Hedonism II March 3-10, 2007
This is our first trip report and second trip to Hedo II. The airlines suck; we all know it so I’ll spare you the rant on that topic.
Originally I was going to try to replay the trip day by day for you but the truth is, I really am having a hard time discerning which events happened which day. The days at Hedo all run together. The laughter, friendship forming and sexy shenanigans seem to be never ending. This is part of what I call “Hedo Magic”. I’ll do my best to recall the highlights of this very special trip.
Airport:
Immigration line was short, in part because we travel with only carry-on baggage so we hit the line early. Many people did not fill out their immigration forms on the plane. Bring a pen or two and make friends while filling out the forms on the plane. Story: So there we are filling out the forms, I had loaned a pen to the group of college girls next to me (always the gentleman J) and they were talking about where they were staying amongst themselves and so forth. Most were staying at The Point (Pointless Village) and one of them mentioned Hedonism was right next door. One said “Eww! Isn’t that where all the swingers go?” Another twenty year-old replies “Yeah, they all go naked and have sex. I’d never go to a place like that!” I turned around to my wife and we both burst out laughing. The funny part was when said twenty-year old goes to hand me back my pen she asks where we are staying. I say “Hedonism”, the look on her face as she handed my pen back was priceless. We now return to the trip report. The expansion of the lower level of Sangster was just opened and everything seemed really nice. Superclubs lounge is still prominent and easy to find. Water, a form to fill out and we were on the bus in 10 minutes.
Check-in:
We arrived with 4 other couples. It looked like a wait so I went to the bar and got a couple drinks. I knew I was home when I went to the bar, in street clothes and asked the bartender for a couple of rum drinks to quench our thirst as we had just returned to Heaven. With a sincere smile she handed me our drinks and welcomed us home! Gotta love Hedo! We were in our H-Block room within 10 minutes. They had just switched to key cards for the door and were still changing the safes to keypad-style.
Room:
We requested and received second floor so we could leave the window open at night. The room was clean, in reasonably good repair and did not smell of mold. A/C was working when we arrived; we shut it off and never turned it on again. Hot water was never a problem. Playboy channel worked half the time. I couldn’t tell you and don’t really care if CNN came in. Priorities you know!
Beach:
Every morning I would walk down to Delroy’s around 7:30 for morning coffee and save a couple chairs near the Zoo Crew tree. Agustus was hard at work all week and the beach looked great.
Nude Grill, Pool, Hot Tub:
This is where my memory fades. Highlights: A couple comes on a day pass and she gets pulled (ok, we pushed her) into a nude twister game. First time nude beachers, they were! They had such a fun time they came back the next night on a night pass. I think Hedo will be their next trip! Delroy, Scumba and all the others were in good spirits and did a fantastic job. Pool temperature was perfect. Story: The wife of a honeymooning couple exclaimed “Jim, we finally had sex!” I asked her “With each-other?” This story still brings a smile to my face. Trip report resumes. Hot tub temperature was almost too hot at happy hour but always ok at night. You haven’t lived until you’ve gone down the slide (oh about 20 times) at 3 in the morning. To all the nice people I surely woke up on the nude side while we drunkenly tried to recruit others to join us on the slide as we walked from the hot tub to the slide, I’m sorry. We did get an extra six people though!
New and old friends:
We met so many great people that week. A few awesome single males and many couples, some of which we had met the year prior. A special shout out to Ron and Judy, Jeff and Heather, Scott and Belinda, Danielle, Gary and Barry. Celebrity sightings: We did meet Matt the “Mayor”. He is a really nice guy. There was a guy that looked like I thought Steve Martin; others thought a skinny Newt Gingrich. Then the guy that looked remarkably like Hulk Hogan. Matt was the only real celebrity. Hedo is the only place on Earth where you get a running NBH from someone you’ve only met for one week, one year ago. The people that go to Hedo are special.
Food:
Nude grill: Awesome. Dining room: Not bad, some nights quite good. Gala dinner on the beach: Really good, trapeze shows seemed stale. Pastafari: Awesome. Evelyn waited on us and she is such a sweetheart.
PDA:
Yup. Lots of, especially happy hour and after midnight in the hot tub. Along the PDA line, I got propositioned by a prostitute. At first I was flattered, and then I realized it was probably because I looked desperate. Either way, I don’t care. It gave me a story to tell Loni back at the hot tub.
Check-out:
I had a tear in my eye as we pulled away, but a bunch of memories I’ll hold near to my heart for a lifetime. We love Hedo and can’t wait to return next year!