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This was our first trip, I am 33 and my GF is 31, we have been going to European nudist beaches for a few years but this was our first time at a resort that also catered for Lifestyle travelers. Before hedo we had already spent a week further down the beach in long bay...so we arrived nicely relaxed and Boooom party time begun!
Reservation/Check-in
A breeze, we arrived early, about 10 am, they gave us clipboards to fill our details in and took us to our room which was ready, they told us if we wanted to charge stuff to the room we would need to leave a $100 card authorization, which we did, all in all maybe 15 minutes, with drinks served while waiting, not bad at all.
Room:
We had room 1142 on the garden view prude side, very near the dining room, the room has been painted totally white and the bedding and towels felt new and comfortable. Safe worked perfectly as did the fridge, TV, iron, coffeemaker etc. The only thing that did not work was the telephone, totally dead for the whole 8 days. The bathroom was OK, had not been painted or refreshed as the rest of the room, the sink basin is very small and filled easily. The shower was a dated multi jet system that always managed to cover me in freezing water as I tried to carefully close the main shower without triggering the side jets. Hot Water was never cold but only once was it really hot, most of the week it was luke warm, on the other hand the sink water was very hot all week.
We are both smokers, and as advised by this forum we brought our own ashtrays which we left outside the room, brought 3 with us and 3 were taken! not sure if they were taken by fellow smokers or housekeeping...
NOTE: this room is on the ground floor, so no balcony/railing and we did not want to leave the window open and despite trying every temperature and fan setting on the ac, some items that were wet failed to dry the whole week, making the whole room a little damp.
The Beach:
We had been told on this forum that the beach was not on par with the rest of Negril's 7 miles of paradise beaches and this was definitely the case, the nude beach was probably the worst Caribbean beach we've ever swam at , especially towards the rocks side , a little better down the other side towards the nude/prude boundary but definitely not hedos strong point, while we were there, most people just floated out to deeper water to avoid stepping on the grass/urchins and swam out where the water was deep enough not to worry about what lied beneath.
The actual 'dry' part of the beach is nice, white soft sand, although a little tight to find shade under the tree during the middle hours of the day.
Watersports:
Loved the free diving (although the dives are nothing special compared to many other countries) , most of the reef is dead some say due to dynamite fishing...
the snorkeling as the diving was ok, but again really not a strong point when compared to diving hotspots like the Bahamas, red sea, Thailand etc...still though, for free...take three!
and we had fun on the little hobie cats (managed to get in trouble for taking it to booby kay island and making a landing)
Pools:
We are not big fans of pools, mainly due to chlorine so we didn't not spend much time in the pools/main tubs but they were always full and clearly the focus of the fun.
The hot tub in particular was (understandably though) so full of chlorine it made my eyes water, so again we did not hang around there too much.
Nude Bar/Nude Grill:
Now these were our main hangout spots, especially the nude grill manned by the awesome Steve Nunes! steve was awesome in accommodating every request for customized food orders once we were bored of the standard offerings...from using the nightshift's pizza toppings in burgers to conjuring up different marinades to fish and chicken, steve was awesome.
At night the pizza lady was little less accommodating to customizations etc, but at 3am drunk and stoned any pizza still tasted great!
The nude bar staff were also cool, but we did wish they had a few more fresh fruit ingredients to make the blended drinks, especially fresh limes, using fruit syrups for frozen drinks doesn't seem to fit right with all the lovely top shelf booze they had on offer. Also I really wish they had some kind of energy drink/mixer at the bars...(jaeger bombs!)
Dining room and restaurants:
We enjoyed the food, good variety of dishes, lobster/sushi night was great, and I loved the suckling piglet as well as the roast leg of lamb, and the ice-cream machine...really wish they had one of those down by the nude beach...tried both restaurants, the Japanese was fun , maybe a little salty but definitely a good night and a good chance to mingle with new people due to the random/mixed seating allocations. Martino's was also good, but I definitely rated their meat dishes above their pasta dishes, the lamb rack/chops in particular were really good.
