Paul - March, 2011
I would have to say
that this was one of the best trips in recent memory. The resort was
full, there was great representation of younger people, and the food was
good. The bars had a full stock of liquor. Anna is pretty much full time
in the nude beach bar and she is a delightful person who is truly guest
centered. I met with Kevin Levee on Saturday, March 26 for about 20
minutes. As a posting on the message board said you can never be sure if
the person that you're speaking with is being totally honest. I think
that in this case it isn't productive to doubt what the person you're
speaking to is saying. Having gotten to know Kevin a little bit more in
the 20 minutes I have to say that I was comfortable. Time will tell.
Based on our conversation Kevin indicated that the bridge will start
early this month. The fans are anticipated to be installed in June. I'm
sure that those of you were going to be there during the summer will
welcome them if they're done on time.
In any case I'll get
on to the trip report. As I said up above this was one of the best trips
I've had in many years. We were in H block about midway between the nude
beach nude oceanview rooms and the tennis court side of H block, 2245.
We are usually in the Library, but without our crowd of friends the
library is rather boring so we moved down the beach a bit to the
vicinity of the Massage shack. We actually made a few visits to the new
pool complex. We always gone to the bar and once or twice we've been on
the barstool in the water but it was rare that I was in the nude pool
and I had never been in either the pool with the jets in it or the
misting pool. For the first time in years I went down to the hot tub
quite a bit. The former prude beach is now clothing optional and we
spent an afternoon down there. At one point we walked all the way up to
the Sandals fence naked. I would have to say that the bulk of the people
there were either fully dressed or topless, but they were probably 6 to
10 nude people as well.
The less good. I
purposely have called this less good because I don't think anything
really was bad at the resort. For those of you who use the wooden float
on the nude beach its’ out for repairs, although it will probably be
there by next week. The air conditioner in our room was actually too
cold and we played a sort of ping-pong game of turning the air
conditioner on or turning it off and opening the window. Hot water was
in abundance. The food will always be an issue, but I would have to say
that it was fairly good during this visit. We went to Munasan once and
Martino's twice. Munasan was OK and Martino's was quite good. We really
didn't have a bad meal at the buffet either. I was doing my best to stay
away from the dessert table but I used the ice cream machine whole lot.
The piano bar was,
well, the piano bar. There was a young man by the name of Daniel who
stripped down and was singing from the top of the piano. Dion called a
woman up to the piano and asked her if she could give Daniel an erection
without using her hands. Unfortunately the woman's husband was not very
pleased about that whole thing and it became an issue but it seemed by
the next day all was well. Another event which I think was over the top
was when he called up three young men who are were at Hedo on a night
pass. I believe that they were conservative Jews in their middle 20s.
They had no clue what he was going to ask them to do and I think they
were very embarrassed when he asked them to strip, but two of them did
so. I really don't think they were comfortable and many of us in the
audience were not comfortable. I will say that Dion asked them their
names, which turned out to be Abraham, Israel, and David. He seemed to
think that was funny. I think that shows that essentially cause a person
to be embarrassed are in poor taste. If these twentysomething-year-olds
were typical American men of the same age I wouldn’t have minded, but
you could tell they were very uncomfortable.
We went on the
catamaran trip on Tuesday morning (reef/caves). We nearly had a problem
when a couple on their seventies wandered about a half a mile away from
the boat. The crew was not aware of them until some of the passengers
indicated they had not returned. They eventually were picked up, but the
wife said she had begun to panic.
There was one thing
that I found disturbing on the beach. On the tree just before the
walkway that goes between room 2125 and 2126 someone had put up a very
professionally done sign saying gawkers should turn right. I would've
been all for that sign except the sign poster decided that he was going
to rip down the signs for the Hedo library. If that is somebody on this
board who did that they owe the people at the library an apology. One
side of thing wanted to take their sign down but all that would do is to
show them that I'm just as bad as they are if you are on this board
shame on you.
One big time problem
was the Wi-Fi. If you were in H-Block you had virtually one or two bars
out of five. Downloading one of the threads could take well over a
minute. I would recommend that you immediately try Wi-Fi out in your
room and if the reception is poor either cancel or get an Ethernet
cable. We had brought our own cable, but the jack in the room was not
live.
There were several
groups there at the time. The Hedo Amigos were a very large group. When
they came on property the main pool by the dining room became a clothing
optional pool, as it has before. I actually used it after lunch on
several days.
It was enjoyable to
have a different kind of vacation as my friends weren't there. My
significant other and I actually had a very good time. This was her
third time and her best one!