roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (08/13/85)
I'm thinking about a Club Med vacation for this fall and want advice from anybody who has been there, along the following lines: which resort is the best for sailing? (I've posted this to net.rec.boat to catch the eye of any sailors who may have been there; followup to net.travel). Most of the travel agents I've talked to don't seem to have any idea what I'm talking about when I ask them what kind and quantity of boats they have at a particular resort. I'd much rather go someplace where they have lots of Merit-25's or J-24's rather than just a few Sunfish which you have to fight to reserve for an hour. All the catalog says is generic "sailing". Should I avoid the ones that have special programs for children, or are they really invisible (i.e. I don't want to fight with hundreds of screaming kids for my share of the beach). When is the hurricane season over (we are thinking of mid-October; I don't mind a stiff breze in a keelboat, but 60+ kts. is a bit much). Should I just go to the cheapest one (Magic Isle, in Haiti) or are there significant advantages to spending $100 (or $350!) more to go somewhere else). One of the more frustrating things about deciding where to go is that whenever I let on that I am thinking of any particular club, all the travel agents (and the people at the Club Med office here in New York) say "Oh yes, that particular resort is one of the nicest, how many reservations should I make?". Once I actually caught a glimpse of a big table in one of their notebooks which listed all the info I wanted, but when I tried to look at it, they snapped the notebook shut and got snotty. Respond by mail and I'll summarize. If this has been a recent topic of discussion, maybe somebody has the archives they could send me? -- Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016