All-inclusive resorts are the best way to travel internationally. They are huge money savers, excursions can be arranged for cultural experiences, and their standards are higher than most local hotels and restaurants. It’s hard to consider traveling any other way once you see the benefits of staying at an all-inclusive resort.
Any one who has traveled knows what a hassle it can be to organize all the details of a trip. You have to consider the flights, transportation from the airport, hotels, food, activities, admission fees for those activities, and how to get around. First you have to come up with a plan, research your options, price your options, book everything, confirm your bookings, and then you still have to pray your requests didn’t get lost in translation. All-inclusive resorts do this all for you, for a set price. Even if you managed to get a better price by booking each of these details on your own, consider the headache you’ll be saving yourself.
Once you’re in the resort, you’ll see all the activities they have available right on site. There’s usually something for everyone. You can enjoy massages, take part in karaoke, stay up dancing, or just lounge by the pool. There’s almost no need to leave the facilities. But, if you’re adventurous enough to leave the resort, you can always join an excursion. These trips, organized by the resort, will usually include transportation and a guide. It’s such a great luxury to have a local be able share fun facts or history along your trip. After one excursion I joined in Costa Rica the bus even made a pit stop where we could buy authentic souvenirs. We would have definitely missed out had we arranged the tour on our own! And it’s an added bonus with these excursions that you’re usually grouped with other travelers. It’s a great way to meet others with similar interests.
The best thing about staying in an all-inclusive resort is how certain you can be of the quality of service you’ll receive. You can absolutely trust that your rooms will be cleaned daily. All the amenities you’d find in an American hotel are likely to be available. And the food is safe to eat. With any foreign travel, you’ll want to stick with bottled water, but at least you know your food was prepared in a clean kitchen.
The icing on the cake: all-inclusive resorts are all-inclusive! Meaning, your trip can be nearly cash-free. You don’t have to worry about exchanging currencies. And you don’t have to worry about where to hold your money while enjoying the swim-up bar! Swimsuits were not meant to carry wallets.
All-inclusive resorts have made traveling effortless. Even being abroad, you don’t have to worry about finding your bearings. From the moment your flight lands through to the end of your trip, the resort will take care of you. You can almost literally turn off your brain and just focus on relaxing. All-inclusive resorts are the best way to travel internationally.
It was obviously hard to write about something that you didn’t believe in.
ReplyDeleteThe ideas are there for a solid story but because you were not convicted to the message it lacks color that you normally bring to your other writing.
A scene setter with all of the amenities that might entice me to pick an all-inclusive resort over the alternative may have won me over. I have been tempted to go to the resort in the Bahamas that has the water park on the property.
The story could have also used more balance between the pros and cons of the two choices – the all-inclusive and the say a Mom and Pop place.
Because there wasn’t a conviction to the topic, some questionable writing crept into this essay.
If this was something you truly believed in great would not be away to describe a luxury.
There were also cases of wordiness. In the first sentence of the fourth graph the last words, you’ll receive , are not needed to express your thought.
A cliché is used as a crutch to start the fifth graph. This was truly the icing on the cake. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
After reading your article, I understand now why Prof. Kalm had the class do this exercise. Having to write about something we didn’t believe in put us out of our comfort zone. This exercise puts even more emphasis on the writing.
Knowing your passion for travel and your love to organize a trip yourself, I can understand how this would be difficult for you to write. Take it from someone that doesn’t travel very often for pleasure, your post almost makes me want to book a trip to an all-inclusive resort! You pulled me in and got me interested. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteA couple comments:
In the fourth paragraph you refer to things at a resort as being guarantees or almost factual statements. You could have cited a reputable website or journalist especially when you said, “And the food is safe to eat.” How do you know everywhere it is safe? It could be that you were going for the shock factor here however it left me with asking myself if you were an expert in this field and if you had the facts to back up your statement.
If you brought out the flip side to traveling on your own more that would be interesting. Writing about the annoyances of planning a trip and detailing events like finding obscure restaurants or unknown villages would add to the post.
This is a lot of fun, if only because it defines something invisible.
ReplyDeleteIsn’t it amazing how quickly we know your voice? Your classmates and I knew instantly that these words are akin to sarcasm for you and you didn’t even have to wink with an emoticon. It’s written very straightforward. Someone who loves all-inclusive travel would probably read this and think they found a friend.
Yet, couldn’t you write a kick-ass evisceration of all-inclusive travel the minute you were done with this?
Everyone tries to pin down my reasons for the Devil’s Advocate assignment. WrightWrong up there said he understands now why I assign it.
I don’t even understand why I assign it. That is the reason I assign it. It’s like a mirror that reflects the individual. It can teach you how to strengthen your argument by giving you a clearer picture of your opposition, but it can also mess with your argument.
Let’s look at all-inclusive for another minute.
I went to a wedding in Puerto Rico years ago and spent a day by myself in Old San Juan walking down side streets and eating mofongo. I learned how I like to travel when I backpacked across Europe years before that.
At one point, two huge buses –they looked like cruise ships themselves– turned down the street I was on. They parked right in front of the Home of the Pina Colada and the tourists didn’t even step onto the street. They went from the bus steps into the foyer of their destination. They never saw a thing on the periphery.
Now I scoffed at the time, but I’ve been one of these people before. Sometimes I’ve had enough of life that I don’t want a stimulating trip to the Far East. I want a beach, a little umbrella, and the kind of sleep you only find drunk on sea air and sunshine in a hammock. That beach could be anywhere. Sue me.
Even though I understand real travel, I also understand all-inclusive. Those Titanic Awards are interesting too in that they explore how we love a good bad vacation, or at least having the stories later. We nearly died!
Most of my assignments are designed to blow up your subject. How is my niche an argument? How is it a different argument? How is it a question, or a solution, a software application, or business model, or a cause, or a movie?
In order to succeed, you have to find the interesting answers. I can’t help you there.