October 24th to November 3rd, 2002
We've been to Hedo before but never on this special week. After reading about the Halloween and Anniversary activities we decided to give it a go. It would be nice to try a new week where they were monotony breakers and completely new people to meet.
I won't bore you with the travel details other then to say it was the quickest and easiest of all our trips. The bus ride NOT FROM HELL only took about an hour and a few mins. Of course we never thought it was that bad in the first place. Chad with his glass half full!
Check in was easy and we got our requested area, "H" block 2nd level with a view of the Banyan Tree. Only room problems were the coffee machine didn't work and no provided alarm clock. I suppose we could have called the front for new items but we weren't very concerned.
We did some minor decorations for Halloween and this time around we remembered to bring a few special things.....candles and CD's. I also brought a MP3 walkman that feed it's sound to a IROCK music gadget. It allows for wireless transmission to any stereo, house or car. Otherwise I was able to play several CD's holding up to 160 songs per CD, thru the room boombox wirelessly! Chad <-----TECH GEEK!
Apologies for to my neighbors for playing Dean Martin too much while getting ready for dinner.
Moving along. Resort was looking nice and the new improvements were in fact an improvement! We had a very active vacation. Over the course of the 10 days we never left the resort yet we played lots of volleyball, pool games, did some weights, ping pong, trapeze, rock climbing.....bla bla bla.
We quickly bonded with several like couples and started enjoying our time there. We're 30 and 26 and we can make friends with any age but in reality it helps to have a few couples near your age. First part of the week we pretty much hung out alone till we meet 4-5 other couples and formed a group of friends to be with. Again, we don't mind any age but with like ages come like interest and similar Hedo activities.
Several of the wifes/girlfrineds in our group decided to participate in the Miss Hedonism Pageant. With my glass still half full I'll say they'll all never do it again. They enjoyed the experience but the extreme lack of origination and time required frustrated many of the participants. Also many repeat guests were appalled by the winner of the contest although it didn't shake us up much. (all the ladies spent days preparing for an elegant pageant and the winner won by pure obnoxious shenanigans) All in all they had fun in the end.
Highlights of our vacation: Dancing with our new Latino friends learning how to move our steadfast hips to some salsa, being with the one you love for 10 straight days, socializing with the ever cool staff members, meeting some very fun guests and just having typical Hedo great times.
Negatives: Not many other then a few days of extreme confusion with the pageant. Oh, I don't think we'll do the second level again...to much dark stair climbing.
Our best prank: putting candy all over Rita's bikini wearing body for the EC staff as they went from room to room trick or treating. Should have seen they look on their faces!! :-)
Things we forgot to do: paint a rock, get drunk before noon and bring a pen on the trip down.
New things we did: venture to the prude blocks for a peak, slept on the hammock under the stars, closed out the disco and spent an afternoon on the beach vs the pool.
Point to make: Consider taking some time out of your vacation to get to know the employees at the resort. They're people too and they really appreciate that genuine-sincere attention you can provide in just a few minutes per day.
The Halloween Anniversary week is a great time to visit!!!
Thank you Ruth & Eric, Ian & Beckie, Nicole & Tom, Jamie & Nathen, Rolando & Maria, Tracy & Deborah, Harold & Kathy, Tony, Holger and Lcia and all our other new Hedo friends for making our trip very special.
Mucho amor amigos!
Chad and "Rasta" Rita - laglazer@aol.com
