It's All Inclusive

Advantages: Lighthearted and humourous
Disadvantages: Reading about a lovely warm location when it's cold and wet outside

...***Background*** After reading the lovely comical novel Size Matters, I decided to see if there were any other Judy Astley books in our local library and found a couple including this one. Judy Astley has written many novels dating back to 1994 but she started out by writing a picture book for children called When One Cat Woke Up. Size Matters was published in 2004 so has been on our shelves for a couple of years and it does make me wonder why I haven't noticed it around these parts before. ***The Story*** Beth and Ned have been going to an All Inclusive holiday spot on a Caribbean Island for a few years now. It has all the luxury that a couple who need to escape needs and also the chance to get away from the kids for a while. Unfortunately the past year hasn't been so good for this couple as Ned has been having...

belfin 22.01.2007 · Read review
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Is guilt all inclusive?

Advantages: a very easy to read book
Disadvantages: possibly only a read it once kind of book

...I was looking for a nice easy read, and very occasionally during my library visits, I will get lucky and find a new author with a range of good books to read. All inclusive is about a couple in their forties who have been going to the same holiday spot for years. They have their routine well and truly set up. There is a group of couples who meet up every year without prior arrangement, it just seems to happen, and they all have a good two weeks basking in the Caribbean sun. This year there will be one difference as we find out at the very beginning of the book. Beth, married to Ned had thought life was perfect until she found out he had had an affair a few months previously. Beth has no idea who the other woman was, and nor did she want to know, but she was all too aware she wanted to save their marriage and the best way for her to...

ang_2906 04.04.2007 · Read review
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Thomson Celebration Red Sea Magic : Fabulous Cruise

Advantages: Fantastic sights, great food, excellent service and value for money
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

...My first ever cruise experience was the Red Sea Magic itinerary on the Thomson Celebration in November/December 2007. I was travelling with a friend as a reward for completing a very demanding project at work and we picked the Red Sea Magic cruise as we both fancied seeing Egypt and the Pyramids. We booked three weeks before departure and paid £489 each for an outside cabin on deck 1. The price included flights from East Midlands Airport, transfers, cabin and full board which I thought was an excellent deal for such short notice. The flight was due to depart at 10.30am and after some minor traffic issues on the A50 we arrived at the airport just after check-in opened. There was a stand just before the check-in desk marked 'Thomson Cruises' where we were given a luggage tag with our cabin number on it, as well as security stickers...

tor0908 12.06.2009 (13.10.2009) · Read review
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A Tropical Haven

Advantages: Lovely setting, great activities, nice staff
Disadvantages: We had to come home!

...waitress service: The Palms-- continental style menu Bambou---unusual Caribbean/Asian fusion menu Morgan?s Pier--- very popular fish restaurant which is situated out over the sea. There was also a French Restaurant that was adults only, we never ventured in here as we prefer to dine as a family but it looked rather dark. The food and service was always very good and we had no complaints at all. Some of the flavors were quite exotic but all the restaurants in the evening also had a children?s buffet of chips and hot-dogs etc when my son wouldn't try something new! If you were hungry in-between times there was a snack bar open which supplied chips, pizza, biscuits and ice-cream all day! Facilities The hotel has lots of sun beds but like most places you had to be up early to get the best positions as they did get...

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Review of Almond Morgan Bay Beach Resort All Inclusive, Castries

Good Resort with more games for all ages and abilities

Advantages: Some games are very easy to play (old and young)
Disadvantages: Still has some sensing issues

...Price: Don't know because it is part of a bundle of the Wii console (Sainsbury's offer of £135.99). It is definitely cheaper than buying the game alone. Overview - 12 games to play, 7 more than Wii Resort and some are easy to play. It is for all ages and abilities. Extra hardware - Wii motion plus included. This add-on supposes to improve the sensing of player movements by the console. If this is true, I can't imagine how frustrating it is for playing games without the Wii motion plus module (see below). General comment on game play: This fun of this game comes from the motion sensing part of the game i.e. you don't need...

volcano 27.11.2009 (28.11.2009) · Read review
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All Inclusive - how the hotels may view them

Advantages: Don't have to budget for food & drink, kids catered for
Disadvantages: If you book a cheap one - you'll get cheap facilities

