate to cook in it, but might as well, why cook while on vacation, but that's not the point. It should be well appointed. Setting is for 8 people, though not enough beds for 8, it's definitely big enough to fit 8.
4) They are slowly renovating the property & working on the exterior as well. It's time, if you walk into common area where there is an indoor pool and sauna or tiny gym, you will know what I mean. There is no amenity here, for that, go to the other property at Long Wharf. But I would have to say, the exterior of the building is quite handsome and varied in its profile, feels right at home on the water by the marina.
5) Though the staff was courteous and most helpful in getting things sorted out, I was trying to add a night beyond my original booking then once all set my wife changed her mind, I can't understand why in a mostly deserted resort (end of March), we were assigned an end unit, all the way at the other end away from the water, on the top floor, next to an elevator machine room. I mean, there is almost nobody there! Why wouldn't they hand out the best available room?
6) Know this, which they should have told me, after regular office hours (during the non-peak season), you have to go over to the Harbour Inn for check-in, it's a short walk, but if you didn't know, in the dark so you drive, but it's in the other direction in a one-way street. Such a simple thing to note! And to think that the resort actually called a week before we arrive to say hi and confirm that we are coming. Don't drive up the ramp between buildings onto the tight entrance parking area there, it's really hard to manoeuvre. Just walk over.
You can't really get a better location when it comes to Newport, esp. for a resort. Otherwise, I would stay at the Long Wharf instead, it's much more interesting, varied, and boasts quite a bit of on-site recreational amenities, though that costs more points. I am scheduled to be there 2 months later, will review it then.