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Unit three Accommodation in Tourism |
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Text A The Caribbean
There is no place like it anywhere in the world. Who says so? Anyone who’s been there. Nowhere else is the weather balmier, sunnier and more equable all year round. The extreme—mark the word – are 75 to 84 degrees. In a climate like that you feel better, happier, more relaxed. You don’t even have to worry about what you will wear when you get up in the morning.
Reflecting the eternal blue of the sky, the Caribbean is so clear you can see your toes six feet down, As for beaches, no adjectives can do them justice. Antigua alone has 300 of them. Caribbean sand runs from soft pink to dark gold. Choose your color. Then there is the music, the dancing, the superlative seafood, the unending buffets, the intimate dinners, two by two, in the lamplight.
You don’t forget the lifestyle, either - casual but elegant, easy going and yet imbued with imbued with a quality which is absent elsewhere these days. The Caribbean’s hotels, the best resort hotels in the world are very good at all this. They have been at it a long time and have leaned how to get you to relax, to forget the aggravations, to simply stop the world and get off and yet to give you enough sport and entertainment to keep you un-bored. Tennis, snorkeling, wind - surfing, golf, just name it. Even crab races. The choice of hotels is enormous. In Jamaica, there are many isles where you could have seen Half Moon Bay Club, one of the most successful resort hotels, which manages the seemingly impossible to be all things to all people superbly elegant and nicely casual, top class service and food to-- |
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--plus a sensational golf club and a beach you cannot forget. At Half Moon you could have a hotel room, a cottage or a villa. Just name it.
A few miles away at Ocho Rios there is Plantation Inn. Very elegant this one – a splendid neo-Gothic house with a colonnaded facade and a lasting impression of good living. Rooms are airy and lovingly furnished, there is a superb terrace and not one but two private beaches, Service smiles and food and drink are on a bar.
Bermuda, more intimate still ,has its share of fine hotels. CAMBRIDGE BEACHES has rooms housed in thirty odd cottages clustered around a 200-year old Bermudian house of |
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吉林大学远程教育学院
Distant Education College, Jilin University
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