**First off I’d like to apologize for the length of this, I may have gotten carried away** Hopefully it helps other interested first timers.
I need to thank all the members of this board. After my wife requested a “real vacation” now that we’re vax’d and we both agreed we needed something fun/different/bucket list to look forward to after 14 months of monotony, we booked our first trip yesterday and then I found this little corner of the web. I spent most of today shirking responsibilities and reading forum posts. So again thanks for all the knowledge and building our excitement. I’m like Charlie Bucket and this trip confirmation is my golden ticket...(significantly less involvement with an elderly relative in this particular situation)
We do have a few questions I was looking for clarification on, or just couldn’t find the answer for. For context, we are a mid 30’s married couple of 10 years, together for 15. No Kids. We are not LS but have nothing against being around it and looking forward to our first CO vacation. We have a passion suite booked for 6 nights starting 9/20.
1) My wife and I both enjoy podcasts and books on tape. We completely understand and appreciate the no photography rule but wondering if that means no phones. Is it ok to have your cell phone at the beach or pool to use with headphones while relaxing?
2) Our room supposedly comes with free round trip transfers. We gave them our air info but never received any word of it with the booking. Do they send that closer to the date or should we call and confirm with them? Is the ride pretty decent?
3) What’s the bug situation like in September? Deet and cock skin don’t mix, but Zika dick would be a real bummer.
4) Do y’all go to a tanning bed first? I think the only thing worse than Zika Dick would be a sunburnt scrotum ... I’m thinking some pregame fake sun might get my man skin prepared. Since this is our first CO establishment, my little dude has about 2-3 total hours of UV exposure in his 36.5 years on this earth. Do you put sun screen on below the belt? How does that work when play time starts? Maybe I’m over thinking this but SPF can’t be good for the hoo-ha...
5) What’s the security situation like around the pool/hot tub? With no pockets, I imagine we’ll have a bag of some sort with tip money, phone, a room key, whatever... I’m not talking about leaving my family heirlooms laying out, but generally speaking is it ok to leave pocket contents on the chair/bed while drinking and pretending not to have sex floating around the pool (not that we would ever break the rules like that)?
6) We’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to stay at some really nice places where the butler service was pretty incredible to the point we felt bad how hard they worked. That said, what should we expect here? I didn’t see much in the way of what they do other than bring your bags to the room. What other services are they capable of?
I can’t think of anything else at the moment, but again thanks for any and all info you can share. I have some OCD when it comes to planning travel, and knowing what to expect/ask for/etc makes it way easier. Can’t wait to get there and just unplug and turn off the brain for 6 days.