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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Bintan, Indonesia -- New Year






For (Western) New Year, we made a return visit to the Club Med resort in Bintan. It's been recently refurbished and it looks much smarter compared to our first visit a couple of years ago.

Club Meds are a bit like CentreParcs on Acid. Food, drink, kid's care and entertainment etc are all laid on as part of the price. Being a French company, the food and drink is actually rather excellent (despite being buffet-served). New Year's eve, we were treated to as-much-as-you-can-eat superb fruits de mer (oysters; lobster; langoustine etc) and cocktails ('blue martinis' +hic+).

Entertainment is laid on by the staff who are mainly ex-actors/dancers/singers. I think they come to Club Med to fill in between jobs and like it so much never leave! Again, they're pretty good and some are extremely talented! Buckets of team-spirit. Loads of free sports stuff too (I took the Hobie cat out for a couple of hours sailing).

On the downside, we think the boys have had their fill of kids' clubs - and even of Club Med's circus school. They were reticent to join in. So, this year we're going to have to re-think what type of family holidays we have. Some of our friends take their (same aged) kids off trekking, or helping out with charity projects in Burma or visiting museums etc in Vietnam. Don't think our boys are quite up to this yet!

M

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