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What is a Staycation? | Milk Your Money — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:29:22 +0000

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By: PT

PT — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:22:41 +0000

@FFB – We honeymooned in Aruba. Loved it. You’re right…we could get around there easily and explore the different places to eat. In the DR we were restricted to this one place. My rule in the future will be to make sure the food quality is up to par if we’re “stuck.”

@Sivan – We *normally* do thorough research on a place prior to taking off. Tripadvisor.com is the best. However, for this trip we just jumped right in. While we were booking we noticed it was #2 on TA. We thought, hey, let’s go for it. After delving into some of the reviews we did notice the food comments, but thought that with options we’d find what we wanted. The thing was that the options weren’t available all the time. Very limited.

By: Sivan Segev

Sivan Segev — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:33:50 +0000

Thanks for the review of the resort. Will definitely not choose to pay for an all inclusive with horrid meals. When you checked the reviews before you bought the vacation – did you find similar reviews?

By: FFB

FFB — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:08:46 +0000

I think it depends on where you go too. We took an all-inclusive in Jamaica. The people were great but from what I understand it’s not a place you want to wander around at night (off resort). In a case like this all-inclusive automatically becomes the best option. You just have to figure out which all-inclusive is best.

On the other hand…we’ve been to Aruba a couple of times and some hotels their offer all-inclusive. Can’t see how being stuck in one resort there could be the best deal for Aruba. So easy to get around and so many choices for food and such. I don’t think I would ever get an all-inclusive there.