There is a good reason the east has many of the older hotels-the folks who built them owned land there and not elsewhere.
I was here at the time.
Did anyone mention to you that the two sides are only a few hundred feet apart? From my deck I can see both sides of this narrow island.
Any one who tells you the wind blows mainly from the east almost certainly has never stayed on the west. Any sailor or windsurfer will tell you the strongest winds blow from west.