Just returned yesterday from our first trip to Hedo II. Hedo Virgins no more. What started off as the trip from "hell" turned into one of the most relaxing times of our lives.
We started off with travel agent problems. Went through three before we finally had the trip we wanted booked. We were booked for our trip the week of Sept. 19th for five nights and then work intervened. We ended up having to move up our trip by three weeks because hubby is being sent to Australia for a month. We changed our trip to arrive on Aug. 30th. After we got our tickets from the travel agent, we found she had rebooked us for only four nights. We finally gave in and figured that "someone" was trying to tell us something about this trip and decided to let it go. On departure day, we went to the airport to check in and found there were no airline tickets in our packet, only a voucher. Fortunately, the nice people at Air Jamaica let us board without any tickets and said they would look into it. By the time we got to MoBay, the Air Jamaica Vacations people knew about the problem and told us not worry about it and to go have fun. We were then whisked away by the Air Negril folks to catch our hopper to Negril. When they got us to that end of airport, the door jammed on the van and we couldn't get out. Five minutes later and three people working on it, they got the door open. We had a very beautiful and uneventful flight to Negril. When we got to Hedo it was about noon. We were waiting in the lobby to check in when I noticed this guy standing in the lobby having a beer in just his shorts. After about 10 minutes he approached us and started a conversation. A few moments later he handed us a welcome package (Jamaican style) and said he was leaving that day and told us to have a good time. After we thanked him, my husband could be heard exclaiming, "God, I love this place!" Five minutes later, we had a room. Also, during our wait, Claudia, came up, grabbed my boobs and asked me to be in the wet t-shirt contest. I declined.
After dropping off our stuff at the room, opening our welcome package, we headed for the beach. Chris and I are not what anyone would confuse as being hard bodies and we were a little nervous, but we just did it and nobody cared. Of course, nobody cared because no one was there! As we moved around the nude area, it was not so crowded. As a matter of fact, we found out that the resort was only at 30% capacity both sides combined. Of the group that was there, 70% were single males. (Vinnies through and through!) 5% were single females and the remaining 25% were married. About half of that 25% were on the nude side. Now, let's throw in the hard body couples. There were only about three couples that rank in the area that we qualify.
On that first day, it rained in the afternoon and I got a terrible headache. After some Tylenol and some sleep, I felt better. Everytime the headache came back, I went and slept some more. Finally, late that night, it was gone for good. We went to the hot tub and relaxed. One of the many vinnie's in there started making eyebrows at me. He looked so desperate! He was forever named Mr. Eyebrows.
On Tuesday, we were up at 6 am and went for a soak in the hot tub. Then we moved to the beach, staked out a place (which wasn't needed, nobody was there) and went floating in the water. God, that is relaxing! Not a damn care in the world. That afternoon, we both had a massage. It had started to rain when we got there, but it added so much to the experience. I highly recommend the massage. After the massage we walked up to the pool area and we were clothed. We were confronted by this one guy who told us prudes to get out. I promptly flashed him my tits and he started yelling to get in the hot tub (it was still raining). So, we did. Met some great people who made us feel welcome. Later on, Delroy told Chris that he was first customer of the morning and his last for the day and Chris was still standing. He said he was impressed. That night was PJ night and after some coaxing, I got Chris to wear the panda g-string he has had for 10 years. We only stayed for a little while because the vinnie's kind of took over the disco and were being obnoxious.
Wednesday brought the same thing minus the massage, but still had the rain in the afternoon. That was also the day of the Island Picnic. While we didn't go, other folks did and they came back wasted. Well, everyone ended up in the hot tub again, during the rain. We were then treated to a show in the hot tub that consisted of one married couple and one single guy. It then mushroomed to include two more single guys. (One of them being Mr. Eyebrows. He finally got some.) Then two single women showed up and promptly got involved. When we saw the line of white residue on someone's back in the group, we bailed out. We didn't get into the hot tub again! It's one thing to know what happens, it's another to see it headed for you. Gross! For dinner, I made reservations at Pastafari, which weren't needed. NO one was there! The staff at this point had stopped setting up half of the dining hall because it wasn't being used.
Thursday brought the same thing again, but this time we did NOT go to the hot tub. I volunteered to be a judge in the Best Bodies in Motion contest during lunch. When the guys got to select someone from the judges to participate in an activity, I was selected by one guy. I promptly refused and Shaka got me out of it. I am not a center of attention person. I know, what a chicken s..t. Well, you didn't see what he did to his second choice! Toga night was funny with all the different togas that people came up with.
Friday, we floated for awhile before we had to get cleaned up for our trip home. After we checked out, we waited in the dining hall. We talked with this couple whom we had met early in the week on the nude beach. We saw them periodically, but never on the nude beach or pool. Come to find out, one day they rafted over to Grand Lido for the day with intentions to get back before dark. Well, we all know that good intentions don't always work out. They ended up paddling back at 2am while they were drunk. They found out on Friday, that Grand Lido was right across the street and they paddled that whole way when they didn't need to. Friday they went to Couples. They ended spending the majority of their vacation checking out the other resorts. To each his own. When we got to the MoBay airport, our tickets were waiting for us.
Now, you may ask the following two questions, Would you go back? and Did it live up to your expectations?
Well, yes we would go back, but only after choosing more carefully the time
we would go. More people were needed. As far as living up to expectation, yes it
did, except for the demographic of folks. I'm not ageist, but I think a wider
variety of folks would make it more fun. Definitely, less vinnie's would help in
that area.
Chris & Zoe
chrisandzoe@gateway.net