You've just checked into a seaside hotel. What's the first thing you do?

[Bertha Venation]

Poll question: You've just checked into a seaside hotel. What's the first thing you do?

Do describe your "other," but keep it mod-friendly. :)

Maybe you do all of these things; okay: in what order?

(Can you tell I'm getting antsy to be landing in Ft. Lauderdale on Saturday at around 7:30?)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. make a drink

then hit the beach :D

[SOteric]

2. Call down to the lobby and book a massage.

[AlCzervik]

3. the same thing i do wherever i travel to, check out the bathroom, call for more towels. unpack

put all the health and beauty aids in the bathroom and check out the blowdryer and then off to the beach.

10 weeks until vacation--yay.

[Bertha Venation]

14. Where are you going? n/t

[AlCzervik]

17. Hawaii, a week in Kauai and a week in Oahu.

wish i was leaving today.

[Bertha Venation]

22. Oh, how fabulous!!

:thumbsup:

[TZ]

4. man as soon as I smell that ocean air...

I'm out the door to the beach..Woo-hoo!
BTW, I expect pictures from your trip, Bertha..:hi:

[Bertha Venation]

11. I will post pictures! Here's a choice one from our first trip there:

[1gobluedem]

5. Drink all the beer in the minibar

Then claim it wasn't ever there when the charge of $20/beer is added to my bill. :P

[Texasgal]

6. Personally, I'd try to have sex.

Sex in unknown territory is awesome!

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. "There is no try; there is only DO!" -Yoda.

Dagobah is pretty unknown, if you're into beaches with big monsters and 3' tall green cabana boys who have difficulty parsing English...

[av8rdave]

44. There's an old saying in my business...

There's only one thing better than hotel sex: Free hotel sex!

[Justyce]

8. Might be a little too chilly in the beach or pool, so I'd go for some alcohol.

:)

[Bertha Venation]

9. I'll go out on the balcony. Mrs. V. will order room service.

God knows what she'll order for me, but order for me she will, since I will be on the balcony and deaf to all but the surf.

[Pryderi]

10. 7:30 am or pm?

[Bertha Venation]

12. PM

We took a later flight; it cost us half what the earlier flight would've cost.

[Pryderi]

15. If it's PM, Then I say unpack.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear Bertha!

I'm pretty boring...

I unpack first...

Then I set up my laptop and get online!

Then...who knows?

Wherever the day takes me!

Have a fabulous trip, sweetie!

And let there be pics!

:woohoo:

[Bertha Venation]

16. vacation - - - laptop - - - vacation - - - does not compute

:crazy:

The laptop is forbidden on this trip. Y'all will just have to miss me for a week. :cry:

[Inchworm]

18. Oh! Fort Lauderdale!

Great! You'll have a blast.

Be sure to have a coctail at The Elbo Room. It all seems a little younger crowd to me now, but I remember it being in a perfect place.

http://www.elboroom.com/FL/Webcams/webcams-camera.asp?cam=roof&c=0

:woohoo:

PS: I'd open the curtains and squeeze my love. Well.. one can dream :)

[Bertha Venation]

23. My god... their website art is almost not-for-work . . .

Definitely younger than I run, but it sounds like a fun place.

Hey - come on down and I'd go there with you! :hug:

[Inchworm]

25. Right about the year I left Riverwalk was opening

Again, I don't know what it turned out to be, but it got a lot of hype.

I was more into neighborhood bars that I could get to without driving :D

:hi:

[Iggo]

19. 1. Go out on the balcony.

2. Hit the beach.

Don't start unpacking until you need stuff.

[SteppingRazor]

20. Depends which hotel you're staying at.

And, for what it's worth, welcome to my city! :)

[Bertha Venation]

24. We'll be in Hollywood Beach

at a newish resort hotel... step out the door and you're about 300 steps from the surf. Heaven, sheer heaven.


:hi: Thanks!

[Inchworm]

27. omg!

Hollywood Beach was my hangout! It's miles from Lauderdale hehe.

Nice boardwalk to stroll and get refills as you took it all in.

The law was pretty good at keeping out "riff-raff" which evidently I was some days :rofl:

You'll have a blast!

:woohoo:

[Bertha Venation]

30. You? Riff Raff?

You're ever so much more attractive than Riff Raff.

[Inchworm]

37. Dad, is that you?

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

35. OK, so closest tiki bar is at the Riptide Hotel, probably.

I'd check in, then I'd throw on a ridiculous Hawaiian shirt, go there and have a rum runner. :)

[Inchworm]

36. What's the name of that place by the old girl's college?

McNallys.. O'Reillys.. something.

I remember it playing music all night and 2 tiki bars :D

:+

[SteppingRazor]

39. Old girl's what now?

I've only lived here since 2000. Your talk of long-defunct colleges only frightens and confuses me.

[Inchworm]

40. At the end of Hollywood Blvd

I left about 2000 and the school was a hotel. A big pinkish 20 or so story building by a movie theater.

:shrug:

Bad memory sucks sometimes

[madinmaryland]

21. Bodily functions cannot be posted!!

:evilgrin:

[TommyO]

26. Even before I looked at the choices I saw this

big french doors leading out to a veranda, the sea breeze blowing, and me sitting out there on a chilly winter day (yes, I know I'm weird, I like the Jersey shore in the wintertime).

I had to vote "Go out on the balcony".

[Patiod]

28. Tommy O - I'll post our pictures from New Year's in Avalon

But I'm not at my home computer, where they are.

I hooked up with a vampire-like creature who burns at 3 pm in the summer THROUGH a t-shirt, so I, too have become a winter-beach person (probably a good idea after many years of baking my pre-cancerous Irish skin in the New Jersey sun)

[Greyskye]

29. Find out the Tsunami evacuation route

Hey, you never know. ;)

[Bertha Venation]

31. Gack!

Lotsa fun, you are! ;)

[Greyskye]

32. When you're trying to climb that tree...

...you'll be wishing you took my advice! :rofl:


Up in Oregon they have all of these little signs on the coast, pointing the way to the Tsunami evacuation routes.

Smart folks, those Oregonians. :D





:hide:

[buzzycrumbhunger]

38. We don't have tsunamis. . .

We have hurricanes--and yes, there are signs pointing out the hurricane evacuations routes. Sadly, they all lead into swampland. Our official exit is a road through the hammocks that is under water in your everyday summer afternoon thunderstorm, so I guess we need to add a life raft to that emergency kit in the trunk. :eyes:

Not that we're likely to ruin the great escape with a hurricane at this time of year. But. . . the spring break crowd is another matter. Isn't it getting to be about that time?

[TK421]

33. Break out a bottle of good scotch and listen to THIS song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDFJw7Peei0&feature=related


followed, of course by part 2 of it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGo6Xf7FOrU&feature=related

[guitar man]

34. other

start checking to see what isn't nailed down. :evilgrin:

[Cant trust em]

41. Why isn't "pee out the window into the sea" an option?

Seems pretty limited.

:shrug:

[WinkyDink]

42. Check the view from the balcony! See if the chair is the cheap white plastic kind!

[Gormy Cuss]

43. Lean over the edge of the balcony

and ask that nice blond lady on the adjacent balcony if she and the missus would like to join us for drinks.

:D

Hope you have a FABULOUS vacation bertha!

[Lavender Brown]

45. Head out to the beach with a blanket and a book.

:)