We've been there several times and we really love the place:
the red palace and its surroundings offer a beautiful coulisse for taking a walk or playing golf , there's an enchanting landscape of the plants, trees and cacti, a magnificent small beach, great restaurants and properly maintained tennis courts etc. and throughout the years of our visiting, the service has been very attentive, kind and friendly!
However this time - end of october 2019 - there were way too much people, the beach was crowded and loud, you had to be there in time to get a seat; because of the large number of small children, who played in the sand, not at the beach front, but next to the seats, your bag, your hair, your book, everything got sandy and the background noise by the children's notebooks and electric devices used at the beach continued the evenings in the restaurant... if yo even managed to get a reservation there!!
Moreover every morning we were woken by electric lawn and garden tools, which were used to cultivate the green. I don't know, if there could be found another time in the day for the lawn to be done or to find some less noisy tools?
I wish, one would be informed, if the hotel was overbooked, because it's a special occasion to go on holidays and especially fly to the The Ritz-Carlton, Abama:
If you have so much noise around yourself you feel like you need holidays afterwards...