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noFebruary Club Med Your Garden Of Earthly Delights Okay gang quirt the back please b going to be a random on Ctob Med Club Bacchanal Ive got a scuba lesson in so let me know if Im going too rait for of yon taking The name is Club Mediterranee a delightfully lilting if somewhat too long- mouthful that everyone Immediately shortens to Club Med The Club Med concept got its start Just after World War when Belgianborn Gerard rounded up some French friends and they finetuned a vacation con cept which was is so simple its a wonder no one else has copied it In short you dd what you want and they provide the bunks burgers beaches swimming tennis free wine at lunch and dinner maybe some scuba diving and free golf at a Robert Trent Jones Jr course You want It you get it Starting from a modest tent village on the Spanish island of Majorca in Club Med has grown around the world including 13 villages in what the company calls the American Zone Theres a kl village at Cop per Mountain in Colorado which will be come yearround starting next summer and there are 12 other villages in the Caribbean Mexico and Tahiti Ofticals are on the prowl for new sites in Florida Arizona and California The rest of the zone includes Fort Royal and Caravelle in Guadeloupe Buccaneers Creek in Martinique Paradise Island and Eleuthera in the Bahamas Magic Isle in Haiti Cana in the Dominican Republic Cancun Ixtapa and in Mexico and Moorea and Bora Bora in Tahiti Club Med also manages five villas near major Mexican archaeological sites three in the Yucatan and two outside Mexico City but theyre not part of the resort vill age lineup There is a membership for guests who then are called GMs mem bres or gentle members by the GOs gentils or gentle organizers There is no cash at the villages all payments ere made in beads with boutique or other minor purchases such as postcards cigarettes or lotion in the small store signed to your room And there is no tipping You are going to be pampered only in a different way says Bonnie Pollack and a mother of three She and her husband Art hit their fourth village In the last couple of years this summer Every village is different and Club Med isnt for everyone she says but its an ftd lot ottun whether you join in or go off by yourself and take it easy It takes you about two or three days get into the swing of things but then youre really into it and you decide what you want to do The really nice thing Is that even though they encourage you to participate in the different activities there isnt any real pressure And theres no social pressure be cause it doesnt matter if youre rich or poor back home because at Club Med all youve got are the beads There arent any special tables at the meals no frontrow box seats and who are you going to impress because you might have some extra beads Club tag line in its advertising is your garden of earthly delights In other words flee from alleged progress by getting back to the basics it not quite a loaf of bread a Jug of wine and but its certainly a lot more enjoyable than becom ing a hermit which is the only other way one might escape the daily routine back home At Club Med its individuality at each vill age depending on the site for instance has the Atlantic an immense donleu shaped pool and its own marina on the other side of the island while Paradise Island is a conversion of an elabor ate estate Haiti is right on the Bay of while Cans is on the channel between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico miles away it has a pool plus a unique shade beach among palm trees that were specialty planted by using a to chisel holes in the coral is a hillside village that tum bles down to a palmstudded cove while Fort Royal mixes bungalows and a hotel plus two beaches Apart from the smorgasbord of activit iesor the opportunity to simply plop down or on a beach and soak up some bennies beneficial sun rays there are no televisions no radios no newspapers and barely a phone link to real life The Frenchrun company is making a determined effort to knock down the mistaken image of the villages as rowdy pens by courting the family vacation market with the introduction of special Mini Clubs at various villages There Is one program for youngsters 4 to and a Kids Club for children to sometimes though the specially trained staff allows a child to float between the two programs if for in stance a 6yearold Is advanced enough to participate in some of the activities of the older group Maybe water skiing is too strenuous but archery swimming or circus skills might be fine The newest Mini Club is at with a second Mini Club at Fort Royal in Guadeloupe and a third at the Clubs Copper Mountain village There are Mini Clubs worldwide Eleuthera has become a showcase for the program with special workshops in circus activities in conjunction with Florida State Universitys FlyingHigh Cir cus troupe computers and a video workshop in which the older kids write direct and act in their own skits which are videotaped daily Its a perfect setup says Bob Gibson a housing contractor who vacationed at with his wife Peggy and their two daughters Peggy and I have time to gether and then we have time with the gulstoo The Mini Club staff is terrific in the way they handle the kid supervising them and leading them in the various ac tivities The minimum age for children at Club Med Is but It has been rolled back two years to fourat the Mini Clubs at Fort Royal and five years at Copper Moun tains Mini Club The age barrier remains official although its sometimes winked at One other nice aspect of the Mini Clubs is that they provide a ready stable of latenight babysitters Dldier Domingle who helped introduce Mini Clubs to several villages says there are ongoing modifications at each village Its not always the same We experiment everywhere try to see what works and what doesnt he saya We have to make sure that what the Mini Club staff does will be acceptable At a sum mer camp for Instance the parents may only get to see their child once or twice on special weekends so even if they complain about something the parents are gone at the end of the day or the weekend Here the parents are with the children every day and we cant have them unhappy At for example the days agenda starts at runs until a special early lunch ahead of the adult sitdowns then on through the afternoon with parents picking up their children at 5 to get them ready for another early meal for the Continued on ii Huq China cruise gives you Hong Kong Nanjing Shanghai Beijing and Plus Old Mon River The Yangtse The most fabled most mysterious river in the world AndSoienLindblodsMVYboHua is the only luxury vessel that cruises both the mighty Yangrse and magnificent coast of China too Visiting more ports than are listed above And including a 3 day stay in where you see the Great Wall the Forbidden City the Summer and much more The Yoo Huo is comfortable and It features exquisite Chinese as well as Scandinavian send me your 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