Mate
Go to the right hotel in the right place and you'd love it.

Right up your street.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:57, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Really?
They seem to be the polar opposite of what I want from a holiday.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:59, Reply)

The prospect of being tied to a resort because the booze and food is free fills me with dread.
See also deliberately seeking out British bars and food because you don't trust the local stuff. That's the whole fucking point of going on holiday you buffoons, not sitting in the Sunburnt arms watching videos of Mr Bean and drinking lukewarm John Smiths.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:02, Reply)

The best holidays I've had have been in private apartments rented off their owners,
This has been far and away the best thing for my kind of holiday. There are of course plusses to the luxury hotel thing but I don't think it's 'my thing'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:04, Reply)

Every time we go to Kos
we stay with the same family in one of their apartments. They're as basic as hell, but that really doesn't matter. It's on the edge of Kos town, there's a bar and pool on site if you want to make use of them and loads of tavernas nearby. Plus, unrestricted access to loads of ruins and stuff.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:07, Reply)

Long haul, quiet resort, has to be some stuff to do outside the resort
but otherwise high end booze and food on tap 24 hours!!

Not Cancun or it's like. Or Europe. That's for cunts.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:03, Reply)

I just don't like 'resorts', not even 'high end' ones.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:05, Reply)

The posh hotels aren't like resorts these days.
They rooms tend to be villas on their own.

Everything else is like a restaurant.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:07, Reply)

TBH as stunned poster says
you can get some great ones. I would generally agree with you regarding resorts and have done some cheap horrors out of desperation, However I have been on a couple that were great, and you could travel around etc. free of the resort but it was handy to have it as a base.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:08, Reply)

I've done 2 Maldives holidays that were spectacular
but it is two weeks doing absolutely NOTHING.

I don't have a problem with this but some people need to do stuff.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:13, Reply)

The odd day of doing fuck all I can cope with.
But a whole fortnight of it would drive me crackers.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:15, Reply)

the jamaica one
I scuba'd, horse rode... walked along the beach to a local bar and drank heavily, etc. as I said lower down it just depends on the type of resort really.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:23, Reply)

Yeah, fair enough.
My bird's the same.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:27, Reply)

Yeah, me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:53, Reply)

I like the ones where prostertution is legal and the age of concent is nice and low, about 12 does it.
The trouble is with a lot of them, homosexuality is illegal... win some lose some.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:29, Reply)

From the pre-pubescent boys of the third world there is a collective sigh of relief.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 11:39, Reply)