Nude Beach Entertainment:
during tom's trips no swimsuit week most days they would bring their own dj to the nude pool, he played only American music,
we preferred the ec's selection as they played more reggae and Jamaican music than rocknroll and country,
so when we herd him take over it was a good excuse for us to get off our lazy asses and do some watersports...but most of the crowd did seem to like his sets...
we really did enjoy the ec's games et down there, from trivia to general drinking games they were always there to try and get you involved and punish you with shots should you dare talk back to them! I think one day Winston had it in for me and I was 6 shots down before noon...day written off lol...won loads of hedo bucks (some were even donated by fellow guests) and we managed to take home a couple freebies, although not sure where we'd ever wear them in public
Piano Bar/Disco:
piano bar was fun but often hard to get a seat or a drink, some people left before the end of the main stage show to get seats there, we always strolled in late so never really got to sit at the heart of it but definitely it was buzzing every night and we were actually really impressed by some of the guest singers. the disco never really took off while we were there, also there was a funky smell in there...so after the piano bar we would try go to the disco, but most of the times just ended up leaving it after a few minutes, and heading towards the nude beach bar...which we soon realized at night is the best place to have a conversation as its the only bar without loud music...
Miss NO Swimsuit Week:
special mention must go to the awesome glow party thrown by DJ island, I would have loved to see an aerial shot of the whole pool deck glowing ...when we finlly reached our room that night and collapsed on our bed we both wet ourselves loughing as our whole room was still glowing in the all the mirrors etc from all the freebies they had given out.
Gift Shop:
Very Very overpriced but good range, there is a gas station les than 5 mins walk out side the resort where things are at least half the gift shop prices (redbull/cigarettes) and if you can be bothered to go to town then you will pay a quarter of what they charge but for convenience and being able to charge items to the room I guess it was quite good...
LIFESTYLE ASPECT:
I'm not gonna lie, this was the first time we saw open public sex and after the first 12 hours my gf had her bags packed and was ready to check out...it took a bit of calming on my part to get her to stay and give the place a go instead of just bailing, and after a morning on the prude side she herself wanted to go back to the nude side... and as expected within a couple of days we became de-sensitized to the random bopping heads on the beach or the tub antics,our instinctive reaction to the 'antics' was to turn away or leave, which somebody later explained is not the best course of action to take when some action goes down near you, so after a few days we were cheering for the 'performers' and in general were able to have a good lough about the antics that went on around us...although there was one situation involving a nonagenarian lady that I am not sure I will ever be able to erase from my memory...
I think we were one of the youngest couples there, and we did get a few offers to play, we weren't interested in involving others in our thing so we politely declined the offers and 99% of the time it was ok, only a couple individuals were a little more persistent so they needed to have things spelled out a little clearer but nothing serious, just drunk people forget what they are told so they need to be told again sometimes...unexpectedly some of the more 'predatory' offers came from ladies rather than men.
OVERALL:
We really met loads of fun people with great stories and actually made a couple friends that we will hopefully keep in touch with...and we really enjoyed the whole party hard while naked thing, this 'social' aspect of nudity is not very common in Europe where nude beaches don't tend to be very chatty or social but more people trying to stay out of each others way, and also it definitely helped us broaden our views on the lifestyle and expunge some of the unnecessary concerns we had prior to going...
We are not big drinkers and we really hadn't partied this hard since freshman week in college, about 3 days in I had nearly lost my voice... all in all it was a great way to bring out some of our lost party spirit and get us off our lazy asses
We had some really awesome moments between ourselves, there really is something that charges the atmosphere there which leads to great sex and having to keep up a nominal 'guard' allows for great complicity and lots of giggles....
I bet within a few years we'll be back as right now I just cannot imagine going to a 'boring' resort where I can't throw my clothes off at 2 am, ride a waterslide butt naked and then run to the nude side to get a warm pressed towel and go enjoy a pizza, a joint and a cognac all while chatting shit till the early hours of the morning...
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