My wife and I went to Grand Lido Braco for years and see a fair number of folks @ Pearl that did as well. If Braco was still a Grand Lido (or something similar), many say that's where they would be - just a lovely place.
As with the Desire properties, you would see weeks and weeks of 4- and 5-star reviews, and then a 1-star. Sometimes you could discern a disgruntled employee, but often just an expectation "miss." For example, for those that may have not have spent time in Jamaica, it's mostly "soon come, mon" and if you're expecting speedy service, well, that's not likely to happen. It was easy to identify these folks because they tended to get, ah, well, "animated," and sometimes that negative review followed. Sometimes the reviews were so "off," I wasn't even sure they were posting about the same resort.
In any event, the resort is the resort, the hotel is the hotel, the cruise is the cruise, and so on. It didn't change because they came, so maybe their research was flawed.