What's your favourite resort?

[Gail]

I have visited over 40 different RCI resorts over the last 10 years. I have enjoyed every single holiday but some resorts are better than others.

Our favourite resort is the Palm Beach Resort and Beach Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The apartment was huge and the resort was built on a peninsular jutting into the Intra Coastal Waterway. The views were straight down the Intra Coastal facing south. We had big double patio doors in both the sitting room and the bedroom and, as we weren't overlooked, we could sleep with the curtains open and wake up to the beautiful view. There were fish leaping out of the water beow us and we could see the road bridge opening and closing regularly during the day. The pool was at the end of the peninsular.
There were no other activities on site (apart from free bikes) but the place was so relaxing, I just wanted to buy an apartment and spend the rest of my days there.

So it got me thinking.

What's your favourite resort and why?

Gail

PS We've booked it again next year!!! Can't wait!

[Dave C]

I have given this a bit of thought and have come to the conclusion that the answer is very much subjective. I asked the family and the answer came out as expected.
Jupiter Reef Florida, we loved it. Now this is not a mega 5 star resort with all sorts of activites and facillities but a very plain one right on the beach south of Cape Canaveral. They were wooden huts that from the ouside did not look much but were very nice inside. They looked a bit dated with odd asortments of furniature. A masive fridge and television and an ice machine outside the door. My girls loved getting buckets of ice from it untill they came across an armadillo licking at the fallen ice cubes.There was nothing to do in the evening except watch a whole evening of the Munsters or I dream of Genie ect and eat take away from windixie's.It was very cosy.
We went in 1994 as our first RCI exchange. We had been to our own resort in Spain ( which actually came second) a number of times and decided to go to Florida to see Micky Mouse and Co. My daughters were aged 11 and 8. The first week was to relax at Jupiter Reef and then go on to Orlando (International Resort) for the crazy stuff.
What the girls remember most was going for a midnight stroll along the beach in the moonlight with the waves lapping and a cool breeze blowing. Then the most amazing thing happened. The beach errupted into a frenzy of baby turtles ( hundreds of them) hatching and running to the sea. The girls running about helping the ones that rolled over to get going again. It was magical. My wife and I agree that we have stayed in some great resorts ( Pestana Carlton Madeira last month- excellent) but Jupiter Reef has a special place in our memories. We dare not go back - it might break the spell.