My wife and I survived our "virgin" trip,
April 5-12, 2005.
Flight on US Air was fine, getting through
customs/immigration was easy (be sure to have all the forms filled out).
We spent less than 15 minutes in the Superclubs lounge before getting on
the "bus". I as expecting a school bus but it was really a big van, there
was three couples and two single guys. The bus ride was very quiet, with
one brief "bathroom" stop. Check in at Hedo II was quick and easy (we
arrived after 3pm), We had booked ROTH thru DennyP and was given garden
nude (rm 2252), we could actually see the ocean over the top of the ocean
view rooms. Unloaded the suit cases and went to the nude beach.
After brief hesitation on my part (being a "short" guy and all, the
thought of being naked was a bit unnerving), we hit the sand. Nude
volleyball was going on and it was easy to sit and watch. I even went into
the water to retrieve a ball. Then the rain started. It had been sunny in
Mobay, but got progressively more cloudy as we came to Hedo. We went to
Delroys for the famous jerk chicken (which is very good) before heading
back to the room. The nightly buffet was good and the floorshow (Battle of
the Sexes) was funny and I also found out the wife can't fake an orgasm
very well. The PJ party in the disco was good, but I don't really care for
the techo/club/dance music and can't dance, so mostly we watched. After
the awards, we went to the nude hot tub till about 3am (which would be our
latest night). The tub was pretty "active", with many couples engaged in
PDA's.
Our second day started with sun, but had a
very rainy afternoon. This made for a good turn out for the noon time wet
t-shirt contest, wife made a better showing, taking third place. We ate at
the Jamaican restaurant, which was moved from the prude beach to the back
of the main dining area due to the rain. The food was good, but unless
your really into Jamaican food, I wouldn't eat there, since one night the
buffet will have Jamaican food (if your there a whole week). The nude hot
tub was active again, but we crashed before 2.
The rest of our seven day stay was sunny and
great. Basically we spent the mornings on the nude beach drinking water,
the afternoons in the nude pool drinking alcohol, the evening watching the
floor show and after midnight we went to the nude hot tub. It was very
interesting, as people we had met left and new people arrived, the whole
dynamic and mood of the resort changed. By mid week, more singles and a
younger (we're around 40) crowd had arrived.
We did several of the "activities" :
the sunset cruise (a cloudy day with some showers) was fun, with 80% of
the people getting nude. We stopped to snorkel and the on to the cliff
dives (it cost two dollars to jump, which I didn't do). The only upsetting
thing was the number of other boats around with kids on them while we were
nude, I know in many parts of the world its normal for kids to see naked
people, but not in my neck of the woods. I liked the toga party, but
didn't go to the disco. The beach party was a dud. The circus show was ok.
The talent show was fun. Only went to the piano bar twice; once was bad
and once was just ok. We did the parasail which was great and got some
wonderful photos. The nude beach games are fun (I can't play twister but
rolled a few good Boca balls). It is so easy to get Hedo bucks that
everyone should go home with at least one bottle of free rum. Pastafari is
wonderful, definitely go there, we passed on Munsan, didn't want to sit
next to the grill in the heat.
We thought our room was just fine, didn't have
any problem with hot water and the 5 shower heads are awesome. We did hear
some people talk about having to wait on hot water since their room was on
the far end of the prude side. The hot tub was really hot, so much so that
I couldn't stay in very long. We had no trouble getting food and drinks
Check out was also quick and easy, getting
through customs went fine too The make you get to the airport really
early, so we had to sit around and wait for a while before departure.
I want to thank Denny for our booking and a
great website, Chris S. for her great book (if you don't have it, order it
from her website, and take it with you on your trip). We met lots of great
people: Pete and Steph, it wasn't the same after you left; Francois and
Karen; Kate, Steve and Karen; Julie and Scott (hope your knee is better);
Chris and Carlos; Steve and Lisa; Jim and Carrie (at 19 trips, they were a
wealth of knowledge); Lori and Ray; and all the wild people from
Washington state.
All in all we had a great time, but by day
five I was looking forward to getting back home, maybe it was the dread of
knowing I had to leave or maybe it was most of the people we had met had
left and it takes a day to meet new people that I knew we wouldn't really
get to know, or I just felt my time at Hedo was done.
There were Lifestyle people there, at least
from the conversations I heard, but no one propositioned us, don't know
whether to be relieved or insulted by that fact.
The resort was less than 50% full during our
stay and many people who had been there before said it was a slow week,
but we had fun.