Okay so after a good night's sleep we were up and out of the room for breakfast quite early. The drinks I can tell already are watered down like mad. We were throwing them back last night like they were going out of fashion and still went to bed feeling sober and woke up without so much as a headache (not impressed lol). We didn't say when we were at Manchester should we get a bottle for the room so we could have a drink while we were getting ready but then thought better of it. I would have to drink my own body weight in All-Inclusive drinks to get p1ssed here (and believe me my body weight is a lot at the mo). Needless to say I didn't bother going on the pre-holiday diet as it was all booked quite late. Short of having my mouth wired up I don't think many diets could get me slim and ripped in 6 weeks.
This is the room and view from our balcony...
Breakfast was the usual All Inclusive set up. A man on the omelette station with dishes containing chopped ham, onion, tomatoes, peppers, cheese and some non-descript meat looking thing (could be chicken). It seemed like he had a 3 ingredient memory capacity because if you asked for more than 3 ingredients in your omelette you never got more than the last 3. This wasn't just me I saw a few people fall victim to the omelette omission. As well as omelette and fried eggs there was fruit, yoghurts, cold meats and cheese and lots of sweet pastries. All of which were different shapes and sizes but I soon discovered all tasted exactly the same.
After breakfast, we went back to the room to get stuff for by the pool and then headed down to get a sunbed. We had a scout around for a towel kiosk thingy only to find we needed to get towel cards from reception and pay £10 deposit each. Eddie wasn't best-pleased cos they didn't tell us on arrival lol. We eventually set up camp in a quiet pool area to catch a few rays. Eddie can lay in the sun for hours with his music on and be quite content. I get too hot and restless and probably last half an hour at best. Then I am up dipping in the pool or going to the bar.
I read some of my Gary Barlow book for a bit by the pool and then was up and restless, going to and from the bar for drinks (not because I wanted a drink obviously just for the exercise ;-) After we had lunch Eddie went on the water slides. He absolutely loves them. I get a buzz watching him like a big kid running from one to the next lol. I sat in the shade for a while waiting for him to pop out of when of the tubes, after a few minutes I heard this loud girl scream and then out popped Eddie lol. I just caught him coming out the end, sadly I missed the scream.
I have promised I will go on some of them with hi tomorrow as some of them you have to go on in 2's in a double ring. He has no fear and will just throw himself down even really steep ones. I end up talking myself out of it if I think about them too long. I have to just go up and straight on em. It's usually best if there is a queue so you have people behind you waiting so you can't back out lol.
After the slides, we grabbed some lunch. All-inclusive food tends to be much of a muchness and you can get bored of it within a couple of days unless they do different themes each day as some do. I think as I am getting older I prefer a different kind of holiday and its nice to eat in proper restaurants and be waited on rather than queuing up at the pig troughs to pile yer plate up with shite. I mean some people have ten tones of stuff for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You wouldn't eat that much at home, but it's that Brits abroad mentality of "we've paid for it so we are making the most of it all".
Quick Siesta and shower and then it was round 3 for dinner. It is already starting to be predictable on the food front. There was a pasta station where part cooked pasta was in various bowls, you would choose your pasta and Fatima would give it a quick bath in boiling water and then you threw yer own sauce on. Salad bar with various leftovers chopped up finely into a chopped salad (there's no fooling me lol) and large bowls of various colours of vegetables grated. A meat section and then pizza's chips and then the usual overcooked vegetables and a rice dish of some sort. Desserts were fruits, yoghurts and then a couple of cakes I quite favoured, obviously, these were very low fat ;-) (well they were cut into about 16 slices so having one or two must dramatically reduce the calories surely? Then there was the coloured foam dessert. This is a staple at any all-inclusive and is usually a different coloured foam/mouse on a sponge base with a cheap white looky likey cream squirt on top. All of which tasted exactly the same but were just a different colour.
Got chatting to an Irish guy called Dominic who is staying in our hotel with his friend Georgia who seem nice. They were on trip today so we only saw them briefly at dinner. After dinner, we headed up to the "entertainment" room, which was packed and we couldn't get a seat, more watered down drinks, from unknown branded bottles. You know it's not good when the red wine comes in a 2 lites plastic bottle lol.
The entertainment consisted of various members of the activity team doing various dances. Let's just say I don't think they will going onto Strictly anytime soon. They looked like someone had just said to one of the cleaners "right Mohamed yer doing the entertainment tonight, just do yer best dad dance". The routines made 'Steps' look like they were doing the hokey cokey. After one time through I reckon most guests could get up and join in as they repeated the same thing another 50 times until the end of the song. After 2 watered down G&T's, we decided to call it a night (I don't even think you could call them that as neither tasted as described. They may as well put on the menu "watered down paint thinner and clear fizz" which would have been more accurate.
I don't think I am cut out for All-Inclusive anymore :-/
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