...taste. In some hotels the genuine spirits (Bacardi, Smirnoff, Johnny Walker etc) will not even be available if you want to PAY for them. Because of the "greedy" nature of some guests (e.g. guests say they are going out for the day and order packed lunches - the maid goes to clean their room and tries to find the source of a bad smell - she finds boxes full of rotting food hidden in the wardrobe!) the staff can sometimes have a poor attitude towards certain guests. If you are in a hotel where SOME guests are all inclusive and others are on half board or B&B, you may find that the "paying" guests get served first and treated better, as well as enjoying a completely different menu to the all inclusive guests. Some all inclusive hotels are built away from the main resort, so if you want to venture out and sample the local culture, you...

Sandroulla 14.05.2006 · Read review
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All at sea in the hands of a Doctor

Advantages: Nice light comedy
Disadvantages: The story and most of the film in general

...Simon Sparrow is now a qualified doctor and working as an apprentice in a practice in London. He finds that not only is he doing all the work while his boss heads off to play golf but his bosses daughter is dead set on getting her hands on him. Deciding his only recourse it to run away he does the time honoured thing of escaping to sea. He manages to get a job on board a merchant navy ship... with no women on board! A trip to a port is something all the crew look forward to but on their first stop on this trip they pick up a couple of passengers, the Chairmans' daughter and her friend, a beautiful young singer. How will the arrival of two women affect all the lonely men on board? Doctor At Sea (1955) was the second of the seven Doctor films made throughout the 50's and 60's and is, like the first in the series, very typical of British...

Ailran 30.05.2009 · Read review
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Moon Palace - all inclusive luxury

Advantages: An away from it all oasis - that will cater for your every need
Disadvantages: Isolated from main resort

...so if you don't have the air conditioning on at night you might find a few friends in the room with you by morning - we were on the ground floor though, a rolled up towel solves this if you don't like to sleep with the a/c on - like me. To cope with the long meandering paths golf buggies tour about all day and will happily give you a lift, some even have cool boxes on and if you want a drink then they will stop and ask you. As its all - inclusive (should have mentioned that) you don't need to pay for anything. In some respects as you walk around its abit like being in the Prisoner (doesn't sound very romantic) but they have speakers disguised as rocks in the verges that are playing music. The hotel is located right on the beach, which doesn't get overly busy as all the facilities are centred around the large pool. The hotel is...

dotjay19 16.06.2009 · Read review
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Pyramisa Resort, Sharm el Sheikh

Advantages: Clean hotel and very friendly staff
Disadvantages: Not up to 5* status

...we saw in the picture when we booked the hotel. It was clean, comfortable, had a sea view (that we had asked for) and had everything you could possibly want for a base. Lets face it, who actually goes to a country like Egypt to sit in their hotel room all day watching TV? There were a few restaurants in the all inclusive package and while the food there was sometimes a bit repetetive, it was actually really good! I don't understand people who seem to want to moan about the food all the time - you get what you pay for and this was by no means the most expensive hotel we could have booked ourselves into. You can get a really bad meal in England a lot easier than you can here. Neither myself nor my partner were ever ill from the food, nor did we think it was bad quality or of a poor standard. There was always something there that we...

thumper81 23.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Pyramisa Sharm El Sheikh Villas & Resort (All Inclusive), Sharm El Sheikh

  Wii should go to the Sports Resort!...

Advantages: Good for all the family, Great fun, Entertaining, Something to do on a rainy day
Disadvantages: Expensive

...each individual mini game in the Wii Sports Resort and scored them out of five in how much I enjoy playing on them. All games on the Wii Sports Resort are suitable for children and the whole family. Here they are! ? ???Jet Ski Game??? In this game you are in a jet ski on the sea, and you have to drive through these goals in the water, you pick up points as you go through them. For this game you need two parts of the remote, one which already comes with the game. I found this game quite enjoyable but it does get a little bit boring after a while, well I think it does anyway. As both my dad and my littlest sister enjoy this game, I think this game is good for all ages and would recommend it to anyone. In my experience with playing the game I find it fun and enjoyable, and would rate it 4/5. ???Frisbee game??? This is...

Ruby.xo 04.08.2009 (07.08.2009) · Read review
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