My wife and I started our adventure September 2018 at Desire Pearl. If you are so inclined, head to that forum for that report. I was so ready to come back that when a long weekend opened up on my calendar at the end of February we decided to book. Pearl was full on Friday night but RM was open all 4 nights. We decided to book here for Feb. 27 until March 3.
The trip to RM was pretty uneventful. After we checked in we sat at the bar outside and had our first drink. RIght off we loved this bar. So much better than the one at Pearl outside the disco. Much better atmosphere and bigger. Being outside is also much nicer. We go to the room and relax a bit before dinner. Later we again hang at the bar and the show starts. A big difference also from Pearl. The show here seemed much more central to the experience whereas at Pearl it was an afterthought. We did not go up to the disco this night. Instead we stayed down at the bar till 11:30 and then went to the hot tub. We had heard that the hot tub was much smaller. While it is, there was only two other couples in the hot tub. We stayed there until almost 12:30 and not very many people showed up. We ended up going back to the room and having hot sex so, can't be that bad.
Thursday: We start off with our routine from Pearl. Have breakfast. Relax a bit and then head to the pool. Wife keeps the bottoms on but is topless much like the beginning at Pearl. We spend more time on the beds reading and laying out. We do get in the pool some and talk to a nice couple. We see Richard and Lauren and talk to them. Super nice people. Love the Room 77 podcast by the way. Unfortunately do not make it to the class. The people we talk to are friendly as usual but I notice that no one is asking if we are in the lifestyle as opposed to our first time. Now, we have different color bands and so there may be a bit of an assumption. Don't really think anything of it though at the time. This is more in retrospect. After 4 we head up to the hot tub for hot tub happy hour. OK. Now it feels small. Lots of people. Meet another nice couple that we talk with. Head up to the bar after dinner for some drinks. Meet a few couples and something just feels off. At Pearl, almost universally, the women ran the show. Not that the men were wallflowers but every couple the woman was an active part of the conversation and everything else. The couples we met at the bar this night were definitely man driven. Very few words from the women. It was almost creepy. We again skip the disco and head to the hot tub. Don't spend much time there and go have great sex.
Friday. Same story. Breakfast, lazy day by pool. Don't talk to many people. We were definitely not as social this trip as the other trips. Part of that is on us but part of it is the vibe we were getting. It was almost predatory. That night at the bar during the show we meet a nice couple. Again, the man did all the talking. HE orders Mini Beers. These were awesome. We have the shot and decide to head up to the disco this night. I really wanted to go there because I do like dancing and having fun there. Wife not so much. We hang out with the couple from the bar and he orders another three rounds of mini beers in a row. Kind of felt like he was pushing them on us. Suddenly my wife asks to leave and we just go back to the room. Still have great sex. Wife tells me later that after the 4th mini beer the guy whispers in her ear "lets go back to the playroom." We had known this couple all of 30 minutes. That is not at all our speed and just added to the vibe we were feeling.
Saturday. Same story. Sort of. At Pearl by the last day my wife was naked in the pool Today, she had her top and bottom on. We were going backwards. She just didn't feel comfortable. We do meet a few very nice couples that we share our story with who were horrified. They were staying in one of the oceanfront suites and were having a party later and invited us to come by. We head to the hot tub again around 5 and immediately leave. It was standing room only with people shoulder to shoulder inside and outside the hot tub. Not our cup of tea. After dinner we walk the beach to see if the party is happening(I was surprised we even attempted to find it) and it was either over, not begun or never started. We did go to the beach bed and have amazing sex this night. My wife made me ask the security guard if it was OK. It was.
All in all the resort was great. Loved the pool, beach, food, bar, staff, etc. Hot tub was fine if only less crowded. Met some great people but also met some that I would rather not talk to again. There was a real difference in crowd composition. At Pearl it was probably 50/50 lifestyle/vanilla. Here, if there was another couple not in the lifestyle we didn't find them. Will we return to RM? Definitely maybe. Pearl? can't wait.