The property is new and beautiful. The beach is far nicer than Hedo and with few rocks. The disco is modern and spacious and not overly loud.  The resort staff are wonderful without exception. As with other Mexican resorts, you realize that English is not their first language, not generally a problem unless you want to talk about more than the usual tourist topics. In Jamaica their first language is English. (Yes, the Jamaican patois is a dialect of English.)

There are some odd design ideas. The pool has 14 piers marking the sudden drop from 2’ to the deep end. They’re spaced 9" apart so you can only get your legs through sideways, this with the sudden drop to 5’ on the other side. It’s as if they planned it to cause accidents. The rooms have no shower curtains. Our two rooms each had two short walls sticking out from the corner to make a shower, another had a tub and shower, still no curtain. If you’re in the bathroom, you share the shower. Another odd thing is the curtains for the windows in the room doors, which open inward. The curtains are hung on the wall above the doors and don’t move with the doors. If you want to leave the room with the curtains closed, good luck!

The brochure promises either queen or king beds. Imagine our surprise to get a DOUBLE bed! It felt like a half inch of cotton on rock. They count a 5’ wide bed as a queen. When they let us move to a room with a king, I found this one had about an inch of foam pad added, a big help. There is a TV, a little 19" set with several cable channels, some actually in English. There is a nice clock radio and CD player. I’m a broadcast engineer and never found a way to set the alarm time. Clocks in both rooms we had inexplicably beeped about 30 seconds each midnight. Yes, we were often back in the room by then.

Many complain about the food at Hedo (I generally don’t), but we were REALLY disappointed with the food at Desire. Never having developed a taste for Mexican spices, I lost weight at Desire. If you don’t like the featured food, there are few alternate choices. Our first night there, I was reduced to eating cold ham slices from the cold cuts bar. No sandwich bread is available. I paid too much to have no hot food!!! Hedo always has a big selection so I always get a decent meal. Not at Desire! On Friday they had "Grill Night" and I was delighted to find freshly-cut roast beef (like at Hedo) and pork tenderloin. Unfortunately, the tenderloin had no perceptible flavor and the beef was so tough I gave up after a few bites.

Breakfast waffles and pancakes were quite good, as was the sausage, but the bacon was very hard to cut or chew, and was oddly in little curls. Kay tried a BLT for lunch, and the bacon was still the little rolls of tough meat, which just doesn’t work on a sandwich.

We did eat at the international restaurant and that was excellent! The beef was GREAT and tender, the only time all week I ate beef that could be cut with an ordinary knife. However, since this is the one fine restaurant you must reserve it well ahead. You wait a long time for the food so the meal takes about two hours. Go with someone you like to talk to, because that’s a lot of waiting.

This is an area with a lot of swamps, so they have many mosquitoes! We brought many bites back with us. They spray the whole resort at sundown, a blue smelly fog. The one day we opened the door at the wrong time the smell came in. Kay had a headache for an hour. Small ants were everywhere; mostly in small numbers, but everywhere! Some days flies were plentiful in the restaurant.

We went to Desire because it’s a "Lifestyles" resort and we really enjoy Lifestyles weeks at Hedo II. Desire is "clothing-optional" vs Hedo’s "nude" side. Still, we’ve been to MANY clothing-optional resorts and I’ve NEVER seen such a high percentage of people who don’t go nude! Maybe clothed voyeurs are part of a "Lifestyle" but it reduces the comfort level for those of us who get with the program.

Hedo has small tables in the pool and seats along the side, which encourages meeting new people. There is nothing like that at Desire. At Hedo there is entertainment and dancing in the same room, so people meet there. Not at Desire, where you come to the restaurant, eat, and leave. The weekend-only band plays by the lobby pool, weather permitting.

At Hedo you can look over to see who’s in the hot tub, but at Desire you have to climb 41 STEPS to even see it! The hot tub is less than half the size of Hedo II nude and the sides are sloped so you can’t comfortably sit and lean back. The brochures claim "97 degree hot tub" but the temperature was all over the place. We were at the hot tub until after 1 am and never saw a "Public Display of Affection" except one couple who MAY have been having sex. This claims to be a "Lifestyles" resort and it is boring.

The pool is where most people go during the day. There is very little shade except at the end by the twice-daily water volleyball games, where the ball hits the chairs frequently. The most "Lifestyles" activity I saw was when a man quickly kissed his wife’s breasts. People act as if children were watching.

Every afternoon the Entertainment Crew puts on several Bingo games at the pool. Oh yeah, just what we came here to do! We went to the room for morning naps, afternoon naps, and evening naps. There’s never time for that at Hedo. At Hedo II, by the end of the second day, I’ll know names and more from about a dozen people, and at the end of the week that will be about 30 people. At Desire, that number reached SIX for the week!

Kay overheard a Texas woman say "This place sucks. More goes on in our bar back home!" That sentiment pretty much matched what other Hedo veterans said. To show how much fun we had (NOT), the high point of the trip was taking pictures of several five-foot crocodiles who live in the swamp in front of the lobby.