Re: Garin and SWMBO trip report posted

[JohnnyCastaway]

You can read it  here
 
 Great trip report guys!  Thanx for sharing.
   

[bellagio]

Good report and very interesting reading.
 
 When I was at the PP back in March the Blau was then the Maritim Costa Verde.   Guests did not wear wristbands then is this still the case?
 
 Also, presumably because it was formerly the LTI, it was full of Germans - were they still in the majority whilst you were there?

[Harlequin]

The Blau group took this hotel over at he begining of May, they have hotels on Majorca, Cuba and the DR, we have stayed in there hotels on Majorca and have found there hotels to be very good more like the hotels in Cuba than your normal Spanish hotels.
 
 No wristbands you got a card with your room number and leaving date on never had to show this, Loads of  Germans, Italians some Argentinians and French Canadians, Brits and Canadians were in the minority

[bellagio]

That sounds just as it was when I was there.   As I walked along the beach to where the snorkelling is done off the coral there, all I could hear was German being spoken.
 
 I wasn't wearing my wristband at the time, but I did feel slightly uncomfortable because there were no English speaking people on the beach there at all.   I decided against looking around the resort because I would have stood out like a sore thumb.
 
 Glad to hear that there were at least a few Brits and Canadians there during your stay.

[Harlequin]

You would'nt have had any problem having a look around or even getting a drink. At least you can't understand what they are saying, there were a few groups of Brits on the beach, there is a time and a place for the language they were using the beach is not it and neither is the airport

[bellagio]

Oh you met up with some of 'those' Brits did you?  I've also met up with some of them on previously holidays.
 
 Fortunately at the Melia CSM there were only 76 Brits and I have to say they were all excellently behaved.

[flopnfly]

Isn't it funny that you Brits want to vacation with the Canadians, and we want to vacation with the Brits.
 
 I guess it all works out in the end.     :D
 
 ..Heather

[bellagio]

That's true.  I find the Canadians are fascinating people to talk to and it is far more interesting to talk to someone from a different country than your own.