If you are looking for a 'quiet' holiday then these hotels are best avoided. Earlier this year I went to Cuba for a week - the hotel was 'all inclusive'. This is fine if you like cheap booze, mediocre food and lots of noise around the pool, including SHOWTIME in the evening usually with ear-drum splitting music.
I have just returned from a similar holiday in Crete. This turned out to be a 'Resort' with two hotels. There are several pools (including an Olympic sized one), free cheap booze, very mediocre food (my lunch often consisted of salad and chips). I went in May because I didn't want to be surrounded by children. During the first week there were a few groups of children, most of whom were left to run wild in the hotel until their parents wanted to go to bed - 11.00 p.m.-ish. The second week we were inundated with babies and toddlers - again kept up until parents wanted to go to bed. And, of course, all of these parents wondered why their children were whiny and miserable and full of tantrums!
As I was with a well known tour company for the over 60s, you can imagine how we all enjoyed our stay.
My feeling is that these all-inclusive hotels/resorts attract people who like to get thoroughly pissed on cheap booze and like a lot of noise - in fact make a lot of it themselves.
Anyone for Butlins?
