War! Between Those Inexpensive All-Inclusive Tropical Resorts!
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, September, 1998 by Paul Balido
The pugilists: two mighty resort chains that sell tropical vacations in which your every need is satisfied for one set price per week. One, a globe-spanning 48-year-old, operates out of elegant offices in Paris. The other, a brash, precocious eight-year-old, is controlled from the gritty Caribbean city of Santo Domingo. Both are in a raging struggle to be first in their field, through price cuts, bargain offers, and beefed-up amenities rarely before seen.
The Champ: Club Med "We're kind of like a cult, aren't we?" a young web-site designer from Long Island named Alison shouted over to me with a half-embarrassed grin. Well, now that you mention it.... Watching her and a roomful of young and not-so-young people enthusiastically wiggle and wave in unison to Club Med's bouncy pop anthem ("Hands up, baby, hands up! Gimme your heart, gimme, gimme...") in Cancun recently, I ...