Michael & Heidi

Having just returned from our third trip, and realizing I had not yet written anything resembling a trip report ever , I decided it was about time for us to finally submit my comments, recollections and opinions. I know how much I enjoy reading every one else's report and have finally felt guilty enough to write one of my own.

This was our best trip yet, and I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that it took three trips to finally figure out what we truly wanted in a vacation, and how to make sure we got what we wanted. Rather than organize this trip by day, or topic, I'd rather present it as lessons we learned this trip. As anything related to Hedo (or life for that matter), while these lessons may be highly pertinent to us, somebody else may decide they're just a load of crap.

Lesson #1 Decide each day on some type of general plan you want from the day. We had several days wasted on past trips because we started drinking in the nude pool at noon, were plastered by 4, passed out at 6 and missed most of the evenings activities. Again, some people might be ok with this, but it didn't make for a lot of great travel memories for us. Our plan most days ran like this, up at the crack of noon, lounge around on the nude beach for most of the afternoon, cocktail hour at the nude pool around 4:30, later dinner, dancing in the disco followed by water slide and hot tub. This gave us a great blend of romantic together time as well as plenty of time to meet fun new people, and connect with the people you've already met.

Lesson #2 Remember this is YOUR vacation. For the first time, we realized we didn't have to do anything other than what we wanted to do. This trip, we avoided the main dining room as much as possible. It's not that the food was that bad, but Pastafari's had such great food, wonderful service and air conditioning. We tried Scotch Bonnet one night, the setting was wonderful, but we discovered we aren't big fans of Jamaican cuisine. Some of my favorite memories were our quiet dinners at Pastafari's, just my husband and I. We didn't even eat at Munasan. While we loved the food on previous trips, it was just too hot and the noise from the main dining room is sometimes overwhelming.

Lesson #3 Don't be afraid to try new things. We both did the trapeze lessons and they were fantastic. It was a little intimidating. That platform is a LONG climb to the top and I've definitely experienced nothing like it. It took a lot of courage to let go and trust you were going to be ok. There are all kinds of things like that offered on the resort. Check your daily schedule.

Lesson #4 Visit with as many people as possible. Hedo offers something few other resorts do, friendly, approachable people I met fascinating people that I'd never meet in my own hometown, people from all different backgrounds, living in situations I'd never imagine. Only at Hedo would you meet Canadian nudists who live in an actual nudist colony in Canada, or a man who lives with his wife and their girlfriend (yes, I said THEIR girlfriend). I can't tell you anything more, maybe when you go to Hedo, you'll meet them one day, or someone from just as interesting of a life.

The beach is gorgeous past Hedo. Every day, we would walk down the beach for a good 30 minute walk, there was always something interesting to see and it felt good to get a little exercise.

1. Our room had NO hot water, ever. I think it was probably the most miserable bathing experience I've had in my life. Other people had a surplus of hot water, I think we just had the end of the line or something.

4. This was definitely an interesting week. At the beginning of the week, occupancy was way down and the energy was the lowest we had ever seen. I think we'd been there four days before we even saw any PDA at all. At the end of the week, the energy picked up quite a bit, the butt crackers and the tease um swim models came in.

Michael & Heidi - April, 2005