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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2007, 11:49:37 pm »
Quote from: side_show on November 15, 2007, 09:08:11 pm
Hence: Cuba.  One of our friends is going to an all-inclusive in Cuba next month, so we'll have to find out how that goes for him.
Make sure you pronounce that as kyoo'ber.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2007, 06:50:46 am »
Nothing is worse than drunken college students, wherever they are from.

I highly support your decision to avoid them, and thus would not recommend Cancun or anywhere reachable by boat from Florida.

I've had some good times on smaller Caribbean islands that were not infested with the college, but I don't think there are any all-inclusives on Bimini, and also it's been hit by some hurricanes since I went.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #32 on: November 16, 2007, 06:57:04 am »
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Nothing is worse than drunken college students, wherever they are from.

There is one thing worse.

Drunken college students who aren't sexually attracted to you.

At least if they're hot for you... uhm... you know. You can make up for the annoying with sex.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2007, 07:08:26 am »
I would recommend Costa Rica but I don't know what the tourist situation would be like in the dry season. There may be a high probability of drunken college students. But there are nice rainforests, nice beaches, and delicious giraffe.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #34 on: November 16, 2007, 04:13:42 pm »
Quote from: chuanoplast on November 16, 2007, 07:08:26 am
I would recommend Costa Rica but I don't know what the tourist situation would be like in the dry season. There may be a high probability of drunken college students. But there are nice rainforests, nice beaches, and delicious giraffe.

I have a vision of me, clothing torn, running into the rainforest, with a bunch of drunken frat boys stumbling behind me.  "I guess I'll just live in the trees now. Sigh." 

Actually, Costa Rica would be cool.  I'll have to check into it.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #35 on: November 16, 2007, 05:12:33 pm »
Your own man-harem tropical paradise fantasy?  Maybe with an Abercrombie & Fitch photographer to capture the decadence for posterity - and catalog material?
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2007, 06:09:30 pm »
Oh man I just remembered something totally awesome about Costa Rica. There are crabs that live in the mountains (this is on the Pacific side, near some national park). So while you are strolling along the nice path to the beach, you will see these little holes, then little crabs scuttling into the little holes.

Other plusses: Cute monkeys.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #37 on: November 16, 2007, 06:48:12 pm »
I've heard good things from friends about Belize, but I don't know any specifics.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #38 on: November 16, 2007, 07:33:48 pm »
My SIL took her honeymoon on the Mexican Rivera.  Apparently it's less touristy than a lot of places and cheaper than some of the hot spots (like the Bahamas, etc).  I first read about it in Real Simple's special travel issue this past spring, but I can't find my copy now and it doesn't appear to be available online. 

Also check out Cruise Critic, a site I just stumbled upon.  It looks like it would be helpful. 
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #39 on: November 22, 2007, 09:58:19 pm »
Southern Pacific Ocean.

Tahiti.
Bora Bora.
Fiji.


Hell, New Zealand is an awesomely beautiful place.

And Hawaii is VERY non-American if you do it right, but for sensitivity's sake may I suggest a myriad of other beautiful islands such as

Palau
Federated States of Micronesia
Tonga.


It's a big ol' world.



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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #40 on: December 06, 2007, 03:53:05 am »
To:  Side Show

Re:  Americans

We're everywhere baby, you ain't never gonna find a place that's not crawling with us.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #41 on: December 06, 2007, 03:59:04 am »
we're like kudzu. there is someplace where we belong, where we would be under control, but it isn't any of the places that we are.
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Re: All Inclusives?
« Reply #42 on: December 07, 2007, 12:45:49 am »
I ain't the one that's gotta learn that lesson.  I've got American friends of both the real and imaginary extraction after all. 
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